“What kind of a police state we live in, that the FBI is in every organization, that everyones phone is tapped, that any organization is infiltrated by its very nature, and its virtually impossible to carry out good work without informants… with informants who are coming there purposely to intervene in the internal affairs of your organization, to take advantage of the conflicts, the so-called intelligence they’re getting, they’re watching… and of course, the very destructive role they played in the murder of Fred Hampton.” Eric Mann

Jacobin Magazine published an article attempting to seemingly provide an excuse or a reason for Fred Hampton's murder. Yet another one of America's smear campaigns against the prominent Black Panther leader. It's interesting how no smear campaign are created about the FBI who are entirely responsible for the murder of most if not ALL prominent Black leaders in the US and around the world... even today.

Voices Radio: Eric dissects Jacobin Magazine's failed attempt to explain the murder of Fred Hampton

Today on Voices From the Frontlines, we learn that Derek Chauvin, the finally convicted murderer of our dearly departed George Floyd, charged with three counts of second degree murder. Following the verdict, we outline our organizing efforts and next steps in removing police from LAUSD schools, and abolishing the police in general.

We also speak with Noel Hanrahan from Prison Radio. She gives us an update on Mumia Abu Jamal, who had open-heart surgery on Monday. We learn that Mumia's surgery was said to be a success, but we await his confirmation in that regard. We also outline our demands for Mumia's human rights to be restored which will allow for his healing; remove the shackles from his hands and feet, let him speak to his family, lawyers, spiritual council, and friends, give him proper healthy food, water, and healing medications if necessary... to name a few. 

We continue the hour addressing the culture of militarized brutality in local police as well as the construction of the jails and prisons in the US. 

Take a listen and let us know what you think.

Email us at: 
eric@voicesfromthefrontlines
kiyana@voicesfromthefrontlines

And join us every Saturday at our Community Block Party from 10am-2pm at 3546 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Los Angeles, 90008

VFTFL - Accountability And Abolition - Floyd, Mumia, Chauvin Verdict

While we think the Metro tried to do a good thing in passing the Fareless transportation initiative for K-12 students and for Community College students, we realize that in fact Metro board members simply can’t help themselves; they must have a “but”, the excuse for their infamous oppressive policies in everything they do. This is why in the same program includes the addition of self attestation of poverty, forcing 70% of its riders to prove poverty, an obvious civil rights and human rights violation. Then Board members go on to say yes, but only if we can find the money, and that's not counting the money for the shitty rail project in my district.

Voices Radio: BUS RIDERS UNION tackles MTA's Poison Pill Initiative with Fareless Transportation

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 is SUCH an amazing show! This week on Voices From the Frontlines, Eric and Channing have a guest star; THE GREAT Mary Louise Patterson!!! 

She’s speaking with us about her book that she co-authored with Evelyn Louise Crawford, Letters From Langston; From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond!

Mary Louise Pattesron will in conversation with Eric and Channing about growing up with famous and most heroic parents, William L. Patterson and Lousie Thompson Patterson! 

This interview is very moving. Mary tells us how she became aware of who her parents were in the world as she, herself,  grew into the world. At different times her father was imprisoned and Mary was VERY grateful to have such political heavyweights in her life as extended Auntie’s and Uncle’s; Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. De Bois, Altheus Huntons, James Jackson, Luis Bernum, etc. They were the best in the Black radical tradition who were comrades, friends, and extended family who were very close to Mary as she was growing into the world. As a Black person myself with a seemingly unlimited amount of “extended” (but we don’t call them extended) Auntie’s and Uncle’s, I/we know very well how important every last one of our Auntie’s and Uncle’s are in our lives, which makes us whole!!! Mary had some of the most prolific and monumental Black revolutionaries!

”At some point in one’s childhood or early adolescence, as one is intellectually maturing and becoming socially and politically conscious, one is faced with the need to accept or reject being or becoming like one’s parents. One can either accept or reject one’s parents place in history. I chose to accept mine, and in so doing, I was admitting a profound indebtedness to their major contribution to who and what I became—to whom I am today.” - MaryLouise Patterson

Give this episode a complete listen, comment, and email us at eric@voicesfromthefrontlines.com and kiyana@voicesfromthefrontlines.com. We would love to hear what you think. We will be doing a lot more work with Mary and many other Black revolutionaries, past present, and future! JOIN US, the fight for liberation isn’t over!!!

