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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 na

VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINES Your National Movement Building Show “Wake up and smell the revolution” Tuesday April 04, 2023 | 8 AM PST On todays show Voices from the Frontlines present Barbara Lott-Holland on The Bus Riders Union Film And Life as a Consciousness Raising Experience Recruited on the bus in 1998, Barbara has been a cornerstone of the organization since then. A resident of South LA and a transit-dependent bus rider for nearly four decades, Barbara has been elected by our members to the BRU’s leadership body, the Planning Committee, for twelve years running. She has acted as Co-Chair of the Planning Committee and of the Monthly Membership Meeting for ten years. During that time, she has served as spokesperson and representative of the BRU in the media, with public officials in LA and Washington, and in national and international social movement forums. She is the only recipient of the Strategy Center’s W.E.B. Dubois Fellowship (2009-2009). Eric’s sings "In the Still of the Night” by: The Fi

VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINES Your National Movement Building Show “Wake up and smell the revolution” Tuesday March 28, 2023 | 8 AM PST On todays show Voices from the Frontlines present MOTHERLAND BY: Vic Gerami An Armenian-American Journalist, Documentarian, LGBT activist, Columnist, Publisher, and Organizer Eric Mann  and discuses with Vic Gerami the Powerful documentary "MotherLand".  A documentary produced by Vic which informs on the historic genocide of the Armenian people throughout  history by various imperialistic nations and their allies. "The Armenian genocide[a] was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of Armenian women and children." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide) -Eric’s sings "Lean On Me”

Voices from the Frontlines presents The Eight Contradictions of the U.S. Imposed World Order BY: Vijay Prashad and the Tri-Continental Team. Eric will read text and comment on Vijay's informative piece. Followed by: News from the Frontlines with Channing Martinez, on the Strategy Center’s film showing of "Bus Riders Union Film" and the SEIU/UTLA Strike. Join the fight for our children's education and future Wednesday and Thursday SEIU/UTLA rally at LAUSD HQ 12-3 (333 S. Beaudry)

VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINES Your National Movement Building Show “Wake up and smell the revolution” Tuesday March 14, 2023 | 8 AM PST On todays show Voices from the Frontlines present a conversation with David Monkawa Veteran Asian/Pacific Islander revolutionary organizer Eric and David discuss the multiracial solidarity event hosted at Strategy and Soul Center theater, and David's long distance political life. The participant were Progressive Asian Network for Action, an organization fighting for bi-cultural healthcare and social justice, (Asian with Attitudes), AWA , AWA  is a grassroot movement whose efforts are centered in uniting all Asian, building bridges of  diversity to fight against racism and hate. The Nation of Islam,   The Nation of Islam is a religious, Black nationalist, and liberation movement, Strategy and Soul Center  and the Bus Riders Union. Strategy and Soul and the Bus riders Union are a  Think /Act tank for regional, national and international movement building, founded in 1989 an

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.

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

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. Chec

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 D

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.voicesfromt

Voices from the Frontlines: KEITH LAMAR 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 24th, 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. Tomorrow at 8 AM Voices from the Frontlines KPFK 90.7 FM, 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 down

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

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.

Eric Mann Speaks with Civil rights Veteran Hollis Watkins about his work and efforts to organize voter's registration, and bring about social justice in the deep south of Mississippi.

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 th

We Are Back! The New Voices from the Frontlines—Wake Up and Smell the Revolution Every Tuesday, staring Tuesday November 29 2022 at 8 AM pst. Host Eric Mann, co-host and producer Channing Martinez, and co-producer Julian Lamb are excited to bring you a new format to continue our political and cultural revolutionary politics. This week on Voices from the Frontlines with Eric Mann: A Conversation with Junius Williams—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 A Conversation with Emily Zamora, 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 Sing Along with Jerry Butler—For Your Precious Love Get up and Dance with Peaches

Channing Martinez in Conversation with Amber-Rose Howard on Closing 10 prisons Eric Mann on Defending Women's Right to Live; the conversation on Abortion Rights Aired Tuesday May 10th @3pm pst. on KPFK Pacifica 90.7fm Today on Voices Radio Channing is in conversation with Amber-Rose, Executive Director of CURB CA (Californians United for a Responsible Budget. Amber-Rose speaks about her own history with the carceral state and how that helped to lead her to the work she’s leading now. CURB has spent years stopping the increase in funding toward prisons and in 2021 launched a campaign to close 10 CA prisons by 2025. More details on this campaign can be found in the People’s Plan for Prison Closure. Governor Gavin Newson has moved to close on institution in 2021; Deuel Vocational Institution. In the second half of the show Eric begins the conversation on Voices around Women’s Rights. Given the Supreme Court’s “leak” of an upcoming initiative to strike down Roe V Wade there has been an up surge of attention to

Join us for a dynamic conversation with Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Ayana Morris on the film Why is We Americans? Ayana Morris is the Co-Director of Why is We Americans? along with Udi Aloni. The film is an exploration of the history of Newark through the eyes of the Baraka Family. From the 1967 Newark rebellion in which Black people were placed under martial law and lived under beyond oppressive conditions to the Black Radical Organizing Tradition of Amiri and Amina Baraka to the election of Ras Baraka as the current Mayor of Newark. Why is We Americans? explores various Black movement traditions from Black nationalism, Black communism, the Black power Movement all through Organizing, activism, art, spoken word and electoral politics. Eric, Channing, and Ayana speak about all of the aforementioned themes as well as the production and editing of the film, great stories on the cutting room floor, and the beautiful process of working with the Baraka family to create a masterpiece. On April 22nd the Str

Join Ayuko Babu, director of the Pan African Film Festival, Eric Mann, and Channing Martinez in conversation on the 30th Annual Pan African Film Festival. The Pan African Film Festival will host a hybrid festival this year from April 19th to May 1st 2022. Film Screenings will take place at the Cinemark Baldwin Hills 4020 Marlton Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90008 There will be a an accompanying Artfest in the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza 3650 MLK Jr. Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90008 Tickets for films can be purchased online at paff.org Voices from the Frontlines strongly encourages you to attend in person as much as you can. Babu, Eric and Channing speak about what it means to host a Black film festival in 2022 in the mists of COVID 19, and during a international conflict between the U.S., Nato, Ukraine, and Russia. Babu tells us of the history behind this conflict and speaks about how film is one of the most important mediums to speak about and learn about international struggles and national liberation moveme

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