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ICUJP Marks 20th Anniversary of 9-11 with Regas Peace & Justice Awards

ICUJP Marks 20 Years of Struggle for Peace & Justice by Steve Rohde & Grace Dyrness Twenty years ago, only days after the devastating 9/11 attacks, the late Rev. George F. Regas brought together Christians, Jews, Muslims, Quakers, humanists and people of many other faiths and beliefs to found Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP). Acutely aware that such a dire moment posed a grave threat to peace and justice, George knew that peacemakers needed to create a place to gather, organize, pray, and act [...]

By |2021-09-03T02:44:33-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Activism, COVID-19, Events, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Housing, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Movements, Peace, Stephen Rohde|0 Comments
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Grassroots Community Radio Coalition candidates for KPFK LSB

-Paid Political Ad - Vote for Grassroots Community Radio Coalition Candidates for LSB Defend Democracy, Diversity, Accountability & Community Radio! Money Out of Pacifica Politics - Keep Pacifica Whole and Committed to Peace, Justice & Self- Determination! Grassroots candidates are predominantly Black, Indigenous & People of Color, and majority women, reflecting the community. In alphabetical order: Deidra Bynum, Marisol Cruz, Fernando S. Fernando, Kelly Flores, George Funmaker, Rob Macon, Jack Neff, Michael Novick, Lydia Poncé, Rocío Rivas, Jeanine Rohn This ad doesn’t represent Pacifica, KPFK or any [...]

By |2021-09-03T02:37:58-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Activism, Ads, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Cuba, Elections, Free Speech, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Latin America, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Homeowners, Lydia Ponce, Michael Novick, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Police, Politics, Poverty, Protests and Rallies, Public Radio, Unions, Unity, Voting|0 Comments
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Evictions Wrongfully Proceeding in LA Courts

Evictions Proceeding in LA Courts Despite COVID, Moratorium By Ray Jones and Michael Novick Earlier this year, Public Counsel filed suit on behalf of itself and numerous LA-area legal aid organizations, to demand the LA Superior Court shut down, rather than continuing civil trials on traffic citations and “unlawful detainer” – eviction – proceedings. Their claim is that the needless court actions endanger the health of the poor people being dragged into court needlessly, and the attorneys who represent them. “This lawsuit highlights how perfunctory rules and [...]

By |2021-09-03T02:31:31-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Africa, Big Business, California, COVID-19, Democracy, Gentrification/Displacement, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Low income, Movements, News, Politics, Poverty|0 Comments
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Mumia Abu-Jamal on the (Crocodile) Tears of Empire

The Tears of Empire © 8/2021 by Mumia Abu-Jamal With the dramatic fall of Kabul, through the forces of the Taliban, the alligator tears of the political class are falling. Decrying the costs of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. What has been thoroughly forgotten, however, is the unprecedented mass protests of February, 2003, before the [Iraq] war began. When the earth shook with antiwar, fervor and countries across the globe. Then-president George W. Bush would ignore these protests as a mere focus group, his words, focus. In the [...]

By |2021-09-03T02:30:34-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Afghanistan, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, COVID-19, Disability issues, Ecology, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Mumia Abu-Jamal, News|0 Comments
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Victory for Democracy and Diversity at Pacifica

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA      The outcome of the recent Bylaws referendum at Pacifica, allowing the Local Station Board elections of listener and staff delegates to go forward, is a victory for democracy, diversity, accountability and a commitment to mission-driven, community-based radio.       The New Day bylaws change, according to the same rules that governed the previous Bylaws referendum, in accordance not just with Pacifica's existing Bylaws, but with the California Corporations Code governing non-profit membership organizations, required the separate approval of two classes of members -- [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:33:04-05:00August 1st, 2021|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, Elections, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Public Radio|0 Comments
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Genocide Schools

“Genocide Schools” by Mumia Abu-Jamal © 07/02/21 While most of us think of schools as a social good, in the history of some people, that has not been the case. Among Canada’s indigenous people, those we have come to call “Indians,” schools have become a place of pain, sorrow, and loss. For the better part of a century these schools, called residential schools, were where indigenous children came to be whipped, punished, and traumatized for the sin of not being white. First run by the government, later [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:23:36-05:00August 1st, 2021|Anti-Racism/Racism, Historical, Human Rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prisons, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: The ramifications of being Black in the united states

The ramifications of being Black in the united states by Mariana Franco [Excerpt]   Death Loss of Breath final words "I can't breathe" Death from privileged white tears Death from soulless blue shield devils Black death shadowing over Black lives matter Too many names to say too many names to say Too many names to say the ramification of being Black in the united states is death We got to rise up we got to thrive The ramification of being Black in the united states needs to [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:21:25-05:00August 1st, 2021|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Black Lives Matter, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Contests, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Poetry Corner|0 Comments
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Rest in Power: Glen Ford

Rest in Power Glen Ford November 5, 1949-July 28, 2021 from https://www.blackagendareport.com/about-us In the fall of  2006, Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley and Leutisha Stills of CBC Monitor left Black Commentator, which Ford had co-founded and edited since 2002, and launched Black Agenda Report. The son of famed disc jockey Rudy “The Deuce” Rutherford, who was the first Black man to host a non-gospel television show in the Deep South – Columbus, Georgia, 1958 – Glen was reading newswire copy on-the-air at age eleven. Glen’s first [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:16:07-05:00August 1st, 2021|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black Lives Matter, Glen Ford, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Independent Journalism, Internet, Justice/Injustice, Movements, News, Obituary, Politics, Public Radio, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Mike Hall of Venice was murdered June 25

A houseless man was murdered on Venice Beach. There's more that needs to be said about what’s happening there. by Peggy Lee Kennedy Mike Hall, a 49 year-old Venice local, was murdered on Dudley hill next to the Venice Boardwalk on June 25. He was previously living in a vehicle by Electric and Venice Blvd.. His RV got towed and he came to the boardwalk because he heard people were getting housing from there. A man whose street-name is “Midget Mike,” who is short and not technically [...]

By |2021-07-02T00:00:51-05:00July 2nd, 2021|Activism, COVID-19, Economy, Garcetti, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Low income, Movements, Peggy Kennedy, Police|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Shallow Roots by Michael Novick

Shallow Roots by Michael Novick [excerpts] I have shallow roots in the blood-soaked soil of Turtle Island. My father arrived from Bialystok in the '30s, in his teens. There are no Americans in my genes and my genes are in no Americans. My non-biological grand-daughter was raised in Europe and has become a Swede, married to a Swede, with two lovely Swedish children. I am glad she didn't have to grow up here, steeped in misogyny and corruption. My roots are shallow in this blood-soaked land of [...]

By |2021-07-01T23:59:57-05:00July 1st, 2021|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Historical, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Movements, Pacifica/KPFK, Poetry Corner, Politics, Socialism|0 Comments
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PDF of July 2021 print edition of Change Links

By |2021-07-01T23:57:34-05:00July 1st, 2021|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Black Lives Matter, Calendar, COVID-19, Economy, Environment, Events, Features, Gentrification/Displacement, Human Rights, Independent Media, Indigenous, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Letters To Editors, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Movements, Music, News, Peace and War|0 Comments
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