Leonardo Flores and Marcy Winograd, from Code Pink, in conversation with Eric Mann in demand for the the US to end illegal sanctions against Venezuela.

https://www.codepink.org/03092021

- End Sanctions Against Venezuela
- U.S. Hands off Venezuela, Self-Determination for the Venezuelan people
- Support the rights of Afro-Venezuelans and Indigenous people and progressive people in Venezuela whose lives are being threatened by the U.S. government, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris.

Learn about Bus Riders Union No Police on MTA Buses and Trains, Stop MTA Attacks on Black Passengers, Free Public Transportation, No Cars in L.A. Campaign MTA Board meeting March 25

- Vote No on MTA Motion to add another $110 million to the MTA policing budget used to attack Black, Latin@, women, disabled, and houseless passengers
- Stop MTA Transit Racism Now.

Voices Radio: Eric Mann, Marcy Winograd, and Leonard Flores in conversation.

George Jackson, political prisoner, member of the Black Panther Party, author of the celebrated book Soledad Brother, was murdered by prison guards on August 21, 1971. This year, 2021, and this August, there will be celebrations of his life and work.

Eric discusses the life and work his comrades and Soledad Brother George Jackson.

Eric talks about the life and work of Eric's comrade and Soledad Brother, George Jackson

This week on Voices From the Frontlines, Eric and Channing speak with Claude Marks and Nathaniel Moore of the Freedom Archives, about the life and legacy of George Jackson. We celebrate Jackson on the 50th anniversary of his assassination.

George Jackson was assassinated in San Quentin prison on August 21, 1971. The following week, the prison released an inventory of the items in his cell, including his library of 99 books.

Voices Radio: Claude Marks' and Nathaniel Moore's tribute to George Jackson.

This week on Voices From the Frontlines, Eric and Channing speak with @DesireéLuckey, Director @URGE_org - Unite For Reproductive & Gender Equity, about Texas' new SB 8 anti-abortion law that went into effect last week, and may be a foreshadow of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade., thus amplifying and nationalizing the war on women. 

We also hear Eric's recount of his friendship with the late Ed Asner and their work with United Auto Workers. Eric plays clips of Ed Asner’s narration, from the Film Tiger by the Tail, where he narrates the story of a union (United Auto Workers) trying stop GM from closing the Van Nuys plant.

Voices Radio: Desiree Luckey On Texas' Abortion Law, and the late Ed Asner

This week on Voices From the Frontlines we hear from Marcy Winograd of Code Pink on the US's war economy, and California's recall election. We also get an update on Channing Martinez' work with the Police-Free Schools Coalition and their defunding of LA schools by 35%. Then Eric talks with us about the work that he is doing with China's Not the Enemy.

Voices Radio: Eric Mann in Conversation with Marcy Winograd from Code Pink

Good Morning Voices listeners!
Tune in today at 3pm PST for a conversation with Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Jessica Meany from Investing in Place. 
Jessica and Channing will discuss the recent motion passed by the Metro Board for fareless transportation for k-12 and community college students and the newly introduced Bus Riders Union Motion for Free Public Transportation. Please find the full text of the Bus Riders Union Motion below.
Please read the full text of the Bus Riders Union Motion and consider signing up to become a dues paying member of the Bus Riders Union Today.
The Bus Riders Union Motion for Free Public Transportation
The Bus Riders Union calls on Metro to implement complete free public transportation on buses and trains until January 2022. Thereafter we urge Metro to continue Free Public Transportation permanently. We urge board members who are not ready to continue the program to at the very most implement a $26 cap on any monthly passes indefinitely on the way to implementing a universal Free Public Transportation system. The universal $26 dollar pass shall not be tied to any low income programs and absolutely no income tests or self-attestation processes. We further call on Metro to implement a universal honor system and no enforcement of fares. Any additional dollars received by the Metro from state and federal sources shall be directed to support a Universal Free Public Transportation System.

