Los Angeles Medical Aid for Cuba Meeting Draws Diverse Crowd Shows expansion of movement to end the US blockade of Cuba By Mark Friedman A diverse crowd, representing more than a dozen organizations, streamed into a meeting here in July to raise money for medical aid for Cuba and to show opposition to the US Blockade. As the approximately 65 people entered the McCarthy Memorial Church in LA’s Black community, they were [...]
Public Health Confirms Community Transmission of Monkeypox in LA County; Details Vaccination Efforts Public Health has confirmed local transmission of monkeypox in LA County, as some of the more recent of the 22 cases of monkeypox in LA County thus far have no history of international or out-of-state travel. There have been no hospitalizations or deaths. Anyone can get and spread monkeypox, but some of the recent cases identified have [...]
Ingredients You Need To Look For In A Blood Sugar Supplement https://us.consumerguide.info/top-5-blood-sugar-support-supplements/ 1: Chromium is absolutely essential when it comes to controlling blood sugar levels and works by aiding the action of insulin in the body. 2 Alpha Lipoic Acid In addition to its strong antioxidant properties and promotion of healthy nerve function, Alpha Lipoic Acid lowers the risk of heart disease. 3 Cinnamon Bark Extract There are two different types of [...]
To the editor, I was happy to learn the San Francisco-based company Eat Just is planning to build the world’s biggest cultivated-meat factory in the United States. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. The planned facility will have ten 250,000-liter bioreactors, capable of producing 30-million pounds of this revolutionary protein every year. Despite such amazing progress in the private sector, more federal funding for [...]
Peoples Summit June 8-10 at LATTC, in the tradition of each Summit of the Americas since the 2005 Mar Del Plata Summit, we, unionists, activists, grassroots organizations and progressive people of the Americas are calling for a People’s Summit to counter the 9th “Summit of the Americas” to be held in the US for the first time, here in Los Angeles, CA. The People’s Summit will host three days of art, music, [...]
How Far…? by Nia Asante How far back do we roll amerika? How far back do we go? If we roll back Roe do we go back to whips and chains? Do we go back to chastity belts? We still have marriages that are arranged. Honor killings and genital mutilation should seem strange! How far is too far amerika? Do we build you with chain gangs? Is [...]
Change Links note: As abortion is increasingly criminalized, and as reproductive rights stand to be overturned by the Supreme Court, we are printing this informational piece about non-surgical methods to terminate a pregnancy, to empower women. We also heartily recommend collective mass action to end the war on women! Methods of Non-surgical Abortion Medical abortion is a way to end a pregnancy by using abortion-inducing drugs as an alternative to surgical [...]
Rest in Power Ronald Spriestersbach, 1928-2021 Ron Spriesterbach, who passed away recently at age 93, was a warm friend and good comrade, an anti-racist and anti-imperialist to the core and to the last. Ron is pictured above on the right with his comrade Reza Pour. Like Reza, Ron was a former member of the KPFK Local Station Board and active with the Grassroots Community Radio Coalition as a manifestation of his lifelong [...]
by Maureen Cruise Health Care 4 All-Los Angeles Assembly Bill 1400 Guaranteed Health Care for All, otherwise known as Cal Care, was the 7th attempt at securing California single-payer legislation. The problem has not been policy or finance. Those are clearly achievable with very favorable results for our population's health and for the state’s economy. Twenty-two financial analyses of US single payer proposals over the past 30 years have concluded substantial savings [...]
Sea Lampreys are the leeches of the sea; they suck blood from other marine life forms. As a result, they concentrate PFAS, highly toxic flame retardant chemicals of which the US military is probably the largest polluter, that are poisoning other fish, much as fish high on the marine food chain concentrate toxic mercury from the other fish they consume. https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/vampire-fish-have-lots-of-pfas The Sea Lamprey attaches to fish with its suction cup mouth, [...]
Want to Know How “Vegan” Each State Is? Look at the 2020 US Presidential Election Results [2021 Study] by Natasha Spencer <natasha@totalshape.com> https://totalshape.com/ Our latest research into veganism in America has revealed a surprising link between politics and how vegan-friendly individual States are. Our research team was collecting data from all 50 states to come up with a definitive list of the most vegan states of 2021. And we started noticing that [...]
Earlier Version with Images: https://tinyurl.com/334cyvsw While mounds of resources and money have been invested to end Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation or FGC/M, by and large, FGC is rising worldwide. (1) This alarming trend in this horrific form of child abuse is mainly perpetuated by migrating and growing populations from female genital cutting cultures combined with ineffective activism driven by ethnocentric myths on the part of the activists and more importantly, Western Culture itself. [...]
