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Week of Events
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Labor Studies Now Series – Film Talk with Director Jennifer Cárcamo and Professor Leisy Abrego
Labor Studies Now Series – Film Talk with Director Jennifer Cárcamo and Professor Leisy Abrego
Join us for a discussion of Eternos Indocumentados: Central American Refugees in the United States (2018), followed by a Q&A with Director Jennifer Cárcamo and Professor Leisy Abrego (UCLA Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies). In July 2014, mainstream US media became flooded with images of what they termed “unaccompanied Central American children.” Most of these children—many coming with […]
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Labor Studies Now Series – Historias Prohibidas del Istmo: Central American Communists during the Rise of Twentieth Century Fascism
Labor Studies Now Series – Historias Prohibidas del Istmo: Central American Communists during the Rise of Twentieth Century Fascism
Building from Dr. Jennifer Cárcamo’s current book project, this talk explores the historical and ideological origins of Central America’s communist parties, specifically in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, from 1920-1940. Cárcamo chose this period precisely because it preludes the revolutionary war period of the late twentieth century in Central America (1960-1996), an era that […]
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Labor Studies Is Headed to the L.A. Ports
Labor Studies Is Headed to the L.A. Ports
Join us to meet key players from the Port complex, including union members from the docks and environmental hazard clean-up crews, a former POLA Harbor Commissioner, and a terminal operator. The trip features a tour of an automated port terminal, a boat tour of the port narrated by an ILWU Local 13 member and retired […]
