Episodes
Eric and Channing are joined in two conversations this week that focus on the intersections of Climate Justice, Women's Rights, Self Determination and the role of US Imperialism.
In the first segment Eric and Channing are joined by by Michel Shehadeh who speaks about the recent conflict between in Palestine. Michel speak about the feeling of four days of liberation and ends with acknowledging solidarity with the red nation as they too know what its like to struggle against an oppressive...
Published 10/23/23
This week on Voices Eric is joined live from the wall of the Ohio State Penitentiary with Keith Lamar, Artist, Jazz enthusiast, revolutionary teacher, revolutionary student, and serving time on death row in Ohio. Eric and Keith are joined in conversation with Amy Gordiejew who helps is fighting the hardest to free Keith Lamar and handles many of his external matters.
Together they speak about the upcoming #FreedomFirst Concert series coming to Strategy and Soul on October 5th at 7pm.
You...
Published 09/26/23
This week on Voices from the Frontlines
Eric reflects on the devastating climate impacts in Libya and discuses how LA, through the neglect of the Metro is actively contributing to adverse climate events in the third world.
Second a Sing Along to "Maybe" by the Chantels
Third, Eric Mann is joined in conversation with Channing Martinez, who just returned from a Crenshaw Eco Club alumni trip to Yosemite National Park. Channing speaks about Bill Vanderberg, his former teacher at Crenshaw...
Published 09/13/23
This week on #Voices Radio Eric and Channing review sis of the Best of Voices from the Frontlines Classic conversations and we're proud to add a new excerpt from Eric's Conversation with Keith Lamar.
Excerpt 1. Mumia Abu-Jamal
In this excerpt Mumia and I discuss the concept of Menticide—wiping out a people’s historical memory in order to disempower them, to demobilize them. In this case, we discuss how the knowledge of movement leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Malcolm X has...
Published 09/12/23
Eric Mann and Channing Martinez discuss the moral collapse of U.S. imperialism
• Emmett Till—July 25, 1941—August 28, 1955—a young Black man who held his head high and sparked the civil rights movement and touched the lives of millions.
• Jeffery St. Clair—Counterpunch, Roaming Charges---the Ecological catastrophe of Spokane Washington and the Katrina like racism of the system’s decimation of Lahaina.
• Kirkpatrick Sale, author of the great book, SDS about Students for a Democratic Society,...
Published 08/29/23
This week on #VoicesRadio Eric speaks with Akunna about her trajectory into becoming a conscious organizer through her upbringings and through her training at the Strategy Center.
Eric gives commentary on the Colonialism that created the unnatural disaster in Maui.
Eric also gives commentary on the Youth who recently won their suit against the State of Montana for promoting fossil fuels.
Lastly, tune in for a sing along with Eric signing Unchained Melody by the Drifters.
Published 08/15/23
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...
Published 08/01/23
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...
Published 07/25/23
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.
Published 07/18/23
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
Published 07/11/23
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.
Published 07/05/23
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...
Published 06/20/23
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,...
Published 06/13/23
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...
Published 06/07/23
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...
Published 06/01/23
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...
Published 05/09/23
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...
Published 04/12/23
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...
Published 04/05/23
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 ...
Published 04/03/23
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)
Published 03/21/23
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...
Published 03/14/23
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...
Published 02/28/23
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...
Published 02/21/23
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...
Published 02/14/23
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...
Published 02/07/23