|| Aoki Center Updates ||

Today - Livestream of #Opportunity4All Campaign Update

We will be joining the Workers' Justice Law Association in live-streaming an update from the #Opportunity4All campaign advocating for the UC to hire undocumented workers. @UCLA_CILP, @UCLALabor & the UCLA Undocumented Student-Led Network will be hosting the virtual discussion on lessons learned & next steps in the groundbreaking campaign. If you can't join us in-person, register here.

 Monday, October 30 | 12:00 PM | Room 2306 

Tomorrow: After the News Stops Publishing - the Continued Immigration Crisis of Afghans in Northern California

Join the Aoki Center, Immigration Law Association, and Humanitarian Aid Legal Organization as we host a panel of advocates working on Afghan reunification cases in Northern California. Our panelists are representing wonderful organizations: World Relief Sacramento, Opening Doors, and International Rescue Committee.

 Tuesday, October 31| 12:00 PM | Room 1301 

Wednesday: Film Screening of Sansón and Me

The Aoki Center and a coalition of King Hall and community organizations will be hosting a film screening of Sansón and Me. This film tells the story of a young immigrant serving life without parole for first degree murder because he was the driver when a drive-by shooting occurred.

We hope this film and discussion raises awareness regarding the intricacies of our penal system and its profound connection to our immigration system. We will have criminal and immigration law experts Professors Raquel E. Aldana and Gabriel J. Chin participate in a moderated discussion!

Wednesday, November 1 | 5:00 to 7:00 PM | Room 1001

Aoki Fellow Joins The UC Davis School Education For Senior Day Conference

This past Saturday, October 28, our legal fellow Giselle Garcia joined the UC Davis Educational Talent Search Program, a federally funded college outreach program for low-income, first-generation college-bound students, for their Senior Day Conference at UC Davis!

Senior Day hosted about 75 seniors from Sacramento, Woodland, Winters and Fairfield to UC Davis to prepare for senior year and learn about information and resources for college success. Students participated in workshops on college admissions, support programs and college opportunities as well as the Career/Major fair.

Giselle was able to chat with first-generation students who want to pursue a career in law and encourage them to pursue their goals. We have a strong and powerful generation of advocates in the making!

Next Week: "Reckoning with Race and Disability: Guardianship and Racial Extraction."

Join us for a Racial Justice Speaker Series event featuring Jasmine Harris, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania. She will present a lecture entitled "Reckoning with Race and Disability: Guardianship and Racial Extraction."

Our national reckoning with racial injustice will be incomplete until we contend with the relationship between race and disability as legal categories in American law and policy. This discussion offers an opportunity to explore the intersection of race and disability through the history of one specific institution–guardianship. I argue that the racial extraction of labor, land, and sovereignty was made possible by the imposition of legal labels of disability and incapacity. While a robust literature details the history of extraction in the context of indigenous land and sovereignty and recognizes the fraught status of free Black Americans during the antebellum period, these stories live primarily in the histories of racial justice and do not attend to the operation of disability as the legal throughline. This discussion will reframe known historical moments through a disability lens and argue why guardianship sits at the heart of these stories with lessons for how we think about legal constructions of incapacity and personhood today.

Monday, November 6 | 12:10 to 1:00 PM | Room 1301

REGISTER HERE for In-Person | REGISTER HERE for Livestream

|| King Hall & UCD Campus Updates ||

Thursday: Provide Feedback for King Hall's New Counselor

Join the King Hall Wellness Committee and share your feedback about what you’d like to see from King Hall's new counselor!

This counselor will be embedded full-time at King Hall and fill Dr. Lee’s position when she leaves at the end of the semester. Please share your input on any skills, qualities, experiences, or specializations that you think would be important for a mental health provider at KH to have.

If you cannot attend, please fill out this survey to share your input. Don't forget to follow them on Instagram @khwellnesscommittee for future events!

Thursday, November 2 | 11 AM to 12:30 PM | Courtyard

Exhibit: Malaquias Montoya and the Legacies of a Printed Resistance

Visit the Manetti Shrem Museum to experience this new exhibit, featuring the work of the iconic activist artist and UC Davis Professor Emeritus Malaquias Montoya. The exhibit explores the diversity of Montoya’s extensive creative practices — ranging from bold visual declarations against global oppression to gestural introspection on the American criminal justice system — alongside his legacies as a print educator. Learn more.

Wednesday: Colloquia - Social determinants of stress and health in Latinx mothers and children in the U.S.

The Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Science is pleased to host the CAMPOS Research Colloquia. The Research Colloquia showcase the fantastic research done by CAMPOS scholars and aims to continue building a diverse scientific community in STEM at UC Davis. 



