My Daily Constitution at Occidental College
Three Constitution Cafés on Thursday evenings
April 20th, 27th, May 4th, 7 - 9 PM
McKinnin Center for Global Affairs at Johnson Hall
April 20th, 27th, May 4th, 7 - 9 PM
McKinnin Center for Global Affairs at Johnson Hall
Thursday May 4th
Can there be Racial Justice under the Constitution?
"Every Mother's Son", mural by Sophia Dawson (portraits of mother's who've lost their sons to police brutality), 2014. Ideal Glass, NYC. For more of Sophia Dawson's work visit:
http://www.sophia-dawson.com. Image - Linda Pollack
with
Kaaryn Gustafson
Professor of Law, University of California Irvine, School of Law
Hamid Khan
Organizer, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
The Fourth Amendment is supposed to protect us against unreasonable searches. The 13th Amendment does away with servitude, but makes an exception for criminal acts, and the 14th Amendment, with the Equal Protection Clause, provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws”.
On a week that marks the 25th anniversary of the LA Uprising, we ask, Can there be racial justice under the Constitution? What happens when so much of daily life of people of color becomes criminalized? How did this happen? What can be done about it?
On a week that marks the 25th anniversary of the LA Uprising, we ask, Can there be racial justice under the Constitution? What happens when so much of daily life of people of color becomes criminalized? How did this happen? What can be done about it?
Hamid Khan is the coordinator of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a broad coalition whose goal is to raise public awareness, participation, mobilization, and action on police spying and surveillance and to sustain long-term intersectional movement building. The coalition draws its support and base from diverse members of the community including formerly incarcerated people, students, un-housed folks, youth, LGBTQ community members, artists, immigrants, academics, lawyers, cultural workers, and faith based and community based organizations. As founder and former Executive Director of South Asian Network, he helped create the first community-based organization in Los Angeles committed to informing and empowering South Asians in Southern California o act against discrimination and injustices. Hamid also serves on the board of the Political Research Associates.
Kaaryn Gustafson is a Professor of Law & Co-Director of the Center on Law, Equality and Race (CLEAR) at UC Irvine School of Law. Her research and scholarship is interdisciplinary and explores the role of law in remedying inequality— and in reinforcing inequality. Her research over the last decade focused on the expanding administrative overlap between the welfare and criminal justice systems, as well as the experiences of those individuals and families caught in those systems. Her current research explores the history of law in regulating African American families and in regulating labor among poor people of various ethnic backgrounds.
Kaaryn Gustafson is a Professor of Law & Co-Director of the Center on Law, Equality and Race (CLEAR) at UC Irvine School of Law. Her research and scholarship is interdisciplinary and explores the role of law in remedying inequality— and in reinforcing inequality. Her research over the last decade focused on the expanding administrative overlap between the welfare and criminal justice systems, as well as the experiences of those individuals and families caught in those systems. Her current research explores the history of law in regulating African American families and in regulating labor among poor people of various ethnic backgrounds.