The Summer of Resistance: Los Angeles in Four Frames

Join us for an in-person talk by Dr. Edgar Rivera Colón on “The Summer of Resistance: Los Angeles in Four Frames” on Tuesday, September 16, 12–2 p.m., in Lucy Stone Hall, Seminar Room A266, on the Livingston campus.

We invite you to an important event on the Livingston campus co-sponsored by Rutgers AAUP-AFT, the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, and the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice.

Dr. Edgar Rivera Colón will speak on “The Summer of Resistance: Los Angeles in Four Frames” on Tuesday, September 16, 12–2 p.m., in person in Lucy Stone Hall, Seminar Room A266, on the Livingston campus.

Dr. Rivera Colón will analyze ongoing acts of state violence against immigrants in Los Angeles, as well as this summer’s resistance (both organized and “spontaneous”) to the hundreds, if not thousands, of abductions in LA alone, using four frames: 1) labor union organizing and activism; 2) Christian and Jewish faith communities mobilizing against the raids; 3) on-the-ground community self-defense; and 4) the Los Angeles Tenant Union organizing members to demand an eviction moratorium.

With the Trump administration making daily threats to invade other major cities, understanding how the resistance developed in LA this past summer will be critical for us in our ongoing efforts—inside the union and outside it—for social justice.