Eric Mann
Eric Mann is the director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles and a founder of the Bus Riders Union. The Strategy Center is a “think tank/act tank” that trains organizers and initiates high visibility environmental justice, mass transportation, and civil rights campaigns. The BRU is the largest mass transportation group in the U.S.
Mann has been a civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, labor, and environmental organizer with the Congress of Racial Equality, Students for a Democratic Society, and the United Auto Workers. In 2001, he was a delegate to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa and returned to South Africa in 2002 as part of a Strategy Center delegation to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
Mann is the co-host of the weekly radio show, Voices from the Frontlines, on KPFK Pacifica 90.7FM in Los Angeles. He has published more than 200 articles and has written six books: Comrade George: An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson; Taking on General Motors: Insurgency in a United Auto Workers Local; L.A.’s Lethal Air: New Strategies for Environmental Organizing; The 2004 Presidential Elections: A Turning Point for the U.S. Left; Dispatches from Durban: Firsthand Commentaries on the World Conference Against Racism and Post-September 11 Movement Strategies; and Katrina’s Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He is working on his next book, The Twenty Five Qualities of the Successful Organizer. More information about Mann’s work can be found at http://ericmannauthor.com/.