So Hey everybody welcome to show called Voices from the front lines we come out of l.a. But this is a national broadcast on behalf of the Pacifica Radio Archives and with Mark Torres is going to tell us more about the program or about the gifts you've done this before you know we have to raise money for those and I think what's going to be great about it is you're going to get something great for it and you're going to help the archives Mark I know you've been seriously I know you've been up since 4 in the morning and tell us to give us the overview of what the program is like today and then we're going to do the clips and we're going to ask you to contribute $200.00 Ok 1st of all we're very happy to have you as host once again on our national broadcast for the Pacifica Radio Archives it's our 16th annual voices that change the world national broadcast we're on all 5 Pacifica stations throughout the network here in Los Angeles in San Francisco Bay area of Berkeley and New York in Washington d.c. In Houston Texas and on this day on one day out of the year the stations unite to put this programming on the air to bring to the listeners the valuable collection of the Pacifica radio archives going back to 1949 we have over 60000 recordings 40050000 of them which still need to be digitized we have 15000 that are digitized and of that 15000 and Eric we have. Great offerings from that 15000 to offer to our listeners today as a showing of our appreciation of the work that we do and and the effectiveness of when they donate what we can do with that money for a $200.00 donation people can get. A jump drive that has over 1300 hours of amazing recordings going back to the 1949 that's the voices that changed the world u.s.b. Jump drive and then new for this year we digitized a 1000 programs this last year and that jump drive is called the. Public radio and fall edgy Pacifica's Public Radio and follow g. And that has over a 1000 hours of material that we just digitized over this last year so when people get to the phones at area code 807-350-2304 every $200.00 donation you'll get 2 of these jump drives you can pick one of each of those gifts I just mentioned or 2 of the same one they make great gifts especially for the holidays and it's really the gift of knowledge Erick in a time where facts and truth and history and perspective is undervalued in fact it's it's demonized told us the number again because I have some thoughts because those 808-073-5023 extension 0 is the number and here's the thing Eric we had a one of our really nice large donors say during Eric man's hour I am going to do a matching fund of a $1000.00 so if we get 5 people donating at the $200.00 level in this hour your money goes twice as far so 180-735-0230 we're going to play some of the incredible voices that are contained on this jump drive which include people like unique recordings of Malcolm x. James Baldwin Cornell West Paul Robeson Dr Martin Luther King Jr Reverend Ralph Abernathy. It just goes on and on Rosa Parks' Fannie Lou Hamer Angela Davis Maya Angelou Gwendolyn Brooks Ameri Baracoa I can do this a 1000 times every name that I say book just blows people away Bob Dylan Leonard Cohen Jimi Hendrix this is Eric man and you're on voices from the front lines and more importantly on the national 807350230 mark you know I love doing this every year because. I have a sense of history I just finished an article I'd like people to check out it's called on the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution a breakthrough an anti-imperialist socialism was published in both counterpunch and other very wonderful magazine called Greenville g.r. E.j. And vi EEG Post dot com They they put in all these beautiful pictures and I said that there in the late 160 s. We had a sense of history so we discussed. We were in 1964 but we discussed Marcus Garvey we discussed to some overture of the Haitian revolution of 7094 and 6 we studied Frederick Douglass we studied the on the ground we study Chinese history Russian history. This present generation does not and it's very even its most radical it's not situating itself as a group inside of broader historical trends so for those of you who do know who I am I was you know more importantly who I am is I was a Congress I was a field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality So I worked for Corps so in corps I met James Farmer who was the head of corps I met Dave Dennis one of the great civil rights leaders in the South who were just as life along with each one of good and Cheney I met still. We all met Stokes Coakley didn't remember me but we met you know but I've met not unlike John Lewis not remembering Bernie Sanders Yeah no please no analogies with party standards that my life please but the point is I did meet Fannie Lou Hamer I spent hours with her as she explained to me that organizing so when we go over this they say Kathleen Cleaver I was that Kathleen cleavers house 5 years ago in Atlanta I know we're pretty well a married Baracoa I know him I knew him we were in the same communist organization together so all these people Howard Zinn was a very good friend of mine when I was a s.d.s. Organizer at Boston University so as we tell each each talk these are real people that I knew either personally or heard that talk so