Voices Radio: Eric Mann in Conversation with Channing Martinez and Jessica Meany, Investing in Place

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

Join Kamau Franklin, Channing Martinez, and Eric Mann in a great conversation about Black Liberation, Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Third World anti-imperialist movement strategy. 
JOIN US NOW for a discussion about revolutionary strategy in the age of counter-revolution. 
The conversation goes all over the world back and forth through history. But the unique attraction of this conversation is all three are very successful organizers in the Atlanta and South Central L.A. communities. Kamau Franklin, is 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).
Channing Martinez speaks about the growing attacks on the social structure of the Black community especially Black bus and train riders suffering 50% of all tickets and arrests, so police occupation and brutality reinforce massive poverty and an epidemic of houselessness.
Eric Mann, a veteran of the Congress of Racial Equality, is the author of Playbook for Progressives: The 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer. 
All three discuss a common view, building social movements independent and to the left of the Democratic Party—exciting ideas of building real revolutionary movements in the real world. 


Eric Mann’s commentary on The U.S. NATO Russia, and the Ukraine.
The Russian invasion of the Ukraine is an attack on their sovereignty, sadly in the ugly traditions of the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Russia must withdraw  all troops from its invasion of the Ukraine.
NATO should disband—it is a U.S. dominated cabal of colonialists, NATO should cease its encirclement, attacks and provocations against Russia. NATO should pay reparations to the nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America where they continue to carry out genocide and colonialism.
Joe Biden and the Democrats should be brought up on international human rights charges for demanding the removal of Russian President Vladimir  Putin, hysterical escalation of war rhetoric, providing weapons to the Ukraine,  the mass imprisonment of Black people, and the forced starvation of the people of Afghanistan.  It is not just pathetic president Biden who is determined to destroy Russia and China. The U.S. people better look into the mirror to see how they are becoming fascists and warmongers. The majority are willing to risk nuclear war over a conflict that is being escalated rather than negotiated by the U.S. government with their active support and participation.
For peace activists, Black Liberationists, and anti-imperialists, the central contradiction is always the crimes of our own government and the mass complicity in the systematic genocide against the Third World. The call for Russian withdrawal from the Ukraine is imperative, The primary focus must be to oppose the war mongering of the U.S. white settler, one party state. Stand up to state run mass media and demand that CNN and CNBC register as official spokespeople for the U.S. CIA, Department of War, and State Department. Declining U.S. imperialism demands a Unipolar World because it can’t live in peace or effectively compete economically with Russia and China.  No matter how small the voice, we need to put the primary focus on the crimes of the U.S.

In convo with Kamau Franklin, Channing Martinez, and Eric Mann on Black Liberation and More

Eric Mann in Conversation with Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon on their new book, Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs.

Channing Martinez on keeping the department of defense out of LAUSD

Eric Mann: Fire Tom Thibodeau


This week on Voices Podcast Eric speaks with Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early about the ins and out of Veterans. Together they speak about the crises of being recruited through a false pretense of promises into the US military industrial complex, only to be sent all over the world to commit war crimes on behalf of the US. Suzanne speaks about the VA system as a model for healthcare for all and speaks about the impact of PTSD on all soldiers. Steve speaks about the movement of veterans advocacy organizations. Steve also speaks about the role of JROTC recruitment in communities of color.  We think this is a very important book that dives into a lot of detail in the whole VA system and recommend everyone purchase a copy. You can do so here:

As a quick follow up Channing speaks about the fighting against department of defense Starbase program in LAUSD’s Black Student Achievement program. We’re excited to announce that BSAP rejected the DoD application, but more work need to be done to end all DoD ties to LAUSD including ending JROTC and ROTC altogether.

To round off the show Eric speaks about the New York Knicks’ coach Tom Thibodeau. Many of the starting players are placed on the floor for almost the 48 mins of the game while all stars Cam Reddish and Obi Toppin sit on the bench for 12 GAMES STRAIGHT…

Eric Mann in Conversation with Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon on their new book.

