The ballot measure in would allow teenagers to participate in the decision-making process on many issues that directly affect their lives. The measure would only apply to certain elections within the city limits, including races for school board, for city offices, and on future ballot measures. Teens in the city have pushed the measure before; in 2022 it failed by only 16 votes. The proposal gained additional support after school board budget [...]
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/02/18/usc-navy-program-appears-linked-to-specific-israeli-brigade-that-massacred-paramedics-photo-shows/ In the featured graphic: People wearing a modified version of the Israeli military's Golani Brigade logo were photographed near the Navy Trauma Training Center. By Reo, Sasha Ryu, and Jackson Mills People who appear to be part of the Israeli military’s Golani Brigade were seen walking through Los Angeles General Medical Center [AKA County/USC], amid ongoing reporting by Annenberg Media about a program where USC trains Israeli military medical personnel using [...]
by Michael Novick, UTLA-retired As Change Links was going to press, the FBI raided LAUSD headquarters on Beaudry in DTLA and the home of superintendent Alberto Carvalho in San Pedro. The FBI announcement also provided an address in Florida that was searched. Public records show that property is linked to an individual who worked with AllHere, an education technology startup that created a highly touted A-I chatbot for the Los Angeles school [...]
In late March, the Trump administration announced its intention to close as much of the U.S. Department of Education (ED) as it could get away with. Through budget cuts, massive layoffs, and funding becoming block grants to states, the ED will degenerate into a rump information bureau. All public education is threatened by the slashing of the ED’s equal opportunity and financial mandates. The response from opponents has been swift and defiant. [...]
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 [...]
(Edited transcript of a telephone conversation, April 21, 2025) https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/mumia-speaks-to-columbia-student-organizers-for-palestine/ It is I who am honored that Columbia students have analyzed the situation and proceeded to act with grace, class, and class consciousness. Many of the people who were charged, have refused to take deals unless those same deals were extended to the City University of New York people. I know Columbia is the premier university in NY, and that CUNY is [...]
from a blog post by Glenn Greenwald [Excerpt] Here's what Sullivan and Cromwell, which was one of the biggest and most influential law firms on the planet, based in Wall Street, is doing. Listen to this: Here, from The New York Times, yesterday: Sullivan & Cromwell, a 145-year-old firm that has counted Goldman Sachs and Amazon among its clients, says that, for job applicants, participation in a protest — on campus or [...]
Radio Free Palestine on KPFK 90.7 FM Tuesday 5/14/24, 9:00pm Pacific - Wednesday 5/15/24, 9:00pm Pacific 24 hrs. On the 76th anniversary of the ongoing Palestinian Nakbah and resistance to Israeli apartheid and occupation, Radio Free Palestine will launch at Midnight Eastern time on dozens of stations across North America to air 24 hours of programming from radio stations and producers across 5 continents, hosted by our Pacifica sister station WPFW. [...]
The National Guard and militarized police forces have been called out against campus encampments against genocide in Gaza at Columbia University in NY, USC here in Los Angeles, the University of Texas in "liberal" Austin, and elsewhere around the country. As Change Links went to press, racist, fascist Zionist thugs in large numbers entered the campus of UCLA and viciously attacked a pro-Palestinian, anti-genocide encampment there while campus police, private security guards [...]