Kiana why don't we start with I believe we're going to do Kathleen Cleaver 1st is that yeah why don't we start with Kathleen Cleaver and then I'll give you some background but here's the point folks 180-735-0230 the point of this is to send then 2 $100.00 on a credit card so you can get the 2 jump drives the voices that change the world and public radio anthology for $200.00 or 2 copies one of which you keep via cell phone one of which you give to an institution so let's start with Kathleen Cleaver and thank you when I was discharged from the army from the Air Force I got a letter from General Marshall he was a general of generals he was sending a letter not a personal letter to me. But. A day or how he now. Let it it was said to 16000000 men who had served in the armed forces some women to . And the letter was something like this. We won the war. Congratulations for your service it will be a new world. It wasn't a new world and we know it hasn't been a new world since World War 2 war after war after war after war and 50000000 people were dead in that War To End All Wars fan fascism dictatorship and militarism oh so yes I came to conclusions that war cannot be tolerated no why don't no matter what we're told and if we think that there are good wars and it therefore meant well maybe this is a good war I wanted to examine the so-called lived wars the holy wars and. Yeah and take a good look at them and think again about the phenomenon of war and come to the inclusion we have war cannot be tolerated no matter what we're told no matter what tyrant exists what border has been crossed what aggression has taken place it's not that we go to Iraq we're going to be passive in the face of charity or or aggression no will find ways other than war to deal with whatever problems we have that war is inevitably in evitable the industry minute massive killing of huge numbers of people. And children are a good part of those people every war is a war against children. So it's not just getting rid of. Saddam and saving think about well we got rid of Saddam Hussein and of course of all he killed huge numbers of people who had been victims of Saddam Hussein when you fight a war against a tyrant who did kill you kill the victims of the tyrant. Anyway all this. Well this was simply to make us think again. About war and to think you know we will we are at war now. Right in Iraq in Afghanistan and sort of in Pakistan since we're sending rockets over there and killing innocent people in Pakistan. And us. So we should not accept that. We should look for and look for a peace movement to join really look for some peace organization a joint. And it will look small at 1st and pitiful and helpless but that's how movements start that's how the movement against Vietnam was started started with handfuls of people who thought they were helpless thought they were powerless but remember this the power of the people on top of the pens on the obedience of the people below when people stop obeying they have no power when workers go on strike huge corporations lose their power when consumers boycott huge business establishment have to give and when soldiers refused to fight as so many soldiers did in Vietnam so many deserts so many fragging actually so violent spy and listed many against office was in Vietnam. B. 52 pilots refusing to fly bombing missions anymore. Were can't go on. With enough soldiers refuse the government. Has to decide we can't continue. So yes. People have the power if they be into organized if they protest if you create a strong enough movement they can change things. That's all I want to say thank you. So the voice you can hear now this is Eric Mann the host of voices from frontlines in l.a. On a national broadcast with Mark Torres who's the head of the Pacific car radio archives and. That was a loan just how would stand I have thoughts on this which all tainted but 18073502301807350230 We need you if you just take that Howard Zinn clip which I talk about and you get a 101300 hours on that you get a 1000 hours on a public radio anthology but we need you to call in now i'm just say a few things about Howard then I'll turn over to you Mark is Ok so how is a very charming guy you know very handsome and I manifest when I was in Boston University I was an organizer for s.d.s. Students for democratic society he was a very well known professor he had been at. Spelman College in Atlanta where he taught mainly black women he was with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee so I came in and introduced myself that I was an organizer for s.d.s. I had been with corps I'd been with and cop we hit it off right away and he was a Boston University has I want to develop this anti military campaign where we're going to try to get rid of our o.t.c. Our also going to try to get rid of the Boston University overseas program now how it had been in the overseas programs because he was sent by be you to sort of talk to soldiers like in Germany and he thought that was a good thing he wanted to be able to do and I said How would you can't because it's legitimizing Boston University to send you a broad to talk to soldiers when we want to get these soldiers out of Germany we don't want to have u.s. Bases so yes Erik man debating or one of the great pass of those leaders and how