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SUMMARY:Partners Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Labor and Community for a free film screening of the documentary\, Partners: How Starbucks Baristas Started a Labor Revolution. Following the screening there will be a discussion with unionized Starbucks baristas. RSVP here
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/partners-film-screening/
LOCATION:Oakes Learning Center
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Screening
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with independent Indian journalist Neha Dixit! The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! On Monday April 6th\, you are invited to meet with Neha Dixit\, an independent Indian journalist and author based in New Delhi.  \nFrom 2:30-4:00 PM in the Rachel Carson College Red Room\, join the Sociology Department together with the Center for South Asian Studies\, Center for Labor and Community\, and Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, who will hear about Neha’s new book The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian (Footnote\, 2025). The book would be of interest to urban studies and labor studies scholars\, students and staff as well as\, of course\, those interested in South Asia and the Global South more generally. \nJoin the Sociology Department together with the Center for South Asian Studies\, Center for Labor and Community\, and Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, in the Rachel Carson College Red Room\, who will meet with Neha Dixit\, an independent Indian journalist and author based in New Delhi . We’ll hear about her new book The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian (Footnote\, 2025). \nAbout The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian \nWhat does the life of an ordinary working-class Indian look and feel like? In this book\, the award-winning journalist Neha Dixit traces the story of one such faceless Indian woman\, from the early 1990s to the present day. What emerges is a picture of a life lived under constant corrosive tension. Syeda X\, a weaver left Benares for Delhi with her alcoholic husband and three small children in the aftermath of riots triggered by the demolition of the Babri Masjid. In Delhi\, she settled into the life of a poor migrant\, juggling multiple jobs a day — from trimming the loose threads of jeans to cooking namkeen\, and from shelling almonds to making tea strainers. Syeda has done over 50 types of unskilled work in three decades\, earning paltry sums in the process. And if she ever took leave\, to nurse an illness or to attend a school PTA meeting\, her job would be lost to another faceless migrant fighting to take her place.  \nResearched for close to a decade\, in this book\, we meet an unforgettable cast of characters: from a rickshaw driver in Chandni Chowk who ends up tragically dead in a terrorist blast to a slumlord\, who grew ‘too big’ for his own good\, and is shot by rival landlords. From a doctor who gets arrested for pre-natal sex determination to a gow rakshak whose daughter elopes with Syeda’s son. From corrupt policemen who delight in beating young Muslim men to a cheerful band of home-based working women who look out for each other.  \nIn the end\, things come to a grotesque full circle for Syeda. Her life is upturned for the umpteenth time as the Delhi riots of 2020 caused another cataclysmic displacement. But displacement\, tragedy and hardship are something she is used to — being poor and Muslim and a woman. Written with deep insight\, The Many Lives of Syeda X is a portal to a messy world hidden away from elite Indians. It is the story of untold millions and a searing account of urban life in New India.  \nGet Your Copy \nPublished in 2024 by Juggernaut Books in South Asia\, in 2025 by Footnote\, an imprint of Bonner Book UK worldwide excluding North America. The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian can be purchased from Footnote. \nAbout Neha Dixit \nNeha Dixit is an independent journalist and author based in New Delhi. She has covered politics\, gender\, and social justice for two decades. Most of her work is investigative\, narrative and long-form. She reports for Al Jazeera\, The Washington Post\, Caravan\, The Wire and other notable publications. \nShe has investigated and exposed a wide range of human rights violations including extrajudicial killings by police\, hate crimes\, human trafficking involving Sangh organisations\, clinical trials on the marginalised by big pharma and sectarian majoritarian violence in South Asia. She has also written political profiles and looked at intersections of labour under majoritarian governments. \nShe has won over a dozen international and national journalism awards including the International Press Freedom Award 2019 from the Committee to Protect Journalists\, the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist 2017\, Lorenzo Natali Prize for Journalism from the European Commission\, 2011 among others. She has contributed to many non-fiction anthologies. \n‘The Many Lives of Syeda X’ published her debut non-fiction book. It looks at the last 30 years of India through the eyes of a working-class\, migrant Muslim woman in Delhi who becomes a part of the cheap female labour economy and takes up over 50 jobs in three decades without once getting paid a minimum wage. Researched for close to a decade\, it is a portal to a messy world hidden away from elite Indians. It is the story of untold millions and a searing account of urban life in New India.  \nThe book was selected as the book of the year 2024 by The Hindu and Deccan Herald. Neha won the Ramnath Goenka Sahitya Samman award and Kalinga Literary best debut award for this book. The book also received an Honorable Mention by the CG Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing in 2026. \nHonourable Mention by CG Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing\, 2026 \nFaced with a record number of high-quality submissions and a remarkable shortlist\, the Jury would like to recognise another very close contender for the prize. An Honourable Mention goes to The Many Lives of Syeda X by Neha Dixit (Footnote Press\, India)\, an examination of the life of an ordinary\, working-class Muslim woman in modern India. Syeda’s story is told through her 50 different jobs across 30 years of constant corrosive tension. Her many challenges illustrate the universality of the human rights abuses that much of the world’s population face in their daily lives.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-dixit/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College Red Room