Join CAMPOS and Dr. Victoria Keeton, assistant professor at the Betty Irene School of Nursing, for her presentation. She will summarize current evidence around social needs and stressors experienced by many Latinx families in the U.S., and how they may influence the physiology and emotional health of mothers/caregivers and their children. She will also present her research and discuss its implications. Learn more and register. 

Wednesday, November 1 | 3:10 to 4:30 PM | Via Zoom

Thursday - Lights, Camera, Conversation: From Here 

The Department of DEI for Global Affairs is hosting an event in partnership with the City of Davis Art & Cultural Affairs Program that promises to be both thought-provoking and inspiring film screening and night with the director and cast of the award-winning documentary FROM HERE. 

Watch the attached video for a special invite from the film’s director and read more about the event in our The Davis Enterprise feature!

About the Event: FROM HERE is a powerful documentary that offers a compelling coming-of-age portrait of young people caught in the crosshairs of immigration debates on both sides of the Atlantic. With so much happening globally, the idea of what it means to belong is as important as ever. We are honored to host the film's director, Christina Antonakos-Wallace, as well as two of the film's protagonists for a Q&A session following the screening. Free to the community and there will be a popcorn bar! 

Thursday, November 2 | 6:30 to 9:30 PM | Davis Veterans Memorial Center Register Here

Friday: “New Directions in Black Studies” Speaker Series

Join the UCD Department of African American Studies for the next event in their “New Directions in Black Studies” speaker series featuring Dr. Olufemi Vaughn. Food will be provided!

Friday, November 3 | 12:00 to 1:30 PM | Hart Hall Room 3201 |

Register here for Zoom

Save-the-Date: Film Screening of A Million Miles Away

With the release of the film A Million Miles Away last month, millions of people were introduced to José Hernández’s decades-long journey from migrant farmworker to astronaut. Now he will tell his story to a UC Davis audience as a guest in next month’s Chancellor’s Colloquium.

Hernández, who spent nearly two weeks in space in 2009, now serves on the UC Board of Regents. His life story was recently made into a movie starring Michael Peña and Rosa Salazar, and was released on Amazon Prime Video and a limited theatrical run to positive reviews.

His visit to campus Nov. 28 will include a screening of the film and a question-and-answer session with Chancellor Gary S. May. Tickets are free and are available now.

Tuesday, November 28 | 3:30 PM | Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center

|| Community Events ||

I-House Davis World Tour - Native American Cultures in Wintun Homeland

The International House at Davis invites the community to explore Native American cultures in the Wintun Homeland at I-House throughout November 2023!

Don't miss the art exhibit by Stan Padilla during the whole month of November.

On November 4, join I-House for "Acorn Traditions," an interactive family workshop with Diana Almendariz, the YoloSol Collective, and special guests, followed by a community conversation. Learn more.

Saturday: Free Brake Light Repairs

Striving to protect vulnerable community members and minimize contact with law enforcement, NorCal Resist will be holding a monthly drop in event for folks who need a brake light repair, same location, 2775 Cottage Way, first Saturday of each month!

Share the event with community members who need it as well!

Sacramento State University Gallery Exhibit: The Seen Iranian Woman

During the last 100 years there have been dramatic variations in Iranian law regarding what is allowed for women to wear. Vast protests have occurred in Iran with messages focused on Women, Life, Freedom, a movement supported by many Iranians around the world. To provide context beyond the visuals, music and artwork displayed relating to the current movement, you will find a historical curation of fashion to illustrate women’s dress over the last century as dictated by Iranian law.

This collaborative exhibit is curated by Jaleh Naasz, MFA, and brings awareness to what it has been like to be an Iranian woman in recent times through a showcase of fashion, art, poetry, and history. Read the artist's statement.

Exhibition Dates: October 23, 2023 - November 16, 2023 | University Union Gallery

||Podcast & Reading Recommendations||

Listen: The Myth of the "Bad" Immigrant

Immigrant communities are often asked to “get right with the law,” but is the law right in the first place? That’s what guest Alina Das, Professor of clinical law at NYU, asks in her new book No Justice in the Shadows. She taps her experience as the daughter of immigrants and as an immigration attorney to ask whether immigrants who violate the law should be detained or deported. Listen.

Read: Report - Where People in Prison Come From

What communities do people who are incarcerated come from? It's a simple question, with huge implications, that until recently was impossible to answer. However, unique data sets finally allow us to answer that question.

Prison Policy Initiative partnered with organizations in each 14 states to collect this data, and made it available to advocates, researchers, organizers, journalists, and others. PPI's hope is that we'll use it to better understand how mass incarceration harms communities and correlates with other measures of community well-being.

You can find their national overview report here. And find their state-specific reports that provide analysis of the geography of mass incarceration in each state and the datasets behind that analysis here.