Voices Radio speaks with Mary Louise Pattesron on her book and growing up with Black radicals.

This week Voices Radio rebroadcasts this incredibly important interview with Mary Louise Patterson. 

She’s speaking with us about her book that she co-authored with Evelyn Louise Crawford, Letters From Langston; From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond!

Mary Louise Pattesron will in conversation with Eric and Channing about growing up with famous and most heroic parents, William L. Patterson and Lousie Thompson Patterson! 

This interview is very moving. Mary tells us how she became aware of who her parents were in the world as she, herself,  grew into the world. At different times her father was imprisoned and Mary was VERY grateful to have such political heavyweights in her life as extended Auntie’s and Uncle’s; Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. De Bois, Altheus Huntons, James Jackson, Luis Bernum, etc. They were the best in the Black radical tradition who were comrades, friends, and extended family who were very close to Mary as she was growing into the world. As a Black person myself with a seemingly unlimited amount of “extended” (but we don’t call them extended) Auntie’s and Uncle’s, I/we know very well how important every last one of our Auntie’s and Uncle’s are in our lives, which makes us whole!!! Mary had some of the most prolific and monumental Black revolutionaries!

”At some point in one’s childhood or early adolescence, as one is intellectually maturing and becoming socially and politically conscious, one is faced with the need to accept or reject being or becoming like one’s parents. One can either accept or reject one’s parents place in history. I chose to accept mine, and in so doing, I was admitting a profound indebtedness to their major contribution to who and what I became—to whom I am today.” - MaryLouise Patterson

Give this episode a complete listen, comment, and email us at eric@voicesfromthefrontlines.com and kiyana@voicesfromthefrontlines.com. We would love to hear what you think. We will be doing a lot more work with Mary and many other Black revolutionaries, past present, and future! JOIN US, the fight for liberation isn’t over!!!

Voices Radio rebroadcasts this HIGHLY important interview with Mary Louise Patterson

Eric Mann ﻿is in conversation with James Burke about lessons learned from the Just-Concluded New York City Mayor and City Council Elections: 
- On June 22nd, New Yorkers voted across the state in primary races 
New York City the largest city council in the U.S. (51 council members) voted to elected a new Mayor, new council members, borough presidents, District Attorney, and Comptroller
- DSA and progressive/left groups worked from Buffalo to Brooklyn to elect socialist candidates aligned with Defund the Police, Green New Deal, and other key issues like social housing and funding for mass transportation
- New York City voters experimented with Ranked Choice Voting which for the first time allowed voters to choose up to 5 candidates on their ballots
- AOC and her affiliated PAC made key endorsements but failed to win the Mayor's race in which Eric Adams and former NYPD officer won on a campaign built on public safety
- Progressive organizations put forward various slates of City Council endorsements, often overlapping in their endorsements. In some cases, as with the Working Families Party and the Democratic Socialists, an endorsement comes with different types of institutional support, from strategy consulting to volunteers to fundraising assistance.
- The New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), meanwhile, supported only six candidates in separate Council districts, concentrating resources on those who explicitly identify as socialists and noting that “12% of the City Council could be socialist.”
Despite progressives losing the NYC Mayor's race in Buffalo, India Walton is on the path to becoming the mayor of Buffalo, New York – the first socialist mayor elected to a US city since 1960, when mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee, Wisconsin left office.

James Burke, a long-time organizer in Harlem who worked on city council races will offer his insights into the role of progressives trying to impact the electoral arena and answer Eric’s and your questions.

2021 - 07 - 20 VFTFL James Burke Ready To Publish

FREE KEVIN “RASHID” JOHNSON AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS
Eric Mann and Channing Martinez in Conversation with
Shupavu Wa Kirima, General Secretary of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party, and wife and comrade of Rashid.

Voices Radio: FREE KEVIN “RASHID” JOHNSON AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

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.

