The Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles: What progressive activists can learn from a grassroots campaign against transit racism. By Eric Mann originally published in The Nation Magazine on May 27th, 2013. On November 6, 2012, as progressive voters cheered the re-election of Barack...

JR Valrey, The People’s Minister of Information in Oakland, California and the host of BlockReportRadio.com. Strongly influenced by Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, JR is a powerful and uncompromising voice against police brutality and unaccountability, what he calls...

I spoke with Ashley Franklin, an organizer with the Community Rights Campaign of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, about a big upcoming event happening this May 14, 2013 called the School Climate Bill of Rights. We also discussed a central...

Eric worked with Pete Beltran throughout the 1980s to stop General Motors from closing down its last car manufacturing plant on the West Coast and firing 5,000 mostly Black and Latino well-paid union workers. Pete worked at the GM...

Today we played excerpts of some of our best Voices radio shows of the past year. Here's the list. In between the excerpts, Eric discussed the Strategy Center's new campaign, Fight for the Soul of the Cities, and asked...

I speak with Patricia Bauman, president and founder of the Bauman Family Foundation. Patricia and the Bauman Foundation have funded social justice organizations for over 25 years. Patricia is also co-chair of the Board of the Brennan Center for...