This week on Voices from the Frontlines... THE TRIO IS BACK; Alan Minsky, Channing Martinez, and Eric Mann speak with Meena Roman from the Third-World Network, about moving forward the Black Nationalist, Third-World Alliance movement. The white-settler state that is the United States that has raped, pillaged, and created what they now call the "third-world" is afraid of being called the genocidal white-settler state that it is. Malcolm X began shifting the base of his leadership position from the Nation of Islam to one that was rooted in Black Nationalism. He understood that religion, at the base of his leadership, couldn't unify the Black nation in the United States, but a Black Nationalist platform could unify the Black Nation. 

The Pacifica Radio Archives is a massive collection of audio content from voices like Malcolm X, the last recording of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, James Baldwin, W.E.B. DeBois, Lorraine Hansberry, and thousands more.

During this episode we are also raising money for the Pacifica Radio Archives to preserve these voices and so many more, which are being obliterated by this white-settler state that under no circumstances wants to be called out for its atrocities and on-going oppression. 

Call (800)735-0230 and donate $250 to the Pacifica Radio Archives and get the Encyclopedia of Sound; 1600 hours of audio content from the most powerful voices in the world. The archives is working to digitize the ONLY recordings of these historic and massively powerful voices.

Voices Radio: Pacifica Radio Archives fund drive and a conversation with Meena Roman.

The United States is by far the most irresponsible nation regarding its primary contribution to climate change which is making life on planet Earth almost unbearable for most nations, including the US, but particularly nations in the global south - which, for hundreds of years now, continuously suffer social and economic infiltration, resource extraction, exploitation, sheer savagery, and genocide by the US!

In this episode Eric and Meena dig deeper into the conversation regarding the US and its creation and fueling of climate change coupled with the US's audacious refusal to acknowledge its central role in climate change.

Meena provides very compelling data and global perspectives on this administration and other major players in the theatrics of climate talks, whose results are nothing more than backdoor coal-mining deals and other mineral-extraction contracts at the end of corporate/political handshakes.

In addition to Eric and Meena's conversation, Ernesto Arce provides the Voices from the Frontlines South Central/Third World News update.

We are VERY excited to have him on the team!

Tune in, welcome Ernesto, share your thoughts with us, and join the movement!

Voices Radio: Eric and Meena Roman continue the conversation on the US's global effect on climate.

This week we highlight Robin Kelley's keynote talk on movement lessons from Walter Rodney in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Walter Rodney's text as the perfect case for reparations for the Black Nation inside and beyond the borders of the U.S.

On Thursday February 17th, 2022 the Strategy Center launched its National Leadership School for Strategic Organizing with a hybrid event featuring the legacy of Walter Rodney. Speakers included Channing Martinez, and Eric Mann. We're proud to have been welcomed by the Walter Rodney Foundation. Robin D.G. Kelley gave a keynote talk along with Panelists: Imani Countess, Jamala Rogers, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, and Akunna Uka. 

The event hosted 22 people in person and more than 200 online. 

Join us in re-listening and please send us your reflections, thoughts, and questions to info@thestrategycenter.org. 

For those who did not get to join the event, there will be a video recording posted soon, please make sure to subscribe to our newsletter (www.thestrategycenter.org)for updates

Voices Radio: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and the Genius of Walter Rodney

Tune in for episode 2 of the Newly reformatted Voices from the Frontlines - Wake up and smell the Revolution. 
This week we're joined by Frankye Adams Johnson, a veteran of the Black Panther Party and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Frankye speaks with Eric about her experience in helping to build a movement for Black power from the South in Mississippi to the North in New York. 
In the second segment, Eric Joins Channing in conversation about his family heritage in Belize and the Garifuna Nation. Channing speaks about the history of the Garifuna Nation and what it was like running his first electoral campaign as a Black, Queer Garifuna organizer. 

Barbara Lott Holland invites us to the Strategy and Soul Holiday Block Party on December 17th at 3546 w Martin Luther King Blvd. 

