Civil Rights
Stop the Bipartisan Police/Prison Budget Shell Game
by Bethel Hamel
We Need 1,000 More Teachers, 1,000 Less Prison Guard. 1,000 More Buses, 1,000 Less Police!
BRU calls on Mayor to Make Bus Improvements
by Alex Ortiz
BRU demands 500 more buses, bus only lanes, lower fares, no service cuts
![](http://www.thestrategycenter.org/sites/www.thestrategycenter.org/files/imagecache/thumb/sites/lcsc.civicactions.net/files/handsonbar+500+x+500.jpg "The Omnivorous Police/Prison State and the California "Budget Crisis"")
The Omnivorous Police/Prison State and the California "Budget Crisis"
So let's look at how the police/prison growth industry has been affected by the economic downturn.
At a time when the California government can't pay its bills or cut welfare checks to the neediest, a time when it is sending IOUs for tax returns, it is driving forward (guns a blazin') with the largest prison construction project in the world. We're talking about AB 900 and its evil twin ABX1-10.
Francisca Porchas: BRU strategy to stop the racist fare hike
hosted by Tammy Bang Luu on 04/02/2007
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Barbara Lott-Holland: Impact of MTA's racist fare hike
hosted by Tammy Bang Luu on 04/02/2007
Chair of the Bus Riders Union Barbara Lott-Holland reflects on life on the bus and the real impact of higher fares on Black, Latino, and Asian working class bus riders.
Nancy Stengel & Michael Rivera: The longterm care workers in SEIU
hosted by on 09/22/2008
Rank and file leaders of United Health Care Workers West, Nancy Stengel and Michael Rivera, take on SIEU president.
Adrian Acosta & Valerie Wagner: Race and Proposition 8
hosted by Manuel Criollo on 11/17/2008
Latino and Black LGBT activists, Adrian Acosta and Valerie Wagner, talk about the Prop 8 Fallout: The LGBT community, race, the wedge politics played to perfection.
Robin D.G. Kelley: Obama and the Black Liberation Movement
hosted by Manuel Criollo on 11/17/2008
Black historian, scholar, and activist Robin D.G. Kelley, answers the question, what does Obama's election mean in the long view of the Black Struggle for freedom and liberation?
Eric Mann: Film review of Revolutionary Road
hosted by Eric Mann on 01/05/2009
Revolutionary Road - A Road Not Taken. Film review by Eric Man.
