civil rights
Mr. President: Enforce, Restore, Expand our Civil Rights!
by Eric Romann
Following the breakthroughs of DREAM Act students and the LGBTQ rights movement in moving President Obama to take strong stands for civil rights in an election year, the Bus Riders Union is launching a national campaign calling on President Obama to stand for the civil rights of Black and Latino transit riders in Los Angeles.
![](http://www.thestrategycenter.org/sites/www.thestrategycenter.org/files/imagecache/thumb/teaser_images/laura-pulido.jpg "Laura Pulido on her new book "A People’s Guide to Los Angeles"")
Laura Pulido on her new book "A People’s Guide to Los Angeles"
hosted by Eric Mann on 04/10/2012
University of Southern California professor Laura Pulido discusses her new book A People's Guide to Los Angeles in which she maps 115 sites in Los Angeles where critical struggles for justice took place over the past two hundred years.
Rooted in Struggle: Remembering the Past and Looking Towards the Future
BRU member Crystal McMillan reports on BRU's commemoration of the 54th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycotts."To use the example of the Boycott, we have to move forward with determination and we have to harness the will of the people. We will come together to stop the 2010 fare increase. We will use the Clean Air and Economic Justice plan to gain true mobility and a healthy environment. We will build an empowered and creative movement that can shape the Long Range Transportation Plan into a document that doesn't use fare increases and service cuts to fund our transit system."
Re-Envisioning Urban Transit, Esperanza Martinez
by Ian Sawyer
Publication Date:
Nov 25 2009
On Thursday November 19th the Bus Riders Union hosted
Re-Envisioning Public Transit, a transportation briefing that brought together bus
Re-Envision Urban Transit - Francisca Porchas
Transit Riders for Public Transportation lead organizer Fransisca Porchas talks about the Labor Community Strategy Center's national campaign on the reauthorization of the $500 billion Federal Surface Transportation Act.
Bus Riders Union visits Diane Watson
With the reauthorization of the Federal Surface Transportation Act (FSTA) still pending in Congress, the first delegation of Bus Riders Union members visited House Representative Watson's office to meet with her district transportation staffer, Ken Bell, last Thursday August, 20th, 2009.
Strategy Center and BRU join newly formed Los Angeles Coalition Against State Violence
by Nicole Eng
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On Wednesday, March 25th,
The Los Angeles Coalition against State Violence announced their demands…to
reduce and restrict the LAPD budget allocation and instead focus resources on
prevention efforts, public transportation, affordable housing and other human
rights policies in the City of Los Angeles.
