Voices From The Frontlines

This Week on Voices Eric presents three great news bits on movements around the nation.

1) SF Bay View needs your help to continue the wonderful work they're carrying out in a moment of both transition, and hardship. Eric reads a great appeal from Mary Ratcliff. You can go on even before the show to support here: https://bit.ly/38SOvDD

2) In a great victory for Indigenous Land Rights, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Muscogee (Creek) nation today 5-4 rule in a significant portion of Oklahoma is indeed Indian Territory.

3) A Great Berlin Bulletin from Victor Grossman, currently in East Germany entitled BreakUps and Leaks on the breaking down of the relationship between the U.S. and Germany via the German Federal Republic.

Eric and Channing put in a lot of work to making the show happen each week, but haven't had the response sought after. we really want to hear from you this week. Please email your show responses to eric@voicesfromthefrontlines and [email protected]

Listen to Voice from the Frontlines today at 3pm PST on KPFK 90.7fm OR use the button below to Stream the show live on KPFK.

In 1949 Paul Robeson was forced to testify in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities Committee (disgusting just by its name) but Robeson turned the tables and put them and the whole country on trial. In our present period, Robeson shows the great value of Black, pro-communist, Pan Africanist, anti-imperialists. His dignity and courage in the face of what barbarism is almost impossible to imagine. But do imagine and do tune in.

In the second segment Eric and Channing reflect on the Strategy Center’s role in the united front to Defund the LA School Police Department—led by Black Lives Matter LA and Students Deserve and board member Monica Garcia—and our historic victory that cut $25 million from their budget—a 37% cut and the resignation of its police chief. We study history, we write history and we make history.

We are very enthusiastic that LAUSD School Board member Monica Garcia will introduce a motion at the 2020 Budget Vote to cut the LASPD budget by 50%—$35 million from their $67 million budget

Please work with Black Lives Matter, Students Deserve, Brothers Sons Selves, Inner City Struggle, and yes, the Strategy Center

To get the LAUSD tomorrow to cut $35 million from their $67 million or more budget and move those funds to Black students and schools.

This is not just about cutting their budget, it is cutting their power in more than half, a massive vote of no confidence in the LASPD, a massive victory for the Black Liberation Movement,

For the Black, Latinx, and third World Alliance. We want more than taking Aunt Jemima off the box. We don’t care that Amazon now says Black Lives Matter next to an ad for Amazon Prime. We want to Defund Police, Defund the LASPD now.

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Here is how you can help

Call in at 8:30am to make a Public Comment

Call 1-669-900-6833 and enter Meeting ID 981 7435 3474 from their telephone keypad. Then press #, and then # again when prompted for the Participant ID. Callers will be placed on hold until it is their turn to speak.

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Call the Board Members Right Now

Call the Board Members right now to urge them to vote for a $35 Million cut to the LASPD Budget at tomorrows board meeting, and email us to let us know.

Austin Beutner, Superintendant (213) 241-7000

George McKenna, Board Member District One (213) 241-6382

Monica Garcia, Board Member District Two, (213) 241-6180

Scott Schmerelson, Board Member District Three, (213) 241-8333

Nick Melvoin, Board Member District Four, (213) 241-6387

Jackie Goldberg, Board Member District Five, (213) 241-5555

Kelly Gonez, Board Member District Six, (213) 241-6388

Richard Bladovic, Board Member District Seven, (213) 241-6385

In June of 2020 a group of Black and Third World revolutionaries, from Harlem, South Central, Minneapolis, Cape Town, London, Beijing, Caracas, Havana, met in Nairobi, Kenya at a clandestine strategy meeting. Already in deep dialogue, one of the delegates began cautiously, to share her dream. But as she told it to the first comrade, he said, with excitement but also a sense of self-protection to avoid being seen as delusional, that he had also had that dream. But there was a too impossible to believe outcome. Dozens, not hundreds, not thousands, but yes, dozens of people—all leading the Black and Third World resistance to the present racist onslaught—had experienced the same dream. Not sort of the same, but word by word, step by step, the same. And each time one person described a point in the plot the next person could finish the sentence. That lead to an escalation of the resistance and if it can be believed, a future belief that a collapse of the U.S. Imperialist White Settler state was possible and a revolutionary government could come to power. I have been honored that they shared this story with me. And after going through channels, they have allowed us to tell their story. It is being recorded in June 2020 but as you will see, the events we describe have already happened—for now we are in January 2021. They allowed us to record their dreams with the hope that their revolutionary experiment in magical realism could come true. But also to document their visionary power. For who would have believed in January 2021 that a group of Black and Third World revolutionaries could not just predict the future of history— but make that history happen! And as you will see, they did.

