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Chernobyl USA: Why the US Failed Miserably in Fighting COVID-19

Why the U.S. Failed Miserably, And Why China Won the Fight Against COVID-19 by Lee Siu Hin In January 2020, several cases of viral pneumonia of unknown origin were detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. No one knew exactly what the virus was, hence the vague identifier of “coronavirus” so popularly known today. Thousands of miles away in the U.S., when the virus was believed not to have reached its soil yet, right-wing U.S. elites, media, and politicians began using cruel words and ridicule against [...]

By |2020-08-01T18:32:34-05:00August 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Asian-American, China, COVID-19|0 Comments
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August 2020 Community Calendar

August 2020 Community 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 AFGJ, mail to Change Links, PO Box 34236, LA 90034. It helps keep this publication solvent. Thanks in advance.   In [...]

By |2020-08-10T04:44:14-05:00August 1st, 2020|Activism, Arts, Calendar, COVID-19, Events, Featured|0 Comments
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PDF of August 2020 issue of Change Links

By |2020-08-01T18:31:08-05:00August 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Calendar, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Commentary, COVID-19, Economy, Events, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Humanism & FreeThought, Immigration/Migrant rights, In Memoriam|0 Comments
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: Children of the Corn

CHILDREN OF THE CORN {col.writ.7/13/20} © 2020 by Mumia Abu-Jamal   When we think of politicians, we too often see them as great, even mighty figures, seemingly larger than life. That’s because of how the media projects them - and far too often, protects them. But in times like these, times of plague, crises, massive failures of institutions, and yes, of death, we begin to see them differently. For some, the spell is broken. We see them as they are, flawed beings, driven by ambition and hunger [...]

By |2020-08-01T18:30:22-05:00August 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Education, Health, Health Care, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Politics, Poverty|0 Comments
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Letter to the Editor

MSW Students Concerns Regarding Youth's Mental Health During Covid-19 The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting multiple areas of youths’ lives including social, mental health, and emotional well-being.  Many youths across our nation received little to no information about the COVID-19 virus prior to the stay at home orders being put into place.  Additionally, youths did not receive prior notice about possible changes to their daily routines and intended school disruptions.  New challenges arose when school and home life were forced to coexist in the same place. Socialization is [...]

By |2020-08-01T18:25:46-05:00August 1st, 2020|Activism, COVID-19, Disability issues, Education, Health, Health Care, Letters|0 Comments
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The Power of the People is the Force of Life

The Power of the People is the Force of Life by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) I was sent the following link to a piece worth reading by Henry Giroux: A searing and penetrating essay by Henry Giroux: https://truthout.org/articles/racist-violence-cant-be-separated-from-the-violence-of-neoliberal-capitalism/ Giroux is a powerful critic of fascist trends based on white supremacy and capitalism. But I don't know exactly why he often has a failure of nerve, or of something, when he draws towards solutions. For example in this piece, after the searing indictment, he [...]

By |2020-06-12T02:03:28-05:00June 9th, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, California, Capitalism, Commentary, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Economy, Education, Elections, Garcetti, Gentrification/Displacement, Historical, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, News, People, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Poverty, Prisons, Protests and Rallies, Socialism, Solidarity, Unity, War|0 Comments
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Los Angeles and the Country Enflamed by Racist Police Murders

Check out this account of recent police killings, shootings and other attacks in L.A. by cops, deputies & CHP, and an amazing photo-essay: https://www.lataco.com/la-black-lives-matter/ Hundreds Block 101 in Protest of Police CHP Hits, Hospitalizes Demonstrator, Protests Escalate As Change Links went to press, 100s of people from BLM-LA, AIM and other groups blocked the 101 freeway in DTLA to protest the police execution of George Floyd in Mpls, and the racist police murders with impunity in LA. A CHP vehicle accelerated into the crowd as demonstrators swarmed [...]

By |2020-06-01T14:10:40-05:00June 1st, 2020|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black Lives Matter, California, COVID-19, Economy, Events, Gentrification/Displacement, Human Rights, Independent Media, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News|0 Comments
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100,000 People Killed by COVID-19 in the US

Don't Mourn, Organize! by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action L.A. The command to devote ourselves to getting organized in the face of death and repression rather than spending time in lamentation,  was attributed to Joe Hill in a farewell letter while facing execution, Mother Jones, discussing others rather than herself, said "Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living." Either way, it has never been more pertinent than today, in the face of the mass murder at the hands of the settler colonial-capitalist system in the US [...]

By |2020-06-14T14:44:29-05:00June 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black Lives Matter, China, Commentary, COVID-19, Disability issues, Economy, Editorial cartoon, Health, Immigration/Migrant rights, Independent Journalism, Indigenous Nations, Jails, Labor, Michael Novick, Movements, Unity, War|0 Comments
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June 2020 Community 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 AFGJ, mail to Change Links, PO Box 34236, LA 90034. It helps keep this publication solvent. Thanks in advance.   In light of the current COVID-19 [...]

By |2020-06-23T13:12:20-05:00June 1st, 2020|About, Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Calendar, COVID-19, Events, Independent Journalism, LGBTQ+, Michael Novick|0 Comments
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For a #PeoplesBudgetLA

https://peoplesbudgetla.com/ In the face of an unprecedented public health crisis and historic economic instability, LA Mayor Garcetti has proposed a $10.5 billion budget that reduces services, furloughs city workers, and cuts the budget of all city departments with one big exception: the LA Police Department. Garcetti proposes increases to the police budget, specifically $34 million dollars in overtime pay. The  LAPD already receives 54% of LA’s discretionary spending. This would increase their share. Moreover, the Mayor has attempted to fast track this, to stop community input. He [...]

By |2020-06-01T01:48:35-05:00June 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Banking Reform, Beyond Capitalism, Big Business, California, COVID-19, Economy, Economy, Education, Homelessness, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements|0 Comments
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Black LA Demands Over COVID-19 and Black Death Rates

Los Angeles County has the second-highest population of Black and African-descent people of any county in the US, with over a million Black residents, behind only Cook County, Illinois, and ahead of Kings County (Brooklyn) in New York, (c. 922,000) or Harris County, TX (Houston) with c. 903,000.      But despite that fact, and a history of having two of the largest and most serious rebellions in US history (Watts 1965 and after the acquittal of the cops who beat Rodney King and the slap on the [...]

By |2020-06-01T00:52:40-05:00June 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, Economy, Education, Health Care, Homelessness, Immigration/Migrant rights, Los Angeles, Movements|0 Comments
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Mumai Abu-Jamal: After One Hundred Thousand

After One Hundred Thousand © 2020 by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/after-one-hundred-thousand-220-mumia-abu-jamal One asks, when the counter strikes 100,000, [what happens]? Nothing. One hundred thousand American dead. That means, for all intents and purposes, nothing much. But does the counter stop counting? Or does it continue rolling on, like the mighty Mississippi River?   Is one hundred thousand an end, or just another number?   And as summer begins to emerge, and people rush out of doors, to get some socializing in, what happens in the next two weeks? [...]

By |2020-06-01T00:48:17-05:00June 1st, 2020|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, COVID-19, Health, Health Care, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Mumia Abu-Jamal|0 Comments
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