Tuesday August 1st, 2023 | 8 AM PST LIVE IN STUDIO with Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Akunna Uka on Oppenheimer—How U.S. built the Atom Bomb to terrorize the world by Eric Mann Hello Voices listeners! This week on Voices from the Frontlines, Channing Martinez, Akunna Uka, and Eric Mann in studio to discuss Eric’s major film review and political commentary on the film Oppenheimer. It will be appearing in CounterPunch.org on August 13s, 2023; the great national and international online anti-im...
Aug 01, 2023•59 min
OPPENHEIMER: Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy have made one of the most important revolutionary films of our time The story of “the father of the Atom Bomb” who came to see its destruction, fought for nuclear disarmament, and was red-baited and crushed by U.S. imperialisms', post-war, pro-Nazi, anti-communist crusade Eric Mann’s reads a draft of his future Counterpunch Article Selection from Eric Mann’s reading of his review: Oppenheimer is a breakthrough in film’s role to rescue the heroic ...
Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 1 min
This week on Voices Radio we have 2 segments: 1) A re-cap of the KPFK Benefit hosted at Strategy and Soul. Listen to 10 min clips from Poets: Matt Sedillo and Tongo Eisen-Martin. 2) BIG NEWS ABOUT KEITH LAMAR, Reprieve granted and execution date will be moved from November 16, 2023 to January 13, 2027. Listen to a conversation between Keith Lamar and Eric Mann on the dept of the US War State within the borders of the US and internationally.
Jul 18, 2023•1 hr
Voices from the Frontlines Tuesday July 11, 2023 | 8 AM PST Stogie Kenyatta in Conversation with Eric Mann on his one man show: The World is my Home: The Life of Paul Robeson Matt Sedillo in Conversation with Channing Martinez on the KPFK Benefit and Radical Poetry Eric Mann and Jerry Butler Sing He Will Break Your Heart Eric Comments on the CNBC interview with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy
Jul 11, 2023•1 hr
This week on Voices Radio: Eric speaks about the recent Supreme Court Decision to outlaw Affirmative Action Channing speaks about the future of the Black Student Achievement Program James Earl Jones recites What to the Slave is the 4th of July by Frederick Douglas.
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr
VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINES: FREATURES KEITH LAMAR VISIONARY, BLACK LIBERATION FIGHTER, WRONGFULLY CONVICTED, ON DEATH ROW Episode 3 In Conversation with Eric Mann Tuesday June 20, 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 Join us in a Life Watch over Keith as we value and uplift Keith's life. Help us end Ohio State pri...
Jun 20, 2023•59 min
On This Week's Show Voices Presents: A rebroadcast of: Paul Robeson Aired Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 8am PST on KPFK Pacifica 90.7fm ON TODAY'S SHOW we're doing a rebroadcast honoring a great revolutionary superhero and friend Paul Robeson. Some of you may remember Paul Robeson as a Great Bass baritone and actor. But as we all have come to know, Paul was also a revolutionary thinker, activist, lawyer, linguist, cultural leader, and warrior. Paul spent his life, fighting injustice, standing up agai...
Jun 13, 2023•59 min
THE U.S. AS A DYING DEMOCRACY Aired Tuesday June 06, 2023 | Time on KPFK Pacifica 90.7fm Please listen to this great podcast featuring Eric Mann as host and Commentator Hear Fareed Zakaria commentary. "The Rise of the Rest", in full. After which Eric puts forth his commentary and analysis that the U.S. is slowly loosing its imperial global influence- as so called third world nations-most of which were former colonies of the west collectively rejects U.S. imperialisms and globalization. Eric read...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr
Eric Mann commentary—The Great Biden/Democratic Sell-Out on the Debt Ceiling Negotiations Reading from Politico, Eric exposes how Joe Biden, behind closed doors with Kevin McCarthy gave away food stamps for the poor and COVID funds for Indigenous and all people to retain The “Debt Ceiling” after pledging to give away nothing—and the Progressive Democrats As always, complain, whine, and then cave. Nina Simon’s Virtuoso Performance of “Love Me or Leave Me” on the Ed Sullivan Show recorded on Septe...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr
VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINES Your National Movement Building Show “Wake up and smell the revolution” Tuesday May 9, 2023 | 8 AM PST A Conversation with Kikanza Kikanza Ramsey Our Bright Shining Star Is fighting for her life and needs our support Kikanza Ramsey is one of the founders of the Strategy Center, great lead organizer of the Bus Riders Union, and a brilliant polemicist and writer. Today, she is in Cancun Mexico, undergoing an experimental immunological treatment for late stage cancer. Thi...
May 09, 2023•1 hr
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...
Apr 12, 2023•59 min
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 th...
Apr 05, 2023•58 min
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 ...
Apr 03, 2023•58 min
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)
Mar 21, 2023•58 min
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 fo...
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr
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 wit...
Feb 28, 2023•59 min
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, 2...
Feb 21, 2023•1 hr
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 stu...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr
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 ...
Feb 07, 2023•59 min
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 o...
Jan 31, 2023•59 min
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..." ...
Jan 24, 2023•58 min
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 indus...
Jan 17, 2023•57 min
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. Channi...
Jan 10, 2023•56 min
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.
Jan 04, 2023•57 min
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 ...
Dec 07, 2022•59 min
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 prese...
Nov 29, 2022•58 min
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 sp...
May 16, 2022•56 min
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...
May 13, 2022•59 min
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 ...
Apr 13, 2022•58 min
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 F...
Apr 07, 2022•59 min
