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Title: The Hidden History of Social Justice Movements in
START DATE: 1/12/2005
START TIME: 6:00 PM
Duration: 3 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:
The UCLA Downtown Labor Center
675 Parkview Street
(between Wilshire Blvd and Seventh Street)
Event Topic:
Event Type: presentation
Contact Name: Gwen Gary
Contact Email: ggary@libertyhill.org
Contact Phone: (310) 453-3611, ext. 103
DESCRIPTION:
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You're Invited...

The Liberty Hill Foundation, Southern California Library, the UCLA Labor Center, and the Occidental College Urban & Environmental Policy Institute invite you to a workshop on the "hidden history" of social justice movements in Los Angeles, and its lessons for activists today.

In their new book, The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City, authors Bob Gottlieb, Mark Vallianatos, Regina Freer, and Peter Dreier recount more than a century's worth of struggles by labor, people of color, women, environmentalists, civil liberties advocates, and other progressives. They bring the story up to date, put the work of contemporary activists into a broader context, and describe the political movements that are reshaping LA today for the future.

These four authors -- all activists as well as scholars -- will discuss the reformers and radicals who have struggled for alternative visions of social and economic justice. These include people like Job Harriman, the Socialist who was almost elected LA mayor in 1911; Upton Sinclair, whose 1934 campaign for Governor helped unite the diverse progressive forces and reshaped the state's political climate; Charlotta Bass, who in the 1940s and 1950s helped to build bridges between African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and whites to build a movement dedicated to social justice, immigrant rights, civil rights, and workers rights; as well as other activists who helped stretch the boundaries of political action and social movement organizing.

The authors chronicle efforts of progressive social movements that worked throughout the twentieth century to create a more livable, just and democratic Los Angeles.

The workshop will help today's activists draw the links between their current struggles and the lessons of over a century of progressive politics. The workshop will be a combination of "a people's history of LA," an analysis of our current political condition, and a road map for a progressive future. The book will be available at the workshop.

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January 12th, 2005

6:00 - 7:00 pm: reception

7:00 - 8:30 pm: workshop

The UCLA Downtown Labor Center

675 Parkview Street

(between Wilshire Blvd and Seventh Street)

Please RSVP to Gwen Gary

Email: ggary@libertyhill.org

Phone: (310) 453-3611, ext. 103

In RSVP'ing, please include the following information: names of the individuals who wish to attend, their organization, and their respective email addresses and phone numbers.

Hors d'oeuvres will be served.

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With this rich account of its community and labor struggles, the city of angels -- and apocalypse -- becomes the city of hope." - Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

"This wonderful book, with its evocations of LA's alternative histories, and its bold templates for social and environmental justice, is proof that the American Left is alive and well, especially in Southern California." - Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities.

"A rare book combining history, analysis, strategy and a platform - and it may well be carried out in this decade." -Tom Hayden, former State Senator, Los Angeles





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