I thought about it. And he said. All right good point good point then he would invite me to his class and there would be 500 students there and he said I wanted to do so Eric he's an organized best vs today subject this called us out of Vietnam bring the troops home and that was the name of the lecture I would get up and talk to people about ending the war get Naam how they could get involved in taking over the university and obviously because Howard was willing to let his class be used that way this guy named Silver who was a real right wing he became the president of Boston University he moved against Howard made his life obscene miserable and at a certain point how we did retire almost the forest he was driven out the good so don't think I don't think every person you're hearing here has suffered repression this is not a free country you don't have freedom of speech you don't have a 1st Amendment you think you do and so you try to exercise it and there's consequences for it so that's why Free Speech Radio is so important because the day free we need your money to keep free speech radio going and we need the archives to have a sense of history that we can bring to you to grab your own engines and to give to your friends so for 200 dollars 180-735-0230 I'm serious bake the contribution and Howard Zinn's name or Eric man's name or fan who had his name but do something to get this jump drive and Mark tell us more about it and well. Last year we entered is the voices that change the world us speech I'm Dr this contains 1350 hours of hand curated materials that we felt in the archives with some of the best of our materials new for this year we have the Pacifica's Public Radio anthology Volume one when we digitize the next 1000 hours in our collection now we're just going through the entire collection. Digitized recordings and in Volume one we offered the 1000 reals that we digitized in this last year when you donate money to us like this $200.00 donation that money goes for us to do our work 187350230 our work includes using our 2 Swiss made industry standard Studer reel to reel machines that are the most delicate these machines are are made to work with delicate tape that is old it's the industry standard and they're very expensive to both own and to repair and to do regular maintenance but when they're working fine ours are purring along right now I'm not going to and would just in case. We've been able to digitize a 1000 more recordings and that's what this volume one is so people like Howard Zinn who in 1904 gave this speech the good war and when you listen to what Howard Zinn says in the entirety of the speech you know as a bombardier in World War 2 thread he was thinking well we did that and we'll never have to do this again and for him you know to have a life time more of wars before he came to this speech where he said you know people are. Countries are getting us into wars for reasons they are conning us to support their efforts by saying there are good reasons to get into a war but at the end of the day there is only money to be made and if there was no money to be made we wouldn't go to war but the military industrial complex has billions and trillions to earn and we as the citizens who have been sold this package by the best and. Man on Wall Street or on whatever street it is in New York are giving them our youth our kids our brothers and our sisters to give their lives for this effort of making certain men very wealthy now Mark asked me to come in today so you can't make me look bad he said I mean he said look at your very good at this now from all my friends out there who are with Students for a democratic society just you because you know there was 250000 of us that are people most many of us to still alive I'm happy to say but any of you who work with the Congress of Racial Equality 180-735-0230 if you work with Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 180-735-0230 extension 4200 dollars if you work with the Black Panther party with whom I work the specially in Boston a guy named Doug Miranda 18750230 give $200.00 and author of The Black Panther Party if you've worked with the League of revolutionary black workers and in the Midwest 18750230 if you respected the work of Stokely Carmichael and his he and Rick starting the concept verbal e of black power 180-735-0230 can I want to play the next clip whatever it is and you would not have to tell you only one of those surprises name that surprise a person and we'll see who it is I really don't like. Exotic August. All integrity. Courage all of Bill and see. I have a kind of distrust of all those words because I don't really know. What those words me. Anymore than I really know what such words as democracy or peace or peace loving. Or war like. Or integration me. And yet. Once compelled to recognize. That all these imprecise words a kind of. Attempts. Made by its own. To get to something which is real and which lives behind the words whether I like it or not for example and matter what I call myself. I suppose the only word for me when the chips are down. Is that I am an artist there is such a thing. There is such a thing as integrity. Some people are noble. There is such a thing as courage. The terrible thing. Is that. All of these words are reality behind these words