Standing Up against Racist, Fascist, Nazi, Swastikas in South L.A.
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 [...]
Selena Lechuga, Latina, attacked by MTA police for standing up for the rights of others, meets the press
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 [...]
LAPD sergeant drags rider from train after she puts her feet on a seat
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. [...]
CURBED LA: After civil rights violation claim, Metro is pressed for more data on fare enforcement
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 [...]
Curbed LA: Civil rights complaint alleges LA Metro police target black riders Black riders are disproportionately cited for fare evasions, complaint says
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 [...]
Why You Should Not Pay the MTA Fare – Usted No Debe Pagar la Tarifa del MTA
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, [...]
Me and Jesse Williams: The Organizer, The Celebrity, and You
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 [...]
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July
WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FORTH OF JULY A DEEP APPRECIATION Eric Mann As we Approach the Hollow, Hypocritical, Horrific History of the United States reflected in the pathetic professions of its [...]
COP21: US is ‘Major Obstacle’ to Climate Change, Says Manuel Criollo
teleSUR English speaks to Manuel Criollo, the director of organizing at the U.S.-based Labor rights and environmental campaign group The Strategy Center about the possible failure of nations to [...]
Posts From Paris: The World is on Fire but the United Nations is Not
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 [...]
Defend the President’s Climate Rules from Republican Attacks; Defend the Planet from President Obama and the Democrats
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 [...]
Prelude to Paris: Four Tragic Tactics by President Obama and Four Climate Justice Proposals He Must Support
In December 2015 the world’s governments will meet in Paris for a truly historic event — the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference. (UNFCCC). The objective of the [...]
Huffington Post Article: “President Obama: No Cars in L.A. and the U.S., No Tanks in L.A. and the U.S.”
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 [...]
Black Resistance Now!
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 [...]
A Tribute to Maria Guardado
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 [...]
LAUSD Schools Receive Specialized Military Equipment
Statement by the Labor/Community Strategy Center’ Fight for the Soul of the Cities and Community Rights Campaigns. It has come to our attention, in information released this past week that [...]
Reflections of a Black Organizer: The Trayvon Martin Case and Racism in the Age of Obama
By Ronald Collins, Strategy Center and Fight for the Soul of the Cities Organizer I have been working in the movement since I was 16 years old, only a year younger than Trayvon, I am now turning [...]
What’s Really on Trial in George Zimmerman’s Case?
By Eric Mann originally published in Colorlines Magazine on June 10th, 2013. Make Demands, Try the System George Zimmerman will go on trial today for the murder of Trayvon Martin. But let’s be [...]
The Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles
What progressive activists can learn from a grassroots campaign against transit racism. By Eric Mann originally published in The Nation Magazine on May 27th, 2013. On November 6, 2012, as [...]
