Voices From The Front Lines Voices From The Frontlines

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