Trans-National Strategies in Erasing Black Ableism A Krip-Hop Meet-Up Saturday October 26th 10am-2pm Strategy & Soul 3546 Martin Luther King Blvd. LA CA 90008 We so glad to work with our Bus [...]
The Bus Riders Union Asks you to Join Us Call on Mayor Bass and LA Metro to Stop their Police State Against Black and Latinx MTA Riders Vote No Item 45 “Improving Safety” This Thursday, at the [...]
The Strategy Center is proud to support LA Commons’ Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks Workshop Friday June 14th @5pm Festival June 30th @12pm Strategy and Soul is proud to collaborate [...]
For Immediate Release Contact: Eric Mann (213) 387-2800 eric@voicesfromthefrontlines.com Channing Martinez (213) 544-2894 channing@thestrategycenter.org Bus Riders Union Rejects the Growing [...]
Join Black Folks on Bikes for Environmental Justice At Strategy and Soul The Strategy Center is excited to be one of eight organizations in the South-Central LA Power Up coalition working with [...]
We’re looking for a Development Director to join the Strategy Center Team The Strategy Center is known for its direct, unfiltered politics that begins with a deep commitment to L.A.’s Black [...]
Join us this Saturday at the Leimert Park Village Book fair as we continue to promote Strategy & Soul's 40 important titles for every successful organizer to read in a lifetime and now the newly [...]
Dear members and supporters, last year I wrote to the organizers of the Taste of Soul festival in an attempt to solve what we have felt amounted to passive aggressive hostility toward The [...]
Voices from the Frontlines In Conversation with Cheyenne Antonio Eric Mann and Channing Martinez on The Crisis in Gaza Tuesday October 10th, 2023 | 8 AM PST This Week on #VoicesRadio: Cheyenne [...]
The Bus Riders Union reports: 5 Indictments against LA Metro’s transit racism The Bus Riders Union has spent more than 20 years organizing Black and Latinx passengers on Metro buses and [...]
Russian President Vladimir Putin U.S. President Joe Biden Free Brittney Griner Now! By Eric Mann Dear President Putin, It is outrageous that you have imprisoned WNBA basketball player, Black [...]
The Labor Community Strategy Center and The National Leadership School for Strategic Organizing is proud to support The Walter Rodney Symposium Tomorrow March 26th, 2022 7am PST Good Morning [...]
To Interim Superintendent Riley, Board President Gonez and all LAUSD Board Members, The Police Free LAUSD Coalition is writing in response to the egregious shooting by a school police officer [...]
Indigenous People’s Day is Every Day for the Next Seven Generations and More For the Labor/Community Strategy Center Indigenous People’s day is Every Day for the Next Seven Generations or [...]
Ed Asner—my friend, comrade, and UAW member How we worked together to Keep the GM Van Nuys Plant Open Eric Mann UAW Locals 560, 216, 645 UAW New Directions Movement “I come to you as an old UAW [...]
Join us Every Saturday 10am-2pm for Books & Organizing As October approaches, a potential month that Metro is considering implementing fareless transportation for students, we need your help [...]
Super Saturday Block Party Third Saturday of the Month May 15th, 2021 10am-4pm Playbook for Progressives & 7 Components of Transformative Organizing Join us this Saturday for the third [...]
Super Saturday Black Party Third Saturday of the Month April 17, 2021 10am-4pm 12 noon program – Strategy and Soul Community Comrades Ade of Ade’s Bike Shop in Leimert Park- “Black [...]
The BRU calls on Metro to end it’s Police State on the Buses and Trains On March 25th, 2021 at MTA board meeting: Vote No on any increase in MTA police budget Work to terminate the existing [...]
On the Road to Victory Stop MTA Attacks on Black Passengers 60% of all MTA tickets and arrests are against Black riders The MTA policy is anti-Black and must be stopped! This Motion to Increase [...]
Stand up—Again—Against MTA Police Brutality and Attacks on Black Passengers MTA Plans to Raise its $650 Million Police Budget by another $110 million Tomorrow morning, February 18 at 9 AM Call in [...]
Dr. Martin Luther King’s challenge to the Movement As the Fascists Storm the Capital Eric Mann “Dr. DuBois was a radical all of his life. Some people would like to mute the fact that he was a [...]
The Labor/Community Strategy Center has a new job opening for an organizer with experience working in urban Black communities The Strategy Center is a multi-racial internationalist [...]
The Strategy Center has worked in Collaboration with a broad coalition of movement groups fighting to end the School to Prison Pipeline. Recently we had a great breakthrough in Defunding the LA [...]
Concerning Violence – Stand Back, Stand By, Organize, Study, and Resist As Donald Trump makes a call to his followers of the racist white settle state holders of everything violent to Stand [...]
For Immediate Release Contact Channing Martinez (310) 760-1159 channing@thestrategycenter.org Press Conference Today Thursday September 24, 2020 9am MTA Headquarters 1 Gateway Plaza. Los Angeles [...]