depend ultimately. On what the human being meaning every single one of us believed to be real. The terrible thing is that all these words the reality behind them. Depend on choices one has got to make for ever and ever and ever. Every day I am not interested really in talking to you as not it just. Seems to me that the. Artist struggle. For his integrity. Is a kind of metaphor. Must be considered as a metaphor for the struggle which is universal and daily of all human beings on the face of this paradigm. To get to become human beings. Because of Joe fault it is not my fault that I write I would never come before you in the position I will complain and for doing something that I must do. What we might get at this evening if we are lucky the mike doesn't fail my voice holds out if you ask me questions. Is what the importance of this effort is. It would seem to me. That I have Allen and this may sound I want to suggest 2 propositions. The 1st one is. That the poets which I mean all artist. Are Finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don't statesmen don't priests don't union leaders don't. Only the poets That's my 1st proposition. We know about the Oedipus complex not because of pro-choice. But because a poet lived in Greece. Houses of years ago. And what he said then about what it was like to be alive. Is still true. It's by the fact now they can get to Greece in something like 5 hours and then it would have taken I don't know how long the time. The 2nd problem. Is but I really want to get out tonight he sounds mystical I think in a country like I was not a time like this. But something awful is happening to a civilization. What is this to produce poets and what is even more crucial what is sees his Anyway I would have to believe and the poet the only poets can make. Well this thought was James Baldwin and. I knew agree with what he said at all but I'm going to listen to more of a number of times and but that's why you listen to stuff it's not gospel it's people with strong opinions you listen to them his voice is amazing he is James Baldwin he knows a few things more than I do I'll come back to that in a minute but that's why you got a call 180-735-0230 extension 02 listen to him talk about the role of poets mark and then I'm going to come back to myself Ok James Baldwin was one of the 1st voices when I started at the Pacifica Radio Archives as a producer in 1990 than a really embraced I wanted to hear everything and I needed to hear it multiple times because he has a cadence and a perspective that was very unique and I had to do a little more research to find what role he actually played in the civil rights movement and it was a very important one because as an artist. With I thought an elevated understanding of what was going on he was able to. To move in every circle there was he was friends with Dr Martin Luther King Jr He was friends with Malcolm x. Who really had different perspectives at that time he could be friends with the Black Panther Party he could be friends with core he could be friends with Nick he could be friends with anybody and oftentimes he was the moderator between x. And a lieutenant of a Dr Martin Luther King Jr on Pacifica's airwaves and so. I think as that unique you know voice I think his role as an artist allowed him to permeate through the very different approaches of having how to deal with this one problem one central problem which is blacks were treated as. Second class citizens in a country that they never wanted to be in in the 1st place they were brought over laves against their will and forced into a horrible situation so. So so for me James Baldwin had had that unique perspective and. You know I haven't seen that film about him but I really want to go check that out but I've heard so much of his audio in our collection you know 2030 hours of James Baldwin which is on are always things that change the world jump drive so this and somebody said that they would match with $1000.00 I ever wrote a great story to tell you about James Baldwin's meeting with Bobby Kennedy but I can't tell if all those you call 180735 get it right is all the oh that's good 5 cause you go yeah we're going to check we're going to check on that new check of the markets own that we're going to get we need 5 calls in this next segment folks 187350230 is the number if you want to take away the voices that changed the world u.s.b. Jump drive that's 1300 hours. Materials like what you're hearing right now Howard Zinn James Baldwin and Mary Baraka Stokely Carmichael Healy Newton and so many others if you'd like to get the Pacifica's Public Radio anthology Volume one it's a $200.00 donation and you'll get 2 of those jump drives which is the most recent 1000 hours of our historic collection that we digitized last year so I'm going to give you some history at 180-735-0230 I'm going to tell you about the James Baldwin Bobby Kennedy meeting but please call in with $200.00 so you can get the jump drive get both John drives voices of change the world the public radio Anthology 18750230 So here's a story Bobby Kennedy says probably about 1962 right before Kennedy's killed 63 so Bobby Kennedy beat James Baldwin or a cocktail party and. He says you know I think I want to get to know more negroes and that is self is a bizarre opening right