Publications From The Strategy Center & Frontlines Press

Running a “movement publisher” Lian Hurst Mann, Geoff Ray, Daniel Kim, and Kelly Archbold produce books, pamphlets, and films for grassroots organizers, activists, and social movements. Frontlines Press features Academy Award winner Haskell Wexler’s documentary film Bus Riders Union and Eric Mann’s newly released book, Katrina’s Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Strategy Center Publications produced Toward a Program of Resistance and the AhoraNow commentary series.

Books

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    Katrina’s Legacy
    by
    Eric Mann

    New book from Eric Mann--Katrina's Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

    price:
    $15
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Reports

  • End the Tickets: Alternatives for Youth

    End the Tickets: Alternatives for Youth is a collection of reports and documents that reveal the problems of Los Angeles Municipal Code 45.04 and provide alternatives for youth that do not involve the use of tickets, police, probation or courts to address the root causes of LAUSD's 50% drop-out/push-out rate. This collection was presented to Los Angeles Unified School District at the October 20th, 2009 Board meeting as a platform to end the criminalization of truancy, tardiness and other disciplinary issues and as an alternative to the Verdugo Hills High model.

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Slideshows

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Blogs

  • SYOA Notebook: It is our Duty to Fight for Freedom | August 30, 2010

    Lissett Lazo, SYOA Alumni '07 and Community Rights Organizer, reflects on the highlights and breakthroughs of this year's Summer Youth Organizing Academy class. She looks back to her own experience as a SYOA student as a pivotal point in her own growth and transformation as an organizer and young Salvadoreña, Hondureña, Nucaraguense womyn.

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Radio Shows

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    The Wire: Actors Wendell Pierce & Andre Royo
    Eric Mann talks with Wendell Pierce and Andre Royo of The Wire about cop shows, the inner city, and life.
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    Wendell Pierce and Andre Royo

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Flyers

  • Pre-Prison Proposal Stopped!

    We are excited to announce that LAUSD Board Member Tamar Galatzan
    has withdrawn her motion to deputize police officers to give $250
    "truancy" tickets to students while on school grounds! This decision followed a successful action on King and Vermont led by our Community Rights Taking Action students. Our defeat of the Galatzan proposal broke open a discussion about the negative impacts of truancy tickets

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News Articles

  • L.A. bus, rail fares may increase

    Amid the worst economic downturn since World War II, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning to increase fares for the first time in two years to help offset a $204-million gap in its operating budget for buses and rail systems.

    The proposed fare hike, which will go into effect July 1, is opposed by the Bus Riders Union, which protested the planned increase Tuesday morning outside the MTA headquarters in downtown Los Angeles...

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Press Releases

  • Students Call for Greater Accountability, Transparency and Restrictions on Los Angeles School Police Department

    On January 26th, 2010, LAUSD students from the Community Rights Campaign launched a new initiative for greater accountability from the Los Angeles School Police Department with actions at Manuel Arts, Westchester, and Cleveland High Schools. Students weathered the rain to promote the campaign to students, teachers and community members at these sites in coordination with the release of the Community Rights Campaign and Los Angeles Chapter of the Dignity in School's, Police in LAUSD Schools.

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