PDF of June 2023 print edition of Change Links GalleryPDF of June 2023 print edition of Change Links
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Possible White Nationalist Threats to So Cal Gay Pride/Freedom Events
An old law school pal of mine works in "targeted violence prevention". That means she's involved in a lot of efforts to combat and track white nationalist networks. She is very well and widely connected in her field. She shared, during a guest talk with my students, that there's been a lot of "chatter" through white nationalist networks (e.g. private message boards, and on white nationalist social media) in Southern California about [...]
KPFK: Under New Management GalleryKPFK: Under New Management
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KPFK: Under New Management
and Open to the Community KPFK – Under New Management By Michael Novick, KPFK interim General Manager Change Links has carried many articles with my byline before, but this one is unique. I am writing to you as the new unpaid interim General Manager of KPFK. I was recently appointed to that position by the Pacifica Executive Director, Stephanie Wells. She and the Pacifica National Board determined that there was no money [...]
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Books: No Pasaran! Anti-Fascist Dispatches
No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis Shane Burley (Editor); Tal Lavin (Foreword); David Renton (Afterword) Publisher: AK Press https://akpress.org Format: Book Binding: pb Pages: 564 Released: October 25, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781849354820 Now available for preorder. Order your copy now and receive a ¡No Pasarán! enamel pin with your copy. Both will ship as soon as the book is released! ¡No Pasarán! is an anthology of antifascist writing that [...]
October 1 National Day of Action to End Violence on Transgender People
by Tsukuru Fors On Saturday, October 1st, 2022, the transgender/gender non-conforming communities and their allies are taking to the streets in multiple cities across the US, including here in L.A., to demand federal protection for the rights of transgender/gender-non-conforming people, as well as healthcare justice, housing justice, workplace justice, and reproductive justice for all. The action was originally inspired as a protest to H.R. 8731, Protect Children's Innocence Act, which was introduced [...]
Monkeypox Transmission Locally in L.A. County
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 [...]
Disney Workers Walk Out in Burbank, Orlando
https://www.whereischapek.com/open-letter The recent statements by The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) leadership regarding the Florida legislature’s recent “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” bill have utterly failed to match the magnitude of the threat to LGBTQIA+ safety represented by this legislation. Primarily, those statements have indicated that leadership still does not truly understand the impact this legislation is having not only on Cast Members in the state of Florida, but on all members of [...]
Victory of Chilean Left Presidential Candidate Strengthens a Trend GalleryVictory of Chilean Left Presidential Candidate Strengthens a Trend
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Victory of Chilean Left Presidential Candidate Strengthens a Trend
Victory of Chilean Left Presidential Candidate Strengthens a Trend Excerpted from TelesurEnglish.net Frente Amplio (Broad Front) candidate Gabriel Boric, 35, won a decisive run-off victory in alliance with the Chilean Communist Party against a right-wing opponent (whose father was a member of Hitler’s Nazi Party) in a changing Latin America, at times unstable. His victory comes after the triumphs earlier in 2021 of Pedro Castillo in Peru and Xiomara Castro in Honduras, [...]
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Could Sex Ed Halt Trans Homicides? Some Advocates Say Yes.
As transgender homicides surge, experts say teaching kids that an attraction to transgender people is OK could curb the crisis. https://19thnews.org/2021/05/could-queer-inclusive-sex-ed-halt-trans-homicides-some-advocates-say-yes/ by Kate Sosin, LGBTQ+ reporter The sex education that KC Slack received at their Ohio high school in the early aughts was scant. “My own experience of sex ed was like two days of health class, which were dedicated to making us afraid of STIs and telling us that we [...]
Radical Queer Organizing Against Racist Police Terror
Radical Queer Organizing Against Racist Police Terror https://outfm.org/liberation/index.php/home/internship-application/464-queer-resistance-in-minneapolis-to-police-terror (Excerpts) I'm Bob Lederer. We're recording this segment on April 18, as the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd moves to a conclusion and perhaps a verdict may be announced by the time this program airs. Community resistance grows in the nearby suburb of Brooklyn Center in response to the outrageous murder of Daunte Wright. It's critical to speak to [...]
People Get Ready GalleryPeople Get Ready
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People Get Ready
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 [...]