We hear from Eric Mann speaking about his book Comrade George, and another excerpt from Angela Davis on her thoughts on George Jackson. Opening the show we hear a ballad from Matt Callahan and Yvonne Moore who wrote a book about the  99 books series.

We recap last weeks show, Part 1, and Eric goes through the 99 books that were found in George Jackson’s prison cell after he was assassinated.

VFTFL George Jackson, 99 Books, and Angela Davis - Part 2

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.

Marcy Winograd, California's recall election, Police in LA schools, and the war economy.

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

How do we stop the Biden administration from creating and implementing a new imperialist cold war against The People's Republic of China? 

Also, as we create a Black and Brown, South Central Los Angeles, Third-World Alliance we talk about what it will take to bring oppressed people of the world together in solidarity, working toward peace and self-determination.

VFTFL - 10.5.21

On this day, Voices From the Frontlines Radio puts our beloved Paul Robeson on his rightful pedestal! Paul Robeson is a writer, scholar, athlete, film star, Pan Africanist, activist, and brilliant vocalist. A person of such magnitude, he and W.E.B DeBois fought the color lines of US imperialism on the global scale and were punished unmerciful for their proletarian internationalism; the US government withdrew their passports in an attempt to prevent them from continuing their work all over the world. 

Tune in to listen to clips of Paul Robeson’s Portraits of the Artist box set and Eric Mann’s Playbook for Progressive, The 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer, Katrina’s Legacy. 

We also have Alan Minsky and Channing Martinez in the studio joining us for this amazing conversation about the masterful life, and work of Paul Robeson!

VFTFL - 10.12.21

Voices Radio; United All Workers for Democracy, and Defund Police in LA City Schools.

Nathan Thanki @n_thanki of Demand Climate Justice @gcdcj talks about the COP 26 in Glasgow 10/31-11/12. The people of the third world will be fighting to improve climate change. The US and the EU will be working to maintain capitalist, imperialist climate change.

We hear a clip of a call that Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Barbara Lott holland had with Nathan Thanki regarding the Green Climate Fund.

Eric Mann - “The first thing is that we are asking the governments of the World, as he is, that they have these intended goals and these intended goals must be mandatory, secondly there must be loss and damages paid to the third world, third is, the climate is moving towards 3% let along 1.5%. The strictest enforcement has to be begun with the United States and there has to be penalties for non-compliance, and it all hinges on giving the third world power at the United Nations, and that’s what Demand Climate Justice is all about.” @EricMannSpeaks

We also hear a report from Channing Martinez and the Bus Riders Union @BusRidersUnion on the racism on the Metro and the LAUSD.

The Strategy Center had a meeting with Metro CEO, Stephanie Wiggins @stephwiggins. The Strategy Center demands... @metrolosangeles
WE WANT:
- Free public Transportation
- No police on the buses and trains
- No enforcing of the fares and codes of conduct

We hear a song called Stimela, by Hugh Masekela @hmhf_za

@FightSoulCities

Voices Radio talks Climate Justice with Nathan Thanki. We get a report from the The Bus Riders Union

NEW AND EXCITING DEVELOPMENTS!!! Are you with us??? The primary conversation will be about Judas and the Black Messiah, and the very complex relationships that existed in the Black movement between women and men. 

The Strategy Center has formed the Strategy and Soul Thursday Night Revolutionary Organizers Film and Book Club. Also, the newest addition to the Strategy Center and Voices From the Frontlines is a feature with KPFK’s former News Director, now The Strategy Centers News Director, Ernesto Arce, called South Central/Third World News.

In addition we hear from Barbara Lott Holland and clips from the film Judas and the Black Messiah. 

KPFK is also in their winter fund drive. Donate to Voices from the Frontlines and other amazing independent and revolutionary voices on  KPFK by calling (818) 985-5735.

Voices Radio: Judas and the Black Messiah.

DIRECT FROM GLASGOW AND THE COP 26 CLIMATE CONFERENCE, THIRD WORLD NETWORK LEADER MEENA RAMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH ERIC MANN, LEADER IN UNITED NATIONS NGO STRUGGLE SINCE THE 2001 WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM.

