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The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
Friday, April 25, Noon - 1 PM
UC Berkeley Labor Center, 2521 Channing Way (near Telegraph Ave.), Berkeley
In his new book, The Big Squeeze, New York Times Reporter Steven Greenhouse tells the stories of security guards in Los Angeles, software engineers in Seattle, hotel housekeepers in Chicago, call center workers in New York, and janitors in Houston, as he explores why, in the world's most affluent nation, so many corporations are intent on squeezing their workers dry. The book explains how economic, business, political and social trends---among them globalization, the influx of immigrants and the Wal-Mart effect---have fueled the squeeze. Greenhouse also examines companies that are generous to their workers and can serve as models for all of corporate America.
Steven Greenhouse has been the labor and workplace correspondent for the New York Times since 1995.
Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, Graduate School of Journalism, and Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Information: 510-642-6371; andreabuffa@berkeley.edu; http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/
Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Annual Barbecue
May 18, 2008 from 4:00-8:00pm.
at Mary Louise's and Scott's Farm in Winters, CA. (click on image to get full .pdf of the event, including directions). This BBQ is being held in celebration of the end of another year at Boalt and the launch of our Social Justice Alumni Network! There will be music, great food, swimming, tractor rides and lots of fun!
Contact Kathleen Natividad at knatividad@law.berkeley.edu in order to RSVP for the BBQ or join the SJ Alumni Network.
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Central Valley Publication Release Reception
Guest Speaker: Dolores Huerta
Thursday April 24, 2008
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Location: Goldberg
The Berkeley La Raza Law Journal (BLRLJ), Asian American Law Journal(AALJ), Berkeley Journal of African American Law and Policy (BJALP)and the Henderson Center for Social Justice (HCSJ) would like to invite you tocelebrate the release of their latest publication, "The New Face ofCalifornia: The Great Central Valley". Please join us and ourdistinguished special guest, Dolores Huerta the co-founder andSecretary-Treasurer of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO("UFW") and one of the century's most powerful and respected labormovement leaders. Dolores Huerta has committed much of her life to improving the lives of many in the Central Valley and her symposiumspeech is published in this edition. Please join us for this wonderfulreception with appetizers and wine. Also sponsored by the Graduate Assembly.
Reception
The Henderson Center and Boalt's Career Development Office are co-hosting an exciting reception on Wed. April 16, 5-7 p.m. in the Goldberg Room. We will be celebrating the Boalt community's dedication to public interest law and honoring the pro bono and public interest accomplishments of our Class of 2008. This gathering salutes the successes of students and graduates and provides a great networking opportunity for students pursuing careers in public service to meet public interest alums and mentor attorneys and for established attorneys and practitioners to meet our outstanding students. Everyone is encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be served.
Privacy Lecture
Event Date & Location: April 14, 2008 at Bancroft Hotel
Town Hall on Class Privilege
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Room 145
Class privilege is a central component of our experience as members of Boalt and communities beyond. As law students, future practitioners, judges, and professors, we are all involved in the struggle for economic justice. Come join us as we create a space at Boalt for challenging yet illuminating conversations about class privilege.
Discussion leaders include Professor Jeff Selbin and Nancy Kato, Assistant Registrar, Boalt Hall, School of Law and David Abella, incoming Berkeley La Raza Law Journal co-EIC (2008-2009).
Refreshments will be provided!
2008 Spring Symposium:
“Whose Poverty? Whose Crime? Unlocking the Criminalization of Poverty”
March 6-7, 2008
Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Institute for the Study of Social Change
Co-Sponsored by POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork,
East Bay Community Law Center,
and the Center on Culture, Immigration, and Youth Violence
Sleeping outside or in a vehicle, soliciting employment, convening in a public space and/or suffering in public from a mental illness are citable offenses in the United States. This criminalization of poverty results in more and more poor families, youth, elders, and adults in this country facing police harassment, abuse, and even incarceration for living in poverty. By bringing together an innovative and powerful mix of voices from poverty and race scholars, alternative/activist policy makers, poverty and civil rights attorneys, legal advocates, media producers, activists, artists, and community leaders, the symposium will provide a forum to explore short and long-term legislative and community based solutions to the problem and launch an in-depth look at the harmful impacts of this dangerous trend on poor people and on U.S. society as a whole.
Please note:
There is no charge for this event.
The Symposium is wheelchair accessible. For disability-related accommodations please contact csj@law.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-6969.
MCLE credit will be issued on the days of the event only.
2008 Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Lecture on Access to Justice:
Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Event Date & Location:
Thursday, March 6, 2008 --4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. in Booth Auditorium
Description: Dorothy Roberts has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is the author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997), which received a 1998 Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America, and Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), which received research awards from the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. She is also the co-author of casebooks on constitutional law and women and the law and has published more than 60 articles and essays in books and scholarly journals, including Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and Social Text.
Social Justice Thursday Seminar Series: Professor Philip Frickey
"Property Law"
Event Date & Location:
Thursday, February 28, 2008 --12:45 p.m. –1:45 p.m. in Room 122
Description: Professor Frickey is a nationally recognized scholar in the fields of statutory interpretation, legislative process, federal Indian law, and constitutional law. He is the co-author of two casebooks: Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (with Eskridge and Garrett, 3rd ed., 2001); and Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law: Themes for the Constitution's Third Century (with Eskridge and Farber, 3rd ed., 2003). He is also the author of Legislation and Statutory Interpretation (with Eskridge and Garrett, 2000) and Law and Public Choice: A Critical Introduction (with Farber, 1991), as well as a publication editor of Hart and Sacks' The Legal Process (1994). In addition, he has written numerous journal articles, essays, and book reviews. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Law Institute, and the editorial boards of Issues in Legal Scholarship and Court Review , the quarterly journal of the American Judges Association.
Ruth Chance Monday Lecture Series: Cecillia Wang
"Unpopular Causes: Current Struggles for Immigrants' Rights and the Constitution"
Event Date & Location:
Monday, February 25, 2008 --12:45 p.m.-1:45 p.m. in Room 140
Description: Cecillia Wang is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project. Her practice centers on the impact of U.S. national security policies on immigrants, and the intersection of criminal defense and immigration law. Cecillia first worked at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project from 1997 to 1998, and rejoined the Project in 2004. Before rejoining the ACLU, Cecillia was a trial attorney with the federal public defender's office in the Southern District of New York, and worked at the San Francisco law firm of Keker & Van Nest on both white-collar criminal cases and civil litigation. Cecillia has served on the Criminal Justice Act indigent defense panel for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Cecillia was a law clerk to Judge William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Justice HarryBlackmun of the Supreme Court of the United States. While clerking for Justice Blackmun, she also served as a full-time law clerk in Justice Stephen Breyer'schambers. Cecilliais a 1995 graduate of Yale Law School, where she was an Articles Editor for The Yale Law Journal.
Social Justice Thursday Seminar Series: Professor Goodwin Liu
"Constitutional Law"
Event Date & Location:
Thursday, February 21, 2008 --12:45 p.m.-1:45 p.m. in Room 14
Description: Goodwin Liu's primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court. His latest work in progress, "Education, Equality, and National Citizenship," seeks to anchor a federal legislative duty to remedy educational inadequacy and inequality in the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause.