Voices From The Frontlines

Today on Voices from the Frontlines:

Voices Radio First Show of 2022

Voices in the Tradition of Summer of Soul

Eric in conversation w/ Mumia Abu Jamal

Eric in conversation w/ Julian Bond

South Central Third World News

In the Spirit of Summer of Soul, an amazing film about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, Voices from the Frontlines fights to protect and publicize our revolutionary history. Stop complaining about fascism if you are part of the anti-communist, revisionist, “social justice” tendency that rejects the revolutionary achievements of the U.S. Communist Party, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, the Black Power Movement, and the Black Panther Party (who did security at the Festival.

Today on Voices we reprise two wonderful revolutionary Voices

Mumia Abu Jamal in a conversation with Eric Mann critiquing Stephen Spielberg’s white savior film Lincoln, (with no Frederick Douglass) and elevate the teaching of W.E.B. DuBois with Eric’s favorite Black Reconstruction in America and Mumia’s, favorite, Darkwater, Voices from within the Veil. Please work to help Mumia Abu Jamal get out of prison, Free Mumia can be reached at prisonradio at gmail dot com Please get involved

Julian Bond in conversation with Eric Mann at the 50th Anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964 in Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 2014. Great appreciation to Catherine Murphy, William Sabourin, and Julian Lamb, our amazing team that audioed and videod 10 wonderful conversations with veterans of the Civil Rights Movement. Julian Bond was a major leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, of whom, as Julian tells us, President John Kennedy called “those sons of bitches.” Check out his amazing bio on Wikipedia. It is very moving that in 2014, Julian and I had a discussion about the essential role of memory, as we keep losing comrades along the way. Julian said, “Many people here I will never see again” and at the time, I thought his reference was to “others” but very sadly, Julian died in 2015.

Check out Ernesto Arce’s terrific “South Central/Third World News” segment every week on Voices.

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On today's edition, Eric Mann is in conversation with Mark Masaoka, this is the final of a three-part series with the UAW and Japanese-American leading organizer on the future of the Movement.

Alan Minsky, Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America discusses the future of Democratic Party radical transformation.

Ernesto Arce and the South Central Third World News covers more exposed racism among police departments in Torrance and Long Beach, the unjust extradition of Julian Assange, and Amazon being held responsible for the death of several of its workers after the recent tornado disaster.

The Revolutionary Symphony features Fela Kuti—Water no Get Enemy. 

Vicente Fernandez, an homage to Latin@ giant who just passed at the age of 81, who gives us our opening and closing themes

KPFK is currently in Fund Drive with Alan and Eric asking for your financial support. 

For a $100 contribution, you'll get a copy of Eric Mann’s Playbook for Progressives: The 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer

For a $250 contribution you'll get Paul Robeson: Portrait of an Artist, an amazing 4 DVD set

Please call 818-985-5735 between 3 and 4 today to support Voices and KPFK

Hello Voices Listeners! On this edition, we feature Channing Martinez and Barbara Lott-Holland on the MTA’s Anti-Blackness and the Bus Riders Union campaign for Black Liberation

We're joined in discussion with Scott Houldieson and Michael Cannon, master organizers with UAWD, Unite All Workers for Democracy, on their historic victory to win the direct election of national officers in the United Auto Workers. Please support their work at www.UAWD.org

Ernesto Arce and the South Central Third World News explores the city of Los Angeles' crime data and how law enforcement agencies are using it to push for more policing budgets. Plus, the ongoing tragedy of police brutality especially when it joins forces with its corporate partners as was put on display last week during a police killing of an elderly disabled man at a Walmart in Arizona. Also, hunger and starvation across Latin America and the Caribbean increases to catastrophic levels.

Also, we'll hear Nina Simone's rendition of “I wish that I knew how it would feel to be free”

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On this edition of Voices from the Frontlines, Eric Mann and Channing Martinez urge the MTA to “Stop Genocide Against Black Passengers". They say it's time for Voices listeners to get off the sidelines and join us on the Frontlines.

Support the Bus Riders Union motion to this Thursday’s MTA board by contacting Channing Martinez at [email protected]

We also have part two of a three-part discussion with Mark Masaoka, in conversation with Eric Mann. They share memories and analysis of the great work in the United Auto Workers by socialist and communists in the auto factories of Ford Pico Rivera, GM Southgate, and GM Van Nuys—Mark’s and UAW Local 645 in the fight against anti-Japanese chauvinism.

There are also segments with Ernesto Arce and the South Central Third World News, Vijay Prashad on the hypocrisy of US climate criminals passing the buck to China and India.

We'll hear the Great Horace Silver playing “Song for My Father” and a bit of background on the bop classic.

Also, Channing Martinez joins us to invite listeners this weekend to Strategy and Soul located at 3546 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, just around the corner from the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza.

Welcome to Voices from the Frontlines, your national movement building show. We’ll begin with Victor Wallis, a long-time comrade who is doing a zoom exhibition of his mother’s painting—The Art of Diane Esmond—An appreciation by her son, to be video cast this Friday, November 26 at 11 AM PST. Please go to the Marxist Education Project Website and scroll to November 26 to register.

Then we’ll hear from Ernesto Arce and his dynamic South Central/Third World News as he discusses the commutation of the death penalty of Julius Jones and now the fight for his release for a murder he did not commit at the same time as Kyle Rittenhouse was release even before his trial for murders he did commit!

Then Eric will have a moving conversation with Mark Masaoka, one of the long-time leaders in the Japanese American community and United Auto Workers as we discuss his formative years and how we joined paths as auto workers and members of the League of Revolutionary Struggle. Part II of this III part conversation will play on subsequent shows.

