Voices From The Frontlines

Eric and Channing GO DEEP, analyzing the presidential candidates and their massive shortcomings and narrow-minded, white, racist, imperialist, and nationalist perspectives!!!

This conversation is SO important to get involve in. The lives of all living things (people, animals, and our environment) are at stake. This CANNOT be seen as a popularity contest. We mush think and act deeper!

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Eric and Channing speak with Anna Kunkin, daughter of journalist, political organizer, and founder of the Los Angeles Free Press, Art Kunkin, about her father's triumphs and legacy in society and media during a particularly socially tremulous era. Anna discusses her childhood growing up with a revolutionary father and what is was like for her to be exposed to historical people and events, in the making. In this tribute to the late Art Kunkin, who passed away on April 30th, of this year, 2019, we also hear from listeners who recall the late great Art Kunkin.

Eric talks about his new blog called Sports and Revolution. Today Eric talks about the NBA, the New York Knicks specifically, support for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Black Brain Trust, The Lakers, and invites callers like Ruth, and our good friend Morris From Long Beach to join the conversation.  

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Tune in to listen to this special Sports and Revolution conversation.

This week on Voices From the Frontlines, we'll hear from Akinyele Umoja, founding member of the New Afrikan People's Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and author of We Will Shoot: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom movement. 

The strategy center Co-Hosted a Night in Conversation with Akinyele Umoja and Eric Mann, hosted by Professor Robin Kelley May 2019. Tune in for a great conversation on Movement Building, revolution and Akinyele's book We Will Shoot Back. 

Voices from the Frontlines needs your help to dramatically expand our audience and to create a core group of Voices-Radio Action Organizers. Today Eric and Channing will speak about building an organizing team among listeners of Voices from the Frontlines to expand the audience and influence of Your National Movement Building Show. 

Take a listen.

This week on Voices From the Frontlines, we’ll hear from Akinyele Umoja, founding member of the New Afrikan People’s Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and author of We Will Shoot: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom movement. 

The strategy center Co-Hosted a Night in Conversation with Akinyele Umoja and Eric Mann, hosted by Professor Robin Kelley May 2019. Tune in for a great conversation on Movement Building, revolution and Akinyele’s book We Will Shoot Back. 

Voices from the Frontlines needs your help to drmatically expand our audience and to create a core group of Voices Radio Action Organizers. Today Eric and Channing will speak about building an organizing team among listeners of Voices from the Frontlines to expand the audience and influence of Your National Movement Building Show. 

Take a listen.

 

This week on Voices From the Frontlines, in light of this deeper examination of Ava DuVernay's powerful documentary of the Central Park 5 case, When They See Us, Voices From the Frontlines and the Labor Community Strategy Center has two major demands:

Bring the US government up on charges of genocide in violation of the 1948 genocide statutes established by the United Nations...

End the police presence on LAUSD schools, busses, and MTA trains, and cut the police-state budget and agencies (LAPD, Sheriff's dept., probation institutions, and the prison dept.) by 50 %... Then cut  all of these agencies and their budgets by another 50%... followed by another 50%, etc., until the police-state in these United States is no more.

This campaign is the only way to end the abusive relationship that the US government has created. "We don't want better treatment within the apartheid, we want to end apartheid".

PLEASE READ: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Also watch this highly important film When They See Us. You will understand that the system in which we live was and is in no way meant to be one of kindness nor fairness. This white-settler state was birthed from the depths of terror and genocide and still operates in the exact same way, around the world. No one chooses to live with cancer in hopes that it decides NOT to kill you... The most radical attempt at surviving cancer is to no longer be the host. That is to say that you have to remove it ENTIRELY!!!

Join this campaign if you no longer want to host this cancerous system which aspires to spread throughout the entire world!

National Movement Building Show

Eric and Channing delve into the racial complexities that continue to plague our world, which led to the excruciatingly painful Central Park Five story upon which Ava DuVernay's documentary, When They See Us, is based.

In this episode, Eric and Channing detail certain elements of the film that illustrates the most phenomenal expose's of this brith to prison system for black and latino lives.

To get involved with The Strategy Center's Civil Rights/Climate Justice Campaign for Urban Reconstruction, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @ericmannspeaks

"Any great film only comes to life through the demands of changing the system". - Eric Mann

Take a listen.

Eric, Channing, Kiyana Williams, and Alan Minsky offer their review and analysis of this important documentary. We also hear some clips from the film that feature some shocking elements of this global problem and what actions we, individually, can take to be instrumental in dissolving this problem of child labor.

Pledge your support to Voices from the Frontlines and 90.7 KPFK, get this DVD and attend the screening and Q/A.

This is your chance to be the change that you want to see in the world!!! Knowledge equals responsibility. Knowledge is a choice!

Celebrate National Children’s Day

By Arming Yourself with Important Information That Can Help Stop Child Trafficking and Child Labor!! INVISIBLE HANDS— Special KPFK May Fund Drive Premium… A Special Event Screening + DVD Offer!!! Sunday June 9, 2019, 2PM (doors at 2PM; 3PM Screening)

At the Beautiful Choi Auditorium

Occidental College (1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles) This Special Event Includes A

Q&A with Director Shraysi Tandon

Moderated by KPFK’s Christine Blosdale!! SUBSCRIBERS FOR THIS EVENT WILL ALSO GET THE INVISIBLE HANDS DVD SENT TO THEM.

--Tickets available to the public by pledging a subscription to KPFK during the May Fund Drive at 818-985-5735,

or pledge online at http://catalog.kpfk.org/product-list.html (The INVISIBLE HANDS DVD alone will be also be available!)

Eric pays tribute to his friend and super hero, Paul Robeson during this KPFK fund drive show on Voices From the Frontlines. 

Eric remarks about how magnificent and undefinable Paul Robeson was and still is: Scholar, athlete, film star, baritone singer from heaven, pan-africanist, black fighter, pro-communist, a friend of working and oppressed people all over the world, defiant black man, and political prisoner in his own country.  

Eric, Channing, and Alan Minsky offer the Paul Robeson 4-DVD box set, narrated by Sidney Poitier, along with two of Eric’s books; Playbook for Progressives and Katrina’s Legacy. 

Channing created a brilliant slideshow of Paul Robeson that we can watch on the Eric Mann Speaks Facebook page through our MEVO. 

Have a listen to the show, get the DVD collection.  

Paul Robeson favorite languages and people are the Afrikans. “In the early part of 1934 Robeson enrolled in the school of Oriental and African studies, a constituent college of the University of London, where he studied phonetics, Swahili, and other African languages. His growing interest in African history and its impact on culture was influenced by African revolutionaries in England reflected in his essay “I Want to be African”, where he rejected US and European colonialism and his own internalized oppression by fully embracing his Afrikan roots.”

Listen to the show, get to know the brilliance that is Paul Robeson.