Eric Mann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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civil rights advocate
Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1942
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Eric Mann
- Eric Mann (born December 4, 1942, Brooklyn, New York) is a civil rights, anti-war, labor, and environmental organizer whose career spans 50 years.
- He has worked with the Congress of Racial Equality, Newark Community Union Project, Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panther Party, the United Automobile Workers (including eight years on auto assembly lines) and the New Directions Movement.
- He was also instrumental in the labor and community alliance that kept General Motors’ assembly plant in Van Nuys, California open for ten years.
- Mann has been identified as instrumental in shaping the environmental justice movement in the U.S.
- He is also founder of 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, identifying what is now called “transit racism” and resulting in a precedent-setting civil rights lawsuit, Labor Community Strategy Center et al.
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- MTA.In addition, Mann is the author of books published by Beacon Press, Harper & Row and the University of California, which include Taking on General Motors, The Seven Components of Transformative Organizing Theory and Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer and is known for his theory of transformative organizing and leadership of popular movements.
- Mann is host of the weekly radio show Voices from the Frontlines: Your National Movement-Building Show on KPFK Pacifica Radio 90.7 in Los Angeles.
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