Voices From The Frontlines Eric Mann

This week on Voices Radio Eric and Channing speak with organizers from the USC Divest from Death Encampment.
Students at USC and many major universities set up encampments to call on their institution to divest all resources from helping Israel as they carry out Genocide against Palestinians.

The organizers speak about what they're doing, what they are learning, and ways that you can help.

This week on Voices from the Frontlines:
Eric Mann & Channing Martinez speak about the Police State on Metro buses and trains. As there have been highlighted incidents on Metro, the Operators union has moved to call for complete barricades and more police across the Metro system.
Eric and Channing speak about the Bus Riders Union campaign for urban reconstruction as a response to the hostile environment of the Metro buses and trains.

Eric Mann and others on Campus Organizing from 1968 to the Present.
Eric reads his recently published article in Counter Punch magazine: The Palestine Solidarity Movement is Making History: Thoughts from a 1968 Columbia University “Outside” Organizer.

A participant in the recent student uprisings fighting for Palestinian liberation responds to the article.

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 Bambara.

Join the Strategy and Soul bookstore on April 20-21 at the LA Times Festival of Books. Booth #241 in the purple section at the University of Southern California.

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 the inaugural Strategists.

Ron Kovic

Listen 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 directed by Ken Loach

Eric will also be reviewing, the great Ken Loach’s new, and last film The Old Oak a beautiful film of how a Syrian refugee woman and a British working class man fight, anti-immigrant sentiment and March forward together. The Old Oak is put together by a fantastic trio: Directed by Ken Loach written by Paul Laverty, produced by Rebecca O’Brien

There will be a sneak preview of the The Old Oak at the Strategy And Soul Theater on Thursday, April 11 and a theatrical opening at the Laemmle Royal on Friday, April 12 join us that Thursday night and go to the Royal as well