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Paid Ad: Nicaragua Support Fund U.S.A. International

--paid advertisement-- Nicaragua Support Fund U.S.A. International [In Spanish, Fondo de Apoyo a Nicaragua USA-Internacional (FAN)] 1226 N. Alvarado Street Los Angeles, California 90026      Since late 2014, our organization has been collecting voluntary tax payments, to be forwarded to the National Budget of the Government of Nicaragua. We have not yet forwarded any of the payments, because we’re still working on getting more people on board. At the present time, our project bank account has $8,508.00. This year, 2021, is an election year in Nicaragua. And [...]

By |2021-04-08T14:34:04-05:00April 8th, 2021|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Economy, Fund Drives, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Socialism, Solidarity, Steve Edinger, Sustainability|0 Comments
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Corporate Landlords Are Taking Over L.A.

Corporate Landlords Are Taking Over L.A. Will Politicians Do Anything About it? by Patrick Range McDonald https://www.housinghumanright.org/corporate-landlords-are-taking-over-l-a-will-politicians-do-anything-about-it/ A new, must-read report by Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE) has made one thing eye-poppingly clear: corporate landlords are taking over Los Angeles. With that, SAJE points out, L.A. renters are increasingly dealing with predatory practices — such as sudden evictions and unfair, excessive rents — that turn their lives upside down. The question now is, will Mayor Eric Garcetti and the L.A. City Council do anything about [...]

By |2021-04-08T13:58:50-05:00April 8th, 2021|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Banking Reform, Banks, California, Capitalism, Economy, Economy, Garcetti, Gentrification/Displacement, Housing, Human Rights, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Homeowners, Low income, News, Politics, Poverty|0 Comments
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Open Letter: L.A. Needs Publicly-Owned Social Housing

Tackle L.A.'s homelessness catastrophe with publicly-owned social housing On February 19, the End Homelessness Now-LA campaign and 39 endorsing organizations sent a letter to city officials calling for immediate implementation of the kind of government-owned social housing that will bring unhoused people indoors and keep low income folks from losing their homes.  (See letter below.) It has been over three months since the Los Angeles City Council passed a motion on November 4, 2020, asking city administrators to study types of government-owned social housing used in other [...]

By |2021-03-04T16:24:12-05:00March 4th, 2021|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Disability issues, Economy, Housing, Low income|0 Comments
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Save the AFIBA Center

PRESS CONFERENCE AND PROTEST “Gentrification Strikes Again “ A Historical Community Center in the Black Community The SECRET closing of a well-known center in the black community located in the Crenshaw District has been targeted for a project that Called “Destination Crenshaw”, feeds no one, houses no one, and assists no one. They wait until Black History Month, in order to slap the community in the face yet again, by the taking of more services. In 2018 AFIBA Center members joined with others in the community and [...]

By |2021-03-01T03:10:38-05:00March 1st, 2021|Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Black Lives Matter, Economy, Gentrification/Displacement, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Housing, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, Politics|0 Comments
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Vegans Should Eat Eggs

by Anaïs Schlienger https://medium.com/illumination/why-vegans-should-eat-eggs-49a140d0f8e0 Excerpts: How did I come to this realization? My father has hens, he lives in a small city and has a big garden. He loves his hens with all his heart. He cooks rice especially for them, takes the time to chop the vegetables’ peelings for them and adds oats in their food. They are the happiest as they can be. Every day, or every two days, a hen lays an egg. And they won’t stop doing it just because a human did [...]

By |2021-03-01T03:09:10-05:00March 1st, 2021|Activism, Climate Change, Ecology, Economy, Food, Health, Health, Movements|0 Comments
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The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Empire

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies In 2004, journalist Ron Susskind quoted a Bush White House advisor, reportedly Karl Rove, as boasting, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.” He dismissed Susskind’s assumption that public policy must be rooted in “the reality-based community.” “We’re history’s actors,” the advisor told him, “…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” Sixteen years later, the U.S. wars and war crimes launched by the Bush administration have [...]

