From the Ashes: The 1992 Civil Unrest and the Rise of Social Movement Organizing

Thursday, April 26, 2012 | 9am – 5pm
USC Davidson Conference Center

A conference to commemorate the progress we have made, come together to share strategies and opportunities for multi-racial organizing in Los Angeles.

From the Ashes: The 1992 Civil Unrest and the Rise of Social Movement Organizing took place on Thursday, April 26th, 2012. The conference was an opportunity to lift up the everyday efforts by ordinary residents to remake Los Angeles. The multi-racial social movement has brought people together across race and place and established a living wage policy, a better transportation system, schools that offer college prep to all students, a more welcome stance toward immigrants, and a variety of other community benefits – as well as a vision for a stronger, more equitable America.

The event was organized by the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity in collaboration with:

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Community Coalition (CoCo), Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA), Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE), and UCLA Labor Center.

The event was made possible with funding from the California Community Foundation, Ford Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, Liberty Hill Foundation, Needmor Fund, New World Foundation, Panta Rhea Foundation, Solidago Foundation, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC Dana and David Dornsife College, and the USC Office of the Provost.