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How L.A. Keeps the Poor, Poor

How Los Angeles Keeps the Poor, Poor by Gayle Fleury https://citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/20715-how-los-angeles-keeps-the-poor-poor Of the 15 Council Districts in the city of Los Angeles, there are a few that house the most homeless and have the poorest people. Those are Districts 3, 4, and 15, seeing a jump of from 45-53% in homelessness, while other Districts had an increase of 10-30% I live in CD 15, Joe Buscaino’s district. The Harbor and the Port [...]

By |2020-12-01T20:49:30-05:00December 1st, 2020|Commentary, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Poverty, Protests and Rallies|0 Comments
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To Women with Children of Color on Fathers’ Day

On Father's Day to Women with children of color!   I want to Thank You, for allowing incarcerated men to be able to make a contribution even of the smallest magnitude toward the development of our communities. You have many reasons to be at odds with this infrastructure. The Department of Justice takes from us the comfort of your arms in the interest of the public, makes us pay restitution that is [...]

By |2020-07-01T04:00:02-05:00July 1st, 2020|Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, Health, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Homelessness, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Poverty, Prisons|0 Comments
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For a #PeoplesBudgetLA

https://peoplesbudgetla.com/ In the face of an unprecedented public health crisis and historic economic instability, LA Mayor Garcetti has proposed a $10.5 billion budget that reduces services, furloughs city workers, and cuts the budget of all city departments with one big exception: the LA Police Department. Garcetti proposes increases to the police budget, specifically $34 million dollars in overtime pay. The  LAPD already receives 54% of LA’s discretionary spending. This would increase their [...]

By |2020-06-01T01:48:35-05:00June 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Banking Reform, Beyond Capitalism, Big Business, California, COVID-19, Economy, Economy, Education, Homelessness, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements|0 Comments
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Black LA Demands Over COVID-19 and Black Death Rates

Los Angeles County has the second-highest population of Black and African-descent people of any county in the US, with over a million Black residents, behind only Cook County, Illinois, and ahead of Kings County (Brooklyn) in New York, (c. 922,000) or Harris County, TX (Houston) with c. 903,000.      But despite that fact, and a history of having two of the largest and most serious rebellions in US history (Watts 1965 and [...]

By |2020-06-01T00:52:40-05:00June 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, Economy, Education, Health Care, Homelessness, Immigration/Migrant rights, Los Angeles, Movements|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 [...]

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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Mumia Abu-Jamal: “Locked Up & Locked Down”

LOCKED UP AND LOCKED DOWN! (col. writ. 4/10/20)  ©2020 by Mumia Abu-Jamal   For nearly a month now, all prisoners in PA State prisons, over 40 thousand men and women, have been locked down. What does locked down mean?   When I was on Death Row, all of us were locked down, as the saying went “23 & 1”: or for twenty-three hours a day, with one hour for out-of-cell exercise - [...]

By |2020-05-20T02:44:36-05:00May 20th, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, COVID-19, Health, Health Care, Homelessness, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, News, Prisons, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Landlords Violating Rules and Tenants’ Rights

At the height of the COVID-19 Crisis, with state and local officials urging tenants to be “Safer at Home,” landlords are filing eviction law suits, their attorneys are encouraging them do so, and the court, for at least 15 days after Rule 1 was issued, sent out false and misleading notices to tenants; notices that violated the State Judicial Council’s April 6, 2020 orders. And because a landlord can print a Summons [...]

By |2020-05-20T02:43:00-05:00May 20th, 2020|Activism, California, Capitalism, COVID-19, Economy, Homelessness, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, News, Politics, Poverty, Resources, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Resources for Dealing with Child Poverty, Domestic Abuse & Houselessness

California 1736 Family Crisis Center 2116 Arlington Avenue, Suite 200 Los Angeles, CA 90018 (323) 737-3900 Mission To help children, women, men, and families through crises, including domestic violence, sexual assault, homelessness, joblessness, poverty, human trafficking, suicide ideation and attempts, addiction, post-traumatic stress, and emotional and life-survival challenges, thereby improving their prospects for long-term housing, psychological wellness, financial stability, and success. Who They Serve Victims of domestic violence Runaway and homeless youth [...]

By |2020-03-30T19:53:34-05:00March 30th, 2020|About, Anti-capitalism, Economy, Girls, Health, Homelessness, Poverty|0 Comments
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Solidarity Forever: Social Cohesion as the Antidote to Social Distancing

Social Cohesion and Social Solidarity as the Antidote to Social Distancing by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles I think we should try to rename "Social Distancing." People in the U.S. are already far too socially distanced from each other, driving in our steel cocoons, riding the buses and trains in unreceptive, unresponsive isolation, each glued to our own screen, ears filled with our own soundtrack. Let's call it socially responsible distancing, adopting [...]

By |2020-03-26T01:11:39-05:00March 26th, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, Democracy, Ecology, Economy, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Homelessness, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous Nations, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Non-violence, Palestine, Peace, Poverty, Prisons, Protests and Rallies, Socialism, Solidarity, Unions, Volunteer|0 Comments
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Global Pandemic: Notes From Italy’s ‘Red Zone’

Notes From Italy's 'Red Zone' by Anthony Cristofani, Special to Change Links I moved to Italy two months ago because I thought it would be a more reasonable government under which to live and work for change.  After the COVID-19 outbreak friends and family started writing and calling me with great worry in their voices, asking how bad it was here.  In truth, I’m all the more grateful I moved here, and far [...]

By |2020-03-25T17:09:42-05:00March 25th, 2020|Beyond Capitalism, COVID-19, Economy, Europe, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Homelessness, Independent Journalism, Italy, Jails, Labor, News|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 [...]

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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Letter to the Editor: Don’t Ostracize and Stigmatize All Cops

Letter to the Editor: Don't Ostracize and Stigmatize All Cops As "Bastards" 02-23-2020 I am writing in response to Imani Beckett’s article, “Why all Cops Are In Fact Bastards,” in the February, 2020 edition of Change Links. Throughout human history virtually all major systems of power inherently draw to them those who seek to impose their strength over others.  The fact that these systems often oppress others is particularly disdainful, because it [...]

By |2020-02-28T23:14:52-05:00February 28th, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, Editorial, Greg Foisie, Historical, Homelessness, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Letters to the Editor, Michael Novick, Non-violence, Peace, Police Brutality, Socialism, Solidarity, Surveillance, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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