that Baldwin coming right out of invisible man says I'm happy to set up a meeting with you so Baldwin brings in Harry Belafonte Clarence Jones who is a representative of Dr King lowering hands buried the great playwright Jerome Smith from corps who was in this Aciphex so they go ahead and Kennedy thing you know the Kennedys just think they're so damn charming so Kennedy Bobby Kennedy is going well let me tell you this about that and they're going we don't really care you should just be quiet and listen to us you know the so they stuck telling him what's going on and then Jerome Smith who apparently starters says that Joe Smith was with Corey one of the great civil rights organizers in the south he said let me tell you something black people are not going to fight in your wars and in fact if you give us guns we're going to fight against you and Lorraine Hansberry says to. Bobby Kennedy listen to what he says nobody else's voice in this room matters except for Jerome Smith because he's on the front lines so a Kennedy every time Kennedy tries to speak Baldwin interrupts of my hardball funny interrupting they said you have nothing to say just listen and then Clarence Jones and I want to go back and get the transcript he has 5 demands that he wants Kennedy to carry out to the ends of very important you know protection of voting rights organizers in the south. Passing of the Civil Rights Bill cetera et cetera et cetera calling off planned terror Kennedy is shaken to the core he thought he wanted to meet some of the growth but just like an invisible man as they say Invisible Man he thought he wanted to meet heroes he didn't really want to meet those negro those black people so Kennedy is both shaken by this and goes to John Kennedy is that as we better do something about civil rights because now the blacks are saying they won't fight in all wars so this is the connection between how words and speech to this that not because the Kennedys cared about black people but when Jerome Smith that we're not going to go fight you was in fact if you give us a gun when you use that against the Klan but the other thing he did of this is support to listen he put them on an f.b.i. List Yami Bobby Kennedy. I did further investigation of King and his communist ties so basically what we've learned about the system it's ruthless The Kennedys were not good people the Kennedys were big imperialists and James Baldwin. Delivered that famous meeting go on with a pedia it's I almost know it by heart and every time I read it it's just one of those mind blowing events so here's the point 180735023 you know I told you I'm going to tell you this story I want to give us $2000.00 at least $200.00 for the 2 job drives Ok 180-735-0230 extension 1 this key welcome into the studio along with. Marc Torres was the one of the leaders of the actual Pacific archives and this is Eric man a veteran of s.t.s. Chorus the leader revolution I struggle Presently I'm director of the labor community strategy said I hate Alan what's happening here you know and that was an amazing story and it's again what we have here with the Pacifica Radio Archives is not only just incredible just phenomenal material that you can find nowhere else we also have again of people like Eric man in the present who can textual eyes this as things were happening in that moment and the archives is exceptional and you'll find us in this collection the way they bring in people to comment on the material and you don't hear this kind of commentary anywhere else no other place in American media that collects this material and then provides this kind of commentary and insight about it so support the archives 807350230 as Eric said again at any point you get this material let's say you find something that's phenomenal you don't understand historical contractual ation zation I know Mark has a lot in his hands but people do call up and they talk to Sean the front desk and Sean will come downstairs and he'll ask me and I'll say you know knows a lot about that that's Erik man next time I see Eric wasn't a question I'll go back to Shawn and the answer will come to you so this is this is a great service. People are supporting and is of course part of the Pacifica Radio family but there's nothing like it these archives are absolute jewels there are jewels they need to be protected for all of us for future generations 807350230 if we can't wait to digitize the next 1000 tapes this next year the donations that you make today allow us to do and continue our work preserving transferring digitizing archiving getting the metadata straight so that we can put these once these tapes are transferred and they live on a digital medium we can send them to universities around the world so that it's not in one place right now it's it's critical that we get these these recordings digitized and spread out into the universe and I have a proposal for folks I think a lot of you know me I've spent my virtue my whole life in the black community and also working in Latino communities I spent 10 years as an assembly line worker at g.m. Van Nuys plant so I sort of put my money where my mouth is you could say I've been in prison for year and a half I've been in solitary confinement for 2 days so you know you sort of become a revolutionary in this sort of comes