In the Sign Along Segment Eric and all of us joins the Five Satins in singing their fantastic "In the Still of the Night"

And Finally, It's time to GET UP AND DANCE, with Abba; Dancing Queen. 

Tune into Voices from the Frontlines live from in studio on KPFK Pacifica 90.7fm or streaming live on the web at www.kpfk.org

Voices Radio: Frankye Adams Johnson, Channing Martinez, The Five Satins, and ABBA

This Week on Voices Radio We wake up with Eric's reflection on the new Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Eric reads McCarthy's Speech and analysis it line by line. 

For our music break we feature Héctor Lavoe's Aguanile 

Eric is joined in conversation with Channing Martinez on the launch of the Bus Riders Union Fare Strike. Organizers and volunteers of the Bus Riders Union began last week getting on the Metro buses and trains to organize riders to participate in a Metro-wide fare strike. Channing speaks about the need to stop paying the fares immediately and the urgency of learning to not just study revolution, but to put your body on the line.

Kevin McCarthy Gives Away the House, Channing Martinez With Amy Goodman Headlines Wav

Voices from the Frontline features:

                                                  KEITH LAMAR
Visionary, Black Liberation Fighter, wrongfully convicted, on death row
                                       In Conversation with Eric Mann

Keith Lamar is a poet, a visionary, a Black prisoner, facing a death sentence with a scheduled execution date of November 16, 2023. This cannot happen. We have to do everything in our power to prevent the unthinkable.

Tuesday January 31st, 2023 | 8 AM PST

For prison reform and abolition organizers

For Black Liberation organizers

For human rights organizers

"...Mass incarceration is just a reincarnation of chattel slavery..." Spoken word Poet: Eartha Terrell

Please work with the Strategy Center, Voices from the Front Lines, and of course the Keith Lamar group itself to demand full exoneration of Keith Lamar. We must prevent the unthinkable.

Streaming live on the web at www.kpfk.org

Please listen. Please send this to others. In the next day and go on www.voicesfromtheFronlines.com to download the show

We will also have it up as a podcast on your favorite podcasting site.

Please write to Keith Lamar and Amy Gordiejew who is working 24/7 on his behalf

www.KeithLamar.org
Please contribute generously to his case. There is a donate button on his site.

He is seeking last minute legal help and when there is a plan, there is hope. Eric, Channing, and everyone at the Strategy Center will be donating. Please go on the site to do the same.

Please contact eric@voicesfromthefrontlines.com to help with the Strategy Center’s “exoneration and release for Keith Lamar” as we work closely with his team to carry out their will.

Voices From The Frontlines Features: Keith LaMar

On today's Show

AYUKO BABU

Director of the Pan African Film Festival

In Conversation with Eric Mann
 
Discusses the Films

Fighting for Respect: African American Soldiers in World War II

Africa, Cradle of Humankind and Modern Civilizations

Soleil O-by Med Hondo

The Five Demands—the 1969 Black and Puerto Rican Student Strike for Open Admissions at City College of N.Y.


Join Eric Mann, who organized at the 1968 Columbia Strike, Channing Martinez, and other Strategy Center

And Bus Riders Organizers to View The Five Demands, Friday February 16, at 6:20 PM

Please introduce yourself as Voices Listeners

 
Go to PAFF.org to see all the amazing films and the schedule of showings.

All the films will be show at the Cinemark Theater at the Crenshaw Mall.

 

This will be a full program with a Fundraising Appeal for KPFK

Please listen to the show  and contribute by calling 818-985-5735
 

Brief History of PAFF from Wikipedia

The first official festival was organized in 1992 by actors Danny Glover and Ja'net Dubois and executive director Ayuko Babu.[4] Glover and actress Whoopi Goldberg co-hosted the festival.[5] It featured over 40 films by black directors from four continents. The Los Angeles Times said the films had universal themes as well as African themes: "the overthrow of colonial governments, the clash between modern values and traditional values, and tales of gifted artists". Films at the first festival included Sarraounia, Heritage Africa, and Lord of the Street.[6] In 2013, the film festival attracted approximately 30,000 patrons, and the arts festival attracted around 75,000.[2] In 2014, the film festival featured 179 films from 46 countries. The films included feature-length documentaries, short documentaries, narrative feature films, narrative short films, and webseries.

