California Issues (Video)

Social Venture Partners Santa Barbara and the Central Coast Collaborative on Homelessness (C3H) present the key opportunity of 2014 for concerned community members to engage in solutions to homelessness. Hear from top national and California leaders who are successfully reducing and preventing homelessness, and learn about opportunities to shape local and regional efforts. Featured speakers include national experts Philip Mangano, President and CEO of the American Roundtable to Abolish Homelessness and former Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, who led the national strategy to prevent and end homelessness, and; Becky Kanis, Co-Founder of Social Change Agency and Director of the national 100,000 Homes Campaign, who successfully led the effort to reduce street homelessness in New York’s Times Square. Series: "Voices" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 28041]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Series: "California News Service (CNS)" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 27842]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Series: "California News Service (CNS)" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 27841]

“The Brick People” chronicles the story and legacy of Mexican immigrants who came to work at Simons Brickyard #3 in Los Angeles during the early part of the 20th century. The bricks they made literally built Los Angeles and the surrounding region. Produced by UC Irvine professor Alejandro Morales, this documentary explores themes of immigration, discrimination and cultural foundry as told by former residents and historians of Simons, California . Series: "Immigration" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 27723]

Karen Wilson will presents an illustrated talk on the profound cultural and political impact Jews have made in the development of Los Angeles over the past century and a half. Wilson is a research fellow with the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, head curator of the “Mapping Jewish Los Angeles” project, and a lecturer in the UCLA Department of History. Series: "Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 26003]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Series: "California News Service (CNS)" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24893]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24892]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24891]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Series: "California News Service (CNS)" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24890]

Economic and policy uncertainty is all around: the eurozone, the fast-approaching fiscal cliff, uncertain future tax rates, and slow recovery. Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, explores how this uncertainty affects the economy. Series: "Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley (IGS)" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24255]