The Iranian/Venezuelan Fight for Self-Determination Against U.S. Economic Sanctions Joseph Seyedan The Strategy Center is happy to publish Joseph Seyedan’s exposure of the racism, colonialism, [...]
All friends of the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union Bus Riders Union Calls on MTA Board to take action tomorrow at the MTA Board Meeting. Please help us to advocate for: 1) Move forward with [...]
Eric Mann and Channing Martinez host an organizers conversation with Gionna Magdelano, Angeles Soriano, Kassandra Soriano, students at Ouchi High School and Graduates of the Strategy [...]
Black Los Angeles Los Angeles Community Leaders stand United The Bus Riders Union is proud to be a part of a coalition of more than 44 Black Leaders and Civil Rights groups in Los Angeles raising [...]
All friends of the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union Bus Riders Union Calls on MTA to Stop All Fare Collections Immediately–Free Public Transportation Now! Calls on the MTA Board to Pass [...]
All Hail the Revolutionary King: Dr. Martin Luther King and the Black Revolutionary Tradition By Eric Mann Dear Friends, I am very happy that my article, All Hail the Revolutionary King: Dr. [...]
Please Join us THIS SATURDAY DECEMBER 7TH @6PM at the Strategy Center’s 30th Anniversary Celebration Strategy and Soul: 3546 w Martin Luther King Blvd, LA CA 90008 Valet Parking Purchase [...]
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 [...]
Reception in Strategy and Soul Theater 6pm to 7pm Food, films, music, networking with great people all over the city Book browsing, buying at Strategy and Soul Books Opening Program at Open Air [...]
From More Cars in LA to No Cars in LA The journey of consciousness of a revolutionary auto worker Eric Mann In 1981, Eric Mann, as a communist labor organizer, was hired at the GM Van Nuys Plant, [...]
Take Action for the Civil Rights Climate Justice Campaign for Urban Reconstruction Call on the MTA and LAUSD Board to support Free Public transportation No Police on MTA Trains and Buses [...]
#TodayOnVoicesRadio: Film Conversation on When They See Us Ava DuVernay’sWhen They See Us is a brilliant, explosive, excruciating, breathtaking revolutionary intervention in the spirit of [...]
Vote YES on Measure EE TODAY, June 4 2019 Measure EE to be voted on Tuesday, June 4, is a property tax needed to generate up to $500 million in additional funding for public schools. These [...]
Vote YES on Measure EE Tomorrow, June 4 2019 Measure EE to be voted on Tuesday, June 4, is a property tax needed to generate up to $500 million in additional funding for public schools. These [...]
Labor/Community Strategy Center UCLA Department of History Strategy and Soul Movement Center Present Akinyele Umoja Professor Department African-American Studies at Georgia State University [...]
“Getting rid of police for students, for teacher,for parents; the whole community - is a very big transformative demand. We’re not just looking for reform, but we want to rid the criminalization [...]
All Hail the Revolutionary King Dr. Martin Luther King and the Black Revolutionary Tradition By Eric Mann The annual King Day celebrations provide a great opportunity to defend Dr. King’s [...]
Recommendations for Liberals, Progressives, Radicals, & Revolutionaries Locate Your Polling Place The Strategy Center supports the initiative process and urges everyone to vote tomorrow. We [...]
Victor Wallis in Conversation with Eric Mann about his new book Red-Green Revolution; The Politics & Technology of Ecosocialism October 19, 2018 @6pm Strategy and Soul Books 3542 W Martin [...]
The Strategy Center will be attending The Left Coast Forum on Friday August 24th We Welcome Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Sharon KyleMelina Abdullah, and Mona Shaikh We will all be there! We urge [...]
Join The Strategy Center at The Left Coast Forum Friday August 24th, 2018 – Sunday August 26th, 2018 Eric Mann, director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center and host of KPFK’s Voices [...]
WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FORTH OF JULY A DEEP APPRECIATION By Eric Mann As we Approach the Hollow, Hypocritical, Horrific History of the United States reflected in the pathetic professions of its [...]
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 [...]
The Historic 1968 Struggle Against Columbia University How a Black United Front in Harlem, the Students’ Afro American Society, and Students for a Democratic Society took on the Columbia [...]
Join the Strategy Center in New York April 23 @7PM Marxist Education Project Dear New York Friends of the Strategy Center. We are excited to be coming to New York on April 23 for Eric [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Camino Para Progresistas 16 Cualidades de un Organizador Exitoso Obtenga su copia hoy por $15.00 Un manifiesto sobre la organización para el siglo XXI. Libro Estega para Progresistas tiene que [...]
Book Opening NO DOUBT: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant Thandi Chimurenga is an outspoken critic of The System and a compelling writer in the great traditions of Black Liberation. She is a frequent [...]
Meet us TODAY at the Left Coast Forum 2017 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 [...]
