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About Me

The Labor/Community Strategy Center is a multiracial "think tank/act tank" committed to building democratic, internationalist, Left social movements and challenging the ideological, economic, and political domination of transnational capital.The Strategy Center's work encompasses all aspects of urban life in the United States: it emphasizes class-conscious labor organizing and fighting for environmental justice and ending climate change, immigrant rights, and first-class transportation, as well as actively confronting the growing criminalization, racialization, and feminization of poverty.The Strategy Center synthesizes grassroots organizing-The Bus Riders Union and Community Rights projects-with education, policy development, and artistic culture production-Strategy Center Publications, The National Center for Transportation Strategies, the National School for Strategic Organizing, Voices from the Frontlines radio show, and AhoraNow periodical-to generate a creative and aggressive response to the growing power of the corporate-led political Right in the United States.The Strategy Center is committed to multilingual organizing, including the development of multilingual publications, productions, and visuals arts.

My Interests

Overview of Projects:*Bus Riders Union *National School for Strategic Organizing *Political Education Department and Publications (go to: http://www.frontlinespress.com/) *AhoraNow, an International Bilingual (English and Spanish) Political MagazineTargets the "opinion leaders of the oppressed"â€”community activists in environmental, social justice and other progressive organizations, shop floor activists in both union and non-union workplaces, and activist intellectuals, who are "fighting the good fight" but are in urgent need of theoretical and political direction and challenge. *Clean Air Clean Lungs Clean Buses & Stop Climate ChangeA new project focusing on long-term and structural demands to dramatically decrease the public health injuries to children and low-income urban communities due to L.A.'s toxic air pollution through major cuts in auto and diesel truck use and expansion of clean-fuel, bus-centered mass transit. *Center for Transportation Strategies *Community Rights Campaign *Voices From the Frontlines Radio Show on KPFK

I'd like to meet:

People like her:Contact Us!Labor/Community Strategy Center 3780 Wilshire Blvd. Ste 1200 Los Angeles, CA 90010 213-387-2800 fax 213-387-3500 [email protected]

Movies:

Bus Riders Union, Salt of the Earth, The Revolution Will Not be Televised, Battle of Algiers

Television:

Mark Anthony Johnson performing These Are Our Stories at the Strategy Center's 18th Annnual Political Party on May 5th, 2007

Books:

Katrina's Legacy: White Racism and Black Recontruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast-Eric Mann, The Darker Nations-Vijay Prashad, What Is To Be Done-Vladimir Lenin

Heroes:

Malcom X, Fannie Lou Hamer, Emiliano Zapata, Assata Shakur, Ho Chi Minh, Rosalio Mendiola, Gramma Kim, Barbara Lott-Holland ..

My Blog

These Are Our Stories

Here's a video of the spoken word performance given by Mark-Anthony Johnson on May 5, 2007 at the Labor/Community Strategy Center's annual Political Party. Mark-Anthony, a community organizer on the C...
Posted by Bus Riders Union on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:26:00 PST

State of the Social Movement Address

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Posted by Bus Riders Union on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:49:00 PST

US Social Forum Video

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Posted by Bus Riders Union on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:36:00 PST

Excerpt From: Identity Politics & Class Struggle

THERE ARE CERTAINLY MANY ISSUES AROUND WHICH PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCES CAN BE BUILT -- a renewed labor movement, environmental justice, racial justice, immigrant rights, anti-poverty, etc. Public transit ...
Posted by Bus Riders Union on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:52:00 PST

Socialism is a Wise Old Shepard

Socialism is a Wise Old ShepardBy Vijay PrashadAs I travel across the US, I meet young people who are in this or that progressive organization. They are busy doing the necessary everyday work of build...
Posted by Bus Riders Union on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:50:00 PST

VIDEO Hip hop Artist Skim Supports the BRU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkM6u-lnZ-8 ...
Posted by Bus Riders Union on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:48:00 PST

Application to our National School for Strategic Organizing

http://www.thestrategycenter.org/downloads/projects-nsso-app lication.doc
Posted by Bus Riders Union on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:56:00 PST

Top 10 Reasons Why LA Needs LESS Police!

#10 - 1,000 more reasons why LAPD can profile you, harass you, label you and your neighbors a gangsta', eventually bust you on some petty thing, get you caught up into the criminal 'injustice' system ...
Posted by Bus Riders Union on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:33:00 PST

Important Sites! Our Top 4 Links!

http://www.thestrategycenter.org http://www.busridersunion.org http://www.ahoranow.org http://www.frontlinespress.com/ ...
Posted by Bus Riders Union on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:15:00 PST

A New Vision of Urban Transportation: The Bus Riders Union's Mass Transit Campaign

-- by The Bus Riders Union The Center and its Bus Riders Union (BRU) are fighting for the future of mass transit in the most auto-dependent, air-polluted city in the U.S. based on a Four Pillars strat...
Posted by Bus Riders Union on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:10:00 PST