By |2021-02-03T13:08:41-05:00February 3rd, 2021|Afghanistan, Biden, California, Donald Trump, Economy, Historical, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Medea Benjamin, Movements, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Peace and War, Russia, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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COVID, Climate & Capital Crisis: Fascism is Built from Above and Below

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles https://antiracist.org/fascism-is-built-from-above-and-below/ Those inclined to heave a sigh of relief and let down our guard about the threat of fascism because of Trump's failed Beer-Hall-Putsch of a coup attempt on January 6, or the "peaceful transition of power" on January 20, or by the eventual tracking and arrests of many of those who broke into the Capitol, or by the prospect that having been impeached a second time, Trump himself may be convicted and prevented from holding further public office, need to [...]

By |2021-01-30T04:14:35-05:00January 30th, 2021|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Climate Change, Commentary, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Economy, Historical, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Politics, Solidarity, Surveillance, War|0 Comments
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Black Lives Matter LA Boycotts Amazon

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-L.A. https://bds-la.org/2020/12/19/black-lives-matter-la-boycotts-amazon/ On Saturday, December 19, Black Lives Matter L.A. held its final protest of the year 2020. Their recent victories include driving D.A. Jackie Lacey from office for her adamant refusal to prosecute killer cops, and blocking LA Mayor Eric Garcetti from a position in Joe Biden's cabinet because of his horrible record on dealing with LA's houseless population, which is disproportionately Black, his terrible record on promoting gentrification and displacement, and his appointment of the rubber stamp Police Commission that functions [...]

By |2020-12-31T02:51:26-05:00December 31st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Big Business, Black Lives Matter, California, COVID-19, Economy, Events, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Reports, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Eviction Crisis Looming

L.A. Campaign Proposes Solutions Freedom Socialist newspaper, Vol. 41, No. 6, December 2020-January 2021 https://www.socialism.com The US has a massive unhoused population. The National Low-Income Housing Coalition predicts that 30-40 million people, 30-40% of currently housed renters, could lose their lodging in the next several months. In the midst of this crisis, the Freedom Socialist Party calls for cancelling rent and mortgage payments for those in need. Across the country, grassroots activists have pressured local governments to help solve this crisis. One group is End Homelessness Now–LA [...]

By |2020-12-31T02:50:38-05:00December 31st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Big Business, California, Economy, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Low income, Movements, News|0 Comments
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Open Letter: Social Housing with Supportive Services

Los Angeles City Council members L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti Chief Legislative Analyst Sharon Tso Chief Administrative Officer Richard Llewellyn Housing and Community Investment Department (HCID) Director Ann Sewill Subject:  Social Housing - Council File: 20-0197 The End Homelessness Now-LA Campaign and the endorsers listed below are deeply concerned about the plight of the unhoused and low-income residents in our community. Today, L.A.’s homelessness catastrophe is compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, continues to be plagued by systemic racism, and will greatly worsen when hit with a tsunami of [...]

By |2020-12-31T02:49:54-05:00December 31st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Capitalism, Commentary, Economy, Economy, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News|0 Comments
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Shared Solar: Solar Electricity for All!

LADWP's Shared Solar -- Solar for All! Renters, this is the program for you. The Shared Solar enables residential customers living in multifamily dwellings (apartments, condominiums, duplexes) to fix a portion of their electric bill against rising utility costs for 10 years, as well as support renewable energy, help create local jobs, help reduce the carbon footprint of LADWP’s generation portfolio and lessen the impact of global warming. There are no enrollment fees, ongoing costs, maintenance costs, nor the hassles of installing a solar array on your [...]

By |2020-12-31T02:48:22-05:00December 31st, 2020|California, Climate Change, Ecology, Economy, Energy, Environment, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, News, Resources, Sustainability|0 Comments
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Letter to the Editor: Promote Cultured Meat to End Animal Slaughter

To the editor, President-elect Joe Biden, who won the endorsement of the Humane Society Legislative Fund, should support federal funding for cultured-meat research. For readers who aren't aware, cultured-meat is grown from cells, without slaughtering animals. There is no greater crime than what we do to nonhumans in food production. We kill over a trillion aquatic and land creatures every year for this purpose. According to the Population Reference Bureau, only about 107 billion humans have ever lived. The amount of suffering our food system produces is [...]

By |2020-12-01T20:46:05-05:00December 1st, 2020|Economy, Environment, Food, Health, Letters, Letters to the Editor, Movements, News|0 Comments
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