Strategy & Soul Movement Center Hosted by Channing Martinez presents: Freedom First 2023 World Tour A Jazz Benefit Concert for Keith Lamar October 5th, 2023 7pm Strategy and [...]
The Strategy and Soul Movement Film Theater Presents the acclaimed feature- length documentary Bus Riders Union By Haskell Wexler Academy Award Winning Cinematographer March 30, 2023 7 PM [...]
Movement Briefing & Media Conference The Bus Riders Union Calls on MTA to end its Apartheid Pass Fareless Transportation for All Wednesday May 26th 2021 6pm PST Via Zoom Join the BRU this [...]
BRU Calls on the MTA Board to Pass Free Public Transportation for all MTA Passengers for at least one year— with the hope it becomes permanent The Bus Riders Union is trying to figure out the [...]
All friends of the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union Great News for the Free Public Transportation Campaign Join us at the MTA Board Meeting this Thursday, January 23 for the introduction of a [...]
Support Black Lives Matter LA: Bye Jackie 2020 2 years of Action Wednesday October 23rd, 2019 4-6PM The Strategy Center urges our members and friends to join Black Lives Matter L.A. for their [...]
The Strategy Center is a member organization in the Brothers Sons Selves Coalition and we all need your help. The purpose of this survey is to capture your experiences in school, community, [...]
Join The Strategy Center at the Pan African Film Festival for the Great Film BUS RIDERS UNION by Haskell Wexler February 12, 2019 @6pm In 1997, encouraged by Michelle Prichard of the Liberty Hill [...]
Symbols Of Resistance A conversation with Claude Marks, Brenda Montano, and Eric Mann Strategy & Soul Theater June 29th 2018 @6pm Suggested Donation $10.00 Symbols of Resistance illuminates [...]
CURBED LA: After civil rights violation claim, Metro is pressed for more data on fare enforcement CBS News: LAPD To Patrol Metro Buses, Trains Under New Contract Strategy Center Files Civil [...]
U.S. Department of Transportation Investigates MTA for citations and arrests that egregiously target Black riders Strategy Center Calls on Mayor Eric Garcetti Supervisors Mark Ridley Thomas and [...]
November 14, 2016 The Strategy Center Submits Complaint: Department of Transportation to Labor Community Strategy Center: We’ve received your Federal Complaint December 1, 2016 Department [...]
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The Labor Community Strategy Center and our Strategy & Soul Movement Center Urges Racial justice, Social Justice and Climate Justice Advocates to Join us in defeating the MTA’s racist Measure [...]
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Back by popular demand we bring you the #ABC4BlackNation, because Black liberation and Black Freedom thought #CantbeContainted. The long history of miseducation and educational racism has [...]
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You saw the video. I was one of “those young Latinas who stood up to police brutality on the trains” and in return was arrested by the police. They handcuffed me, took me to jail, denied me food, [...]
For Immediate Release Contact: Eric Mann info@thestrategycenter.org Press Conference Date/Time: Friday, January 26th at 12 PM Location: In Front of Strategy and Soul 3546 W Martin Luther King [...]
Read this article on Curbed LA An 18-year-old woman was detained Monday afternoon after a Los Angeles police sergeant dragged her off a Metro train car for putting her foot or feet on a seat. [...]
Please fill out this contact form if you have seen or have experienced police harassment on Public Transportation. The Strategy Center has brought a civil rights complaint to the Department of [...]
Stop all U.S. violence against women in the family, community, workplace, prisons, ICE detention centers, by traffickers and the police, in the army, by the army Stop MTA Genocide Against The [...]
Read this article on Curbed LA It’s the goal of a lawsuit filed by the strategy center against Metro and three law enforcement agencies. The center claims those agencies have failed to respond to [...]
The Strategy Center is Reinventing Itself—Again Dear Friends, The Labor/Community Strategy Center is reinventing itself—again! In the midst of a political, spiritual, and climate catastrophe [...]
Centrality of Race and the Challenge to the Movement 10:30am-11:45 Los Angeles Trade Technical College 400 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015 Get Tickets Now Margaret Prescod—Women, Work, [...]
For Immediate Release Contact: Manuel Criollo 323.243.9304 manuel@thestrategycenter.org Eric Mann 213.387.2800 ericmann@mindspring.com Press Conference Date/Time: Thursday, September 14th at 12 [...]
Demonstrate Tomorrow Friday, Sept 1 at 10 AM In Front of MTA Headquarters Demand of MTA CEO Philip Washington and MTA Board Members Eric Garcetti Stop MTA Genocide Against the Black Nation Free [...]
Komozi Woodard—Revolutionary in Residence at the Labor/Community Strategy Center Komozi Woodard is a long-time movement organizer, the Revolutionary in Residence at the Labor/Community Strategy [...]
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Metro Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority January 26, 2017 One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012-2952 Phillip A. Washington Chief Executi11e Officer 213.922.7555 Tel [...]
This Is What Genocide Looks Like in Los Angeles https://infograph.venngage.com/p/228896/stop-metro-genocide-against-the-black-nation We need you to stand up to MTA transit racism and [...]
BY JENNA CHANDLER JAN 18, 2017, 6:12PM PST The U.S. Department of Transportation confirmed Wednesday that it is investigating a civil rights complaint alleging Los Angeles Metro and the [...]
