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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 learn from those whose shoulders we stand on, who fought against the system and succeeded in ways that allow you and I to be here. It's up to us now, to learn this fundamental history and to do our part to STOP these covert wars against humanity... starting with capitalism; the fuel of the Cold War.

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.

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 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

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 receive a complimentary copy of Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of Successful Organizer. All shows are archived on voicesfromthefrontlines.com. Please like, subscribe, and comment if you enjoyed the show. Stay connected with us on Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you listen. 🎙Are you listening? Join the conversation with us! Call in on Tuesdays to (818)985-5735 to talk with Eric live, or email comments, questions, and suggestions to eric@voicesfromthefrontlines.com. Follow @EricMannSpeaks on Twitter for live tweets during the show.

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.org to give a generous contribution to support KPFK and maintain important political programing like Voices from the Frontlines.

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 for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer, by Eric Mann. In this episode, Eric urges for more internationalism, as both perception and praxis, as he grapples with Europe's, specifically Germany's, history of fascism, #imperialism, #colonialism, and #racism and the undeniable parallel within the United States. “If we’re trying to understand why 74 million people voted for Donald Trump … the roots between the Germans and the United States whites, the so called founding fathers, where they both had a theory of being a master race. As did the Spanish, as did the Portuguese. The role of Christianity,

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 who would bury it in a grave. We celebrate Dr. King as one of the great revolutionaries in U.S. and world history whose challenge to all of us shapes our work and should shape yours. Every year I reframe and publish this essay with the goal of expanding the discussion and debate about a Black and Third World led anti-racist, anti-imperialist, climate justice united front.” Take #action as we continue to fight for #BlackLiberation, and #rights to the left of the #Democrats. #Directaction organizing is what we need. Agreement, trust, and willingness to fight is what we need. #You are who we need. "... as our gove

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 a people's movement against Fascism. "As I watch the fascist mobs with their white power confidence, I am asking myself how much more fight do I have in me? ... And yet, I want to fight. I want to push myself to put my body back on the line because I do not want the fascists and neoliberals to keep getting away with murder." - Eric Mann Read the full article on Counterpunch here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/08/its-time-for-the-civil-rights-movement-to-once-again-confront-the-democrats-and-lead-the-struggle-against-the-white-fascists/ Email eric@voicesfromthefrontlines.com to weigh in. Listen to Voices

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

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.mc

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 of California Calls, on Proposition 15, that would tax corporate real estate at higher levels while keeping home property tax the same. The Strategy Center urges "Yes!" on Proposition 15. Veronica ends with three ways to jump in the fight to pass prop 15. This Thursday October 8th join a Prop 15 Virtual Ballot Party: https://www.prop15forthefuture.com/ This Saturday October 10, 2020 Join Community Coalition at their Power Fest to support Prop 15: https://www.southlapowerfest.com/ Visit: https://www.mobilize.us/millionvotersproject/ to see all future Prop 15 related events including virtual phone banking

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 an organizers introduction to the progressive anti-Trump organizations. Together, we will examine the Progressive Democrats of America, Justice Democrats, Our Revolution, the Sunrise Movement, Democratic Socialists of America, and the Working Families Party. We will also highlight important Senate and Congressional races.

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 those who care about the lives of people in the Third World (and some are both), this conversation is important as to what we can hope for, and what we can expect. This afternoon, Eric Mann and Reese Erlich will examine the 2020 elections, specifically: what is at stake for those who want peace, and non-U.S. intervention with China, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and the Third World? Reese Erlich is a long-time activist/organizer/writer whose work goes back to the 1965 Stop the Draft Week in Oakland, and continues to this day. In 1968, he went to the Republic of Cuba, and has been a friend of their democratic, socialis

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 UTL

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 their false claims about and solutions to climate change, racism, and the United States' nefarious involvement in China and Taiwan.

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!

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 praise of U.S. imperialism, but simply as a man swimming across the Danube River to an uncertain future in a nation and system he had only imagined. He lived, loved, and built East Germany from 1952 until its final defeat by the capitalist west in 1990, and even now, 30 years later, he is able to discuss, dissect, and defend, not without a critical eye, The German Democratic Republic (GDR) was the anti-Fascist Germany that was finally defeated by the Fascist U.S. and West Germany. Grossman’s brilliant exposure of how almost all the anti-fascists went to East Germany and almost all the German fascists went to West German

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 Julian, was a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was an influential member of Congress and the subject of many books and films—including the excellent just-produced John Lewis, Good Trouble. The film recounts the historic race for the U.S. Congress in 1986 in which John Lewis defeated Julian Bond. Bond had won a seat in the Georgia state legislature in 1965% but the racist body refused to seat him because of his endorsement of SNCC’s statement opposing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The voters in his district reelected him in both a special election and a regular election in 1966, but the