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October 2026 Change Links community calendar

Change Links can’t publish without your support. Send items, articles or poems to changelinks2@gmail.com or via change-links.org/submit/   We need volunteer distributors to venues and events for the CHANGE LINKS Print Edition PLEASE EMAIL us at <changelinks2@gmail.com> if you can volunteer.   Please subscribe as well. Subscriptions to the print edition are $12/25/50 a year; low income/regular/ or sustainer (sliding scale), payable to “AFGJ,” our fiscal sponsor, with “Change Links” in the [...]

By |2026-10-02T03:10:04-05:00October 1st, 2026|Activism, Ads, Arts, Beyond Capitalism, Calendar, Events, Films|0 Comments
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USC Keck School of Medicine will stop selling corpses to the U.S. Navy for Israeli military training

After months of student opposition, USC has said it will not renew its contract with the U.S. Navy. By Jackson Mills Daily Trojan photo byyKaijel Mairena USC will end its cadaver contract with the U.S. Navy on Sept. 24, according to a statement from the Keck School of Medicine to Annenberg Media.  USC Keck School of Medicine will stop selling corpses to the U.S. Navy for Israeli military training. , Under the contract, [...]

By |2026-10-01T22:32:52-05:00October 1st, 2026|Activism, Beyond Capitalism, Economy, Education, Israel and Palestine, News, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Protests and Rallies, War|0 Comments
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Paper Tiger

The Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies​ According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated Iran’s [...]

By |2026-09-02T02:22:50-05:00September 2nd, 2026|Beyond Capitalism, Commentary, Drones, Iran, Iran, Journalists, Medea Benjamin, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Peace, War|0 Comments
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Fascist Attacks on Differently-Abled People

KPFK Disarming Itself Against Trump's Fascist Playbook by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Trump and RFK Jr. are coming after people with disabilities, rejecting the applicability of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Unfortunately, KPFK no longer airs the Access Unlimited program focusing on disability rights and resources that I had restored to the air, and thus has lost the capacity to be a platform for that community in [...]

By |2026-08-01T18:38:52-05:00August 1st, 2026|Activism, Beyond Capitalism, Commentary, Disability issues, Historical, Michael Novick, Movements, Pacifica/KPFK, Public Radio|0 Comments
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Section 230 and Free Political Discourse At Risk

by the Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230 The Internet allows people everywhere to connect, share ideas, and advocate for change without needing immense resources or technical expertise. Our unprecedented ability to communicate online—on blogs, social media platforms, and educational and cultural platforms like Wikipedia and the Internet Archive—is not an accident. Congress recognized that for user speech to thrive on the Internet, it had to protect the services that power users’ speech. That’s [...]

By |2026-04-02T21:56:05-05:00April 2nd, 2026|Activism, Beyond Capitalism, Internet, News, Tech|0 Comments
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Save Oakwood Park in Venice from Gentrification

by Lydia Ponce Our beloved Oakwood Park, a sanctuary for families and children in the heart of our community, has recently become a place of concern rather than solace. Over the past few years, incidents involving dogs being illegally off-leash have increased at an alarming rate. As a neighbor who frequents this park, I have witnessed firsthand the unsettling consequences of such negligence. One child has been a victim twice of these [...]

By |2026-02-01T02:54:36-05:00February 1st, 2026|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Gentrification/Displacement, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Lydia Ponce, Movements, News, People, Solidarity|0 Comments
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LA Olympics 2028: Point/Counterpoint – Fair Games

Labor and Community Demands on the LA Olympics by the Fair Games Coalition Los Angeles will become the mega events capital of the world over the next several years. During 2026 through 2028, our city will host—among other events—the FIFA World Cup, the Super Bowl, and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Such mega events and the massive investments required to make them happen should have a positive impact for the city’s residents, [...]

By |2025-12-03T14:56:59-05:00December 1st, 2025|Activism, Beyond Capitalism, Events, Housing, Labor, Los Angeles, Low income, National Security, Olympics, Politics, Sports|0 Comments
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Colombia’s Pres. Petro: The White House is committing extrajudicial executions

The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro reaffirmed his government’s anti-drug policy, which in addition to increasing cocaine seizures promoted agrarian and rural improvements to expand the well-being of peasants and guarantee the substitution of illicit crops, in line with a comprehensive approach, focused on respect for human rights. Colombia recently dismantled 72 drug labs, and seized nearly 1.7 tons of cocaine. During a press conference, the Colombian head of state denounced that [...]

By |2025-10-31T01:38:49-05:00October 31st, 2025|Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Columbia, Latin America, News|0 Comments
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Cold War Truth Commission:

Putting the U.S. Cold War on Trial produced by Rachel Bruhnke, Cold War Truth Commission; Frank Dorrel, Addicted to War; and CodePINK Women for Peace. ISBN 979-8-218-80213-4; Paperback, 234 pp. San Pedro CA, $20. reviewed by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA   This invaluable just-published volume features more than 50 testimonies and expert analyses compiled and transcribed from the Cold War Truth Commission hearings in 2017 in-person in Los Angeles and in 2021 [...]

By |2025-08-28T00:30:15-05:00August 28th, 2025|Activism, Beyond Capitalism, Book Reviews, Cuba, Ecology, Fascism, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Human Rights, Independent Media, Israel and Palestine, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, Nuclear Power, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Venezuela|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: From Behind Prison Walls

Fairly Warned: CDCR Rehabilitation By A. Ramírez, California State Prison   When the choice to die of hunger – Strike! is better than to live – because there is no Rehabilitation!   Where the Valley blows of Virus – Disease! in a prison that men can’t leave – thwart the hope of Rehabilitation!   If their livelihood is based upon a prisoner’s return – Complex! on the outside or the inside with [...]

By |2025-08-27T23:44:59-05:00August 27th, 2025|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Crime, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Low income, Poetry Corner, Prisons|0 Comments
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Illegal Bylaws Change Threatens Democracy, Diversity at Pacifica Radio

by Michael Novick, former interim General Manager, KPFK What is one of the most critical aspects of these new bylaws, (which we consider an illegal substitution,  because they were not adopted by any of the methods within the bylaws for changing the bylaws; they were adopted in secrecy)? The main aim of it, and the same thing that was in the New Day proposal and in the predecessor Pacifica Restructuring Project bylaws [...]

By |2025-07-07T00:13:51-05:00July 7th, 2025|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Fascism, Independent Journalism, Michael Novick, Pacifica/KPFK, Public Radio|0 Comments
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Defend Democracy at Pacifica Radio

You may have recently received, or likely will soon get, the talking points of the recent Pacifica coup, such as a press release from the Pacifica Executive Director, claiming the Foundation has adopted "bold new" Bylaws. The would-be rulers say that things will be much better under their administration. All “divisiveness” will end, organizational wealth will increase, things will be simpler and more efficient; they know what’s best. They are here to [...]

By |2025-04-25T01:57:41-05:00April 25th, 2025|Activism, Arts, Beyond Capitalism, Black liberation, Elections, Fund Drives, Independent Media, Pacifica/KPFK, Public Radio|0 Comments
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