Join Eric Mann and Channing Martinez as they discuss the LA Times Festival of Books and the Strategy and Soul Bookstore's second time hosting a booth at the Festival. Eric and Channing name a fraction of the list of books that the Strategy and Soul bookstore will host. Eric reads from Black Jacobins by CLR James and The Black Woman by Toni Cade Bam…

Listen to a conversation with Ken Loach discussing the Old Oak, Sorry We missed you, and LAnd and Freedom. Together Eric Mann, Ken Loach, and Channing Martinez share deep appreciation for the film's ability to confront racism in Europe and beyond. The Strategy and Soul Theater will host a Sneak Preview of The Old Oak on April 11th 2024 at 6pm…

This week Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Monilade Walker are in conversation with Erin Aubry Kaplan. Erin speaks about her experience with race in politics from the US South to South LA. Erin speaks about her father, Larry Aubry, her husband Alan Kaplan, and her own recent experience with discrimination in LA. The show ends with performance of t…

Ron KovicListen to a conversation with Ron Kovic discussing his new book, a dangerous country and American elegy with Eric Mann, two veterans of the anti-war movement discuss the big lie of the US war machine, the role of taking personal responsibility inside oppressive systems, personal forgiveness, and the will to move forward.The Old Oak directe…

This week on Voices from the Frontlines, we continue with Part 2 of Eric Mann and Channing Martinez in conversation with Marcy Winograd on her article: How Nations could and Israeli Genocide. In the second segment we listen to Songs Around the World version of Stand By Me. In the final segment of the show: We listen to excerpts from the panel at th…

Segment 1: AmericonnedEric Mann & Channing Martinez in conversation with Chris Smalls, President of the Amazon Labor Union and their long-distance struggle to bring unionism and self-respect to Amazon Workers.Sean Claffey, film-maker, on his important film, Americonned, about the disintegration of U.S. capitalism, the brutal impoverishment of the p…

This week on Voices Radio Channing and Eric speak about the status of the Black Student Achievement Program. Channing speaks about challenge to implement Community based safety initiative. Channing speaks about organizing at Hawkins High School.For our music segment we listen to to Hector Lavoe's El Cantantein our final segment, Eric unpacks the co…

Eric reads through the key points in his article: The Palestinian Resistance is winning, published in counterpunch. Eric concludes: The Israeli plan to annihilate the Palestinian people is as terrifying but it is strategic.The term genocide is being used rhetorically, assuming it only means mass murder.The plan for the mass murder of the Palestinia…

This Week on Voices from the Frontlines, we're joined in conversation with Jeff Cohen, Co-founder of Roots Action and FAIR; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Jeff speaks about the creation of Fair and the impacts that media have on today's movement including the New York Times black ball of Palestine protests. Eric and Jeff speak about Presidenti…

This week on Voices from the Frontlines: 1) a recap of the KPFK fundraiser at the Culver Palms United Methodist Church, in which Eric Mann speaks about the fight for liberation from Palestine to South LA and the need for the peace movement to be in solidarity Black and Latinx led movements in South Central LA. 2) Eric Mann and Akunna Uka speak abou…

This week on Voices Radio we're joined by Pastor Kelvin Sauls from Clergy for Black Lives. Together Eric and Kelvin speak about South Africa's case against Israeli Genocide against Palestine and Pastor Sauls' recent article in the LA Sentinel: Moral Might Over Military Might: Pathways to A Just-Peace in Palestine2) The Voices Sing along is back wit…

This week on Voices Radio Eric speaks about and reads from the 2024 introduction to Eric Mann's Article: Dr. Martin Luther King is Marching with the People of Palestine published in counterpunch magazine.Eric and Channing read from South Africa's case to the International Court of Justice against Israel. South African charges Israel with violation …

Listen carefully as Eric Mann eviscerates Benjamin Netanyahu’s “Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem” in his Wall Street Journal Opinion Piece Three Prerequisites for Peace “Destroy Hamas, Demilitarize Gaza and Deradicalize the whole of Palestinian society"Eric Mann Proposes Support the Movement to Try Israel and Netanyahu for genocide against…

This week on Voices from the Frontlines Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Barbara Lott Holland speak about Ciclavia South LA, the Strategy and Soul pitstop along the route, and the realities of riding a bike as a Black and Latinx person in a police state. In February the Strategy Center will work with 7 other organizations to launch the South Centr…

This week on #VoicesRadio Join Eric Mann and Channing Martinez in conversation on Palestine, the role of 3rd party Presidential candidates, and the Strategy and Soul Bookstore. On Saturday November 11th the Strategy and Soul Bookstore will return to the Leimert Park Village Book Fair for its 16th Annual festival at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza.…

This week on voices; we begin the conversation with Channing on his new article: Taste of Soul: Locked out of our own Black community; thoughts from a Black organizer. Channing speaks about the political implications of having a fence placed on front of Strategy and Soul during one of the largest annual events in South Central Los Angeles. In the s…

This Week Eric Mann hosts part two of a conversation with Michel Shehadeh from the Free Democratic Palestine Movement. Eric speaks about the frame of defending Palestine's right of self determination in the face of genocidal conditions placed upon them by Israel. Michel speaks about the context of more than 5 years of genocide against Palestine by …