along with the program so we listen to these revolutionary these are the people who got me in trouble is the people who told me you've got to put your body on the line and I was very glad I did and still go out but here's the point they closed down virtually the whole school system in the war ones after Katrina they privatized all these schools right now these charter schools are not teaching kids about Malcolm x. And Howard Zinn's passivism and. Kathleen Cleaver and Angela Davis on feminism Come on you not getting that So here's what you can do I think the salt of the earth out there all public health nurses I was also one person as a public school teachers teacher's aides let's get these tapes these jump drives in the hands of teachers and say I give you a gift the holidays are coming up think about any public school teacher you know any person working in a community organization and black Latino digit as low income white neighborhoods as say I got something for you I have a 1000 hours of history that you can bring to your students and I want to give it to you as a gift so you get the gift which helps the archives in return you get to gifts and keep one fee a south and really think about it is to to should to which you want to give because they are guiding public education they're driving out radical teachers from the university to the public scuttles there is hiring radical teachers even a radical 8th grade teacher is going to get fired or radical 12 great teachers getting fired so this is serious stuff and I think it gives you more understanding of why this could be a phenomenal between now and the holidays you give $200.00 you get these 2 gifts to keep one feels self give something and really think about the significance of that gift 180-735-0230 in the studios is Eric man with Allen Minsky and with Marc Torres your regular show Eric there are people who are not here in the Los Angeles area you know my radio shows on every Tuesday at 3 o'clock it's called Voices from the front lines you can you can stream it live wherever you are in the world on k p f k dot org We also have our own website called Voices from the front line thought com Chani Martinez is the both the producer of the show and runs the website well. Of amazing views you could download in the middle of the night if you want to do some of that we have a really cool site you can register for the site we just click on it w w w voices from the front lines dot com and we call it by the way you have a national movement building so there's nothing to me that exciting about Los Angeles outside of the world I mean it I mean I've been in the dark I organized in Detroit I've been in Philly they're all part of us and peerless of and I'm not interested in localism I'm not an ally person I'm an internationalist and that's why I love k p s k does is when I go and listen to Margaret Prescott in the morning and she's playing Paul Robson that's history folks I love history or Gerald Horne comes in and tells you that the American Revolution was really a counterrevolution that's history so 180-735-0230 this is Eric man you're on voices from the front lines national broadcast for their radio Pacifica archives and I just want to say one thing because you mentioned a few minutes ago when you're talking about 8th grade radical teachers we pushed out radical you know what is radical mean radical comes from again the Latin Latinate we're going to the root Right right and and so what is education if it doesn't go to the root Ok so they're going to create education both at the college university high school level middle school that doesn't allow for really deep understanding of the way the world operates will Pacifica Radio and the Pacifica Radio Archives believes in that and we are not institutions that are purging our radical voices we're looking to expand the radical dialogue in society and again the proposal that Eric makes is a tremendous way to expand that across the psyche by picking up for $200.00 pledge the voices that change the world collection 1350 hours was 60 days around there some of them have been that my division by 24 there and it is a phenomenal phenomenal collection with the so much of the best material from Pacifica Radio Archives. Get not one copy but 2 when the 2nd one gives the institution of your choice or just gift it to someone I'm going to go back to Mark by just a very funny start which is. When I said you know they're firing even 8th grade teachers it was totally subliminal I got fired and Newark New Jersey as a 8th grade teacher. In the in the past shine Avenue School I was teaching black children in the 8th grade this is a 2 story I brought in Stokely Carmichael I taught I toyed birth control one of my kids child I was shocked and saw was up on the board and I had a penis on one side of vagina on the other I was trying to do fallopian tubes and explaining sperms legs and this other teacher walked in and said What are you doing I said It's called Anatomy and Physiology she said no this is pornography and if they find me and then 500 people rallied around me in the back in the day 500 black people rallied to protect this teacher who believed in their own students so 18750230 in in support of Eric man who was fined 50 years ago I don't know when that was the good teachers or if