5 lessons for emerging organizers from a legendary

83-year-old LA activist

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As a lifelong joiner of social justice organizations, Eric Mann has fought the Jim Crow South in the 1960s, the American invasion of Vietnam in the 1970s, the offshoring of American manufacturing jobs and the decline of workers’ power in the 1980s. He also organized and successfully won a fight against what he calls the racist transit policies of Metro in the 1990s and 2000s. He mentored Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, spent 18 months in prison for his Weatherman activities before the group went underground and co-founded the Labor and Community Strategy Center, a left-wing b

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