Which Side Are You On?

The Struggle for Democracy, Diversity and Transparency at Pacifica by the Pacifica Mission Coalition https://pacificamissioncoalition.com/ DISCLAIMER: This is not an official Pacifica Foundation, Inc.  communication nor an official communication of any of the five Pacifica Foundation, Inc. Radio Stations (KPFA Radio, KPFK Radio, KPFT Radio, WBAI Radio, WPFW Radio). Opinions and facts alleged in this article belong to the author(s) only and should NOT be assumed to be true or to reflect [...]

Local Struggles on Many Fronts: ICE, LAUSD, World Cup

Shut Down Adelanto ICE Detention Center! There is an ongoing hunger strike in the Adelanto CA ICE detention center’s Desert View Annex, where at least 20 people are refusing food in a last resort effort to try and change the horrifying conditions they endure at the detention center.      All immigrants deserve to seek immigration relief in the care of their beloved communities and with access to resources. Studies by the American [...]

San Gabriel Valley Residents Unite Against Data Centers – Rally May 2

Last month, a proposed massive A-I data center in Monterey Park was scuttled after united community opposition in the San Gabriel Valley, particularly by immigrant residents in some of the unincorporated areas. The Monterey Park City Council approved a ballot measure for submission to voters in June that would ban data centers in the city. But the issue is still a live one in many other area cities. The City of Vernon [...]

LA Charter Commission Releases Report, Recommended Changes

The LA Charter Reform Commission has issued its report and recommendations. It will be considered by the City Council, which will determine which items move forward to a vote by Angelenos on which measures will be adopted. You can read the full report here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hHa0OLsFg9EmPPlO6QgUsGfzTKwQgOtp/view Key recommendations include a two-year budgeting process, an increase in the size of the City Council, greater power for the Chief of Police to discipline officers, and [...]

April 2026 Change Links Community Calendar

Change Links can’t publish without your support. Send items, articles or poems to changelinks2@gmail.com or via change-links.org/submit/   WE NEED VOLUNTEER  DISTRIBUTORS of the CHANGE LINKS newspaper/community calendar TO VENUES & EVENTS. PLEASE EMAIL US AT: <changelinks2@gmail.com> if you can assist.  Please subscribe as well. Subscriptions to the print edition are $12/25/50 a year, low income, regular or sustainer (sliding scale), payable to “AFGJ,” our fiscal sponsor, with “Change Links” in the memo. All [...]

February 2026 Change Links Community Calendar

Change Links can’t publish without your support. Send items, articles or poems to changelinks2@gmail.com or via change-links.org/submit/   WE URGENTLY NEED VOLUNTEER  DISTRIBUTORS of CHANGE LINKS TO VENUES & AT EVENTS. PLEASE EMAIL US: <changelinks2@gmail.com>    Please subscribe as well. Subscriptions to the print edition are $12/25/50 a year, low income, regular or sustainer (sliding scale), payable to “AFGJ,” our fiscal sponsor, with “Change Links” in the memo. All events announced are [...]

Save Oakwood Park in Venice from Gentrification

by Lydia Ponce Our beloved Oakwood Park, a sanctuary for families and children in the heart of our community, has recently become a place of concern rather than solace. Over the past few years, incidents involving dogs being illegally off-leash have increased at an alarming rate. As a neighbor who frequents this park, I have witnessed firsthand the unsettling consequences of such negligence. One child has been a victim twice of these [...]

Palantir Colonizes Los Angeles

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA Palantir Technologies has long contracted with the LAPD to provide software and data analysis capacities that fuel "Pred-Pol",  predictive (some say, predatory) policing, and the widespread use of automated license plate readers that track and identify every vehicle on the streets of Los Angeles. Now Palantir is taking its act into the air above Los Angeles. Palantir has formed a partnership with Archer Aviation, aimed at [...]

Olympics 2028: Point/Counterpoint – NOlympics LA

Olympic Reform Efforts Are Setting Us Up for a Double Disaster by the NOlympicsLA Coalition https://nolympicsla.com/2025/11/11/fighting-the-forever-games/ The Olympics have always been sold as temporary — a two-week spectacle of worldwide unity and athletic exceptionalism that brings honor (and infrastructure) to its rotating host city. With LA28 now less than 1,000 days away, the myth of Olympic legacy is breaking down, with reform campaigns multiplying and officials scrambling to make word salad slide [...]

PDF of Sept. 2025 issue of Change Links

From the LA Eight to Columbia University

From the LA Eight to Columbia University, the student intifada has shaken power to its core by Michel Shehadeh https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/la-eight-columbia-student-intifada-shaken-power-core It has been a year since the students at Columbia University pitched their tents and refused to be silent in the face of Israel's genocide in Gaza. A year since their chants for a free Palestine rang out across the campus, cutting through the silence of institutional complicity. On this first anniversary [...]

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