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

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

VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINES
Your National Movement Building Show
“Wake up and smell the revolution”
Tuesday April 11, 2023 | 8 AM PST




On todays show Voices from the Frontlines
present

In Conversation with

Kamau Franklin

founder of

Community Movement Builders, Inc

Kamau Franklin is an activist, grassroots organizer and podcast journalist




Channing Martinez and Julian Lamb  discuses with Kamau Franklin  of Community Movement Builders, Inc. Atlanta's construction of Cop City.




What is Cop City?

Cop city is the largest law enforcement facility, designed with intentions to train law enforcement agents in the use of  oppressive, suppressive, and violent militarized tactics against Black, Brown, and people of color.  The construction of Cop City is an ongoing effort by the city of Atlanta, Georgia to centralized and globalize the paramilitarization of municipal law agents here in the U.S. and abroad.  The backers of cop City have initiated  outreach  efforts and invitations to law agency from other nations such as the Israeli police force.  It is an exchange program designed to import and export over-policing, racist policing, and the oppression of poor and marginalized people.

True to its purpose, and even before its intended completion, Cop city has already murdered its first victim.

on January 18, 2023, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, a
lso known as Tortuguita was shot and killed

by Atlanta State Troopers during a raid against peaceful environmental activist protesting and protecting

the sight against the construction and violence of Cop City.

Kamau Franklin  of Community Movement Builders, Inc. STOP THE CONSTRUCTION OF COP CITY NOW!

THE U.S. AS A DYING DEMOCRACY

Aired Tuesday June 06, 2023 | Time on KPFK Pacifica 90.7fm



Please listen to this great podcast featuring

Eric Mann as host and Commentator

Hear Fareed Zakaria commentary. "The Rise of the Rest", in full. After which Eric puts forth his commentary and analysis that the U.S. is slowly loosing its imperial global influence- as so called third world nations-most of which were former colonies of the west collectively rejects U.S. imperialisms and globalization.

Eric reads Robert Kennedy's article "Peace Platform",  in which Kennedy argues against U.S. warmongering, and "imperial projects".

As Kennedy Presidential campaign gains momentum, Kennedy's Anti-war policy and Anti-imperialism position, could bring the political conversation to the left. 

Eric give his  commentary on the subject. 

Listen to Celia Cruz song: Yo Vivire (I will Survive).

Listen to Nina Simon's : I wish I Knew How it Would be to be Free.


Juneteenth is right coming soon:  Eric  and Queen Nina Womack discuss Juneteenth celebration

where African art, talent, and politics will be on display June 16th at:

ART SHARE L.A.
801 E. 4th Pl
L.A. CA, 90013

Please send support and comments to eric@voicesfromthefrontlines.com

Listen to Voices from the Frontlines every Tuesday at 8AM PST on KPFK 90.7FM.

The U.S. AS A DYING SUPERPOWER

On This Week's Show
Voices Presents:  A rebroadcast of: Paul Robeson

Aired Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 8am PST on KPFK Pacifica 90.7fm




 ON TODAY'S SHOW

we're doing a rebroadcast honoring a great revolutionary superhero and friend Paul Robeson.

Some of you may remember Paul Robeson as a Great Bass baritone and actor. But as we all have come to know,

Paul was also a revolutionary thinker, activist, lawyer, linguist, cultural leader, and warrior.

Paul spent his life, fighting injustice, standing up against racism, imperialism, and advocating for decolonization.

 In 1956 Paul was call before the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee, for just such stance.  

Being the warrior that he is, Paul refused to cooperate with the Committee. Hence the U.S. systemic and historic persecution of Paul.

But Despite that,  Paul Robeson strength and legacy lives on.  

 Join us in this rebroadcast, as Paul  helps us fundraise for KPFK, as his revolutionary spirit moves us, and lives on.




Join Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, Allen Minsky and Paul Robeson in helping KPFK fundraise through your generosity and financial support.

Call KPFK at 818-985-5735 to make a donation, or click HERE.

Voices Presents:  A rebroadcast of: Paul Robeson

This week Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Monilade Walker are in conversation with Erin Aubry Kaplan. Erin speaks about her experience with race in politics from the US South to South LA. 
Erin speaks about her father, Larry Aubry, her husband Alan Kaplan, and her own recent experience with discrimination in LA. 