 

Spoiler alert: The United States and the European Union and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are lying, cheating, and stealing, as they make false promises about dramatically reducing CO2 emissions and worse, oppose any climate reparations, or payment for climate “loss and damages” or taking responsibility for the West’s creation of the climate catastrophe. 

Meena Ramen of the Third World Network provides the most incisive and thoughtful assessment of COP 26 from the point of view of The Third World and The Global South. Eric's conversation on Voices today is produced by Ernesto Arce, the Strategy Center and Voices from the Frontlines' new producer and news director. He will also be doing his own 5 minute Voices South Central/Third World News on the podcast.

Photo from COP26 courtesy of AKGUL/AFP

VOICES Radio: COP26 Climate Change Emergency with Meena Raman and South to South News

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.

Welcome to Voices from the Frontlines, your national movement building show. We’ll begin with Victor Wallis, a long-time comrade who is doing a zoom exhibition of his mother’s painting—The Art of Diane Esmond—An appreciation by her son, to be video cast this Friday, November 26 at 11 AM PST. Please go to the Marxist Education Project Website and scroll to November 26 to register.

Then we’ll hear from Ernesto Arce and his dynamic South Central/Third World News as he discusses the commutation of the death penalty of Julius Jones and now the fight for his release for a murder he did not commit at the same time as Kyle Rittenhouse was release even before his trial for murders he did commit!

Then Eric will have a moving conversation with Mark Masaoka, one of the long-time leaders in the Japanese American community and United Auto Workers as we discuss his formative years and how we joined paths as auto workers and members of the League of Revolutionary Struggle. Part II of this III part conversation will play on subsequent shows.

Then, we’ll go out with Aguanile, the amazing, hypnotic, Afro-Cuban, Guaguanco, Santeria, orisha embodied by the Fania legend Hector Lavoe

We hope you enjoy our efforts and more complex, more time-consuming to produce, programming.. Please send us appreciations and comments at eric@voicesfromthefrontlines.com and go on our site, Voicesfromthefrontlines.com  to register so we know who you are and you can get our weekly mailings on the day of the show and later with the link to the podcast. Thanks to Ernesto Arce and Channing Martinez for production and publicity.

VOICES Radio: Victor Wallis on his Mother's Art; Mark Masaoka Veteran of the Asian Justice Movement

On this edition of Voices from the Frontlines, Eric Mann and Channing Martinez urge the MTA to “Stop Genocide Against Black Passengers". They say it's time for Voices listeners to get off the sidelines and join us on the Frontlines.

Support the Bus Riders Union motion to this Thursday’s MTA board by contacting Channing Martinez at Channing@thestrategycenter.org

We also have part two of a three-part discussion with Mark Masaoka, in conversation with Eric Mann. They share memories and analysis of the great work in the United Auto Workers by socialist and communists in the auto factories of Ford Pico Rivera, GM Southgate, and GM Van Nuys—Mark’s and UAW Local 645 in the fight against anti-Japanese chauvinism.

There are also segments with Ernesto Arce and the South Central Third World News, Vijay Prashad on the hypocrisy of US climate criminals passing the buck to China and India.

We'll hear the Great Horace Silver playing “Song for My Father” and a bit of background on the bop classic. 

Also, Channing Martinez joins us to invite listeners this weekend to Strategy and Soul located at 3546 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, just around the corner from the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza.

VOICES Radio: The MTA's Anti-Blackness; Mark Masaoka Talks Unionism, Racism at GM Plant

This week on Voices Radio: Eric talks about building up Voices From the Frontlines. We want feedback for the show. Email us at eric@voicesfromthefrontlines.com with ideas, comments, questions, concerns, community information, etc. We are building a community and a movement. Also, if you hear us talking about organizations that are doing great work, please contact them and tell us about it. Change happens from every angle. Become a change maker.

