Students, faculty, labor and community organizations from across the greater Los Angeles area will come together to celebrate the Ninth Annual Labor, Social and Environmental Justice Fair hosted by the California State University Dominguez Hills Labor and Social Justice Club and Labor Studies Program from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 25. The day-long fair is designed to connect students and members of the community with local unions and community organizations that are doing social justice work, while enjoying art, music, dance and theater. “We're proud to be sponsored by unions, student government and individual donations. We're overjoyed to have the participation of over 40 ... Read More
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Peace Pole Installation Marks End to Watts Rebellion Commemoration
As a symbol of inspiration, awakening, and the vital role California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) plays in the communities it serves, the university installed a peace pole on April 26 in the Sculpture Garden during the campus's annual Unity Fest celebration. The peace pole's unveiling and dedication marked the end to the university's year-long 50th Anniversary Watts Rebellion Commemoration. The CSUDH peace pole is a six-sided, hand-crafted monument engraved with the message and prayer “May Peace Prevail on Earth.” It is one of tens-of-thousands of peace poles in 180 countries around the world erected to remind passersby to “visualize and pray for world peace.” It is also an ... Read More
‘Envisioning Transformation’ Symposium Stresses Social Justice through Solidarity
“Envisioning Transformation,” a two-day academic symposium that featured talks by nationally-recognized educators from Los Angeles County, explored ways for communities of color to come together to create social justice and harmony through resolute coalitions and transformative action. Organized by the 50th Anniversary Watts Rebellion Commemoration committee, the March 22-23 symposium was a sequel to the fall 2015 symposium “Fire and the Quest for Transformation,” which explored the origins and impact of the Watts Rebellion. Picking up where the fall symposium left off, the speakers shared research and insights that investigated history that was more multi-cultural and ... Read More
‘Watts Now: a Student Exhibit’ opens in CSUDH’s Cultural Arts Center
… If WE all just reminisce, on lives passed and lives that exist. Then let us live in bliss along with the colors that consist. Something More if There's Hope. Let us all have S.M.I.T. H. … The stanza is from California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) music student Monica Parra's poem S.M.I.T.H., which is currently on display in “Watts Now: a Student Exhibit,” an interdisciplinary exhibition featuring 130 works of art, poetry, motion graphics, design info graphics and environmental justice projects that explores Watts 50 years after the Watts Rebellion. The exhibit is on display Feb. 16 - May 12 in the University Library Cultural Art Center. Parra was chosen to read her ... Read More
Walter Mosley shares his work and personal reflections of the Watts Rebellion
With his wryly clever conversational style, best-selling author Walter Mosley charmed a packed Loker Student Union ballroom after stopping by California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Feb. 16 for a reading from his novel “Little Scarlet,” and to share thoughts about writing, racial inequity, and his personal reflections of the Watts Rebellion. Mosley was the guest speaker for the Department of English 2016 Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture. He is a prolific writer of more than 40 books–ranging from crime novels to literary fiction–and is widely recognized for his Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins detective series based in Watts, which includes the first book in the series “Devil in the Blue ... Read More
