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 [...]

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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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today, after 18 months of ferocious uphill organizing the Labor/Community Strategy Center reached an agreement with the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles School Police [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

March 2, 2016 LAUSD Superintendent Michelle King, LAUSD President Steve Zimmer, Monica Garcia, George McKenna, Scott Schmerelson, Ref Rodriguez, Monica Ratliff, Richard Vladovic Los Angeles [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It has come to our attention, in information released this past week that several California school police departments, including Los Angeles Unified School Police, have received highly [...]