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ICUJP Marks 20th Anniversary of 9-11 with Regas Peace & Justice Awards

ICUJP Marks 20 Years of Struggle for Peace & Justice by Steve Rohde & Grace Dyrness Twenty years ago, only days after the devastating 9/11 attacks, the late Rev. George F. Regas brought together Christians, Jews, Muslims, Quakers, humanists and people of many other faiths and beliefs to found Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP). Acutely aware that such a dire moment posed a grave threat to peace and justice, George knew that peacemakers needed to create a place to gather, organize, pray, and act [...]

By |2021-09-03T02:44:33-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Activism, COVID-19, Events, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Housing, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Movements, Peace, Stephen Rohde|0 Comments
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September 2021 Change Links community events 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 |2021-09-11T20:40:39-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Activism, COVID-19, Ecology|0 Comments
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On the Recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom

by DSA-LA Electoral Committee, Aug. 12, 2021 On September 14, voters will decide whether to remove Gavin Newsom as governor. As socialists, we are no fans of Gov. Newsom. We'd much prefer the option of replacing him with a socialist. However, this isn't the election we're faced with. Instead, we’re looking at a fascist, reactionary, capitalist rebellion against the belief that government has any responsibility or right to improve living conditions. Newsom getting replaced by a Republican would be deleterious to our mission, and would destroy momentum [...]

By |2021-09-03T02:34:10-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Anti-capitalism, California, California, Climate Change, Commentary, COVID-19, Economy, Housing, Movements, News, Politics, Socialism, Voting|0 Comments
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Evictions Wrongfully Proceeding in LA Courts

Evictions Proceeding in LA Courts Despite COVID, Moratorium By Ray Jones and Michael Novick Earlier this year, Public Counsel filed suit on behalf of itself and numerous LA-area legal aid organizations, to demand the LA Superior Court shut down, rather than continuing civil trials on traffic citations and “unlawful detainer” – eviction – proceedings. Their claim is that the needless court actions endanger the health of the poor people being dragged into court needlessly, and the attorneys who represent them. “This lawsuit highlights how perfunctory rules and [...]

By |2021-09-03T02:31:31-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Africa, Big Business, California, COVID-19, Democracy, Gentrification/Displacement, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Low income, Movements, News, Politics, Poverty|0 Comments
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Mumia Abu-Jamal on the (Crocodile) Tears of Empire

The Tears of Empire © 8/2021 by Mumia Abu-Jamal With the dramatic fall of Kabul, through the forces of the Taliban, the alligator tears of the political class are falling. Decrying the costs of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. What has been thoroughly forgotten, however, is the unprecedented mass protests of February, 2003, before the [Iraq] war began. When the earth shook with antiwar, fervor and countries across the globe. Then-president George W. Bush would ignore these protests as a mere focus group, his words, focus. In the [...]

By |2021-09-03T02:30:34-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Afghanistan, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, COVID-19, Disability issues, Ecology, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Mumia Abu-Jamal, News|0 Comments
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Oppose the US Blockade/Embargo and Intervention in Cuba

by Christopher Gunderson https://www.facebook.com/christopher.gunderson.7/posts/10159909775310362 People can have legitimate grievances and nonetheless be acting in a manner that strengthens US imperialism. Indeed, this is exactly the strategy that US imperialism pursues against its adversaries. It uses every tool at its disposal to aggravate the contradictions and antagonisms that exist within those countries that have dared to defy its hegemony. It does this in the hope of politically destabilizing them in ways that can be further exploited to produce regimes more compliant with US imperialist objectives. It is a [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:22:40-05:00August 1st, 2021|Activism, Biden, COVID-19, Cuba, Donald Trump, Historical, Latin America, Movements, National Security, News, Obama, Peace, Peace and War, Politics|0 Comments
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Mike Hall of Venice was murdered June 25

A houseless man was murdered on Venice Beach. There's more that needs to be said about what’s happening there. by Peggy Lee Kennedy Mike Hall, a 49 year-old Venice local, was murdered on Dudley hill next to the Venice Boardwalk on June 25. He was previously living in a vehicle by Electric and Venice Blvd.. His RV got towed and he came to the boardwalk because he heard people were getting housing from there. A man whose street-name is “Midget Mike,” who is short and not technically [...]

By |2021-07-02T00:00:51-05:00July 2nd, 2021|Activism, COVID-19, Economy, Garcetti, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Low income, Movements, Peggy Kennedy, Police|0 Comments
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PDF of July 2021 print edition of Change Links

By |2021-07-01T23:57:34-05:00July 1st, 2021|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Black Lives Matter, Calendar, COVID-19, Economy, Environment, Events, Features, Gentrification/Displacement, Human Rights, Independent Media, Indigenous, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Letters To Editors, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Movements, Music, News, Peace and War|0 Comments
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A People’s Vaccine Against a Mutating Virus and Neoliberal Rule

by Nicolas J. S. Davies Photo credit: UNICEF Teachers and students were able to return to school in Lao Cai, Viet Nam, in May 2020 A recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID pandemic in the United States are at their lowest level since it began. Only half of Americans are either “very worried” (15%) or “somewhat worried” (35%) about the virus, while the other half are “not very worried” (30%) or “not worried at all” (20%). But the news from around the world [...]

By |2021-07-01T23:56:44-05:00July 1st, 2021|Activism, Biden, China, COVID-19, Economy, National Security, Nicolas Davies, Politics, Solidarity|0 Comments
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The COVID Pandemic Is Still A Public Health and Economic Threat

Although upwards of 70% of adults in LA County have now received at least one vaccine shot, and a generalized re-opening is taking place. COVID-19 remains a threat to public health, and to economic well-being, with thousands facing eviction as restrictions and moratoria are lifted and rent subsidies expire. The spread of the more highly contagious Delta variant, whose symptoms are also particularly deceptive and less likely to show the tell-tale loss of sense of smell and taste, is growing nationally, particularly among unvaccinated individuals, who are [...]

By |2021-07-01T23:53:32-05:00July 1st, 2021|Anti-Racism/Racism, COVID-19, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Police, Politics|0 Comments
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Letters to the Editor

To the editor, While the origins of COVID-19 are debated, it remains true that animal agriculture greatly increases our pandemic risk. That's why Senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla should support federal funding for cultured-meat research. For readers who aren't familiar with the term, cultured meat is grown from cells, without raising and slaughtering livestock. "Both farmed and caged wild animals create the perfect breeding ground for zoonotic diseases," Liz Specht wrote for Wired. "Extraordinarily high population densities, prolonged heightened stress levels, poor sanitation, and unnatural diets [...]

By |2021-07-01T23:52:53-05:00July 1st, 2021|COVID-19, Ecology, Health, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Letters, Letters To Editors, Letters to the Editor, Politics, Prisons|0 Comments
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PDF of June 2021 print edition of Change Links

By |2021-05-29T23:46:02-05:00May 29th, 2021|Activism, Ads, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Black Lives Matter, Calendar, California, COVID-19, Events, Garcetti, Health, Housing, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous Nations, Israel and Palestine, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Movements, Palestine, Peace, Peace Vigils, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Social Media, Socialism|0 Comments
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