SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE
On the 50th Anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium (1970), historian Jon Wiener, co-author of Set the Night On Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, will discuss the Chicano movements of the sixties and their relevance today–along with artist Harry Gamboa Jr., Cal Arts faculty member and a high school activist in LA in the sixties, and UCR…
Jon Wiener, co-author of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, will be in a live conversation with Brenda Stevenson, author of The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots, to discuss the Protest in LA from the Sixties to Today. Watch the recording here.
Jon Wiener was interviewed by Librarian Daryl Maxwell for the Los Angeles Public Library blog about his writing process and his latest book co-authored with Mike Davis. You can read the whole interview here.
Jon Wiener and Mike Davis published an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times on the history and future of protests at the DNC. “With the Democratic National Convention meeting virtually this year, the fate of another longstanding political tradition is also in jeopardy.” Read the full op-ed here.
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, co-authors of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, will be in a live conversation with Erin Aubry Kaplan and Danny Widener to discuss the upcoming 55th anniversary of the 1965 Watts Uprising hosted by Skylight Books. Know more about this event here. Please note: This event will…
Listen to Harold Meyerson and Melina Abdullah in conversation with Mike Davis and Jon Wiener on the 55th anniversary of the Watts uprising, as they discuss Los Angeles in the sixties as a hotbed of political and social upheaval, and its lessons for the social justice movements of today. Watch the recording here.