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List of Publications
Dispatches
from Durban: Firsthand Commentaries on the World Conference Against
Racism and Post September 11 Movement Strategies
"What do
we do about the United States?” This is the big question that
animates Eric Mann’s provocative, insightful, persuasive and
highly stimulating book, Dispatches from Durban. Mann sees the United
States as the linchpin of an unjust world order, one based on racism
and imperialism—“the political, economic, and military
system of monopoly capitalism that subjugates whole nations and
peoples.” To challenge this institutionalized injustice requires
an international movement that enjoys a far greater level of consciousness
and organization than it now does. Durban is a strategic manifesto
for building an “antiracist, anti-imperialist united front,
a positive vision of a society, organizing to stop the abuses of
the existing [U.S.-dominated, global] system,” while suggesting
myriad tactical interventions aimed at progressing toward the larger
strategic goals.
--Joseph Nevins,
Z Magazine review
Bus
Riders Union, the film by Haskell Wexler
Bus Riders
Union is a feature length documentary by Academy Award cinematographer
Haskell Wexler, tracing three years in the life of one of the nation’s
most dynamic social movements--a
rare mix of fine filmmaking, good politics, and a complex portrayal
of a multiracial grassroots movement that is taking on some of the
most powerful forces in Los Angeles--and winning.
“I was
so inspired by Bus Riders Union that I invited 7 other
activists and organizers over for a viewing. I have done anti-poverty
work in the city for the past 5 years and recognized immediately
just how important and unique (especially in North America) the
BRU and its model of organizing is.”
--Suzanne Baustad,
director of Mayworks, Vancouver, Canada
Voices
from the Front Lines (Video)
Voices from
the Front Lines, five years in the making, focuses on the evolution
of the Strategy Center and its Watchdog and Bus Riders Union community
organizing campaigns in the context of the national environmental
justice movement. This is a film about the theory and practice of
organizing and social movements. It premiered in November of 1997
at a 300-seat Los Angeles theater packed to capacity with minority
and immigrant bus riders active in the struggle to gain control
of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, a corrupt public agency that
controls the buses upon which their lives depend.
"'Voices
from the Front Lines' dramatically documents examples of political
action from metropolitan Los Angeles and throughout the United States
on issues of environmental justice. The Labor/Community Strategy
Center has been a leading force in building a race and class perspective
inside the environmental movement. This powerful film illustrates
a series of public protests and sites of strategic struggle representing
a sharp challenge to corporate power and the political status quo.
'Voices from the Front Lines' is an excellent and effective resource
for both students and activists."
--Manning Marable,
Professor of History; Director, Institute for Research in African-American
Studies
A
New Vision of Urban Transportation: The Bus Riders Union's Mass
Transit Campaign
The Los Angeles-based
Bus Riders Union (BRU) is arguably the most successful example of
grassroots political organizing in the United States today. In 1996,
with the support of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and other co-plaintiffs,
it won an historic civil rights settlement with the Los Angeles
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on behalf of poor and
minority bus riders throughout the city. The intensive organizing
and dramatic membership growth that made this settlement a political
possibility are documented in depth in this exciting publication.
Immigrant
Rights and Wrongs
" Immigrant
Rights- and Wrongs is a powerful political and moral polemic that
challenges anti-immigrant sentiment head-on. It argues that given
the colonial economic and political policies of the U.S., the immigration
of Third World workers to the U.S. should be welcomed. By providing
a historical analysis of anti-black, anti-Asian, Anti-Latino, and
anti-Semitic currents in U.S. history, its advocacy to resist the
enforcement of California's recently- passed Proposition 187 is
in the tradition of anti-racist civil disobedience."
--Tom Hayden,
California State Senator
Reconstructing
Los Angeles--And U.S. Cities--From the Bottom Up
" After
the 1992 L.A. rebellion, corporate executives came into our community
and demanded environmental deregulation, expanded police power,
and low-wage labor in return for their "help." In working
on "Reconstructing..." I helped to shape a new model of
environmental, high-wage, sustainable development for communities
of color that provides an alternative to the "take it or leave
it" corporate agenda. Reconstructing offers grassroots organizers
and college faculty a new perspective on the future of U.S. cities."
--Robin Cannon,
Urban Strategies Group
L.A.'s
Lethal Air / El aire Mortal de Los Angeles (Spanish edition)
" L.A.'s
Lethal Air is a breath of fresh air; it translates cold environmental
statistics into a story about people. The chapter on "Class,
Race, and Gender: The Unspoken Categories of Public Health"
is a major breakthrough in environmental analysis. L.A.'s Lethal
Air makes a unique, well-documented contribution to the environmental
movement by placing responsibility for the devastating public health
impacts of air pollution clearly at the feet of corporate America--and
generating positive grassroots proposals for industrial and transportation
policy."
Barry Commoner
The
Nation
Taking
on General Motors
" I have
marched with the Van Nuys UAW workers and observed their masterful
organizing work first-hand. This complex case study of the construction
of a successful labor/ community movement to save L.A.'s last auto
plant should be savored. If you are a labor or civil rights organizer,
an environmental or peace activist, a college or high school teacher,
or a member of the Rainbow Coalition, I urge you read and distribute
Taking On General Motors and creatively apply its many lessons to
your own work."
Rev. Jesse
Jackson
Rainbow Coalition
AhoraNow
(Political Quarterly)
A new political
quarterly containing Strategy Center analysis and campaign reports.
Available only with Strategy Center Membership.
A Call to Reject the Federal Weed and Seed Program
Apartheid in an American City: The Case of the Black Community in
Los Angeles
Occupied
America: A History of Chicanos
Electric Vehicles at the Crossroads: A New Model of Economic
Conversion, Sustainable Development, and Grassroots Democratic Planning
Tiger
By the Tail (Film/Video)
The Future of the U.S. Left and Socialism: Talks by Manning Marable
and Eric Mann (Audio Tape)
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