Deliver Us A new lighting contraption The one we have is not working Too many are stuck in dark shadows, Some refuse to believe that light exists The light we have has burned in a house fire She lies by the fire, an unhappy lover Choices We can be Shel or Sylvia So much depends upon how the head is tilted Born and raised in Tarzana, California, Jennifer has a [...]
Male chauvinism & lack of union democracy led to abuses Radical Women statement by Yolanda Alaniz On March 18, 2026, the New York Times published an article documenting reports that in the 1970s United Farm Workers (UFW) leader César Chávez had sexually molested underage girls Ana Murguia and Debra Rojas and later raped Rojas. UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta also came forward to tell of being raped twice by Chávez in the 1960s, assaults that [...]
Dolores Huerta Speaks https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555 “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for. I have encouraged people to always use their voice. Following the New York Times’ multi-year investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez, I can no longer stay silent and must share my own [...]
International Women's Day - Global Women's Strike Like May Day, International Women's Day has its origins in the US. First declared in 1909 by Theresa Malkiel of the Socialist Party of America to commemorate a women's garment workers strike in 1857 as National Women's Day, the commemoration was adopted on a resolution by Clara Zeitkin, another Socialist, at a Copenhagen conference in 1911. It focused on demands for equality, labor rights, and [...]
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/18/teresa_helm_epstein_files [Excerpts] AMY GOODMAN: Missing in much of the MAGA frenzy over the Jeffrey Epstein files are the voices of survivors of the sexual abuse he perpetrated against them. Many, like our next guest, have joined the call for transparency and for the Trump administration to release the files as promised. Virginia Giuffre, an outspoken survivor of sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein, died, apparently by suicide, at age 41 in April. She [...]
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/no-cops-pride-how-criminal-justice-system-harms-lgbtq-people On June 28, 1969, the New York Police Department raided the Stonewall Inn, a fixture of the Greenwich Village LGBTQ community. Unlike during previous raids, this time, people fought back, resisted, and rioted. Stonewall triggered a series of uprisings against the criminalization and police brutalization of LGBTQ people. Direct action–based community organizing led to the birth of the Gay Liberation Front, furthered the groundwork for the modern gay rights movement, and [...]
Reflection by Mickey Ellinger Naked, I’m a topo map of getting old: one breast shrunk from carving out an uninvited lump; above the other beneath the collarbone new disc size of a dollar metronome for lazy heart. Scar marks the pins that hold one upper arm to the shoulder, skinny arms draped in folds of skin knuckles swollen creeks of veins. No smoother going down: Drooping gut shadows belly button, balding [...]
by Andrea Bauer, Freedom Socialist Party/Radical Women I was assigned to travel to Milwaukee in mid-July wearing two hats. One was to represent the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) and Radical Women (RW) in the protest against the Republican National Convention on its opening day, Monday, July 15. The other was to report on the protest and the convention for the Freedom Socialist. Well, as I finished outlining my story on July 21, [...]
May 2024 Change Links Community Calendar Change Links can’t publish without your support. Send items, articles or poems to changelinks2@gmail.com or via 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, [...]
Medical Proof of Black Mold at WHV by Naykima Hill 08/15/23 https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/medical-proof-of-black-mold-at-whv/ My name is Naykima Hill, and I’m calling in regards to a few issues. But one I’m gonna deal with today is about my best friend Krystal Clark. When I called the radio station the first time, it was about our health and our maintain- the maintaining us here at Huron Valley Prison for women. I was telling you about [...]
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