The show ends with performance of the inaugural Strategists.

Voices Radio: in Conversation with Eric Aubry Kaplan

Listen to a conversation with Ken Loach discussing the Old Oak, Sorry We missed you, and LAnd and Freedom. 
Together Eric Mann, Ken Loach, and Channing Martinez share deep appreciation for the film's ability to confront racism in Europe and beyond. 
The Strategy and Soul Theater will host a Sneak Preview of The Old Oak on April 11th 2024 at 6pm

In Conversation with Ken Loach

Join Eric Mann and Channing Martinez as they discuss the LA Times Festival of Books and the Strategy and Soul Bookstore's second time hosting a booth at the Festival. 

Eric and Channing name a fraction of the list of books that the Strategy and Soul bookstore will host. 

Eric reads from Black Jacobins by CLR James and The Black Woman by Toni Cade Bambara. 

Join the Strategy and Soul bookstore on April 20-21 at the LA Times Festival of Books. Booth #241 in the purple section at the University of Southern California.

Voices Radio: Join Strategy & Soul at the LA Times Festival of Books

This week on Voices from the Frontlines: 
Eric Mann & Channing Martinez speak about the Police State on Metro buses and trains. As there have been highlighted incidents on Metro, the Operators union has moved to call for complete barricades and more police across the Metro system. 
Eric and Channing speak about the Bus Riders Union campaign for urban reconstruction as a response to the hostile environment of the Metro buses and trains. 

Eric Mann and others on Campus Organizing from 1968 to the Present. 
Eric reads his recently published article in Counter Punch magazine: The Palestine Solidarity Movement is Making History: Thoughts from a 1968 Columbia University “Outside” Organizer. 

A participant in the recent student uprisings fighting for Palestinian liberation responds to the article.

Voices Radio: Metro's Police State  |  Campus Organizing from 1968 to now

This week on Voices Radio Eric and Channing speak with organizers from the USC Divest from Death Encampment. 
Students at USC and many major universities set up encampments to call on their institution to divest all resources from helping Israel as they carry out Genocide against Palestinians. 

The organizers speak about what they're doing, what they are learning, and ways that you can help.

Voices Radio: Eric and Channing speak with organizers from the USC Divest from Death Encampment

What is Manzanar - the infamous World War 2 camp where 11,000+ Japanese Americans were incarcerated - like these days? Tucked between Sequioa National Park and the Death Valley, Channing Martinez took a trip up to the camp for Memorial Day and shares timely reflections as the holiday passes.

And a conversation with Inés Alcazar and David Albright, two organizers with the L.A Tenants Union, about the struggle tenants are facing at Flower Drive and 38th Street, as more than 60 community members on the block face evictions. They are fighting a multi-billion dollar real estate company, Ventus Group, headed by USC Alumni Scott Gale. 

Want stories and updates? Follow us on @voicesfromthefrontlines on Instagram, 

Today's episode of Voices from the Frontlines was produced by Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Shane Dimapanat. Edits by Shane Dimapanat.

Find our past shows and articles on our website: https://voicesfromthefrontlines.com/

Voices Radio: A Trip To Manzanar, A Conversation With The L.A Tenants Union

What is the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)? And how can the genocide in Gaza be stopped? In this episode of Voices From The Frontlines, we will be talking to Remo Ibrahim, an organizer with the Los Angeles-Orange County-Inland Empire chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement. We discuss how Los Angeles is tied to Palestine, followed by commentary by Eric Mann. 

In the second half, we will be hearing about several books Eric Mann is reading, ranging from topics on the Civil Rights Movement to Method Acting. Eric reads out several excerpts and reflects on his movement-building work.

Want stories and updates? Follow us on @voicesfromthefrontlines on Instagram, 

Today's episode of Voices from the Frontlines was produced by Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Shane Dimapanat. Edits by Shane Dimapanat.