CHALLENGE OF THE DAY: Get 5 friends to become Voices listeners, by first signing up on www.voicesfromthefrontlines.com, listen to us on Sound Cloud, Tune In, Apple Podcast, Stitcher and Google Play. Then like and follow up on Facebook and Twitter at EricMannSpeaks, and on IG, voicesfromthefrontlines. Here are the 5 asks; 

Send Eric an email
Get people to listen to the show, Tuesday’s from 3pm-4pm
Listen to the show.
Help others in the movement
Listen to the podcast if you don’t listen to the show.
Eric offers some really deeply rooted wisdom: The headline that the Nation Magazine published, “Trump’s Distraction by Assassination: The killing to Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani [Qasem Soleimani] took the public’s attention away from Trump’s upcoming trial in the Senate. This new crisis, though, has no visible off-ramp. Eric points out omission of Soleimani’s humanity, by Nation Magazine, in this headline. Soleimani is a human being that was murdered by the US, not some excuse for a distraction. We must learn to recognize each others humanity FIRST!!! Eric talks about his commentary about Gen. Soleimani: The murder of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, is the latest of so many murder and assassinations beginning with the assassination of Native American leaders is part of the long tradition of the barbarism of US assassination of its political opponents. This democratic and republic tactic raised to a horrible crescendo by President Barak Obama through is escalation of his use of drone murders is rooted in the US imperialist effective ideology that the US is always under attack. The US has a department of defense. It used to be called the department of war, at least then, it was honest. The US doesn’t need any defense. The US is attacking every siege country. The US has CIA agents in the every country n the world. The work id under attack by our government and our system. This intern is deeply rooted in the mindset of the white-settler state and the white settlers themselves. When the US was built, it was built by white people coming from Europe to invade the Americas where there were already 100 million indigenous inhabitants. How can people come onto a continent of 100 million people and murder 90 million of them? The reason is because they believe that they were being attacked by the indigenous people? How can people believe that? Because the indigenous people rejected christianity so we have to murder them because they are attacking our religion. That is the thinking of the white-settler state. The aggressor is always the hurt party in the psychopathology of imperialism! Please note: No longer can we say that the white-settler state is white people anymore. At this point, it the the white settler state is a social formation of imperialism that implicates all of us unless we are active to resist it’s ideology, privileges, benefits and the complicity that we all share. 

Eric also examines Gwyneth Paltrow’s interview about her new luxury lifestyle brand, Goop. He reenacts the interview in a way that communicates the absurdly superficial and damaging parts of this society that prevent us from becoming self-aware and renders us hypnotized, complicate and active in imperialism.  

We also examine the new film Just Mercy about the life of Civil Rights Attourney Brian Stevenson. A film about courage, the racism of the US society, the cruel and unusual punishment of the death penalty, and the world. 

Take a listen to the whole show and tell us what you think!

Voices Radio: War in Iran, Gwyneth Paltrow, the films Just Mercy and The Irishman.

Today on Voices from the Frontlines: 

Conversation with Yves Piat, director and screenwriter
“Nefta Football Club–nominated for best short film for Academy Award
Nefta Football Club–nominated for best short film (live action) for Academy Award.

Eric Mann, in-studio conversation with Yves Piat, director and writer of Nefta Football Club, nominated for Academy Award for short film, live action. In the south of Tunisia at the border with Algeria, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert. Strangely the animal wears headphones over its ears. The brothers journey to discover the significance of the white powder in its backpack while the donkey’s original masters desperately try to find it as well. This sets the scene for the brothers magical resolution of the mystery.

This is a clever, very funny, thoughtful, film set in Tunisia, along with another nominated film, Brotherhood by Meryam Joobeur that Eric has also viewed.

The Great Hope for a Free Student Pass on MTA Buses and Trains
Eric reports from the recent MTA meeting and the exciting motion for free student passes introduced by MTA board member Hilda Solis with support from Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Councilman Mike Bonin with the initiative of by LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner and LAUSD board members. This builds on the Bus Riders Union’s 20 year campaign for free public transportation for all MTA bus and train passengers.  If this is passed in June it could be a great gift to students and parents and a chance to dramatically increase MTA ridership and dramatically decrease Greenhouse gases. We need Voices listeners to join the Bus Riders Union Free Public Transportation Coalition.

