Out now -- "What Kind of Place is Freedom?" by D.P. is @dpurifoy.bsky.social -- our fifth #OpenAccess essay on pro-Palestinian and anti-war protest on campus antipodeonline.org/2024/10/24/wha…

🗣️It's the last week to apply for the 2025 #UCLA Activist-in-Residence program>> DEADLINE: Sunday, October 27th at 12midnight PT>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/activist-in-re…

📌Ideas & Organizing Doctoral Award deadline: Nov. 8. Cesar Bowley Castillo received last year's award for work examining a day of mobilizations in Colombia that emerged as a full-blown uprising, lasting 3 months while establishing political legitimacy. More👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2024/09/23/the…

WE WON! Today the Mohawk Tenants Association ended renovation evictions in Los Angeles!! We won with a unanimous vote, and an urgency clause so it goes into effect immediately!

🚨 Super excited to announce that the one and only Robin DG Kelley has agreed to take on the late, great Rev. James Lawson’s ⁦UCLA Labor Studies⁩ class, “Nonviolence & Social Movements” ‼️#UCLALaborStudies 🪧✊🏽 irle.ucla.edu/2024/11/04/rob…

📢Deadline is THIS Friday, November 8th for the 2024-25 Ideas & Organizing Doctoral Awards. Learn more here and apply: challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/student-resear…

the worst part about the California Apartment Association spending $150 million on rent control disinformation is it’s literally OUR RENT MONEY being used against us

GEOGRAPHERS for JUSTICE in PALESTINE -- a pre-AAG workshop, Sunday, March 23, 2025, Detroit, MI -- sign up / save the date / share widely docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

Honored and excited to finally share physical space with Maya Wind. We will chop it up TOMORROW Swarthmore College before heading off to Baltimore for American Studies Association. 1/2

.Institute on Inequality & Democracy is excited to co-sponsor this upcoming book talk by Professor Bryce Henson of TAMU Department of Communication & Journalism on Thursday, December 4th. Join moderator Kyle T. Mays, Ph.D. of UCLA African American Studies for what will be a lively discussion on a culture of resistance and activism. RSVP>> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Published! My book "City of Desire: An Urban Biography of the Largest Informal Settlement in Bangladesh" is now in hardcopy and ebook from Bloomsbury Books UK. Alhamdulillah! Many thanks to Rahul Mehrotra, Ananya Roy, Gautam Bhan, David Satterthwaite, Michael Keith, Vanesa Castán Broto,

On behalf of UCLA Asian American Studies Center @cityLABucla UCLA CSW|Barbra Streisand Center + Institute on Inequality & Democracy, we welcome Lupita Limón Corrales, Kaya Dantzler, Kari Okubo Romarilyn Ralston and James Suazo as the 2025 #UCLA Activists-in-Residence! Thrilled for what's to come from this extraordinary cohort 🔥 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/activist-in-re…

ANNOUNCING>> "TENTS AND TENANTS: After Echo Park Lake" an exhibition about infrastructures of community, envisioned by housed & unhoused organizers. Opening Feb. 1, visitors are invited to reflect on LA's many histories, including the present moment. More>>challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/01/10/ten…

"Together, unhoused and housed people, organizing in solidarity, cracked open a window into a different world—one whose undergirding logic was not banishment but loving solidarity." -Annie Powers Institute on Inequality & Democracy TENTS AND TENANTS exhibition opens Feb. 1: challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/01/10/ten…

The Rent Brigade uses data to fight back against predatory landlords in the wake of LA Wildfires. They maintain the Tracking Rental Price Gouging in LA spreadsheet. Very proud to have Institute on Inequality & Democracy researchers as a part of this project. Check it out ⤵️rentbrigade.org

Join Erin McElroy in-person UCLA on Feb. 20 for a conversation about their book, "Silicon Valley Imperialism." For a warm up on technocapitalism, check out the 2024 interview w/ Anti-Eviction Mapping Project co-founder, Prof. McElroy, via Ideas on Fire podcast>> ideasonfire.net/159-erin-mcelr…

TONIGHT! Feb. 21, join us at the TENTS AND TENANTS exhibition LA PovertyDepartment for a discussion entitled, "Tenants in the Streets," feat. Lupita Limón Corrales Deshonay Dozier Erin McElroy Annie Powers & Pete White. And peep photos from our Feb. 1 opening>> flickr.com/photos/uclapub…

Join us this FRIDAY, Mar. 21 @ the TENTS AND TENANTS exhibition LA PovertyDepartment for a performance entitled, "The Liberatory Living Room" feat. members of the After Echo Park Lake Archive Collective. And view the video & pix from prgm we hosted on Feb. 21 >> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/tenantsinthest…