Voices From the Front Lines - A Conversation on Movement Strategy

Support CMB - Community Open House [View this email in your browser]( [Support CMB's work! Donate now or become a sustainer for $10 a month.]( [Join Kamau Franklin, Channing Martinez, and Eric Mann in a great conversation about Black Liberation, Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Third World anti-imperialist movement strategy.]( As you know, Voices from the Frontlines is called “your national movement-building show” and Kamau’s organization is called Community Movement Builders—obviously we share a strong common perspective. The Strategy Center’s new National Leadership School for Strategic Organizing will eventually have many different programs but we begin with high-level conversations and relationships with the leading anti-imperialist organizers in the field. (See our [The Genius of Walter Rodney: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa for Organizers program on Haymarket Books Youtube channel.]( The conversation goes all over the world back and forth through history. But the unique attraction of this conversation is all three are very successful organizers in the Atlanta and South Central L.A. communities. Kamau Franklin, is an organizer with Community Movement Builders in the Pittsburgh area of Atlanta’s Black community. Channing Martinez speaks about the growing attacks on the social structure of the Black community especially Black bus and train riders suffering 50% of all tickets and arrests, so police occupation and brutality reinforce massive poverty and an epidemic of houselessness. Eric Mann, a veteran of the Congress of Racial Equality, is the author of Playbook for Progressives: The 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer. All three discuss a common view, building social movements independent and to the left of the Democratic Party—exciting ideas of building real revolutionary movements in the real world. Eric Mann’s commentary on The U.S. NATO Russia, and Ukraine. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is an attack on their sovereignty, sadly in the ugly traditions of the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Russia must withdraw all troops from its invasion of Ukraine. NATO should disband—it is a U.S.-dominated cabal of colonialists, NATO should cease its encirclement, attacks and provocations against Russia. NATO should pay reparations to the nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America where they continue to carry out genocide and colonialism. [Who Are We - Community Movement Builders]( We are an independent national formation. We don't expect the entities that have caused our problems to fix them, instead, with your investment we will create our own solutions and model them for our larger community. - [Anti Gentrification Campaign]( - [Liberation Programs]( - [Food Sustainability]( - [Pan African Solidarity Network]( - [Community Stabilization Fund]( [Remember Your Donations Go to Support Self-Determining Work]( [Support CMB's work! Donate now, or become a sustainer for $10 a month.]( [Support CMB's work! Donate now, or become a sustainer for $10 a month.]( [Visit us on Facebook!]( [Visit our website!](www.communitymovementbuilders.org) [Email us!](mailto:communitymovementbuilders@gmail.co) [Instagram]( Copyright © 2019 Community Movement Builders, Inc., All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](