California State University, NorthridgeCalifornia State University, Northridge
February 25, 1997
Contact: Christina Marin or
Carmen Ramos Chandler,
(818) 677-2130
cmarin@exec.csun.edu
Mann's lecture will include a discussion of his new book, Driving the Bus of History: Lessons from the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union's Victory Against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which recounts the Los Angeles bus riders' strike that Mann organized to protest fee hikes.
Mann is director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles. He has been an author, civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, labor and environmental organizer for 30 years, working with the Congress of Racial Equality, Students for a Democratic Society, and the United Auto Workers, including eight years on auto assembly lines.
His other books include Comrade George: An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson and Taking on General Motors: Labor Insurgency in a UAW Local.
The lecture is scheduled from 12 - 1:30 p.m. in the Lambs Lounge of the University Club on the southeast side of the campus at 18111 Nordhoff Street in Northridge.
For more information, call Larry Littwin in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at (818) 677-3317.