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 d…

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 hi…

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 retu…

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-JamalIn this excerpt Mumia and I discuss the concept of Menticide—wiping out a people’s historical memory in order to disempower …

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 Katrin…

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 Stat…

Tuesday August 1st, 2023 | 8 AM PST LIVE IN STUDIOwith Eric Mann, Channing Martinez, and Akunna Uka onOppenheimer—How U.S. built the Atom Bomb to terrorize the worldby Eric MannHello 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 comme…

OPPENHEIMER: Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy have made one of the most important revolutionary films of our timeThe 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 crusadeEric Mann’s reads a draft of …

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 a…

Voices from the FrontlinesTuesday 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 RobesonMatt 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 int…

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 ProgramJames Earl Jones recites What to the Slave is the 4th of July by Frederick Douglas.Por Eric Mann

VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINES: FREATURESKEITH LAMARVISIONARY, BLACK LIBERATION FIGHTER, WRONGFULLY CONVICTED, ON DEATH ROWEpisode 3In Conversation with Eric MannTuesday June 20, 2023 | 8 AM PSTFor prison reform and abolition organizersFor Black Liberation organizersFor human rights organizers"...Mass incarceration is just a reincarnation of chattel sl…

On This Week's ShowVoices Presents: A rebroadcast of: Paul RobesonAired Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | 8am PST on KPFK Pacifica 90.7fm ON TODAY'S SHOWwe'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 …

THE U.S. AS A DYING DEMOCRACYAired Tuesday June 06, 2023 | Time on KPFK Pacifica 90.7fmPlease listen to this great podcast featuringEric Mann as host and CommentatorHear 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- a…

Eric Mann commentary—The Great Biden/Democratic Sell-Out on the Debt Ceiling NegotiationsReading 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 Demo…

VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINESYour National Movement Building Show“Wake up and smell the revolution”Tuesday May 9, 2023 | 8 AM PSTA Conversation with KikanzaKikanza Ramsey Our Bright Shining Star Is fighting for her life and needs our supportKikanza Ramsey is one of the founders of the Strategy Center, great lead organizer of the Bus Riders Union, and …

VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINESYour National Movement Building Show“Wake up and smell the revolution”Tuesday April 11, 2023 | 8 AM PSTOn todays show Voices from the FrontlinespresentIn Conversation withKamau Franklinfounder ofCommunity Movement Builders, IncKamau Franklin is an activist, grassroots organizer and podcast journalistChanning Martinez and J…

VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINESYour National Movement Building Show“Wake up and smell the revolution”Tuesday April 04, 2023 | 8 AM PSTOn todays show Voices from the FrontlinespresentBarbara Lott-HollandonThe Bus Riders Union FilmAndLife as a Consciousness Raising ExperienceRecruited on the bus in 1998, Barbara has been a cornerstone of the organization …

VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINESYour National Movement Building Show“Wake up and smell the revolution”Tuesday March 28, 2023 | 8 AM PSTOn todays show Voices from the FrontlinespresentMOTHERLANDBY: Vic GeramiAn Armenian-American Journalist, Documentarian, LGBT activist, Columnist, Publisher, and OrganizerEric Mann and discuses with Vic Gerami the Powerful…

Voices from the Frontlinespresents The Eight Contradictions of the U.S. Imposed World OrderBY: 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…

VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINESYour National Movement Building Show“Wake up and smell the revolution”Tuesday March 14, 2023 | 8 AM PSTOn todays show Voices from the Frontlines present a conversation withDavid MonkawaVeteran Asian/Pacific Islander revolutionary organizerEric and David discuss the multiracial solidarity event hosted at Strategy and Soul C…

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 Rev…

KEITH LAMARBlack liberation fighter, visionary, writer and death row prisonerAuthor 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 MannPolitical prisoner 1970-1971 Concord State PrisonAuthor Comrade George:An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassinati…

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: U…

On today's ShowAYUKO BABUDirector of the Pan African Film FestivalIn Conversation with Eric Mann Discusses the FilmsFighting for Respect: African American Soldiers in World War IIAfrica, Cradle of Humankind and Modern CivilizationsSoleil O-by Med HondoThe Five Demands—the 1969 Black and Puerto Rican Student Strike for Open Admissions at City Colleg…

Voices from the Frontline features: KEITH LAMARVisionary, Black Liberation Fighter, wrongfully convicted, on death row In Conversation with Eric MannKeith 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 …

Voices from the Frontlines: KEITH LAMAR In Conversation with Eric MannKeith 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 PSTFor prison reform and abol…

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 LAUSDEric Mann: Fire Tom ThibodeauThis week on Voices Podcast Eric speaks with Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early about t…

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 voluntee…

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.Por Eric Mann

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 …

We Are Back!The New Voices from the Frontlines—Wake Up and Smell the RevolutionEvery 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 th…

Channing Martinez in Conversation with Amber-Rose Howard on Closing 10 prisonsEric Mann on Defending Women's Right to Live; the conversation on Abortion RightsAired Tuesday May 10th @3pm pst. on KPFK Pacifica 90.7fmToday on Voices Radio Channing is in conversation with Amber-Rose, Executive Director of CURB CA (Californians United for a Responsible…