Join author Eric Mann as he discusses his book Katrina's Legacy. Â Katrina's Legacy focuses on the centrality of the Black Liberation Movement the entire U.S. Left and programmatic proposals supporting a new reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Eric Mann is director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles and founder of the Bus Riders Union. He has been a civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, labor, and environmental organizer with the Congress of Racial Equality, Students for a Democratic Society, United Auto Workers union, Soledad Brothers and Attica Brothers defense committees. He has written six books, including Comrade George, Taking On General Motors, L.A.'s Lethal Air, Dispatches from Durban, The 2004 Elections, and Katrina's Legacy. Mann is also the cohost of the weekly radio show Voices from the Frontlines, on KPFK Pacifica 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, and has published more than two hundred articles that have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Boston After Dark, Worldwatch, Socialist Register, Black Agenda Report, Black Commentator, AhoraNow, and the Nation.
