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Jan. 29: Movie Night at the Museum: CODE All PostsMovie Nights at the MuseumSkid Row History Museum & Archive

Jan. 29: Movie Night at the Museum: CODE

Friday, January 29 - 7:30PM at the #SkidRowMusuem: Film Screening: CODE & excerpts from SAFE: Correction Officer De-escalation Education. Filmmaker Dixie Gamble IN PERSON, will show and discuss her films The CODE and excerpts from SAFE, which are training films for correctional officers and police and educational tools for those…
LA Poverty Department
January 25, 2016
Feb. 20: Profiles of Abolition: Abolition and the Radical Imagination All Posts

Feb. 20: Profiles of Abolition: Abolition and the Radical Imagination

Los Angeles Poverty Department and Critical Resistance invite you to join us for Profiles of Abolition: Abolition and the Radical Imagination. We are excited to host historian Robin D.G.Kelley, acclaimed poet Fred Moten and renowned printmaker Melanie Cervantes of Dignidad Rebelde in conversation with Angela Y. Davis. With performances by…
LA Poverty Department
January 25, 2016
Blue Book, Silver Book All PostsBlue Book / Silver BookExhibitionsSkid Row History Museum & Archive

Blue Book, Silver Book

April 11-July 31 --- exhibition 1: Blue Book, Silver Book: preserving income equality in Skid Row through urban design.  After Bunker Hill was clear-cut, Skid Row was headed for a similar “redevelopment”, as proposed in “The Silver Book Plan”.  Community activists intervened and presented an alternative plan that saved the single…
LA Poverty Department
October 27, 2015