What is ALEC
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What is ALEC

What is ALEC? ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all [...]

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Occupy Crackdown

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Occupy Crackdown

Evidence Homeland Security Coordinated Occupy Crackdown   by DAVE LINDORFF If you want to know where the real government of the United States is located, just check out one of the documents received by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund in response to their Freedom of Information Act request to the Dept. of Homeland Security relating [...]

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Creeping Fascism

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Creeping Fascism

Ask the Cop on the Corner, Ask the Cop at Your Front Door Creeping Fascism by RON JACOBS The list contines to grow.  The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).  The essentially unprovoked police attacks on protesters, bystanders and journalists at Occupy protests around the nation.  The continuing murder of (mostly young and black) men by [...]

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America Wakes Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters

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America Wakes Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters

America Wakes Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship If you’re part of the one percent, even getting fired comes with a cushion made of eiderdown. GMI, a research company that gets paid to keep an eye on such things, just issued a study headlined, “Twenty-One U.S. CEOs with Golden [...]

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Loom of the Jack Boot

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Loom of the Jack Boot

Loom of the Jackboot: Obama Gives Military Extreme Powers by Alexander Cockburn Too bad Kim Jong-il kicked the bucket last weekend. If the divine hand that laid low the North Korean leader had held off for a week or so, Kim would have been sustained by the news that President Obama had signed into law [...]

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May 2012 Calender

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May 2012 Calender

Posted on 29 April 2012

  Change Links May 2012 Calendar   Please if you use this online calendar, please donate, thats the only way it will continue. Call or Email Events Before Going Updated Since print edition: May 1 ● Tuesday For more Occupy LA events see the link on the main page Festival: Asian American Month Citywide commemoration [...] Continue Reading

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May 1st Events in Los Angeles

Posted on 29 April 2012

MAY 1 GENERAL STRIKE and other events: 6:00 AM SEIU-USWW strike action at LAX 7:00  Occ Pas rally at Lake Avenue overpass to the 210, followed by a march to the Lake and Colorado bank cluster. 8:00 AM Occupy SFV/OLA “North Wind” march from 7915 Van Nuys Bl., Van Nuys/Panorama City: Hermandad Mexicana Transnacional to [...] Continue Reading

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ALEC Retreats

Posted on 29 April 2012

ALEC Retreats, the Right Wing Freaks by Mark Engler Customers should be able to know if companies that they are supporting with their purchases are busy spending money on groups that undermine environmental regulations, attack workers’ rights, promote “Stand Your Ground” gun laws, advance discriminatory “Voter ID” laws, and otherwise bolster the right-wing legislative vanguard. [...] Continue Reading

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We are all being watched

Posted on 29 April 2012

We see you   -  so be careful   John Johnson We had more computer problems after barely getting out the last issue. This time we had to call a guy who fixes most problems but charges $300 for a home visit and $130 for a new hard drive. We received a donated hard drive for [...] Continue Reading

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Obama and Civil Liberties

Posted on 29 April 2012

How Obama became a civil libertarian’s nightmare by Steven Rosenfeld When Barack Obama took office, he was the civil liberties communitiesgreat hope. Obama, a former constitutional law professor, pledged to shutter the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and run a transparent and open government. But he has become a civil libertarian’s nightmare: a supposedly [...] Continue Reading

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Editorial, Free Speech, Internet

CISPA

Posted on 29 April 2012

CISPA, aka SOPA 2.0, Pushed Forward By For-Profit Spying Lobby By Lee Fang A cyber security bill moving swiftly through Congress would give government intelligence agencies broad powers to work with private companies to share information about Internet users. While some critics are beginning to organize online against the legislation, defense contractors, many already working [...] Continue Reading

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Defeat Right-Wing Agenda

Posted on 29 April 2012

Freedom from a Dead-End Life: True Liberty Means Defeating the Right- Wing’s Nightmare Vision for America   By Joshua Holland   The Right likes the parts of “big government” that limit our freedoms and attacks those that expand them. Last week, Mitt Romney summed up the Right’s rhetorical fluff as well as anyone when he [...] Continue Reading