Voices Radio: Talk with filmmakers of NEFTA. Bus Riders Union call to action.

Eric Mann and Channing Martinez host an organizers conversation with Gionna Magdelano, Angeles Soriano, Kassandra Soriano, students at Ouchi High School and Graduates of the Strategy Center's Transformative Organizing Summer Internship Program. Gionna, Angeles, and Kassandra lead the Taking Action Club at Ouchi High School and are Strategy Center Interns working with lead organizer Brigette Amaya. 

together they host a conversation on The Strategy Center’s Campaign for Urban Reconstruction--Free Public Transportation/Stop MTA Attacks on Black Passengers/No Cars in LA

Learn about this organizing work at www.thestrategycenter.org

Please join our movement by emailing us at info@thestrategycenter.org. 

Leave a phone number and we'll call you back!
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 KPFK.

VFTFL - May 5, 2020 - Student Organizers

We hear two of Voices From the Frontlines greatest conversations with Mumia Abu Jamal about the Manticide of the youth, followed by a report by Channing Martinez from the Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) and the treatment of people in the justice system during this pandemic. 

Tune in to www.kpkf.org/player for full content.

VFTFL - May 12, 2020 - Past Mumia Shows, Eric, And Channing - FINAL

In 1949 Paul Robeson was forced to testify in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities Committee (disgusting just by its name) but Robeson turned the tables and put them and the whole country on trial. In our present period, Robeson shows the great value of Black, pro-communist, Pan Africanist, anti-imperialists. His dignity and courage in the face of what barbarism is almost impossible to imagine. But do imagine and do tune in.

In the second segment Eric and Channing reflect on the Strategy Center’s role in the united front to Defund the LA School Police Department—led by Black Lives Matter LA and Students Deserve and board member Monica Garcia—and our historic victory that cut $25 million from their budget—a 37% cut and the resignation of its police chief. We study history, we write history and we make history.

Voices Radio: Paul Robeson House Committee on UnAmerican Activities & Defund LASPD

Eric and Channing host a conversation on the national conversation around the upcoming elections. Trump, Joe Biden and his the newly announced Vice Presidential running mate, Kamala Harris, and the Democrats have all put out clear and dangerous agenda's for the country, where is the movements national agenda.

We think the upcoming August 28th Black National Convention hosted by Movement for Black Lives will be an important milestone.

In light of the president's private police force storming into cities, Biden not defending the national surge of energy around defending the police, and the Democrat's ambivalence, we'll speak about the importance of bringing demands for Black people to the national level to challenge Biden and the Democrats.

Tune in to hear the full show!

VFTFL - Countdown to the 2020 Election - 8.11.20

Voices from the Frontlines is Excited to Feature

State Senator Maria Elena Durazo in Conversation about the bill she introduced

SB 1257 that grants Occupational and Safety Rights to Domestic Workers. Right now the bill

Is in front of Governor Gavin Newsome who has to sign it into law. While he may be predisposed to do the right thing we need every Voices listener to

Call Governor Newsome: 916-445-2841  to Sign SB 1257!

We will also be in conversation with an organizer and member of the National Domestic Workers Alliance who are providing great leadership on this campaign.


Let’s get 100+Voices listeners to call the Governor, “I support health and safety rights for domestic workers. Please sign Senate Bill 1257!”

Chisme Alert—Back in the day in 1989, four friends worked together— Maria Elena Durazo, in an historic fight, was elected president of Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union Local 11, now City Councilman Gil Cedillo was a staff person at Local 660 SEIU, Antonio Villaraigosa was an organizer for UTLA and Eric Mann was the director of the just formed Labor/Community Strategy Center.

Voices Radio:  Maria Elena Durazo on SB 1257- OSHA Rights for Domestic Workers

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. 

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Voices Radio: Too Black To Fail Rebroadcast

In this episode of #VoicesfromtheFrontlines, Channing Martinez discusses the struggle for Black Futures today at the LAUSD Board. Eric Mann reviews Judas and the Black Messiah, a great film, and reflects: "I was there at Fred Hampton's funeral."

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Voices Radio: Fred Hampton and #FundBlackFutures

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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