Then, we’ll go out with Aguanile, the amazing, hypnotic, Afro-Cuban, Guaguanco, Santeria, orisha embodied by the Fania legend Hector Lavoe

We hope you enjoy our efforts and more complex, more time-consuming to produce, programming.. Please send us appreciations and comments at [email protected] and go on our site, Voicesfromthefrontlines.com to register so we know who you are and you can get our weekly mailings on the day of the show and later with the link to the podcast. Thanks to Ernesto Arce and Channing Martinez for production and publicity.

The United States is by far the most irresponsible nation regarding its primary contribution to climate change which is making life on planet Earth almost unbearable for most nations, including the US, but particularly nations in the global south - which, for hundreds of years now, continuously suffer social and economic infiltration, resource extraction, exploitation, sheer savagery, and genocide by the US!

In this episode Eric and Meena dig deeper into the conversation regarding the US and its creation and fueling of climate change coupled with the US's audacious refusal to acknowledge its central role in climate change.

Meena provides very compelling data and global perspectives on this administration and other major players in the theatrics of climate talks, whose results are nothing more than backdoor coal-mining deals and other mineral-extraction contracts at the end of corporate/political handshakes.

In addition to Eric and Meena's conversation, Ernesto Arce provides the Voices from the Frontlines South Central/Third World News update.

We are VERY excited to have him on the team!

Tune in, welcome Ernesto, share your thoughts with us, and join the movement!

This week on Voices from the Frontlines... THE TRIO IS BACK; Alan Minsky, Channing Martinez, and Eric Mann speak with Meena Roman from the Third-World Network, about moving forward the Black Nationalist, Third-World Alliance movement. The white-settler state that is the United States that has raped, pillaged, and created what they now call the "third-world" is afraid of being called the genocidal white-settler state that it is. Malcolm X began shifting the base of his leadership position from the Nation of Islam to one that was rooted in Black Nationalism. He understood that religion, at the base of his leadership, couldn't unify the Black nation in the United States, but a Black Nationalist platform could unify the Black Nation.

The Pacifica Radio Archives is a massive collection of audio content from voices like Malcolm X, the last recording of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, James Baldwin, W.E.B. DeBois, Lorraine Hansberry, and thousands more.

During this episode we are also raising money for the Pacifica Radio Archives to preserve these voices and so many more, which are being obliterated by this white-settler state that under no circumstances wants to be called out for its atrocities and on-going oppression.

Call (800)735-0230 and donate $250 to the Pacifica Radio Archives and get the Encyclopedia of Sound; 1600 hours of audio content from the most powerful voices in the world. The archives is working to digitize the ONLY recordings of these historic and massively powerful voices.

DIRECT FROM GLASGOW AND THE COP 26 CLIMATE CONFERENCE, THIRD WORLD NETWORK LEADER MEENA RAMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH ERIC MANN, LEADER IN UNITED NATIONS NGO STRUGGLE SINCE THE 2001 WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM.

Spoiler alert: The United States and the European Union and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are lying, cheating, and stealing, as they make false promises about dramatically reducing CO2 emissions and worse, oppose any climate reparations, or payment for climate “loss and damages” or taking responsibility for the West’s creation of the climate catastrophe.

Meena Ramen of the Third World Network provides the most incisive and thoughtful assessment of COP 26 from the point of view of The Third World and The Global South. Eric's conversation on Voices today is produced by Ernesto Arce, the Strategy Center and Voices from the Frontlines' new producer and news director. He will also be doing his own 5 minute Voices South Central/Third World News on the podcast.

Photo from COP26 courtesy of AKGUL/AFP

NEW AND EXCITING DEVELOPMENTS!!! Are you with us??? The primary conversation will be about Judas and the Black Messiah, and the very complex relationships that existed in the Black movement between women and men.

The Strategy Center has formed the Strategy and Soul Thursday Night Revolutionary Organizers Film and Book Club. Also, the newest addition to the Strategy Center and Voices From the Frontlines is a feature with KPFK’s former News Director, now The Strategy Centers News Director, Ernesto Arce, called South Central/Third World News.

In addition we hear from Barbara Lott Holland and clips from the film Judas and the Black Messiah.

KPFK is also in their winter fund drive. Donate to Voices from the Frontlines and other amazing independent and revolutionary voices on KPFK by calling (818) 985-5735.

Nathan Thanki @n_thanki of Demand Climate Justice @gcdcj talks about the COP 26 in Glasgow 10/31-11/12. The people of the third world will be fighting to improve climate change. The US and the EU will be working to maintain capitalist, imperialist climate change.

We hear a clip of a call that Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Barbara Lott holland had with Nathan Thanki regarding the Green Climate Fund.

Eric Mann - “The first thing is that we are asking the governments of the World, as he is, that they have these intended goals and these intended goals must be mandatory, secondly there must be loss and damages paid to the third world, third is, the climate is moving towards 3% let along 1.5%. The strictest enforcement has to be begun with the United States and there has to be penalties for non-compliance, and it all hinges on giving the third world power at the United Nations, and that’s what Demand Climate Justice is all about.” @EricMannSpeaks

We also hear a report from Channing Martinez and the Bus Riders Union @BusRidersUnion on the racism on the Metro and the LAUSD.

The Strategy Center had a meeting with Metro CEO, Stephanie Wiggins @stephwiggins. The Strategy Center demands... @metrolosangeles

WE WANT:

- Free public Transportation

- No police on the buses and trains

- No enforcing of the fares and codes of conduct

We hear a song called Stimela, by Hugh Masekela @hmhf_za

@FightSoulCities