The Bus Riders Union reports: 5 Indictments against LA Metro’s Transit Racism
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 trains. We have deeply studied the transportation system, and have years of research that show that the Metro board is carrying out systemic racism […]
The Strategy Center Submits DOJ & DOT Civil Rights Complaint Against the LACMTA
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 Departmental Office of Civil Rights Office of the Secretary 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20590 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division Attn: Federal […]
Black, Brown, and Over-Policed in L.A. Schools
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 Rights Campaign of the Labor/Community Strategy Center released Black, Brown and Over-Policed in LA Schools: Structural Proposals to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline in the Los Angeles Unified […]
The New ‘Separate and Unequal’
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 of Color “Local Control Funding Formula” Should Strengthen Support Services, Not School Police, Report Says Read the Full Report: The New ‘Separate and Unequal’: Using California’s Local Control Funding Formula […]
The Bus Riders Union Transit Model
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 / Community Strategy Center In the bus versus rail debate, some ask, “Why can’t we have it all?” In principle, bus and rail are […]
Toward a Program of Resistance
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 Group—are individual left organizers who have built a substantial degree of political unity through struggles in shared practice over a long period of time. We met each other through […]
An Environmental Justice Strategy for Urban Transportation in Atlanta
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 Angeles Availability: Download for free, or purchase hard copy Price: $10 As many have observed, the Bus Riders Union’s Fight Transit Racism/Billions for Busescampaign has not just shaken up the […]
A NEW VISION FOR URBAN TRANSPORTATION
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 Urban Transportation Availability: Download for free, or purchase hard copy Price: $10 The Center and its Bus Riders Union (BRU) are fighting for the future of mass […]
Immigrant Rights And Wrongs
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, and the Urban Strategies Group ” An outstanding analysis of immigration as a fundamental part of international capitalism. IMMIGRANT RIGHTS–AND WRONGS details corporate capital’s history in immigration […]
A Call to Reject the Federal Weed and Seed Program in Los Angeles
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 Stategies Group After L.A.’s 1992 rebellion, George Bush proposed a national “weed and seed” program–to “weed” out violent criminals in U.S. cities and “seed” […]
Reconstructing Los Angeles–And U.S. Cities–from the Bottom Up
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 Hamilton, Anthony Thigpenn, Dean Toji, Laura Pulido, Geoff Ray, Robin Cannon, Lian Hurst Mann, and the Urban Strategies Group. “RECONSTRUCTING L.A. FROM THE BOTTOM UP, calls for […]
L.A.’s Lethal Air: New Strategies for Policy, Organizing, and Action
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 Eric Mann and the WATCHDOG Organizing Committee L.A.’S LETHAL AIR charts new ground in environmental politics. It targets corporate industrial policy, class relationships, and institutional racism as the primary […]
Apartheid in an American City: The Case of the Black Community in Los Angeles
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 –by Cynthia Hamilton, Ph.D. Apartheid in an American City is a prescient 1987 work that virtually predicted L.A.’s 1992 rebellion. Cynthia Hamilton, a long-time resident of South […]
