On the Frontlines

About On the Frontlines

On the Frontlines is a weekly community program features stories of social justice, climate justice, and economic justice. On the Frontlines is hosted by Jill Mangaliman and Edgar Franks and supported by Front and Centered (https://frontandcentered.org/). Jill Mangaliman is a community organizer and writer born and raised in Seattle. They are also a founding board member of Front and Centered and Bush Garden karaoke host. Edgar Franks is the Policy Director of Familias Unidas por la Justicia (https://nfwm.org/farm-workers/farmworker-partners/familias-unidas-por-la-justicia/), an independent farmworker union with over 500 members across Washington State. The son of farmworkers, Edgar grew up in the fields of Mount Vernon and spends most of his time in Skagit Valley, organizing and reading comic books. Front and Centered is a statewide coalition of over seventy community organizations that represent and are staffed by frontline communities in Washington State. Front and Centered resists climate justice with a grassroots approach and under the framework of a Just Transition.

Publisher

Front and Centered

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Oct 2022

Latest episode

25 Jul 2023

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Jul 2023

   People Over Profit, No to APEC!

   The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum is coming to Seattle in August. But what is APEC, and why are some of Front and Centered's coalition members and allies organizing a countersummit against it? Jill and Edgar talk with Carly and Adrián of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) Seattle-Tacoma, an anti-imperialist and democratic formation that encompasses a broad range of participating organizations. Carly and Adrián tell us how they got involved with ILPS Seattle...

2. 

   24 Jul 2023

   Earth Deserves More Than a Day Special

   Jill and Edgar return to kick off Season 3 of On the Frontlines with a special live recording at Columbia City Theater in South Seattle! Recorded during Front and Centered's week of programming for their Earth Deserves More Than a Day event, this episode features Jill and Edgar talking about the history of South Seattle, as well as the history of Edgar's union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Jill also takes time to remember Berta Cáceres, an Indigenous land defender who was assassinated al...

3. 

   10 Dec 2022

   International Human Rights Day: Breaking Down the World Cup and More

   For this special episode of On the Frontlines, Jill and Edgar are joined by Donna Denina of the International Women's Alliance and GABRIELA Seattle, as well as Liz Darrow of CommunityVoz Radio, for a conversation on human rights. They discuss why December 10 is International Human Rights Day, who gets to define what human rights are, and how the concept gets co-opted to justify war and other uses of force. Jill, Edgar, Donna, and Liz also get into the human rights issues under the spotlight ...