Statement of the Labor/Community Strategy Center Standing Up against Racist, Fascist, Nazi, Swastikas in South L.A. Standing Up Against the Attacks on the Black Community, Black artists, the [...]

No Fare-—Free Public Transportation Now No MTA Attacks on Black Passengers Free Public Transportation-Public Transportation is a Human Right Free Public Transportation is so obvious it’s [...]

Read this Article on Alternet A coalition of Los Angeles high school students and grassroots organizers just accomplished the unthinkable. After nearly two years of sit-ins and protests, they [...]

El distrito escolar fue urgido a mejorar la educación, a apoyar a la comunidad y a los estudiantes, en vez de aceptar programas militares  que lo dotaron de armas de alto poder. Y así puede tomar [...]

President Barack Obama’s mission in Paris should be to join the world, not dominate it. We demand that he make real climate changes. The world is demanding that the United States [...]

Check out “Wine and Books” The Katrina’s Legacy international book launch if you happen to be in Paris at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.   [...]

Check out Eric Mann’s Interview on the Laura Flanders Show Eric tells of how he first joined the movement and the atmosphere of the Black Revolution Movement of the 1960’s. He also [...]

The Republican Senate just voted to reject plans by President Obama and the EPA to dramatically reduce emissions from coal power plants. This is reactionary politics. It is also political theater [...]

Read this Article on Huffington Post On Thursday, July 30, 50 Black and Latino students wearing mock bullet proof vests with stickers that stated #StudentsAintBulletProof #End1033, from the [...]

LAUSD and LASPD has proclaimed its discontinued relationship with the Federal Department of Defense 1033 Program, FFSC Rally and Demonstration Demanding LAUSD to Destroy/ Return All 1033 Weapons [...]

Written by: Eric Mann, Director of the Labor Community Strategy Center, Revolutionary, Civil Rights, Anti-war, Labor, and Environmental Justice Organizer. Originally Posted on Huffington Post On [...]

  LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines LAUSD Board of Education 333 South Beaudry Avenue, 24th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 Dear Superintendent Cortines, We received the second copy of your [...]

June 19, 2015 Eric Mann, Director Manny Criollo, Director Labor/Community Strategy Center 3780 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1200 Los Angeles, CA 90010 Dear Sirs: The Los Angeles Unified School [...]

July 24, 2015 LAUSD Board President Steve Zimmer LAUSD Board of Education 333 S. Beaudry Avenue, 24th Floor Los Angeles, CA 900173 Dear LAUSD Board President Zimmer, We are writing to you on [...]

Last week, President Obama issued an executive order to regulate the use of military equipment within local police departments, as part of an ongoing effort to address police violence in [...]

from Ashley Franklin When I joined the Strategy Center, I was drawn to Eric Mann’s book Katrina’s Legacy, that called for the right to return home for the people displaced in New Orleans by [...]

by Manuel Criollo Let me take you way back to the spring of 1993, the first time I met Maria Guardado at a student club meeting of the Student Organization of Latinos (SOL) at Los Angeles City [...]

May 15, 2015 Superintendent Ramon Cortines Los Angeles Unified School District 333 South Beaudry Ave., 24th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 Dear Superintendent Cortines: We have received your letter [...]

It was a beautiful, sunny LA day. A great day for a rally as Strategy Center members joined with over 50 organizations and over 2,000 people as they took over the streets to honor and support [...]

Michael Davis’ block in Los Angeles used to have huge trees on both sides of the street, so big they created a canopy. “They were beautiful,” says the 17-year-old high school [...]