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30th Anniversary of Pan African Film Festival
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30th Anniversary of Pan African Film Festival
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30th Anniversary of Pan African Film Festival

https://paff.eventive.org/films It's a virtual film festival at first this year because of continued COVID restrictions, as the Omicron spike slowly ebbs, but they are having a phenomenal 30-year anniversary retrospective for Black History Month. They ae planning for a hybrid in-person and on-line festival in late April and early May at the Directors' Guild Theater and the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw mall (including the art display). See details below. https://www.paff.org/ PAN AFRICAN FILM AND [...]

By Change-Links|2022-02-08T15:49:23-05:00February 8th, 2022|Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, Calendar, Events, Film & Documentaries, Films, Gentrification/Displacement, Historical, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Movements, Theater|0 Comments

Keep Cops Out of the MLK Day Commemoration This Year

Martin Luther King Day Organizers Say No Cops in the Commemoration The reckless killing of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, a 14-yr-old struck down by an LAPD stray bullet from an assault rifle shot in a crowded store has further steeled the determination of a coalition of community and grassroots organizations to ensure that Dr. King’s legacy not be tarnished by any further inclusions of police, ICE or military contingents on the day of his [...]

By Change-Links|2022-01-05T14:07:48-05:00January 1st, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, Calendar, Events, Garcetti, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Police, Police Brutality, Protests and Rallies|0 Comments

#EndPoliceAssociations

To Help End Racist Police Murders with Impunity #EndPoliceAssociations Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and their allies, especially family members of people who have been killed by the police and sheriff’s deputies, hold a vigil every Wednesday afternoon at 4 PM outside the LA Police Protective League (LAPPL), one of a number of local police associations that defend criminal and corrupt cops, and work to prevent any accountability for law enforcement killings. [...]

By Change-Links|2022-01-01T01:31:44-05:00January 1st, 2022|Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, Events, Garcetti, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity|0 Comments

Free Public Transit Now! End Anti-Black Policing & Policies on Metro!

The Bus Riders Union Calls on the Metro board to cease and desist all Anti-Black policies Immediately! Fight on the side of the BRU This Thursday Dec 2nd at 10am At the Metro Board Meeting This Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 at 10 AM the Bus Riders Union will be introducing the following motion and asking MTA board members to send it to the CEO for implementation “The MTA Board acknowledges that after [...]

By Change-Links|2021-12-01T22:52:24-05:00December 1st, 2021|Activism, Black Lives Matter, Commentary, Democracy, Eric Mann, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, News, Police, Police Brutality, Poverty, Protests and Rallies, Public Transit, Solidarity, Surveillance|0 Comments

Crenshaw Mall Quietly Sold to Failed Developer, not Black Community
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Crenshaw Mall Quietly Sold to Failed Developer, not Black Community
Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Banks, Black Lives Matter, Capitalism, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Housing, Los Angeles, Low income, Movements

Crenshaw Mall Quietly Sold to Failed Developer, not Black Community

The Battle For The Crenshaw Mall Continues by Downtown Crenshaw We have confirmed the Crenshaw Mall was quietly sold to the corrupt, racist and failed developer David Schwartzman of Harridge Development Group. This is of course disappointing. At its root, the decision by the sellers of the mall (public pension funds and Deutsche Bank/DWS) to sell to Schwartzman instead of the Black community illustrates that systemic and generational racism in real estate [...]

By Change-Links|2021-09-03T02:29:56-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Banks, Black Lives Matter, Capitalism, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Housing, Los Angeles, Low income, Movements|0 Comments

Poetry Corner: The ramifications of being Black in the united states
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Poetry Corner: The ramifications of being Black in the united states
Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Black Lives Matter, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Contests, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Poetry Corner

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 [...]

By Change-Links|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

Housing & Gentrification Issues

Community Control of the Crenshaw Mall! Fight Gentrification! The major players involved in the sale of the Crenshaw Mall trying to gentrify Black L.A. are some of the world’s most powerful people and shady characters. It can get complicated, so we broke it all down. Several of America's largest public pension funds #LACERA #NYCERS #UCRegents #TRSNYC #TexasTeachers are the investors in Capri Urban Investors, a private equity fund that owns the Crenshaw [...]

By Change-Links|2021-08-01T02:20:26-05:00August 1st, 2021|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Banking Reform, Banks, Big Business, Black Lives Matter, California, California, Gentrification/Displacement, Housing, Los Angeles, Low income, News, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity|0 Comments

Rest in Power: Glen Ford
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Rest in Power: Glen Ford
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

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 – [...]

By Change-Links|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

PDF of July 2021 print edition of Change Links

By Change-Links|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

Juneteenth is Now a Federal Holiday
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Juneteenth is Now a Federal Holiday
Biden, Black Lives Matter, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Politics, Rob Macon, Slavery

Juneteenth is Now a Federal Holiday

Juneteenth now a Federal Holiday by Rob Macon Juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of African-American slaves, is now a federal holiday in the United States. Celebrating African-American culture annually in the U.S. since 1865, it originated in Galveston, Texas. President Joe Biden signs bill declaring June 19th as Juneteeth, marking the end of slavery. June 7, 1979, President Jimmy Carter decreed that June would be Black Music Month, an annual celebration for nearly [...]

By Change-Links|2021-07-01T23:54:27-05:00July 1st, 2021|Biden, Black Lives Matter, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Politics, Rob Macon, Slavery|0 Comments

The People’s Budget for Los Angeles 2021-2022

https://peoplesbudgetla.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/peoplesbudgetreport2021_firstedition.pdf [Excerpts] The People’s Budget LA Coalition, led by Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles, undertook an urgent public process of participatory budgeting to solicit input from Angelenos about their priorities for the city and how they would like public resources to be invested. This participatory project exposes the secretive and undemocratic processes that shape Mayor Eric Garcetti’s draconian spending plans year after year. We know that budgets are moral documents. Despite this, the [...]