May 2023 Change Links community calendar

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March 2023 Community Calendar

March 2023 Change Links Community Calendar Women’s History Month See continuing and ongoing events at the end of the calendar. Change Links cannot publish without your support. Send events, articles or poetry to changelinks2@gmail.com or via http://change-links.org/submit/  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 memo. All events announced [...]

PDF of March 2023 issue of Change Links

Who’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Photo: Half a million tons of methane rise from the sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline. Photo credit: Swedish Coast Guard With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to [...]

News on Climate Action Around the World

Summary of reports on DEMOCRACY NOW! by Terrie Brady On Democracy Now! on December 23 there was a report about an effort by Exxon Mobil to start off shore oil drilling off Guyana.  There is a lawyer, Melinda janki,  who is from Guyana trying to stop this. Antonia Juhasz wrote in WIRED magazine about this.  Antonia Juhasz also wrote a book , The Tyranny of Oil  on this subject. Also on Democracy [...]

January 2023 Community Calendar

See continuing and ongoing events at the end of the calendar. Change Links cannot publish without your support. Send events, articles or poetry to changelinks2@gmail.com or via http://change-links.org/submit/  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 memo. All events announced are encouraged to donate $5 (per event), payable to [...]

Letter to the Editor: Climate Change and Cultivated Meat

To the editor, If our political leaders are serious about addressing the climate crisis, they should support increased public funding for cultivated-meat research. For those who aren’t familiar with the term, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. It requires a fraction of the greenhouse-gas emissions that raising livestock does. While the Food and Drug Administration recently gave its approval to the new protein, further technological development is needed so [...]

Victory for the Planet in Brazil

Lula Defeats Bolsonaro in Brazil Run-Off https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Is-Back-Says-Lula-After-Election-Victory-20221030-0017.html "Today, we are telling the world that Brazil is back and is too big to be relegated to the sad role of a pariah," Inacio Lula da Silva exclaimed in a victory speech after defeating incumbent right wing president Jair Bolsonaro. Globo reported that Bolsonaro would recognize Lula's victory. "What I hear the most in my international trips is that the world misses that sovereign [...]

September 11th Is Here Again!

September 11 is Here Again by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA Sept. 11, 2001 is now farther in the past than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were when the U.S. began escalating its aggressive military role in Vietnam. A full generation has come age since "9-11"; about 20% of the US population has been born since the US government responded by launching the War on Terror. US military doctrine has moved [...]

Vijay Prashad on Climate and Colonialism

Will this Fight Ever End?   Vijay Prashad: Well, first, I’ll say thanks to forcing me to come to Glasgow. When I walked the streets of cities like this, you know, Glasgow was the UK’s second most important city, beautiful streets, beautiful buildings, a gorgeous city, you know. It had Red Clydeside in 1919, the uprising to create a Soviet Scotland. But it was crushed, of course. When I see cities like [...]

Cuba Si, Bloqueo No!

Los Angeles Medical Aid for Cuba Meeting Draws Diverse Crowd Shows expansion of movement to end the US blockade of Cuba By Mark Friedman A diverse crowd, representing more than a dozen organizations, streamed into a meeting here in July to raise money for medical aid for Cuba and to show opposition to the US Blockade. As the approximately 65 people entered the McCarthy Memorial Church in LA’s Black community, they were [...]

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