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Los Angeles police officers will patrol buses and trains in the city as part of a new multi-agency approach to security approved Thursday by the Metro Board of [...]
February 21, 2017 Ms. Yvette Rivera Associate Director U.S. Department of Transportation Departmental Office of Civil Rights Ryan N. Fitzpatrick, Esq. Lead Civil Rights Analyst [...]
January 12, 2017 Mr. Philip A. Washington Chief Executive Officer Los Angeles County MT A One Gateway Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90012 Subject: Acceptance of Title VI Complaint Dear Mr. Washington: [...]
By Joe Linton In November of 2016, the Labor/Community Strategy Center (LCSC) filed a civil rights complaint against Metro with the federal departments of Transportation and Justice. LCSC is the [...]
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Dear Mr. Mann: The U.S. Department of Transportation received your complaint dated November 14, 2016. We have forwarded it to the Federal Transit [...]
December 1, 2016 Mr. Philip A. Washington Chief Executive Officer Los Angeles MT A One Gateway Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90012 Mr. Jim McDonnell Sheriff Sheriffs [...]
For LA Metro Black Lives, Don’t Matter. LA Metro criminalizes black riders who are only 19% of riders, but make up over 50% of all LA Metro fare citations, fines and arrest are Black riders on [...]
No Cars in L.A. and the U.S. No Tanks in L.A. and the U.S. The Climate Justice State Not the Warfare State The Social Welfare State Not the Police State Vote No on MTA Ballot Measure M Stop [...]
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MTA’s Destroys Black and Brown Communities MTA has increased fares by 38% since 2007 and cut over 1 million hours of service, that Fight for the Soul of the Cities and the Bus Riders Union won, [...]
Thanks Jesse Williams. It took a lot of bravery for you to get up at the BET Awards Ceremony and give a speech filled with anger and rage at the system— and the way that the killings of Black [...]
Dear Mr. Eric Mann, First, I want to thank you for your dialogue with me, other Board Members and with Chief Zipperman over the past few weeks. Yesterday you received a detailed letter together [...]
Dear Sirs: Our past and ongoing commitment to strengthening trust and partnerships with the Strategy Center and other community organizations remains paramount. It was a pleasure meeting with [...]
To the members of the Labor Community Strategy Center and the Dignity in Schools Campaign, The need for safety is a collective responsibility that must balance our lessons learned from history, [...]
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Dear LAUSD Board President Zimmer and Superintendent King: Urban Youth Collaborative is a civil and human rights organization working to stop the school to prison pipeline and the mass [...]
April 17, 2016 Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Office of the Board 333 S. Beaudry Avenue, 24th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 Dear Board Members of the Los Angeles Unified [...]
Dear LAUSD Board President Zimmer and Superintendent King: The GSA Network of California is a racial and gender justice non-profit organization working to stop the school to prison pipeline and [...]
Dear Chair Zimmer and Superintendent King: We hope this message finds you well. The Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) is a national coalition of over 100 organizations in 26 states and Washington [...]
Dear LAUSD Board President Zimmer and Superintendent King: The Alliance for Educational Jsutice is a national network of 29 youth and intergenerational groups working to dismantle the school to [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2016 Contact: Eric Mann, ericmann@mindspring.com, (213) 387.2800 Nancy Treviño, nancy@dignityinschools.org, (786) 201-8958 Manuel [...]
Dear LAUSD Board President Zimmer and Superintendent King: The Philadelphia Student Union is a youth-led, civil and human rights organization working to stop the school to prison pipeline and the [...]
We hope this message finds you well. The Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) is a national coalition of over 100 organizations in 26 states and Washington D.C. working to end the school-to- prison [...]
A civic group protesting the military-style weapons once held by LA Unified police said they will continue to disrupt meetings and hold demonstrations until they get answers and action. The [...]
Dear Allies, We are happy to announce a major development, breakthrough and victory in our struggle against the Los Angeles Unified School District participation in the 1033 Program. After a [...]
We’ve gotten a taste of what police militarization looks like—in cases like the events following police killings of black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore. Barbara Lott-Holland, associate [...]
Posts from Paris: The World Is On Fire But the United Nations Is Not Post from Paris–Daily Commentaries for Pacific Radio The World is on Fire. But can the governments of the world put it [...]
LIVE FROM PRELUDE TO PARIS; Eric Mann, Manuel Criollo, Ashley Franklin, and Channing Martinez speak about the 4 demands being put in front of President Obama by The Strategy Center, and their [...]
About 50 students and activists disrupted the LA Unified school board meeting on July 30 in a protest over the district police force’s having dozens of M-16 rifles from the federal government’s [...]
A small but loud group from The Labor Community Strategy Center’s Fight for the Soul of the Cities and Community Rights Campaign protested outside of LA Unified headquarters yesterday, demanding [...]
Los Angeles Unified’s school police have returned their armored vehicle after community outcry over a federal program that sent military weapons to local law enforcement agencies. That “1033 [...]
The Labor/Community Strategy Center’s Community Rights Campaign rejects Boardmember Ratliff’s resolution to study expansion of police into elementary schools, proud members of the [...]
L.A.’s top school-district cop says his department will return the grenade launchers they borrowed from the Pentagon, but will hold on to the M16 assault rifles and the military-grade armored [...]
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