If for any reason you learn of this before the events of July 2020 to January 2021 take place, you must swear yourself to secrecy. This entire scenario was actualized because the revolutionaries kept their dreams to themselves—until they made them happen. But what a story. It begins with how the Too Black to Fail Movement added another battalion to the growing revolutionary army against the U.S. Imperialist white settler state and how the Army of Revolutionary Ancestors… but I am getting ahead of my story. Listen, as the Black and Third World revolutionaries tell their own story. But you must swear that you will not tell others about it.

Eric Mann

The Strategy Center is seizing the moment with grateful love for Black protest and the work of Black Lives Matter LA, LA Schools Students Deserve, Alliance for Educational Justice, CJSF, and others. Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, Brigette Amaya, Gionna Magdelano, Kim Rochal, Angeles and Kassandra Soriano take time to read the powerful letter just sent to LAUSD demanding No Police in LAUSD Schools. Tune in today at 3pm PST and don't forget to make a contribution to KPFK. #PoliceFreeSchools #NoPoliceinLAUSD #Defund #Decriminalize #Demilitarize #EndWarOnYouth

Eric and Channing host a conversation about the great 2020 Black led rebellions happening now nationwide. Eric speaks about the role of the Media, the Democrats, and Los Angeles Bernie Sanders Supporters in the time of mass protests and attacks on the Black community.

Channing speaks about his LA CD10 electoral campaign in which one of his primary platform demands called for a 50% cut to the LAPD budget.

Eric Mann and Channing Martinez hoist a conversation with Gregory Jenkins on Climate change and COVID 19 in Africa. Gregory Jenkins is a professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Geography, and African Studies at Penn State University. Dr. Jenkins also works closely in African nations to create infrastructure to combat the effects of climate change on the African continent.

The second half of the show is a rebroadcast of our 2018 tribute to the great Lorraine Hansberry. in the Clip Eric Mann praises the role to the Black Anti-Imperialist Pro Communist Pro Feminist tradition and its role in the Black Freedom Movement as we listen to a clip of Lorraine Hansberry making the decision to support the 1960's Stall In Actions.

Tune in and engage!

A Compelling, Challenging, and Urgent Discussion of COVID 19 and the great challenges for social, racial, and climate justice organizers

Laurie Barrett—author of the The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

Her hair-raising, sober, and chilling assessment of the COVID 19 Virus in discussion with Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta

COVID 19 and the Challenge to Organizers in Black, Latino(a) and low-income communities

And all racial, social, and climate justice organizers

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Eric’s summary of key points that will be discussed based on Laurie Barrett’s brilliant assessment

This is a brand new microbe never seen on planet earth before.

The U.S. death toll is 75 thousand and the world death toll is 316,000 always getting larger

We need a vaccine that is a “home run” and must be produced for all 7.5 Billion people on the planet

If not successfully eradicated may get out slowly all over planet and hope the virus does not mutate

The Rich countries must give massive aid and income transfers to the poor countries.

Eric adds this is an anti-imperialist challenge to today’s movement-every social justice group must be evaluated by its concrete aid to the Third World

The Strategy Center is raising this challenge to ourselves

The leadership of the Cuban medical brigades must be acknowledged and emulated.

We urge all members, staff, and organizers to listen to this compelling conversation and send email responses to [email protected] and [email protected]

We hear two of Voices From the Frontlines greatest conversations with Mumia Abu Jamal about the Manticide of the youth, followed by a report by Channing Martinez from the Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) and the treatment of people in the justice system during this pandemic.

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Eric Mann and Channing Martinez host an organizers conversation with Gionna Magdelano, Angeles Soriano, Kassandra Soriano, students at Ouchi High School and Graduates of the Strategy Center's Transformative Organizing Summer Internship Program. Gionna, Angeles, and Kassandra lead the Taking Action Club at Ouchi High School and are Strategy Center Interns working with lead organizer Brigette Amaya.

together they host a conversation on The Strategy Center’s Campaign for Urban Reconstruction--Free Public Transportation/Stop MTA Attacks on Black Passengers/No Cars in LA

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