Find our past shows and articles on our website: https://voicesfromthefrontlines.com/

Voices Radio: Palestinian Youth Movement, Eric Mann Reviews Seven Books

Another case charges genocide against Israel, this time within U.S Federal courts. 

This week, Eric Mann talks to lawyer Astha Sharma Pokharel of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) about their lawsuit, “Defense for Children International-Palestine et al v. Biden,” which charges that the U.S Government failed to “...exercise influence over Israel” to prevent a genocide. 

The plaintiffs include several Palestinian organizations and individuals, who collectively have lost over 200 family members as a result of Israel’s onslaught in Gaza. The case brings two claims against the U.S government. 

“The first is that these defendants, so Biden, Blinken, and Austin, are liable for failing in their obligation to prevent genocide. And they are. So that's the first claim,” Pokharel says. “And the second claim is that they're complicit in the genocide, that they're actually supporting the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza.”

Liability for the case arises under international law, which U.S courts have recognized as part of US federal common law explains Pokharel. If the case succeeds, California’s Ninth Circuit could order the U.S government to halt the flow of ammunition and weapons to Israel, which is the specific remedy the plaintiffs are seeking. 

“This lawsuit is part of a long history of CCR’s work seeking to hold Israeli officials as well as US actors accountable for the occupation,” Pokharel says. “For the expansion of settlements, for the violence against Palestinians in Palestine and the suppression of Palestinians and individuals advocating for Palestinian human rights here in the United States.”

Hear more about CCR’s pioneering case on our latest episode.

Want stories and updates? Follow us on @voicesfromthefrontlines on Instagram.

Today's episode of Voices from the Frontlines was produced by Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Shane Dimapanat. Edits by Channing Martinez.

Find our past shows and articles on our website: https://voicesfromthefrontlines.com/

Voices Radio: A Case Against the Palestinian Genocide by the Center For Constitutional Rights

This week on Voices Radio: Eric Mann and Channing Martinez talk to Misty Pegram of Anakbayan about the Cancel RIMPAC Campaign. The Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises are the largest joint war exercises in the world with 26 of the U.S' allies, including Israel. The RIMPAC campaign has led to severe environmental impacts, gender-based violence, and fatter pockets for weapons manufacturers. 

Later in the episode, Eric Mann pays tribute to Willie Mays, who passed recently on June 18, 2024. Willie Mays was one of the 'greatest' baseball players of all time according to Eric, describing his infectious personality and electrifying performances. 

You will also hear a reading of Ishmael Reed's essay, "Juneteenth: Why Were The Enslaved In Texas?," published on Counterpunch.

And last but not least, Channing talks about CicLAvia, an event which 'catalyzes vibrant public spaces, active transportation and good health through car-free street events.'

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Want stories and updates? Follow us on @voicesfromthefrontlines on Instagram.

Today's episode of Voices from the Frontlines was produced by Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Shane Dimapanat. Edits by Shane Dimapanat.

Find our past shows and articles on our website: voicesfromthefrontlines.com/

Voices Radio: Anakbayan On U.S War Games In Hawaii, Willie Mays Dedication, and Juneteenth

This week we're joined in conversation with Mark Friedman from the U.S. Hands Off Cuba Committee.
Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Mark discuss his work with U.S. Hands Off Cuba, and discuss how Mark came to fight for the liberation of Cubans and all 3rd world peoples.

Voices Radio: In Conversation with Mark Friedman from U.S. Hands Off Cuba

Today on Voices From the Frontlines - we learn that civil rights leader and Black Lives Matter activist and Founding member, Dr. Melina Abdullah faces 8 felony charges… Why are our civil rights leaders facing prosecution in “liberal” L.A., you ask??? Find out… Join your community members, and The Strategy Center on Thursday, February 8th, 9 a.m., at 210 W Temple St. Dept. 43. Los Angeles, Ca., as we fight for Melina and request that Los Angeles City Attourney Mike Feuer drop ALL charges against Dr. Melina Abdullah, because criminalizing and silencing black voices WILL NOT HAPPEN!!! To sign the petition requesting that Mike Feuer drop these charges please click bit.ly/freemelina. For more background on these charges, and Melina’s diligent stand for justice, please visit https://thelandmag.com/the-people-v-melina-abdullah/

Eric and Channing talk about the Bus Riders Union film with Ayuko Babu. Eric talks about his encounter with Haskell Wexler and the making of this film which addresses the challenges faced during the fight to end transit-racism. The film has films within it, vignettes of real people, doing the work, and whose individual stories   impact the overall narrative; Della Bonner - leader of Bus Riders union, Rosolio Mendiola, was a room-service waiter who was highly dedicated to the movement, and several others. 

