Ashley Franklin, Organizer with the Community Rights Campaign, Los Angeles

Ashley Franklin, Organizer with the Community Rights Campaign, Los Angeles

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...

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Tribute to Pete Beltran, frontlines trade union leader against General Motors in the 1980s

Tribute to Pete Beltran, frontlines trade union leader against General Motors in the 1980s

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...

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Best of Voices Radio of the Past Year

Best of Voices Radio of the Past Year

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...

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Money and Politics, Funding the Movement: a Conversation with Patricia Bauman

Money and Politics, Funding the Movement: a Conversation with Patricia Bauman

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...

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Mumia Abu Jamal in Conversation with Eric Mann, March 2013

Mumia Abu Jamal in Conversation with Eric Mann, March 2013

I’m very pleased to share with you my recent conversation with Mumia Abu Jamal. In it, Mumia and I continued our ongoing discussions about black liberation struggles and the critical importance of teaching the history and theory of those...

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Los Angeles Community Action Network Organizers Becky Dennison and Pete White

Los Angeles Community Action Network Organizers Becky Dennison and Pete White

I’m very pleased to have back on the show, Becky Dennison and Pete White, co-directors of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, known as LA CAN. LA CAN builds leadership among Downtown LA’s very low-income and often homeless community members,...

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