The Audrey Edna Butcher Civil Liberties Education Initiative

Ferguson: Racial Profiling, Mass Incarceration, and Civil Liberties

flyerA Project of the Civil Liberties Initiative, California History Center

The aim of the Civil Liberties Education Initiative of De Anza's California History Center is to engage De Anza College students, staff, and members of the local community in active study to civil liberties issues and concerns, and democratic values as informed by local, regional, and California history, as well as related interdisciplinary studies.

Faculty Led Teach In

Thursday January 22, 2015,
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Campus Center, Conference Rooms A&B

Special presentation by Raj Jayadev of Silicon Valley De-Bug's Albert Cobarrubias Justice Project. Discussion guided by the Black Leadership Collective.

Remembering Civil Liberties public art fence

February 17- March 12, 2015

This temporary interactive public art fence installation will explore the connections between civil liberty, segregation, and mass incarceration, past and present. 

Chain link fence sections will surround the flag pole in the main quad. The De Anza community will be invited to add hand drawn tags to share their own stories, feelings, and ideas for change. Printed tags with text and images will refer to Japanese American internment camps, Jim Crow laws, and the prison industrial complex. Collaborative artwork from a Euphrat Museum Art & Social Justice Leadership Institute will also be incorporated.

Vertical tags will be reminiscent of those given to Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066. Horizontal tags could mirror the shape of Colored and White only segregation signs and references to the prison industrial complex might include silhouettes of corporate logos.

Day of Remembrance 13th Annual Campus Commemoration

Thursday, February 19, 2015, 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.,Campus Center, Conference Rooms A&B

Join with Japanese American communities throughout the country who annually commemorate February 19, 1942 and the signing of Executive Order 9066 as a “Day of Remembrance”. This executive order led to the mass racial profiling and eventual imprisonment of over 119,000 Japanese Americans without due process and with no regard for their constitutional rights.

The community now uses this date to encourage active participation in the defense of civil liberties and has promoted reflection and understanding of racial profiling such as the post 9/11 scapegoating of Muslims and Arab Americans and the long-standing police brutality and mass incarceration targeting African Americans and others. This year’s event will also share lessons learned from the movement to win redress/reparations for the World War II internment.

Student Led Teach In

Thursday, March 5, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Campus Center Conference Rooms A&B

Students from participating classes will lead workshops on topics such as, "Know Your Rights", "Criminalization and Profiling of Youth" and "Community Efforts to Address Police Brutality and Mass Incarceration"

event flyer[BROKEN LINK]

For more information, contact Tom Izu at 408.864.8986 or by e-mail at izutom@deanza.edu.

Sponsors: California History Center and the Audrey Edna Butcher Civil Liberties Education Initiative.

Accessibility: The event is wheelchair accessible. Sign language interpreter or other accommodations available upon request 5 business days prior to event.

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