The Bus Riders film is in part a tribute to Haskell Wexlers legacy. Bus Riders Union film, Tuesday Feb 12th 6 p.m. during the Pan African Film Festival at Cinemark on the corner of MLK and Crenshaw. To request information write to info@thestrategycenter.org, or visit www.paff.org for more details. 

In closing Eric and Channing talk with Ayuko Babu about the new documentary about the late, great, Aretha Franklin on, called Amazing Grace, which airs opening night of the PAFF at the Directors Guild of America (DGA). Ayuko also mentions three, of many, powerful films that you must see…

1. Power To Heal - by Director Charles Burnett. It’s a story of the fight by the civil rights movement to fight to expand health care and the fight for medicare. 
2. Dare to Dream - Cubas Latin American Medical School - Is the largest medical school in the world, training nearly 30,000 doctors since 1999.
3. Boss - The Black Experience in Business by Stanley Nelson; the struggle to create black business in America. The untold story of African American Entrepreneurship where skills, industriousness, ingenuity, and sheer courage in the face of overwhelming odds provided the back bone of nations economy and social growth. 
Take a listen and join the revolution!!!

Why Wont They Listen?

Voices Radio: Support for Dr. Melina Abdullah, the BRU, and we hear from the PAFF's E.D., Ayuko Babu

Voices Radio features and celebrates the voices of those who sacrificed themselves for you and I.

This week on Voices Radio, Eric and Channing conduct another really great film review on two films that stood out to them in very particular ways, for them, as organizers and more so as people who think deeply and critically about life in all of its many complexities. 

Film is very important in the telling or human story through our individual lenses; its struggles, complexities, visions, successes, contributions to our species, teaching capabilities, etc. The best part of film takes place when the viewers have the opportunity to dissect the film, extract lessons, bring to light greater truths, correct the ill-perceived, and lend a hand in re-shaping humanity for the better. 

Channing’s review/critque is on a film called Mapplethorpe; A film about Robert Mapplethorpe, a queer artist and photographer. The film takes a look at his life, from his rise to fame in the 70’s through his decline and death in 1989. Channing discusses Mapplethorpe’s illustrations through his eyes, as a Black, Queer, male, and what they really mean to him, rather than what the element of Mapplethorpe’s fame has disillusioned.  

Eric reviews Captain Fantastic; A film about a husband (Ben Cash) and wife (Leslie Cash) who completely devote their entire lives to raising their 6 children in the wilderness of Washington State, completely isolated from society. They are trained to be physically fit and athletic, to think critically, co-exist with nature, and live without technology. When Leslie dies suddenly, Ben is forced to take this sheltered children into the outside world for the first time. 

Eric, as a father and organizer, focuses aspects of the film that make him think about raising his children, and how people in general expose their children to some really difficult aspects of life. 

Tune in to Voices From the Frontlines, watch the films, and tell us what you think.

VFTFL - Film Review, Mapplethorpe And Captain Fantastic

Eric pays tribute to his friend and super hero, Paul Robeson during this KPFK fund drive show on Voices From the Frontlines. 

Eric remarks about how magnificent and undefinable Paul Robeson was and still is: Scholar, athlete, film star, baritone singer from heaven, pan-africanist, black fighter, pro-communist, a friend of working and oppressed people all over the world, defiant black man, and political prisoner in his own country.  

Eric, Channing, and Alan Minsky offer the Paul Robeson 4-DVD box set, narrated by Sidney Poitier, along with two of Eric’s books; Playbook for Progressives and Katrina’s Legacy. 