Welcome Professor Cynthia Hamilton Home to South Central Los Angeles and Strategy and Soul Saturday Brunch Conversation with Cynthia Hamilton Eric Mann and Joyce Germaine Watts Co-Hosts [...]
Film Showing So Near… So Far The Life of Pablo Menédez Door Open @6pm, Film Begins @7pm Strategy & Soul 3546 w Martin Luther King Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90008 There will be a discussion [...]
Labor Community Strategy Center Civil Rights and Climate Justice Campaign Dear Friends, We are asking you to endorse the Labor Community Strategy Center’s Civil Rights/Climate Justice Campaign–No [...]
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 [...]
The Strategy Center is bringing a federal civil rights complaint against the MTA to the Department of Transportation and the Department of Justice for intentional and egregious racial [...]
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 [...]
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and University - West Coast Premiere Dir: Stanley Nelson A vibrant mosaic of events, stories and characters traces the essential role the [...]
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: [...]
Labor Community Strategy Center, Fight for the Soul of the Cities & Pan African Film Festival Presents: SELMA - Produced by Ava DuVernay. Martin Luther King Jr. And The Black Revolutionary [...]
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 [...]
The Strategy Center Submits DOJ & DOT Civil Rights Complaint Against the LACMTA November 14, 2016 United State Department of Transportation (DOT) Attn: Yvette Rivera, Associate Director [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Department.
The just concluded Paris Climate Conference — the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — was a critical juncture in human and planetary history. Could the [...]
Originally published in Less Magazine. 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PRESIDENT OBAMA: YOU MUST DEPOSIT $10 BILLION INTO THE GREEN CLIMATE FUND NOW For the “Loss and Damages” and Reparations to the Nations and Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America suffering [...]
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 [...]
Eric Mann is the director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center and The Fight for the Soul of the Cities. He is a veteran of the Congress of Racial Equality, Students for a Democratic Society, [...]
There are at least three gifts we can give to the veterans and G.I.’s on veterans day. One is to bring all the troops home, close down all 800 U.S. military bases, provide “jobs or income now” [...]
In the midst of an Israeli military slaughter of civilians in Gaza and now, its announcement it will commandeer 1,000 acres of land in the West Bank—the largest Israeli confiscation of [...]
Structural Proposals to end the school-to-prison pipeline in the Los Angeles Unified School District Product Information Product Type: Black, Brown, and, Over policed in LA Schools The Community [...]
Fred Ho, a renowned baritone sax player, Afro-Asian jazz musician, composer, political organizer, revolutionary died on Saturday. In 2006, Fred was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and spent the [...]
Using California’s Local Control Funding Formula to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline New Report: 20,000 California Students Arrested or Ticketed in 2009-10, Vast Majority Are Youth [...]
Resolution, Monica García – 2013 School Discipline Policy and School Climate Bill of Rights Whereas, The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) understands that student achievement [...]
Why a Bus Centered System Will Best Serve U.S. Cities Product Information Product Type: Downloadable: The Bus Riders Union Transit Model Price: $0 April 2009 Written by Ryan Snyder for the Labor [...]
Product Information Product Type: Downloadable: Toward a Program of Resistance Availability: Download for free, or purchase hard copy Price: $10 The authors of this document—the Program Demand [...]
Lessons and Observations from Los Angeles Product Information Product Type: Downloadable An Environmental Justice Strategy for Urban Transportation in Atlanta: Lessons and Observations from Los [...]
Note: This article was published in the Socialist Register 2001, Working Classes Global Realities, eds. Panitch et al., 2001, Monthly Review Press. In Los Angeles today, the Labor/Community [...]
Note: This article was published in Rising from the Ashes?: Labor in the Age of “Global” Capitalism, eds. Wood et al., 1998, Monthly Review Press. The left and labor-will they ever [...]
The Bus Riders Union Makes History at the Intersection of Mass Transit, Civil Rights, and the Environment by The Bus Riders Union Product Information Product Type: Downloadable New Vision for [...]
Note: This article has been accepted for publication by Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, edited by Manning Marable sponsored by the Institute for Research in [...]
Product Information Product Type: Downloadable Immigrant Rights and Wrongs Availability: Download for free, or purchase hard copy Price: $10 by Lisa Durán, Bill Gallegos, Glenn Omatsu, Eric Mann, [...]
Product Information Product Type: Downloadable A Call to Reject the Federal Weed and Seed Program in Los Angeles Availability: Download for free, or purchase hard copy Price: $10 by the Urban [...]
Product Information Product Type: Downloadable Reconstructing L.A. and U.S. Cities from the Bottom Up Availability: Download for free, or purchase hard copy Price: $10 by Eric Mann, Cynthia [...]
Product Information Product Type: Downloadable LA’s Lethal Air: New Strategies for Policy, Organizing, and Action Availability: Download for free, or purchase hard copy Price: $10 by [...]
Product Information Product Type: Downloadable Apartheid in an American City: The Case of the Black Community in Los Angeles Availability: Download for free, or purchase hard copy Price: $10 [...]