Voices From The Frontlines

THIS SUNDAY... Join Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, Rachel Bruhnke, and Frank Dorrel; the co-chairs of this virtual event and conversation about the Cold War, at 1:00pm - 8:00pm, https://www.codepink.org/03212021 This is a public plea to hear the truth about the Cold War. The United States has been in covert and over wars for the last three generations. Find out WHY..., but more importantly come and...

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 li...

Eric Mann and Ayuko Babu, Director of the Pan African Film Festival, discuss some of the greatest films for immediate viewing for Voices From the Frontlines listeners, as well as some of the films which will be featured in the festival, currently under way. Dates: February 28th - March 14th.

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 pers...

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." Listen to #VoicesRadio LIVE every Tuesday from 3-4PM PST on KPFK / KPFK.org / 90.7FM. Call KPFK at (818)985-5735 or click here to donate $100 to KPFK and...

Tune in to your Anti-Imperialist InvestmentAdvisor as Eric breaks down piece by piece an understanding of the Stockmarket, the role of shorts, what it means to squeeze shorts, hedge funds, and the importance of Black and Latinx working class investment in the Stock Market. This is also a Fund drive show in which all listeners, including podcast listeners are encouraged to log on right now to kpfk....

In this episode of Voices from the Frontlines, #EricMann reads from his unpublished #article: "The Ghosts, Dreams, Bones, and Lives of the Oppressed Peoples must shape the Nightmares and Hopes of The Revolutionaries in the oppressor nations" This article is the author's introduction of "Road for Revolutionaries: the 16 Qualities of the Transformative Organizer", the German translation of Playbook...

On this episode of #VoicesRadio #EricMann reads his latest Counterpunch article: "Dr. #MartinLutherKing's challenge to the #movement as the Fascists Storm the #Capitol." For the past 5 years, Eric Mann has been reflecting, re-publishing, and re-establishing the legacy of the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “This year as with every year, we work to protect and expand Dr. King’s legacy from those...

It's time that the Civil Rights Movement once again confronts the Democrats and leads the fight against white fascists. "So let's get it straight. Armed white fascists can protest, but the Civil Rights Movement cannot "counter-protest?" So much for painting Black Lives Matter on the street if the Black movement is barred from marching." Eric reads from his latest Counterpunch article, and proposes...

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, G...

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 p...

This week on Voices From the Frontlines, Eric Mann reads over 2020 Voting tips written by Lian Hurst Mann. Lian had has written a Make A Plan Today to Make Sure your vote counts paper explaining the multiple ways to get you vote to the elections office. In the second half of the show Channing Martinez and Eric Mann are joined in conversation with Veronica Carrizales, Policy and Campaign Director o...

This afternoon, Eric Mann will speak on the terror of the new Supreme Court, the daily terror that Black people face, the challenges of the 2020 election, and the struggle for countervailing power on Voices from the Frontlines. Eric will be in conversation with Alan Minsky, long-time great Program Director at KPFK and a representative of the Progressive Democrats of America. Today's show serves as...

Eric Mann in Conversation with Reese Erlich The 2020 elections -- What is at stake for those who want peace and non-U.S. intervention with China, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and the Third World September 29, 2020 | 3PM PST September 29th at 6pm is the debate between Joseph Biden and Donald Trump. Much is at stake for the movement, and the country. But for those who support a Biden presidency, and tho...

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-...

Channing gives us an in-depth review of the film LoveCraft Country; a film about the racist 1950's in Chicago. Moreover, the show speaks to imperialist nature and culture of the United States through the lens of black people, echoed in the words of James Baldwin. Please take a look at this film and let us know what you think. Eric talks to us about the Republican and Democratic parties and all of...

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...

An amazing conversation with an amazing man who has lived an amazing life and written 2 amazing books. In 1952, a Communist, a Jew, and a U.S. soldier stationed in Germany, fearing imprisonment under the McCarren Act if he returned, decided to defect to East Germany. Not as the dancers or athletes from the Soviet Union whose defection, orchestrated by the CIA, are made into front page news in prai...

In 2014, after the 25th anniversary of the Strategy Center, Eric Mann went to Jackson Mississippi, along with Julian Lamb

This week on Voices From the Frontlines, I had a wonderful reunion with some Voices listeners, and as we celebrate the life and mourn the death of civil rights giant John Lewis, I choose to also celebrate the life and mourn the death of Julian bond, as the two of their lives were deeply intertwined. John Lewis died on July 17, 2020. Julian Bond died on August 15, 2015. John Lewis, along with Julia...

This Week on Voices Eric presents three great news bits on movements around the nation. 1) SF Bay View needs your help to continue the wonderful work they're carrying out in a moment of both transition, and hardship. Eric reads a great appeal from Mary Ratcliff. You can go on even before the show to support here: https://bit.ly/38SOvDD 2) In a great victory for Indigenous Land Rights, the Supreme...

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 impossi...

We are very enthusiastic that LAUSD School Board member Monica Garcia will introduce a motion at the 2020 Budget Vote to cut the LASPD budget by 50%—$35 million from their $67 million budget Please work with Black Lives Matter, Students Deserve, Brothers Sons Selves, Inner City Struggle, and yes, the Strategy Center To get the LAUSD tomorrow to cut $35 million from their $67 million or more budget...

In June of 2020 a group of Black and Third World revolutionaries, from Harlem, South Central, Minneapolis, Cape Town, London, Beijing, Caracas, Havana, met in Nairobi, Kenya at a clandestine strategy meeting. Already in deep dialogue, one of the delegates began cautiously, to share her dream. But as she told it to the first comrade, he said, with excitement but also a sense of self-protection to a...

The Strategy Center is seizing the moment with grateful love for Black protest and the work of Black Lives Matter LA, LA Schools Students Deserve, Alliance for Educational Justice, CJSF, and others. Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, Brigette Amaya, Gionna Magdelano, Kim Rochal, Angeles and Kassandra Soriano take time to read the powerful letter just sent to LAUSD demanding No Police in LAUSD Schools....