Channing created a brilliant slideshow of Paul Robeson that we can watch on the Eric Mann Speaks Facebook page through our MEVO. 

Have a listen to the show, get the DVD collection.  

Paul Robeson favorite languages and people are the Afrikans. “In the early part of 1934 Robeson enrolled in the school of Oriental and African studies, a constituent college of the University of London, where he studied phonetics, Swahili, and other African languages. His growing interest in African history and its impact on culture was influenced by African revolutionaries in England reflected in his essay “I Want to be African”, where he rejected US and European colonialism and his own internalized oppression by fully embracing his Afrikan roots.”

Listen to the show, get to know the brilliance that is Paul Robeson.

Voices Radio: The brilliant, Paul Robeson.

This week on Voices From the Frontlines, we'll hear from Akinyele Umoja, founding member of the New Afrikan People's Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and author of We Will Shoot: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom movement. 

The strategy center Co-Hosted a Night in Conversation with Akinyele Umoja and Eric Mann, hosted by Professor Robin Kelley May 2019. Tune in for a great conversation on Movement Building, revolution and Akinyele's book We Will Shoot Back. 

Voices from the Frontlines needs your help to dramatically expand our audience and to create a core group of Voices-Radio Action Organizers. Today Eric and Channing will speak about building an organizing team among listeners of Voices from the Frontlines to expand the audience and influence of Your National Movement Building Show. 

Take a listen.

Akinyele Umoja, author of We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement.

Eric and Channing speak with Anna Kunkin, daughter of journalist, political organizer, and founder of the Los Angeles Free Press, Art Kunkin, about her father's triumphs and legacy in society and media during a particularly socially tremulous era. Anna discusses her childhood growing up with a revolutionary father and what is was like for her to be exposed to historical people and events, in the making. In this tribute to the late Art Kunkin, who passed away on April 30th, of this year, 2019, we also hear from listeners who recall the late great Art Kunkin.

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Voices Radio speaks with Anna Kunkin, daughter of the late journalist  Art Kunkin.

We are honored to have Altossa Soltani, Amazon Watch founder and board president today on the show! Take a look at our correspondence with Amazon Watch for today's show.

Fight the Fascist Fires in Brazil

Take Action Thursday September 5 at the Brazilian Embassy in Los Angeles at 11 AM

Correspondence from Leila Salazar Lopez, Executive Director of Amazon Watch:

Since the news of the fires broke on August 21, Amazon Watch has been working around the clock responding to the fires by amplifying this emergency and continued threats to the Amazon, indigenous peoples’ rights, and the climate at an international level. In solidarity with indigenous partners in Brazil and Bolivia, we are expanding our international advocacy work and redirecting funds to provide direct support for indigenous peoples’ defending their rights and rainforest territories, including the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples’ of Brazil (APIB), via our Amazon Protectors Fund and Fundo CASA to support indigenous communities directly affected by the fires and to CEJIS in the Chiquitano Forest in Bolivia. Over 900,000 hectares have burned there! 

We are recommending 3 concrete ways to help Stop the Amazon Fires and Support our Work:

1.  Sign Pledge of Resistance with Brazil's Indigenous Movement

2.  Join Global Day of Action for the Amazon on September 5, Amazon Day. 

3.  DONATE to support Amazon Watch’s response to Amazon Fire Emergency, including expanding international advocacy work and direct support to indigenous peoples on the frontlines. 

On the campaign front, we released a list of the primary companies complicit in the destruction of the Amazon. They will be targets of our global day of action on September 5. Here’s our press release: http://bit.ly/2jX6dkh

And, here’s our latest video to share: http://bit.ly/2lXATTf
 
Also, Take a look at this great article from Felipe Libório

Brazil: death and destruction in Bolsonaro’s Amazon

In the last month, the Amazon rainforest has been the centre of attention for Bolsonaro’s government. After a prolonged arm-wrestling match that culminated with the sacking of Ricardo Galvão as Director of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the Bonaparte wannabe is putting on a show of bravado in a spat with some of the wealthiest countries in Europe about the region’s conservation.

