Cal Fresh, also known as food stamps, is a nutrition assistance program sponsored by the USDA that helps people purchase healthy foods. The program issues monthly electronic benefits on an EBT card that can be used at most grocery stores. Location: Wellness Room, CCC Date: Tuesdays 12-2pm
Advanced Community Resilience Organizing Seminar Register now for this new Winter 2018 seminar. Learn skills for community resilience organizing with an emphasis on environmental and climate justice. Deepen practices of transformative movement building, cultivate audacious vision, build community across movements, and navigate into action. This seminar is part of the our campus’ nascent Community [...]
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Latin American Studies Center are pleased to present a series of short films throughout the quarter. See full program in attached poster. Each screening is followed by a discussion.
Advanced Community Resilience Organizing Seminar Register now for this new Winter 2018 seminar. Learn skills for community resilience organizing with an emphasis on environmental and climate justice. Deepen practices of transformative movement building, cultivate audacious vision, build community across movements, and navigate into action. This seminar is part of the our campus’ nascent Community [...]
April-May, 2018 | Frida Theatre, 305 E 4th St #100, Santa Ana, 92701 Latin American Studies in Motion is a partnership between the UCI Latin American Studies Center and the Frida Cinema in Santa Ana. This collaboration provides the Santa Ana community access to filmmakers, artists, and scholars who visit UC Irvine. [...]
April 4, 2018 | 5 p.m.- 7:00 p.m. | McCormick Screening Room, HG 1070 "Laberinto Yoéme" is a documentary on the hardships of the Yaqui Tribe of Sonora and their ancestral defense of land and life. Today, the Yaqui are in a decisive battle. Since 2010, Sonora's Government through the Independence Aqueduct has been illegally transferring [...]
The Law & Social Movements Colloquium will host a conversation about housing justice, which will touch upon the movements for: adequate and affordable housing; safety and dignity among those who are under-housed and homeless; public and government prioritization of housing needs; and democratic participation of individuals who are homeless in decisions that affect them. [...]
At the end of 2017, the City of Carlsbad, CA voted unanimously to adopt a policy prioritizing the use of organic and defined “least-toxic” pesticides to manage pest problems on city-owned and controlled property and public rights-of-way. Buoyed by a strong and growing coalition of Non Toxic advocates fighting for a healthier environment for their children, pets, [...]
Climate Equity is Climate-Smart Wednesday, April 18, 1PM ET / 10AM PT Climate Equity is Climate-Smart Wednesday, April 18, 1PM ET / 10AM PT Climate change impacts all of us. However, low-income communities and communities of color are often hurt first and worst. In these communities, climate change is a complicating environmental challenge stacked on top of histories [...]
UC Irvine's FRESH Basic Needs Hub & Blum Center present: Food for Thought. This is a three part event on Healthy Eating on a Budget, Cooking Demo, and Food Justice Panel. Join us for a three-part educational event focused on issues related to affordable and healthy nutrition. Refreshments will be provided. Event Lineup 4:00 pm [...]
Resistnace & Resilience Through Art: Undocumented Communities coping in the Current Climate. This is a FREE event with refreshments provided. Creativity, expression and community are being utilized as tools of resistance and resilience by undocumented individuals. In the midst of the current national crisis of immigration, the ability to imagine new worlds has been key [...]
Cultural Strategies for Environmental Justice: Visiting Artist Will See Anticipated Visit: January 21-26, 2019 More event and RSVP information will be posted soon. Click here for more details. Will See is a poet-MC, environmental justice (EJ) activist, and cultural worker from Detroit. He brings attention to issues of environment, race and class through [...]