Voices From The Frontlines

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

REBROADCAST OF Internationalism as Defense against Fascism and Imperialism A reading from Eric Mann's The Ghosts, Dreams, Bones, and Lives of the Oppressed Peoples must shape the Nightmares and Hopes of The Revolutionaries in the oppressor nations Tuesday March 29, 2022 | 3 PM PST This week on Voices we present a rebroadcast of Internationalism as Defense against Fascism and Imperialism. Originally aired January 2021, we think this show is now even more relevant as ever given the US/Nato...

Voices from the Frontlines presents a special broadcast on Instagram Live. KPFK will be covering the senate judiciary hearings until 4pm, pre-empting Voices from the Frontlines. In that the Walter Rodney Symposium is this weekend on March 26th @ 10am EST. It is very important for the show to go on! Join us today on Instagram for a pre-recorded conversation with Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Charisse Burden-Stelly on the upcoming Walter Rodney Symposium and neocolonialism in the heart of...

On the one year anniversary we rebroadcasted Key Selections from the Cold War Truth Commission. The Commission was a virtual event last year in the middle of COVID hosted by Rachel Bruhnke and Frank Dorrell. Now more than ever as the Biden Administration contemplates the expansion of NATO, and the ongoing conflict between Russia, Ukraine, the U.S. and the U.S. and China, these key selections are even more prescient now than ever. Selected Clips: Gail Walker/IFCO Pastors for Peace:The...