This week Voices Radio rebroadcasts this incredibly important interview with Mary Louise Patterson. She’s speaking with us about her book that she co-authored with Evelyn Louise Crawford, Letters From Langston; From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond! Mary Louise Pattesron will in conversation with Eric and Channing about growing up with famous and most heroic parents, William L. Patterson and Lousie Thompson Patterson! This interview is very moving. Mary tells us how she became ...
Jul 07, 2021•58 min
This is SUCH an amazing show! This week on Voices From the Frontlines, Eric and Channing have a guest star; THE GREAT Mary Louise Patterson!!! She’s speaking with us about her book that she co-authored with Evelyn Louise Crawford, Letters From Langston; From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond! Mary Louise Pattesron will in conversation with Eric and Channing about growing up with famous and most heroic parents, William L. Patterson and Lousie Thompson Patterson! This interview is...
Jul 01, 2021•57 min
George Jackson, political prisoner, member of the Black Panther Party, author of the celebrated book Soledad Brother, was murdered by prison guards on August 21, 1971. This year, 2021, and this August, there will be celebrations of his life and work. Eric discusses the life and work his comrades and Soledad Brother George Jackson.
Jun 30, 2021•58 min
While we think the Metro tried to do a good thing in passing the Fareless transportation initiative for K-12 students and for Community College students, we realize that in fact Metro board members simply can’t help themselves; they must have a “but”, the excuse for their infamous oppressive policies in everything they do. This is why in the same program includes the addition of self attestation of poverty, forcing 70% of its riders to prove poverty, an obvious civil rights and human rights viol...
Jun 17, 2021•56 min
This week on Voices From the Frontlines: Channing Martinez who is the Director of Organizing for the Labor Community Strategy Center, joins Eric remotely from the frontlines! In front of the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters Channing is leading a rally in an effort to defund the police from Los Angeles schools and end the racist MTA apartheid. The rally is calling for two things; #1 An expansion of the Black Student Achievement program, and an increase in the number of schools in ...
Jun 10, 2021•58 min
Today on Voices From the Frontlines, we learn that Derek Chauvin, the finally convicted murderer of our dearly departed George Floyd, charged with three counts of second degree murder. Following the verdict, we outline our organizing efforts and next steps in removing police from LAUSD schools, and abolishing the police in general. We also speak with Noel Hanrahan from Prison Radio. She gives us an update on Mumia Abu Jamal, who had open-heart surgery on Monday. We learn that Mumia's surgery was...
Apr 21, 2021•57 min
This week on Voices from the Frontlines: We honor Reese Erlich! Our dear friend Reese helped to initiate the Stop the Draft Week in Oakland, who worked for the Unity Newspaper of the League of Revolutionary Struggle, and became a well-respected journalist in support of the people of the Third World, died on April 6th, 2021. Eric & Reese remained friends for more than 40 years and Eric will be playing the last interview they did together, telling his reminiscences of him and Reese. Reese was ...
Apr 16, 2021•58 min
“What kind of a police state we live in, that the FBI is in every organization, that everyones phone is tapped, that any organization is infiltrated by its very nature, and its virtually impossible to carry out good work without informants… with informants who are coming there purposely to intervene in the internal affairs of your organization, to take advantage of the conflicts, the so-called intelligence they’re getting, they’re watching… and of course, the very destructive role they played in...
Apr 08, 2021•57 min
Madison Tang of Code Pink's "China is not the Enemy Campaign" speaks with Eric Mann about the challenge of changing the US' racist, imperialist, disinformation, and propaganda tactics regarding China's position on the global economic stage, relative to that of the the US', and its people. Barbara Lott Holland, of The Bus Riders Union joins Eric in discussion regarding the "Call Out" for community members to speak out against the MTA Apartheid; MTA's proposed tests to see how a "no-fare" system w...
Mar 31, 2021•56 min
This week on Voices from the Frontlines, Eric Mann reflects on Sunday's Cold War Truth Commission panel discussion. Beginning with talks from: Gail Walker/IFCO Pastors for Peace: The Historic Legacy of My Father: Rev. Lucius Walker, Medea Benjamin/Code Pink: The U.S. Cold War vs. African Liberation Struggles, Jodie Evans/Code Pink: Historical and Current U.S. Cold War Against China. We then hear from Eric Mann: The Labor/Community Strategy Center Fighting Democratic Party Imperialism from Kenned...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr
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 t...
Mar 17, 2021•58 min
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 Rider...
Mar 10, 2021•57 min
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.
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr
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...
Feb 25, 2021•51 min
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...
Feb 17, 2021•56 min
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...
Feb 03, 2021•49 min
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 urge...
Jan 28, 2021•52 min
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 ...
Jan 20, 2021•52 min
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...
Jan 14, 2021•54 min
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, t...
Jan 06, 2021•59 min
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 ...
Oct 17, 2020•48 min
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 k...
Oct 07, 2020•58 min
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 t...
Oct 01, 2020•58 min
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 i...
Sep 30, 2020•59 min
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 D...
Sep 02, 2020•56 min
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 i...
Aug 28, 2020•57 min
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...
Aug 16, 2020•56 min
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 ...
Aug 06, 2020•58 min
In 2014, after the 25th anniversary of the Strategy Center, Eric Mann went to Jackson Mississippi, along with Julian Lamb
Jul 22, 2020•29 min
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 C...
Jul 22, 2020•59 min