AYUKO BABU  Director of the Pan African Film Festival:  In Conversation with Eric Mann

On this week show;

Voices present A collection of  brief Conversations Eric Mann has had in recent past with various frontline organizers from across the globe.

Including Civil Right activist Janius Williams, a significant figure in the Newark N.J. Black Power Movement from 1965 to the present, director of The North, and author of Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power, The Black Liberation Movement yesterday, today, and tomorrow/

UCLA Latinx  activist Emily Zamora, A lead student organizer for UCLA Friends of the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union on the struggle against Anti-Blackness and Academic Opportunism at the UCLA Luskin school—and the opportunities for radical reform at Luskin and all of UCLA.

Kamau Franklin, an organizer with Community Movement Builders in the Pittsburgh area of Atlanta’s Black community. His work spans Afrocentric political education, alternative institutions construction, and defending the Black community against police and gentrification assaults. Check out their very impressive website, www.communitymovementbuilders.org to learn more about their cutting edge work. Check out Kamau’s important article,  An Ivory Tower Assassination of Malcom X, (Black Agenda Report April 11, 2011).
 
Civil Rights activist Hollis Watkins, about his work and efforts to organize voter's registration, and bring about social justice in the deep south of Mississippi. 

and Keith LaMar, a poet, a visionary, a Black prisoner, facing a death sentence with a scheduled execution date of November 16, 2023. This cannot happen. We have to do everything in our power to prevent the unthinkable.

It's fundraising time and 90.7 FM KPFK needs your generous financial help. Go to kpfk.org and make a generous financial contribution to help kpfk sustain its self, and remain a strong and revolutionary consistent voice for the people.

Excerpts of Brief Conversations with Frontline Organizers from Across the Globe

KEITH LAMAR
Black liberation fighter, visionary, writer and death row prisoner
Author of the amazing book—Condemned
“This isn’t a book you have in your hand. It’s my life. I’m innocent.”
In Conversation with Eric Mann
Political prisoner 1970-1971 Concord State Prison
Author Comrade George:
An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson
Keith Lamar, convicted on perjured testimony, is scheduled for pre-meditated murder by the State of Ohio on November 16, 2023

If we don’t stop them

Stop the Continued Harassment and Provocation by Prison Authorities

Keith is already in a solitary confinement facing state murder

Now the guards ransack his cell, threaten him, provoke him

But he resists 

Listen to his beautiful voice.

Call Director Annette M. Chambers-Smith of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction: (614) 752-1153
Call Warden Donald G. Redwood of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility: (740) 259-5544
Stop all Guard harassment of Keith Lamar
Call off the execution

Keith Lamar in Conversation with Eric Mann

Voice from the Frontlines present, and re-present TOO BLACK TO FAIL—a radio play, future theater script, and screenplay in Magical Realism of revolutionary hope and possibility—written by Eric Mann.

Starring Toussaint L'Ouverture, Vo Nguyen Giap, Fannie Lou Hamer, Gil Scott-Heron, Emmett Till, and a cast of millions led by the Army of Underwater Revolutionaries, the 15 million enslaved Africans, who came back to help lead the revolution against the U.S. imperialist white settler state, along with the Black Communist Rebellion, from The Man in the High Castle.

Performed by Kiyana Williams, Channing Martinez, Barbara Lott-Holland, Brigette Amaya, and Eric Mann.

After listening, and becoming mesmerized and transfixed, please send comments and suggestions for performances to eric@voicesfromthefrontlines.com.

Listen to Voices from the Frontlines Tuesdays at 8AM PST on KPFK 90.7FM, KPFK.org.

TOO BLACK TO FAIL, [Rebroadcast]

Eric Mann is an environmental, civil rights, anti-war, labor-union activist and organizer. He is the host of www.voicesfromthefrontlines.com on Pacifica Radio's 90.7 FM KPFK, in Los Angeles. Eric is also the director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles and a co-founder of the Bus Riders Union.

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