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How Social Movements for Regional Equity are Reshaping Metropolitan America

Date:
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Time:
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Location Details:
College 9/10 Namaste Lounge
UC Santa Cruz

Please join the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community to celebrate the publication of:

This Could Be the Start of Something Big:
How Social Movements for Regional Equity are Reshaping Metropolitan America
(Cornell University Press)

by Manuel Pastor, Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka

Thursday, May 7th
4:00pm – 6:00pm

College 9/10 Namaste Lounge
UC Santa Cruz

Light refreshments will be served.
Books will be will be available for purchase.

Short presentation by authors:

Manuel Pastor, Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity and Director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California. Dr. Pastor is the founding director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community (CJTC).

Chris Benner, Chair of the Community Development Graduate Group and Associate Professor of Community and Regional Development at the University of California – Davis. Dr. Benner is a former CJTC research associate.

Martha Matsuoka, Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Occidental College. Dr. Matsuoka is a former CJTC research associate.

For nearly two decades, progressives have been dismayed by the steady rise of the right in U.S. politics. Often lost in the gloom and doom about American politics is a striking and sometimes underanalyzed phenomenon: the resurgence of progressive politics and movements at a local level. Emphasizing “regional equity,” unusual alliances of labor, community and even business groups have been built around issues of community benefits, housing affordability, and access to transit. Drawing on a wealth of case studies as well as their own experience in the field, the authors point out the promise and pitfalls of this new approach and argue that what they term social movement regionalism can offer an important contribution to the revitalization of progressive politics in the United States.


Please help us celebrate this important publication and
Manuel, Chris, and Martha’s visit to UCSC!

This event is free and open to the public.
For more information contact us at cjtc [at] ucsc.edu or 831-459-5743.
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