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People Get Ready:  There's a Bad Moon on the Rise by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA (https://antiracist.org) As you read this, there is barely a month to election day. What are you doing to prepare for the possible outcomes and their consequences? Given recent realities, including vehicles being driven at racial justice protesters here in L.A., the murder of two protesters in Kenosha, exposures of organized racist violence being planned in Portland, the repeated refusals by Trump to say he will commit to a peaceful transfer of power, it [...]

By |2020-10-03T18:19:27-05:00October 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, Commentary, Constitution, COVID-19, Democracy, Donald Trump, Economy, Elections, Environment, Gentrification/Displacement, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Labor, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Palestine, Peace and War, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Socialism, Surveillance, Unity, Voting, War|0 Comments
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L.A. Sheriff’s Deputies Shot In Self-Defense (A Counter Spin)

By Kevin "Rashid" Johnson On Sept 12, 2020, two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were shot in a 'citizen involved shooting' in the city of Compton. According to credible citizen accounts, the two deputies were shot by a passerby in self-defense. The citizen, they report, was walking down the street on the way to church, when the cops pointed firearms at him from crouching positions in their patrol car and yelled the gang slogan, "Blue lives matter!" The citizen was able to avoid harm by using the [...]

By |2020-10-01T01:56:55-05:00October 1st, 2020|Commentary, Editorial cartoon, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Police, Police Brutality, Politics|0 Comments
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Propositions on the CA Ballot; Measure on LA County Ballot

Propositions on the CA ballot based on info at https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/   PROPOSITION 14: Have California continue funding stem cell research, by borrowing up to $5.5 billion. Prop. 14 would generate the money to keep open the state’s own stem cell agency, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and expand its research capacity. That would include dedicating $1.5 billion for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, stroke, epilepsy, and other brain and central nervous system diseases. The rest of the money would go for other research, medical training, building new research facilities [...]

By |2020-10-01T01:56:24-05:00October 1st, 2020|Anti-Racism/Racism, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Constitution, Education, Elections, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Movements|0 Comments
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Call For Solidarity After Paramilitaries Burn Zapatista Coffee Harvest In Chiapas

Two weeks ago in Zapatista territory, paramilitaries linked to the ruling party in Mexico looted and burned two Zapatista warehouses which stored this year’s coffee harvest. This is the latest in an accelerating series of attacks on the Zapatista project since the current administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office. Many of you will remember that in 2017 as Trump took office, the Zapatistas sent four tons of their coffee harvest to migrant and other communities in struggle in the US as an organizing resource. [...]

By |2020-10-01T01:53:25-05:00October 1st, 2020|Anarchism, Anti-capitalism, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Mexico, Movements, News, Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Free Press in the Dock: Assange Railroad Nears Terminal

This court case is like the 'Pentagon Papers' on steroids.  And yet: Only five people (including Craig Murray) are being allowed into the public gallery at the Old Bailey. The mainstream media are suppressing details of the case and the court proceedings. The magistrate in charge is acting like a CIA agent - railroading Assange to be extradited. You will not get a clearer report of the court proceedings than in Craig Murray's online blog. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/case  from which this report is excerpted: It is hard to believe, [...]

By |2020-10-03T18:17:12-05:00October 1st, 2020|Democracy, Europe, Free Speech, Fund Drives, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Iraq, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, People, Politics, Prisons, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, Surveillance, Veterans, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Book Review: The Role of the Revolutionary Poet

The Role of the Revolutionary Poet in Society and a Strategic Vision for the 21st Century by Mark Lipman (Vagabond Books, ISBN 13: 978-1-936293-39-1, 2020, $18.50) reviewed by Michael Novick This volume of essays and poems is by the former poetry curator of Change Links, Mark Lipman, who is the founder and editor of Vagabond, editor and publisher of a number of award winning poetry anthologies, including The Border Crossed Us (an anthology to end apartheid), and a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade and 100 Thousand [...]