Please CLICK HERE to read the full article

Listen to Voice from the Frontlines today at 3pm PST on KPFK 90.7fm OR use the button below to Stream the show live on Facebook.

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Eric Mann and Channing Martinez hoist a conversation with Gregory Jenkins on Climate change and COVID 19 in Africa. Gregory Jenkins is a professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Geography, and African Studies at Penn State University. Dr. Jenkins also works closely in African nations to create infrastructure to combat the effects of climate change on the African continent. 

The second half of the show is a rebroadcast of our 2018 tribute to the great Lorraine Hansberry. in the Clip Eric Mann praises the role to the Black Anti-Imperialist Pro Communist Pro Feminist tradition and its role in the Black Freedom Movement as we listen to a clip of Lorraine Hansberry making the decision to support the 1960's Stall In Actions.

Tune in and engage! 
eric@voicesfromthefrontlines.com

VFTFL - Gregory Jenkins and a tribute to Lorraine Hansberry

Eric Mann and Channing Martinez explore The Black Movement with this week’s Voices guests, Justin Blake, Tanya McLean, and Gregory Bennett Jr. 

As an uncle, a family friend, and an organizer of Peace in the Streets Kenosha, our guests are primary sources for understanding Jacob’s situation. Throughout the interview, these activists emphasize Kenosha’s organizing actions, like the upcoming 30-mile protest, Walk for Justice, and how we all can help support Jacob, his family, and The Cause.

You can support Jacob Blake via
Cashapp: $AERFoundation
PayPal: education_youth@yahoo.com

Justice for Jacob's demands include District Attorney Michael D. Graveley pressing charges of Rusten Sheskey, as well as his arrest, indictment, and firing. They also demand Kyle Rittenhouse be tried in adult court, and that his mother be arrested.

Contact Erica Ness, Gregory Bennett Jr., and Tanya McLean for more information about how you can lend your support. 

erica.ness@aerfoundation.com
peaceinthestreetskenno@gmail.com
tanya.mclean@aerfoundation.com


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Voices Radio: Justice For Jacob Blake -- The Challenge to Our Movement

Happy to be back for a hopeful new year — less Trump, more Biden, and a lot more BLACK/LATINX/THIRD WORLD REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT BUILDING!

Towards that end, we 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 every Tuesday, 3PM PST on KPFK kpfk.org / 90.7FM. All shows are archived on voicesfromthefrontlines.com

Voices Radio: Too Black To Fail Rebroadcast

In this episode of Voices from the Frontlines, Eric Mann talks with Jonah Raskin, a long-time comrade and friend, marijuana author and advocate. Raskin is a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, the Ban the Bomb Movement, the environmental movements, the anti-imperialist movements. Eric and Jonah were both active with the Weather aboveground organization and discuss the lessons from their own perspective in support of Black Liberation and against the Vietnam War and U.S. imperialism. Jonah wrote “Out of the Whale: Growing up in the American Left and Eric wrote Comrade George: An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson.
 
Eric Mann also discusses the Bus Riders Union's organizing actions to stop the LA Metro Board's anti-Black proposal to expand the police budget by $110 million. Due to public pressure, led by the BRU, the MTA Board vote has been postponed until March 2021. 
 
"We frame a lot of our work around two kind of framing slogans: We want the Social Welfare State, not the police state. We want the Climate Justice State, not the warfare state. And that allows us to deal with pretty much everything. Because the United States is a police state. It is a warfare state. And it is a climate criminal."
 
Support the Strategy Center's Campaign for Urban Reconstruction 
1. FREE Public Transportation
2. STOP MTA Attacks on Black Passengers
3. NO Police on MTA Buses and Trains
4. NO Police in LAUSD Schools
5. NO Cars in LA
 
"We want a world without cars, without police pretty much. With a lot of Black and Latino people being able to breathe politically and biologically, as well.""

Voices Radio: Jonah Raskin and NO MTA Police Expansion

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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