Symposium: "Contesting Global Police Violence"

Event Date: 
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 -
10:00am to 6:30pm
Event Location: 
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall
"Contesting Global Police Violence," the first annual Regeneración Tlacuilolli: UCLA Raza Studies Journal symposium, seeks to discuss issues relating to policing, police violence, and militarized state oppression. As part of this community discussion we also seek to understand how transnational social movements respond to violence, incarceration, and disappearances. In 2014, the civil rights protest in the U.S. to end police brutality and Mexican protests challenging the state’s role in the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero confirmed the latest example of social movements that have tied disparate issues into a global analysis of nation-state and corporate power relations. In moments when the struggle for racial justice is more visible than ever, how do people resist an endemic system of violence? Communities of color have systematically been criminalized and schools have been converted into prisons. How then do we rethink the destructive spirit of policing and how have seemingly distinct movements influenced one another through transnational interactions? The purpose of this symposium is to collectively discuss how we can expose and disrupt the oppressive nature of policing and its ensuing violence. Thinking about transnational ties between social movements reveals critical analyses of global, political, and economic power. These social movements underscore the necessity to maintain local, regional, and transnational activist links to fight for social survival. Regeneración Tlacuilolli welcomes community members, students, and academics to this symposium.
 
Panel discussions, 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m., Chicano Studies Research Center Library.
 
Keynote Address, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Young Research Library Conference Room:
Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Professor of History, UCLA
Roberto Rodríguez, Assistant Professor of Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona
 
Regeneración Tlacuilolli: UCLA Raza Studies Journal is edited and managed by graduate students in various disciplines at UCLA and other campuses across the United States. Regeneración Tlacuilolli is sponsored by the CSRC and is available on eScholarship: http://escholarship.org/uc/regeneracion_tlacuilolli
 

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