Dec 12, 2025
Breht speaks with veteran organizer, revolutionary strategist,
Elder of the movement, and author Eric Mann.
Together they discuss Eric's life and work, including his book on
George Jackson, the Hard Hat riot against Vietnam protesters, how
to organize effectively in the work place, Eric's personal
relationship with Howard Zinn, the importance of
revolutionary journalism, combatting chauvinism, and SO much
more.
Check out Part One of Breht's discussion with Eric HERE
Opening clip from Mother
Country Radical podcast
More Biography of Eric Mann: Eric Mann (born December 4, 1942) is a
civil rights, anti-war, labor, and environmental organizer. He has
worked with the Congress of Racial Equality, Newark Community Union
Project, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Black Panther
Party, the United Automobile Workers (including eight years on auto
assembly lines) and the New Directions Movement. He was also active
as a leader of SDS faction the Weathermen, which later became the
militant left-wing organization Weather Underground. He was
arrested in September 1969 for participation in a direct action
against the Harvard Center for International Affairs and sentenced
to two years in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit murder
after two bullets were fired through a window of the Cambridge
police headquarters on November 8, 1969. He was instrumental in the
movement that helped to keep a General Motors assembly plant in Van
Nuys, California open for ten years. Mann has been credited for
helping to shape the environmental justice movement in the U.S. He
founded the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles,
California and has been its director for 25 years. In addition,
Mann is founder and co-chair of the Bus Riders Union, which sued
the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for
what it called “transit racism”, resulting in a precedent-setting
civil rights lawsuit, Labor Community Strategy Center et
al. v. MTA.
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