By |2020-10-01T01:50:44-05:00October 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Arts, Economy, Environment, Health Care, Justice/Injustice, Mark Lipman, Michael Novick, Movements, Non-violence, Peace, Poetry Corner|0 Comments
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Behind the Viral Right Wing Video of BLM protest at Fundamentalist Church

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/viral-video-seemed-to-show-blm-storming-a-church-the-real by Anne Helen Petersen BuzzFeed News [Excerpts] The clip posted to Twitter — and viewed over 1.2 million times — purports to show protesters invading a church, screaming “Black Lives Matter” and even abusing parishioners. The clip was uploaded by Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, the pro-Trump student group, who added his own interpretation of events: “Christians have not been allowed to attend church for months,” Kirk tweeted, referring to coronavirus-related pauses in services. “But when they finally are, BLM rioters are allowed to [...]

By |2020-09-02T01:34:13-05:00September 2nd, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black Lives Matter, Disability issues, Features, Free Speech, Justice/Injustice, Movements, News|0 Comments
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AWARE-L.A. White Anti-Racist Saturday Dialogues

In response to the enormous upsurge in racial justice struggles, AWARE-LA (Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere; a somewhat grandiose title), which birthed White People for Black Lives, the Los Angeles affiliate of SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) has been busily integrating hundreds of new members who have been activated and energized in the streets in response to leadership from Black Lives Matter, the American Indian Movement, Centro CSO and other BIPOC organizations. Their long-running (15 years plus) Saturday drop-in dialogues are one of the main methods [...]

By |2020-09-02T01:32:36-05:00September 2nd, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Movements, Police Brutality, Social Media|0 Comments
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Ligia Gonzalez and “First Church” in Koreatown

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/first-unitarian-ligia-gonzalez/ This Lady known as the Church Lady, is really a Nicaragua-born political activist whose cause for social justice expresses her lifelong zest for living and for freedom…She's a Change Links subscriber. We couldn't run this story in the print edition, since it copyrighted and published in another local magazine, but we will look to do an interview or profile of our own, to revive our "People's Champions" feature. Her inner strength, pushed her into action over a year ago to protect her beloved gathering place, the [...]

By |2020-09-02T01:31:39-05:00September 2nd, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Features, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Peace, Poverty, Solidarity, Women|0 Comments
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Kosovo: Key US Ally Indicted for War Crimes at Hague

Key U.S. Ally Indicted for Organ Trade Murder Scheme by Nicolas J S Davies   When President Clinton dropped 23,000 bombs on what was left of Yugoslavia in 1999 and NATO invaded and occupied the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, U.S. officials presented the war to the American public as a “humanitarian intervention” to protect Kosovo’s majority ethnic Albanian population from genocide at the hands of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic. That narrative has been unraveling piece by piece ever since.   In 2008 an international prosecutor, Carla Del [...]

By |2020-08-01T18:24:28-05:00August 1st, 2020|Activism, Europe, Historical, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Movements, National Security, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Peace and War, War, Writers|0 Comments
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Disband LA Schools Police Department

The Struggle for No Police in the Los Angeles Schools: a Great Leap Forward and Victory is in Sight by ERIC MANN, Labor Community Strategy Center On Tuesday, June 23, in Los Angeles, the decade’s long struggle for No Police in the Schools had a major breakthrough. Los Angeles School Board member Monica Garcia introduced the most structural and hopeful motion to make “defund the police” a reality. Her motion, expressing gratitude to the national Black uprising, called for cutting the $70 million budget of the Los [...]

By |2020-07-01T04:22:27-05:00July 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black Lives Matter, Education, Eric Mann, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, People, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Poverty, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity, Unions|0 Comments
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Book Review: Mowing Leaves of Grass

Mowing Leaves of Grass by Matt Sedillo FlowerSong Books, McAllen, TX, 2019 ISBN 9781733809290 www.flowersongbooks.com https://www.mattsedillo.com/ reviewed by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action L.A.   If you haven't heard or seen Matt in person, you may not be able to hear the staccato machine gun cadence of his spit fire delivery leaping off the pages of this book of his recent poetry. Here's an example on-line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQUAxBr1Kco of Matt presenting his poem "The Devil," which is on pages 18-22 of the book. Definitely check it out before you [...]

By |2020-07-01T04:15:29-05:00July 1st, 2020|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Book Reviews, Books, Donald Trump, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Mexico, Michael Novick, Movements, Peace and War, Poetry Corner, Poverty, Reviews, Writers|0 Comments
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