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October 2016
From worst-case scenario to participatory plan: Lessons from a Mexican village for community development and planning education
Marie Kennedy is Professor Emerita in Community Planning, University of Massachusetts Boston, and a former Visiting Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California Los Angeles. Throughout her academic career she has combined the roles of activist and scholar, working in and writing about community development, planning education and participatory action research. Over the years, Marie has worked with and/or written about community and worker organizations and social movements in the Greater Boston area, San Francisco and Los Angeles,…
Find out more »November 2016
Death By ‘Double-Tap’: (Undoing) Racial Logics in the Age of Drone Warfare
This talk examines the contemporary expansion of drone strikes and extra-judicial “targeted killings” in the context of US global counterterrorism and counterinsurgency campaigns. My principal goal is to illuminate the differential “disposition matrix” of misery produced by the state and to interrogate the questions conjured by this violence for coalitional politics in the drone age. The talk unfolds in three parts. The first section offers a primer on the geopolitical and racial logics of drone wars as the latest installment…
Find out more »Engineered Conflict: School Closings, Public Housing, Law Enforcement and the Future of Black Life
Professor Stovall’s faculty scholar project, Engineered Conflict: School Closings, Public Housing, Law Enforcement and the Future of Black Life organizes legal jurisprudence theory, post-colonial theory and philosophy of race to interrogate state-sanctioned violence, urban space and the politics of exclusion. As a project slated for the Spring 2016 semester, the project draws attention to policy formation and implementation as ideological rationales for containment and marginalization. Because school closings, destruction of public housing and federal corruption statues are primarily investigated as…
Find out more »Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change
Joan Fitzgerald is a Professor of Urban and Public Policy at Northeastern University. She focuses on urban climate governance and the connections between urban sustainability and economic development and innovation. Her third book, Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development (Oxford Univ. Press), examines how cities are creating economic development opportunities in several green sectors and discusses the state and national policy needed to support these efforts. Emerald Cities builds on her 2002 book, Economic Revitalization: Strategies and Cases for…
Find out more »February 2017
The mission-driven venture: Business solutions to the world’s most vexing social problems
Governments and nonprofit organizations everywhere have compassionately invested billions in social services, yet, wherever we look we still face stubborn challenges in education, health care poverty, unemployment, and the environment. Many social entrepreneurs train and employ the disadvantaged and disabled. Others are disruptive innovators helping those populations access products and services previously unavailable to them. While traditional businesses remain committed to their commercial imperative, more than ever, they, too, are intent on generating a demonstrable social or environmental impact. Together,…
Find out more »CAN TV cablecast of Youth Employment Hearing
Teens and young adults discuss with federal, state and local officials the correlation between the city’s violence and the lack of youth employment opportunities. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV). Sunday, February 12th, 9:00 AM, CAN TV21 Monday, February 13th, 6:00 PM, CAN TV27 Tuesday, February 14th, 9:00 AM, CAN TV27
Find out more »CAN TV cablecast of Youth Employment Hearing
Teens and young adults discuss with federal, state and local officials the correlation between the city’s violence and the lack of youth employment opportunities. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV). Sunday, February 12th, 9:00 AM, CAN TV21 Monday, February 13th, 6:00 PM, CAN TV27 Tuesday, February 14th, 9:00 AM, CAN TV27
Find out more »CAN TV cablecast of Youth Employment Hearing
Teens and young adults discuss with federal, state and local officials the correlation between the city’s violence and the lack of youth employment opportunities. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV). Sunday, February 12th, 9:00 AM, CAN TV21 Monday, February 13th, 6:00 PM, CAN TV27 Tuesday, February 14th, 9:00 AM, CAN TV27
Find out more »Entrepreneurship in action: Empresarias del Futuro – Empowering Latinas through wealth creation
Empresarias del Futuro (EDF) is an educational training designed for women who are seeking financial independence through business development. The training provides participants with financial literacy, entrepreneurship tools and personal development that support women in business. The EDF program provides business resources and links participants with microloan options through program partners such as Acción Chicago, community organizations and financial institutions. Current participants and program graduates also receive individual financial coaching sessions during and after the training. EDF Training is offered…
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