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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 |2020-06-01T02:07:35-05:00June 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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A Perspective on Privilege and COVID-19

"Author unknown" Thanks to Susana Hurlich <delfines8@nauta.cu> for sending it. "If anyone knows who wrote this, please let us know so we can give credit."   There are no bombs raining on our heads. I am not a prisoner held in solitary confinement, as millions are. I am not a refugee trying to escape with my life. I am not standing in line waiting to fill a pot of water. I have access to fresh food and I'm not starving. I have hot running water. My country [...]

By |2020-06-01T00:09:08-05:00June 1st, 2020|Anti-Racism/Racism, Big Business, California, Commentary, COVID-19, Disability issues, Economy, Economy, Health, Healthcare, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice|0 Comments
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Communities of Color Demand a New Normal

Beyond Covid-19: Communities of color demand a new normal https://socialism.com/statement/beyond-covid-19-communities-of-color-demand-a-new-normal/ A common question heard during the Covid crisis is this: “When will things go back to normal?” But people of color don’t want to return to what is “normal”: daily racist violence by police, children in ICE cages, homelessness, mass incarceration, distressed schools, job and food insecurity, and lack of healthcare.   This is the same nightmarish “normal” that led to the tragic death of Rana Zoe Mungin of Brooklyn, New York, a 30-year-old teacher with asthma. [...]

By |2020-06-01T00:02:50-05:00June 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, COVID-19, Disability issues|0 Comments
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Fight the virus with permanent supportive public housing.

by End Homelessness Now-LA   An April article in the  LA Times, “Affordable housing can cost $1 million per apartment in California. Coronavirus could make it worse,” provides a powerful argument for creating and operating permanent public housing for low income and very low income members of our community.   As the COVID-19 pandemic has brutally revealed, a system based on every fat cat out to make the highest possible profit is categorically incapable of meeting human needs.  Just as we need a universal, public healthcare system [...]

By |2020-05-31T23:56:45-05:00May 31st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Banks, California, Commentary, COVID-19, Disability issues, Economy, Economy, Gentrification/Displacement, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Homelessness, Human Rights, Los Angeles, Movements, Politics, Poverty, Solidarity, Unions|0 Comments
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Emergency Labor Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

Emergency Labor Response to the COVID-19 Crisis *To sign on to this document please click here: httpss://forms.gle/RP72hrDGUvYFxkiJ7 Due to inaction by the federal government and other authorities, the COVID-19 pandemic has passed a tipping point in the United States, particularly in the northeast. This document aims to give voice to the immediate and long term needs of working people. With this document we are seeking to work in collaboration with the Connecticut labor and social justice movements, the unemployed, underemployed, and non-union to fight for a future [...]

By |2020-03-30T19:36:53-05:00March 30th, 2020|Capitalism, COVID-19, Disability issues, Economy, Health, Health Care, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Uncategorized|0 Comments
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LA City Council: Hold an Emergency Meeting to Address COVID-19 Needs

Los Angeles community organizations and unions call on the LA City Council to hold emergency meeting in response to COVID-19. Renters, unhoused residents and workers need immediate relief, groups say. In response to Council President Nury Martinez’ cancellation of a scheduled Tuesday, March 24, 2020 City Council meeting, organizations working in a newly formed network called Healthy LA responded by calling on LA City Council to immediately schedule an emergency council meeting this week. Groups operating under the Healthy LA banner have been calling on Council to [...]

By |2020-03-23T15:35:50-05:00March 23rd, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Asian-American, California, Disability issues, Economy, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Homelessness, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News|0 Comments
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Comedy Corner: Satanic Satire

Trump Should Reign For 1,000 Years Satire by comedian Mona Shaikh and Ed Rampell —  Excerpts: The Evangelical magazine Christianity Today’s editor rebuked the president in a December op-ed entitled “Trump Should Be Removed From Office.” In the interests of equal time we give the devil his due with an editorial response from a periodical on the other side of the fiery aisle: By B.Z. LeBub, Editor, Satanism Tonight Dispatches      In our founding parchments, Lucifer explains that Satanism Tonight Dispatches will help diabolical Satanists interpret one-sided [...]

By |2020-02-28T23:49:54-05:00February 28th, 2020|Arts, Disability issues, Donald Trump, Ed Rampell, Mona Shaikh, Peace, Politics, Saudi Arabia|0 Comments
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How to Solve LA’s Housing and Houselessness Crisis

What is needed to solve the housing crisis in L.A. by Pete White of LA CAN (Community Action Network) www.cangress.org Three years ago, we released a community-based assessment of HHH spending and the lack of progress in a report entitled ”All Show, No Substance.” There were several action items listed that would ultimately serve as our organizing agenda. We've accomplished many things, but there is still much work to be done. It's important to note that many of the items we lifted in the assessment would become [...]

By |2020-02-01T16:01:02-05:00February 1st, 2020|Activism, Beyond Capitalism, Disability issues, Health, Homelessness, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Pete White|0 Comments
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Death Rate Soars for Unhoused People in L.A.

Alarming Death Rate Among Unhoused People in LA County Homeless Mortality Prevention Initiative Launched The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released a mortality study that provides new and alarming data on deaths among people experiencing homelessness in LA County. Not only have the number of homeless deaths doubled, from 536 in 2013 to 1,047 in 2018, but the death rate, which accounts for increases in the total number of homeless people, increased by over a third during that same period. Drug and alcohol overdose was [...]

By |2019-11-05T03:35:24-05:00November 5th, 2019|California, California, Disability issues, Economy, Health, Health, Homelessness, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, News, People, Poverty, Reports|0 Comments
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September 2019 Community Calendar

Change Links cannot publish without your support. Send events, articles or poetry to changelinks2@gmail.com or via https://change-links.org/submit/ Please subscribe. All events announced are encouraged to donate $5 (per event), payable to AFGJ, mail to Change Links, PO Box 34236, Los Angeles 90034. It helps keep this publication solvent. Thanks in advance. Peace vigils: https://change-links.org/ongoing-peace-vigils-and-community-programs/ Other Calendars: https://ocprogressiveevents.info/, https://la.indymedia.org/calendar/, httpss://www.facebook.com/pg/ieprogressivealliance/events/, https://www.activistsandiego.org/event, httpss://vcpjn.org/calendar/, httpss://echoparkfilmcenter.org KPFK 90.7 FM Non-Commercial Listener-Sponsored Pacifica Community Radio Local Station Board (LSB) election process is underway. In the current “LSB” Election, balloting began Aug 15 [...]

By |2019-09-05T17:11:50-05:00September 5th, 2019|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Calendar, Capitalism, Climate Change, Disability issues, Events|0 Comments
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Eyes: Passing of a Healer by Mumia Abu-Jamal

EYES: PASSING OF A HEALER [col. Writ. 6/7/19 (c) ’19 Mumia Abu-Jamal]   The name, Dr. Patricia Bath, is perhaps unfamiliar to you, as it was to me just a few days ago; but a colleague shared obituaries from several newspapers, and I could only be moved by the extraordinary life and achievements of Dr. Bath. She earned her medical degree from Howard University Medical School, and began her internship in the neighborhood of her birth: Harlem.   For most of her professional career, she worked as [...]

By |2019-07-04T20:21:59-05:00July 4th, 2019|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Disability issues, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, News, Prisons|0 Comments
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