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SUMMARY:Community Conversation with Author Randy Ribay
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a community conversation with Randy Ribay\, young adult fiction writer and National Book Award Finalist. During the event\, Randy will discuss his recent novel\, Everything We Never Had (2024)\, about four-generations of Filipino American men grappling with identity\, masculinity\, and father-son relationships. The characters’ stories traverse histories of Filipino America\, including those of Watsonville and the Pajaro Valley. \n\nMonday\, March 23\, 2026\n\n\nTime: 4:30 – 6:00 pm\n\n\nLocation: Watsonville Civic Plaza Community Room\, Fourth Floor\n\n\n275 Main Street
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/community-conversation-with-author-randy-ribay-2/
LOCATION:Watsonville Civic Plaza Community Room\, Fourth Floor\, 275 Main St\, Watsonville\, 95076\, United States
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SUMMARY:Will Work for Food
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation on labor\, food\, and justice with Will Work for Food co-author Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and regional food production and service workers Veronica Rodriguez (Dole\, Soledad)\, and X (Verve\, Santa Cruz). Together\, they will explore the often-overlooked role of labor in building a more just food system. Free and open to the public. Translation provided.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/will-work-for-food/
LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Safety Planning for ICE Raids at Work
DESCRIPTION:February 5\, 2026 | 6PM-7:30PM *ONLINE* \nHow can workers stay safe on the job amidst increased immigration enforcement and raids that target our workplaces? \nRegister below to join UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program and UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Labor and Community for this hands-on\, interactive workshop to develop a worker-led safety plan for ICE raids at work. A calendar invitation and Zoom link will be sent out prior to the event. \nIn this workshop you will: \n\nHear directly from rank-and-file teachers and nurses about the steps they took to make a safety plan with coworkers to prevent ICE access to their workplaces and protect targeted workers and community members.\nTalk through steps to create a safety plan for your workplace.\nLearn how to enforce workplace health and safety laws and immigration laws (AB 450\, etc.)\nPrepare to act even when your employer will not.\n\nRegister Here. \nPlanificación de Seguridad Ante Redadas de ICE en el Lugar de Trabajo\n5 de febrero de 2026 | 6:00-7:30PM *EN LÍNEA* \n¿Cómo pueden los trabajadores mantenerse seguros en el trabajo ante el aumento de las redadas y la intensificación de las operaciones de control migratorio en nuestros lugares de trabajo? \nRegístrese a continuación para participar en este taller práctico e interactivo\, organizado por el Programa de Salud Ocupacional Laboral de UC Berkeley y el Centro de Labor y Comunidad de UC Santa Cruz\, donde desarrollará un plan de seguridad liderado por los trabajadores para hacer frente a las redadas de ICE en el trabajo. Se enviará una invitación de calendario y el enlace de Zoom antes del evento. \nEn este taller usted podrá: \n\nEscuchar directamente a maestros y enfermeros sobre las medidas que tomaron para crear un plan de seguridad con sus compañeros de trabajo para impedir el acceso de ICE a sus lugares de trabajo y proteger a los trabajadores y miembros de la comunidad afectados.\nHablar sobre los pasos para crear un plan de seguridad para su lugar de trabajo.\nAprender a hacer cumplir las leyes de salud y seguridad laboral y las leyes de inmigración (AB 450\, etc.).\nPrepararse para actuar incluso cuando su empleador no lo haga.\n\nRegistrese Aqui
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/safety-planning-for-ice-raids-at-work/
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SUMMARY:Labor Against ICE
DESCRIPTION:Trump’s second term has been marked by a dramatic increase in immigration enforcement operations\, including the deployment of federal and national guard troops to major cities across the United States. Ramped-up ICE raids have resulted in injuries\, deaths\, and the disappearance of migrants and non migrants alike. As legal challenges demanding the cessation of indiscriminate workplace and neighborhood raids have largely failed\, how are workers and communities fighting back? This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Refreshments provided. Immigrant and labor rights organizations will also be tabling. \nPlease join UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Labor and Community for a panel discussion with co-founder of LA Educators for Racial Justice (LAE4RJ)\, Denisha Jordan (United Teachers Los Angeles)\, founder of OEA Rapid Response Team and dual-language teacher\, Jessie Papalia (Oakland Education Association)\, Emergency Medicine Resident\, SatKartar Khalsa (SEIU 1021 Committee of Interns and Residents)\, Alex Quintero (@allthingslabor)\, and regional labor and community organizer Cesar Lara (California Federation of Labor) to learn how labor is organizing to defend migrants on the job. \nRSVP HERE \nEspañol_Labor_Against_ICE \nEnglish_Labor Against ICE \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/labor-against-ice/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Open House: Oakes Collaborations
