Dear Change Links: I am writing in the hopes that it may influence some people at the recent No Kings and other protests I have attended. I think it is very important to demonstrate opposition to what our government is doing. As a disabled veteran, I am very concerned especially about the wars the US is waging or financing, and about the militarism at our so-called Department of War. But I think [...]
Peltier on DN! https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/19/leonard_peltier_interview_democracy_now_exclusive AMY GOODMAN: In a Democracy Now! global TV/radio broadcast exclusive, we spend the hour with longtime Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier. In February, he was released from a federal prison in Florida after spending nearly half a century behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit. President Biden, on his last day in office, commuted Peltier’s life sentence to home confinement. Biden’s decision came after mounting [...]
©08/2025 by Mumia Abu-Jamal (Spanish translation below) When we shine that bright light, we will symbolically, literally and figuratively, open the eyes of many. And there are guys walking around right now who have glaucoma, who have eye damage, who have lens damage, who have retinal damage due to diabetes, and all of that can be treated, can be cured, or at least held at bay for a pittance. You know, laser [...]
©July 2025 by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/the-death-of-pensions/ With the judicial seal of approval of the United Airlines plan to ditch its pensions, comes another battle in the long war of capital against labor. By this attack on those who have spent their lives making the fortunes of United, the business community opens yet another front in their rapacious war to gain more and more profits. Now, thousands of disenfranchised workers must turn to [...]
by Joe Maniscalco, Work Bites https://portside.org/2025-07-16/medicare-advantage-such-threat-workers-they-wrote-paper-it This past April, labor advocates for single payer health care published a white paper called, “Medicare Advantage: What Labor Leaders Need to Know.” In it, the authors remind labor leaders—including those in New York City who spent the last four years trying to push 250,000 municipal retirees into Medicare Advantage—that Medicare Advantage is “neither Medicare (the public, universal program without intermediaries between patients and the healthcare [...]
Theodore (Ted) Hajjar was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, friend, and mentor to many. He was also an educator and peace activist, with a passionate and unwavering commitment to justice. Ted died May 30th of gastric cancer. He was 82. CSPG’s featured poster promoted November 15, 1969, date of the huge Moratorium against the Viet Nam War—over 500,000 protested in Washington, DC and over 250,000 in San Francisco. The San Francisco march [...]
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs today announced the availability of approximately $52.5 million in grants for community-based organizations that provide suicide prevention or emergency clinical services to Veterans at risk of suicide. Grant applications are due by 4:59 p.m. ET, July 18, and VA will choose awardees by Sept. 30. Organizations can apply for grants worth up to $750,000 and may apply to renew awards from year to year throughout the length [...]
We here at Change Links learned belatedly last month of the passing of our crew member and comrade Jeffrey Hirsch. Jeffrey was the artist and activist who contributed the "Y. B. Normal" editorial cartoons that have appeared monthly in Change Links for many years. He would've been 81 had he lived until his birthday in February, but his housemates found that he had passed peacefully in his sleep from coronary artery disease [...]
by Andrew Bates [Excerpts] When Republicans talk about impeaching judges, they are giving us an opportunity to show that corruption has a tangible, economic price — and it’s everyday people who pay it. When Trump raises the impeachment of judges, there’s another case that Democrats should steer the discussion toward. One that exemplifies how defending the rule of law from Trump’s criminal overreach is critical to the economic needs of middle-class families. [...]
Reflection by Mickey Ellinger Naked, I’m a topo map of getting old: one breast shrunk from carving out an uninvited lump; above the other beneath the collarbone new disc size of a dollar metronome for lazy heart. Scar marks the pins that hold one upper arm to the shoulder, skinny arms draped in folds of skin knuckles swollen creeks of veins. No smoother going down: Drooping gut shadows belly button, balding [...]
Howard Keylor: A Life of Labor and Liberation © 2025 by Mumia Abu-Jamal For Howard Keylor, a long life in service to the working class began in his younger years in Ohio, where he saw miners going to work. In rural Ohio, not far from the Appalachians and near the mines, he grew up with a strong sense of solidarity among workers. He became registered as a longshoreman in 1959, when he [...]
John Martin Bachar Jr., a man of intellect, passion, and enduring spirit, passed away on December 6, 2024, at the age of 96. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 21, 1928, he was the eldest son of John and Christine Bachar, whose roots traced back to Slovakia. John’s life was marked by a rare combination of academic brilliance, athletic prowess, and a deep commitment to social and political causes. He attended Steinmetz [...]
