Eric Mann
is the director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles. He has been a civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, labor, and environmental organizer for 35 years with the Congress of Racial Equality, the Students for a Democratic Society, the August Twenty-Ninth Movement and League of Revolutionary Struggle (ML), and the United Auto Workers, including eight years on auto assembly lines. He was the lead organizer of the labor/community campaign to Keep General Motors Van Nuys Open that stopped GM from closing the auto plant for ten years. He is the author of three books,
Comrade George: An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson; Taking on General Motors: A Case Study of the UAW Campaign to Keep GM Van Nuys Open; and
L.A.'s Lethal Air: New Strategies for Environmental Organizing. He is a founding member of the Strategy Center and of the Bus Riders Union (BRU) and sits on the BRU Planning Committee. |
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Lian Hurst Mann is editor of the AhoraNow
document series published by the Labor/Community Strategy Center. She is a founding member of the Strategy Center where she writes, edits, and produces publications, teaches theory, and works to advance the production of oppositional culture. As a member of the Strategy Center Program Group, she is co-author of
Towards a Program of Resistance: We Make These Demands Against the Institutions of U.S. Imperialism. She was a founding member of the Berkeley/Oakland Women's Union and member of the Berkeley Radical
Psychiatry collective in the early 1970s. She spent ten years as a shop-floor organizer against racism and for union democracy—in the Molders' Union, the Boilermakers' Union, and the United Auto
Workers—while working with the August Twenty-Ninth Movement and the League of Revolutionary Struggle (ML). An architect and culture critic by education, she is co-editor of Reconstructing Architecture:
Critical Strategies and Social Practices 1996 with Thomas A. Dutton, and author of Structures for Knowledge for Change: Architecture as Social Practice. |
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