DESCRIPTION:Explore Our New Collaborative Spaces in Oakes College! \nWe’re excited to welcome you to the newly expanded spaces in the Oakes Academic Building\, now home to a vibrant community of Social Sciences research centers and programs. Connect with colleagues from the Institute for Social Transformation\, the Center for Labor and Community\, the Right Livelihood Center\, Campus + Community\, the Center for Economic Justice & Action\, and the Science & Justice Research Center. You’ll also have the chance to learn more about Oakes College and the CARA program (Community-based Action\, Research\, and Advocacy). \n\n\n\nStop by to meet the teams\, discover their work\, and tour our new conference rooms and collaborative spaces. \n\n\n\nOakes College Mission: Since its founding in 1972\, Oakes College has been committed to intellectual\, academic and personal inquiry rooted in the possibility of effecting positive social and political change. As a multi-ethnic community\, we provoke the exchange of cross-cultural perspectives. Our efforts to understand\, accept and celebrate human diversity are a source of exceptional strength. Through this committed inquiry\, we raise often unaddressed issues that the university community must examine. \nParking: There should be plenty of parking available in lots 160\, 161\, 162\, or the West Remote parking lot (permits required). \n\n\n\nHosted by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Center for Economic Justice and Action\, Center for Labor and Community\, Right Livelihood Center\, Oakes CARA Program\, and Oakes College.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/oakes-open-house/
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SUMMARY:American Agitators Screening at Cabrillo
DESCRIPTION:American Agitators comes to Santa Cruz! We cordially invite you to the screening of American Agitators with a discussion and a Free Dinner! Spaces are limited\, so RSVP today! \nSponsored by Santa Cruz Local\, Cabrillo College\, COPA\, UCSC Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, UCSC Center for Labor and Community\, and UCSC Institute for Social Transformation. \nAMERICAN AGITATORS captures the remarkable story of organizing for social change in the U.S. through the work Fred Ross Sr. and many others such as iconic organizers Dolores Huerta and Fred Ross Jr. as well as current ones\, all of whom have devoted their lives to the pursuit of justice and equality. \nFor over 50 years Ross led a groundbreaking organizing approach that improved the lives of thousands and reverberates in organizing strategies today. From organizing Dust Bowl refugees to helping Japanese-Americans find jobs and housing after release from the internment camps to challenging KKK activity by organizing civil unity leagues in California that led to the integration of local school boards across California’s Citrus Belt\, Ross’ work with the Mendez case laid the foundation for the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown vs Board of Education and his mentorship of legendary organizers Cesar Chavez and Huerta led to the success of the United Farmworkers. \nGenerations of organizers and activists\, many of whom are featured in AMERICAN AGITATORS\, stand on the shoulders of Ross and his innovative organizing tactics. Evidence of Ross’ impact is illustrated in the case examples the film explores: in Atlanta\, where Fight For 15 organizers demand an increased minimum wage and the unionization of workers across the Southern states; in Las Vegas where hotel workers organize for fair wages and to get out the vote; in Oakland\, where teachers\, families and community members forged a fair contract with the Oakland school district. \nThe documentary demonstrates the efficacy of member-led movements built through patience and by listening. \nAward-winning filmmaker Raymond Telles has made American Agitators to illustrate how collective action can create long term\, positive change especially at a critical moment in American history. \n“Bringing Fred’s life to the screen is the medicine our society needs right now. He empowered people to be engaged in the democratic process.” \n-Dolores Huerta\, February 2022 \nView: American Agitators Premier Trailer \nCheck us out: American Agitators
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/american-agitators-screening-at-cabrillo/
LOCATION:Cabrillo College\, 6500 Soquel Dr.\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Campus Debt is a Labor Issue
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Labor and Community on Friday\, October 24\, from 2-4pm at the Rachel Carson Red Room for a conversation on campus debt\, austerity\, and labor organizing in higher education. \nDrawing from his book\, Lend and Rule: Fighting Shadow Financialization of Public Universities (2024)\, Jason Wozniak\, of the Debt Collective and the Coalition Against Campus Debt\, will describe how institutional debt drives the erosion of public higher education and disciplines labor. \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. RSVP today!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/campus-debt-is-a-labor-issue/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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