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Start a Revolution

Posted on 29 April 2012

6 People You Need to Start a Revolution   By Sara Robinson     With the 99% Spring up and rolling and set to bring 100,000 new activists to the party this weekend, there’s some increased friction between various progressive groups who are working to expand the movement this year. It’s a good time to [...] Continue Reading

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We Crashed

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We Crashed

Posted on 01 April 2012

  We Crashed   John Johnson   Our computers crashed. The older laptop stopped working and sat around for months. I took it to Clay Claiborne and he fixed it. Then our main computer crashed but was still under warranty. We installed Raid 0 and found out the crash was Dell’s fault. One Windows file [...] Continue Reading

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April 2012 Calendar

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April 2012 Calendar

Posted on 01 April 2012

Change Links April 2012 Calendar Please if you use this online calendar, please donate, thats the only way it will continue. Call or Email Events Before Going Updated Since print edition: April 1 ● Sunday Political Meeting: Workers’ Conference “The Fight for the General Strike Movement: History, Opportunities, Goals and a democratic Workers Party.” Mar [...] Continue Reading

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Why Occupy Needs Days of Action

Posted on 01 April 2012

Why Occupy Needs Days of Action     by Chris Longenecker As I sit in the New York City Police Department’s central booking, which has become my second home over the course of the last 48 hours, I’m reminded again why we keep mounting days of action and protest. Since last Saturday’s attempt to re-occupy [...] Continue Reading

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Three Ways Labor Can Fight Back

Posted on 01 April 2012

Three Ways Labor Can Fight Back by David Macaray There’s no denying that slogans are gold. In the world of commerce, a catchy, cleverly written slogan, no matter how illogical or misleading, has an excellent chance of attracting customers. Take Nike’s “Just Do It” campaign from some years ago. That slogan was a huge hit, [...] Continue Reading

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OWS Spring Offensive

Posted on 01 April 2012

OWS Spring Offensive Need Not Repeat Fall Tactics Why ‘going Left’ is not necessarily ‘going forward’ by Danny Schechter For years, in the last century, when I was in School and learning about the early days of journalism, we were taught that author Horace Greeley who founded the New York Herald Tribune, was famous for [...] Continue Reading

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Unions, Occupy and Community Groups Working Together

Posted on 01 April 2012

. Horizontal Meets Vertical: 3 Ways Occupy, Community Groups and Unions Can Work Together to Change Society To build this movement, Occupy needs to connect with tens of millions of people who are watching the unfolding battle but are not yet involved. The following article first appeared on the Web site of The Nation. For more [...] Continue Reading

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Survival Of Change-Links

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Survival Of Change-Links

Posted on 01 March 2012

Survival Of Change-Links Is In Jeopardy John Johnson A lot of us are in survival mode these days, I certainly am. But even more so is Change-Links, subscriptions and donations are very sparse. We were barely able to pay for last month’s printing bill. We are one of the few progressive newspaper still publishing. Only [...] Continue Reading

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Obama Sells Out Homeowners

Posted on 01 March 2012

Obama Sells Out Homeowners Again: Mortgage Settlement a Sad Joke by Ted Rall Joe Nocera, the columnist currently challenging Tom Friedman for the title of Hackiest Militant Centrist Hack–it’s a tough job that just about everyone on The New York Times op-ed page has to do–loves the robo-signing settlement announced last week between the Obama [...] Continue Reading

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Cooperatives Over Corporations

Posted on 01 March 2012

Cooperatives Over Corporations by Jim Hightower We’re being told by today’s High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around one dazzling star: the corporation. This heavenly institution, the HPCW explain, has such financial and political mass that it is the optimal force for organizing and directing our [...] Continue Reading

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March 2012 Calendar

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March 2012 Calendar

Posted on 01 March 2012

 Change Links March 2012 Calendar   Please if you use this online calendar, please donate, thats the only way it will continue. Call or Email Events Before Going Updated Since print edition: March 1 • Thursday Political Action: Operation Black March Mar 1-31. Don’t buy magazines, newspapers, music, dvds, videogames or books. Don’t download any [...] Continue Reading

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