All Events
Student Series
Improving Dreams, Equality, Access, and Success • IDEAS
MCC LOUNGE
Students from IDEAS will present the opportunities and barriers of undocumented immigrant students in the higher education system. While the AB 540 law allows more 'affordable' tuition for these students at many universities, these students are still blocked out of the workforce upon graduation. Come and learn what undocumented students and allies are doing to help achieve their dreams through activism and how YOU can help create equal access to education on your campus.
Meet the Filmmaker
PARIAH
MCC THEATER
Pariah is a coming-of-age drama about a lesbian teenager who unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family. Set against the kinetic and incongruous social landscape of middle class New York City, Alike vacillates between being a proud and sexually independent woman amongst her openly gay friends and being the feminine, obedient girl that her strict Christian upbringing dictates. Discussion with producer Nekisa Cooper following the screening. Dee Rees, 90 min., English, 2006, USA.
Jails are not Homes: Transforming Skid Row
MCC THEATER
A compelling multimedia presentation on the campaign to build a sustainable community in the downtown Los Angeles community of Center City East (Skid Row). Residents and activists associated with the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) will present their stories, poems, and short films on the resilience of residents in the face of economic recession, homelessness, displacement policies, and negative media representations such as The Soloist.
Race, Lies & Stereotypes: Posters on Racism and Anti-Semitism
MCC LOUNGE
Insidiously, from generation to generation, racism and anti-Semitism are perpetuated in Africa and the Middle East, in Europe, and on the streets of Los Angeles. Race, Lies and Stereotypes presents powerful international and domestic graphics that penetrate the experience of discrimination. The exhibition illustrates historical and current events on the world stage and explores efforts to combat stereotypes. By showing the pervasiveness of bigotry and discrimination, this exhibition emphasizes that intolerance can be avoided by the active involvement of individuals to ensure that the past is not repeated. Produced by the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, California.
