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Protect Workers from Extreme Heat

by the AFL-CIO Cities coast to coast are breaking all-time heat records this July, as the extreme heat continues. But while workers continue to face dangerous and potentially deadly working conditions, anti-worker leaders in Congress are quietly attempting to stop any heat safety protection laws from being passed, now or in the future. H.R. 6213, the misnamed Heat Workforce Standards Act, would prohibit the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from creating [...]

By |2026-08-01T18:27:55-05:00August 1st, 2026|Activism, Capitalism, Climate Change, Economy, Health, Labor, Labor, Movements|0 Comments
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San Gabriel Valley Residents Unite Against Data Centers – Rally May 2

Last month, a proposed massive A-I data center in Monterey Park was scuttled after united community opposition in the San Gabriel Valley, particularly by immigrant residents in some of the unincorporated areas. The Monterey Park City Council approved a ballot measure for submission to voters in June that would ban data centers in the city. But the issue is still a live one in many other area cities. The City of Vernon [...]

By |2026-04-30T17:13:18-05:00April 30th, 2026|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Artificial Intelligence, California, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Climate Change, Democracy, Ecology, Economy, Economy, Energy, Environment, Environmentalism, Health, Immigration, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity Economics|0 Comments
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USC, Navy Program Appears Linked to Israeli Brigade that Massacred Paramedics

https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/02/18/usc-navy-program-appears-linked-to-specific-israeli-brigade-that-massacred-paramedics-photo-shows/ In the featured graphic: People wearing a modified version of the Israeli military's Golani Brigade logo were photographed near the Navy Trauma Training Center. By Reo, Sasha Ryu, and Jackson Mills People who appear to be part of the Israeli military’s Golani Brigade were seen walking through Los Angeles General Medical Center [AKA County/USC], amid ongoing reporting by Annenberg Media about a program where USC trains Israeli military medical personnel using [...]

By |2026-02-26T23:38:45-05:00February 26th, 2026|Activism, California, Education, Genocide, Health, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Students, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Open The Eyes of Many

©08/2025 by Mumia Abu-Jamal (Spanish translation below) When we shine that bright light, we will symbolically, literally and figuratively, open the eyes of many. And there are guys walking around right now who have glaucoma, who have eye damage, who have lens damage, who have retinal damage due to diabetes, and all of that can be treated, can be cured, or at least held at bay for a pittance. You know, laser [...]

By |2025-09-30T23:35:33-05:00September 30th, 2025|Aging, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Disability issues, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Human Rights, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Political Prisoners, Poverty, Prisons|0 Comments
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“Medicare Advantage” Is a Threat to Workers

by Joe Maniscalco, Work Bites https://portside.org/2025-07-16/medicare-advantage-such-threat-workers-they-wrote-paper-it This past April, labor advocates for single payer health care published a white paper called, “Medicare Advantage: What Labor Leaders Need to Know.” In it, the authors remind labor leaders—including those in New York City who spent the last four years trying to push 250,000 municipal retirees into Medicare Advantage—that Medicare Advantage is “neither Medicare (the public, universal program without intermediaries between patients and the healthcare [...]

By |2025-08-01T21:29:36-05:00August 1st, 2025|Activism, Aging, Anti-capitalism, Disability issues, Economy, Health, Health Care, Human Rights, Labor, Movements, Politics, Single Payer - Medicare for All|0 Comments
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Giving billionaires an even larger slice of the pie

From Protect Medicaid  via moveon.org The House bill would rip away lifesaving health care from 16 million people. The Senate's proposed cuts are even harsher: The bill would impose damaging work requirements on Medicaid recipients that will take health care away from parents, people with disabilities, and patients with chronic illnesses. It will make it harder for people to enroll in Medicaid or maintain their coverage and eliminates coverage for people who [...]

By |2025-07-06T23:47:49-05:00July 6th, 2025|Activism, Big Business, Capitalism, Commentary, Disability issues, Donald Trump, Economy, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Low income, News, Politics|0 Comments
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Suicide Prevention Grant Funds Available from Veterans’ Administration

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs today announced the availability of approximately $52.5 million in grants for community-based organizations that provide suicide prevention or emergency clinical services to Veterans at risk of suicide. Grant applications are due by 4:59 p.m. ET, July 18, and VA will choose awardees by Sept. 30. Organizations can apply for grants worth up to $750,000 and may apply to renew awards from year to year throughout the length [...]

By |2025-05-31T15:27:51-05:00May 31st, 2025|Aging, Disability issues, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, National Security, News, Politics, Resources, Veterans, War|0 Comments
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California making low-cost Insulin, Naloxone Available

CalRX is making biosimilar insulin available to Californians who need it to treat diabetes at low cost, and has now extended the offered medication to include naloxone which is used to combat overdoses from opioids like fentanyl, to prevent fatalities. Insulin can be found here: https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/, and naloxone here: https://calrx.ca.gov/naloxone/ The state's website described the latter initiative as follows: $24 Over-the-Counter Naloxone by CalRx® The ongoing opioid overdose crisis across the nation [...]

By |2025-04-25T01:40:18-05:00April 25th, 2025|Beyond Capitalism, California, California, Disability issues, Economy, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Low income, Newsom, Politics, Poverty, Resources, Youth|0 Comments
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In Memoriam: Jeffrey Hirsch

We here at Change Links learned belatedly last month of the passing of our crew member and comrade Jeffrey Hirsch. Jeffrey was the artist and activist who contributed the "Y. B. Normal" editorial cartoons that have appeared monthly in Change Links for many years. He would've been 81 had he lived until his birthday in February, but his housemates found that he had passed peacefully in his sleep from coronary artery disease [...]

By |2025-03-29T12:45:11-05:00March 29th, 2025|Activism, Aging, Arts, Disability issues, Editorial cartoon, Health, In Memoriam, Independent Media, Jeffrey Hirsch, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, Obituary, Peace and War, Solidarity, Y.B. Normal|0 Comments
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Letter to Editor: Cultivated pork fat nearing market

By Jon Hochschartner I was pleased to learn cultivated pork fat produced by Mission Barns has gained the approval of the Food and Drug Administration. For those who don’t know, cultivated pork fat, like other cultivated products, is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. Once the offering gets the go-ahead from the Department of Agriculture, Mission Barns will introduce it at select restaurants and stores. “First and foremost, consumers won’t eat food [...]

By |2025-03-29T12:40:27-05:00March 29th, 2025|Beyond Capitalism, Big Business, Ecology, Economy, Economy, Environmentalism, Food, Health, Health, Letters, Letters to the Editor, Recipes|0 Comments
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One Struggle, Many Fronts!

One Struggle, Many Fronts - Uniting the Many to Defeat the Few! by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles (ARA-LA/PART) https://antiracist.org Just over a month in power, the Trump-Vance-Musk regime and its acolytes and minions are continuing their rapid-fire and relentless assaults on labor, immigrants, Black, Indigenous, Raza, and Asian-Pacific Islander people, women, LGBTQIA+ people, public health, education, freedom of speech and the press, the environment, and international solidarity, while encouraging other fascist [...]

By |2025-03-01T02:39:23-05:00March 1st, 2025|Abortion, Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, Donald Trump, Ecology, Education, Environmentalism, Fascism, Health, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous Nations, Journalists, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Police, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Public Radio, Repression, Reproductive Rights, Socialism, Solidarity, Unity, War|0 Comments
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