I am a good teacher when I was in was fired that's right how it that's right how is it was fired a married Rock it was very Veronica was 5 he was the poet laureate until he wrote a bad poem they didn't like and 911 Paula 911 poem but listen one more thing is the serious you know because the fun drives can be fun sometimes I call fun drives to get myself psyched but. We're getting good programming here we're not just talking and we're going to we're going to play the next clip of that's Ok but but here's the point I'm Mary Brock who had to get fired as the poet laureate of New Jersey I would get fires and a great teacher how is it he didn't get fired they made his life so miserable they made him grade 500 papers that they took away all his. It would let him have any graduate assistance he was under constant attack and he just finally said Eric No not to me personally but among me I don't want to do this anymore I want to write plays he bore a play about Marks you know and so while I think so he was he was moving on so none of the people you're listening to from James Baldwin to Stokely Carmichael had their opinions for free every one of those people suffered because of their views but understood that that's of course you do that if you take on an unjust the society you don't just take of on they say all you know you you're cool so 18750230 we get close to $1500.00 we want to get $3000.00 so we broke the 1000 and we can match the 1000 but now let's get another 1000 at least in just 525 to hundreds So Mark tell us again about the premium and then can if you just play the next crop Ok well really quickly people please understand clearly that we only come to the listeners of the Pacifica network one day out of the year we used to do it more than that but now it's only one day so please take this seriously and if you value they have a rich history of Pacifica going back to 1949 with incredible recordings which we can learn about today I really feel that. There are people who have voted this administration and off as are at a level of ignorance that can only be countered with something like this collection where you get a perspective people who read and listen and find out what the struggles people have gone through before and how do we overcome them unfortunately like the civil rights movement in general and what Howard Zinn was talking about in the good war you think that you've you've fought this battle once and it's done but it's not a threat it's a constant struggle in our everyday lives and these voices help inspire us to stand up and to resist when was really that freedom. Struggle they say that freedom is a constant struggle they say that freedom is the constant struggle I've been struggling so long well I must be free. To be free. Got the ball and. Anything in the world yes why if you keep asking why you get why it's so that's a problem. Africa. Africa. Go back to lack see as. Touches. You know yourself Africa. Africa. My the ancient Beautiful Africa. The creator of the human being. Of Speech music. Dance Africa. Mighty ancient peoples of the world world world see is up. No yourself touches. Africa but when you put your hand on your sister. Meters late watch out Erika go school get you. When you put your hand on your brother made him a slave watch out Africa. Go school get your child goes. I give him a back. In the dark with women who are both of my ears I'll buy that allows save me save me save me save me save the how to get here my back in the dark with the wind the water blue under my is. A brother to Kings sold me to the goes a bit of the king's Salumi 2 golds. At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Is a riddle. Me to human bones. Black eye. Black ivory. We know. We did no war the children will be in a womb with. No job who will. Wise One. If you ever find yourself somewhere lost done surrounded by enemies who won't let you speak in your own lying Woods who destroy your statues and instruments who then you in womb bubble on. The new intro. They've been your own bubble new in deep. Deep trouble. Probably take you. Several 100 years to get out. Does there man don't let him ban you own boom boom and I'm your broccoli said I mean that's some of the Maison stuff he does he uses of course. The mirror Baracoa previously Roy Jones and he plays the drums he uses his voice as a drum he sings he uses song he uses words that are not words but are words. The ocean and. A chain of bones under the Atlantic Ocean and the bones of slaves so America the Black Arts Movement very influential in my own life I now. Director of some called the labor community strategies that we have. A new center channel Martina's our producers here it's called strategy and soul for people all over the country come to l.a. And come to the corner of King and Crenshaw which is like the corner of 125th the length coat check out strategy and soul theater strategy and sold books strategy and soul food and and check out the fight for the soul of the city I'm influence these are all my teachers Baracoa said You gotta get land you've got to get land so we've got land we've actually got a house at 15 all 6 South Crenshaw that we're working on so I listen you see here's the difference for me either since this stuff. 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