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August 2026 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 for CHANGE LINKS Print Edition TO VENUES & EVENTS. PLEASE EMAIL US AT <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 [...]

By |2026-08-13T14:54:41-05:00August 1st, 2026|Activism, Ads, Arts, Calendar, Events, Films, Free Speech, Independent Media, Movements, Music, Politics|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Solidarity Forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUwcL5H2Im0 When the union’s inspiration Through the workers blood shall run There can be no power greater Anywhere beneath the sun Yet what force on earth is weaker Than the feeble strength of one But the union makes us strong   Refrain: Solidarity forever (3x) For the union makes us strong   It is we who plowed the prairies Built the cities where they trade Dug the mines and built the workshops [...]

By |2025-04-25T01:43:37-05:00April 25th, 2025|Activism, Anarchism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Economy, Historical, Labor, Movements, Music, Politics, Poverty, Socialism, Solidarity, Unions, Unity|0 Comments
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Bilal Sunni Ali Joins the Ancestors

© 2025 by Mumia Abu-Jamal When he was born on 13th July, 1948, his parents named him William R. Johnson, by father Lloyd Johnson and mother Lois Ethel Johnson. His name would later become Bilal Sunni Ali and it would long reverberate in the worlds of Black radical politics and music. Music moved him as a third grader when he picked up the clarinet and later, the tenor sax and the flute. [...]

By |2025-03-29T12:48:04-05:00March 29th, 2025|Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Music|0 Comments
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Bariki Hall Shabazz: Maestra of Music

© 2024 by  Mumia Abu-Jamal   Her name was Bariki Hall Shabazz, but I knew her as “Maestra,” my music teacher. Her community knew her as “Sister Bariki” or “Mama Bariki,” a Black woman who, as the old saying goes, was truly Black on both sides. She lived her Blackness by joining and supporting a wealth of Black organizations. She was a self-described “foot soldier” at the now-famous National Black Political Convention [...]

By |2024-11-01T19:42:01-05:00November 1st, 2024|Activism, Aging, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Heroes and Whistleblowers, In Memoriam, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Music, Obituary, Political Prisoners, Prisons|0 Comments
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In Memoriam: Bruce Barthol

Bruce Barthol was the resident songwriter for the Tony Award winning San Francisco Mime Troupe for over three decades. His songs have been recorded by Country Joe and the Fish, the SF Mime Troupe, the Human Condition, Ozay Fecht, the Edlos, the Funky Nixons and the Original Country Joe Band. Bruce wrote for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Borderlands Theatre (Tucson), the Working Theater (NYC), the Curious Theatre (Denver), San Francisco State [...]

By |2023-07-08T16:23:10-05:00July 8th, 2023|Activism, Aging, Anti-capitalism, California, Historical, In Memoriam, Music, Obituary|0 Comments
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March 2023 Community Calendar

March 2023 Change Links Community Calendar Women’s History Month See continuing and ongoing events at the end of the calendar. Change Links cannot publish without your support. Send events, articles or poetry to changelinks2@gmail.com or via http://change-links.org/submit/  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 [...]

By |2023-03-16T03:27:03-05:00March 2nd, 2023|Activism, Ads, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Calendar, California, Climate Change, COVID-19, Disability issues, Ecology, Events, Feminism, Films, Free Speech, Healthcare, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Movements, Music, News|0 Comments
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Hip-Hop vs. Columbus

Goodbye Columbus A compilation of Rap lyrics exposing the colonial, white supremacist reality of Columbus, compiled by XXL magazine.   “Dig It!” by The Coup “Gunned us, stunned us exploited and they hung us/I'd like to take a moment to say, 'Fuck Columbus!'”   “The Illest” by Immortal Technique, Featuring Jean Grae and Pumpkinhead “My arrival is genocidal like Christopher Columbus” —Immortal Technique   “Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)” by Lupe [...]

By |2022-10-03T00:07:40-05:00October 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Black liberation, Music, Poetry Corner, Police Brutality|0 Comments
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The Reincarnation of the Westside’s UnUrban Coffee House

by Greg Foisie - staff writer and distributor, Change-Links There are few businesses that exist to selflessly serve the needs of the community.  One of those is the extraordinary UnUrban Coffee House, recently reopening in the midst of the COVID-19 Omicron pandemic and struggling to regain an economic footing during these difficult times for all of us.  While stalwarts like the Talking Stick and Café 212 Pier have unfortunately departed, the UnUrban [...]

By |2022-02-01T16:23:25-05:00February 1st, 2022|Activism, Arts, Calendar, Events, Free Speech, Greg Foisie, Independent Journalism, Los Angeles, Music, News, Reviews, Women|0 Comments
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PDF of July 2021 print edition of Change Links

By |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
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Nina Simone – Tomorrow Will Be the 22nd Century

I don't know how I was completely unaware of this incredible song by Nina Simone, whose music I have always loved, but it's mind-blowing and I can't resist sharing it.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYcgCiWAv8c

By |2020-12-16T20:46:01-05:00December 16th, 2020|Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Black Lives Matter, Features, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, In Memoriam, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Music, Nina Simone, People, Social Media, Women|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Unhoused Epiphany

UNHOUSED EPIPHANY by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-L.A. (To the tune of "Do You Hear What I Hear?") Said the night wind to the little boy, Do you see what I see (repeat) Coming down the street, little boy? A cop, a cop, pulling out his gun, If you're Black or Brown, you better run (2x) Said Community Watch to the unhoused mom, Do you hear what I hear (repeat) Lying through their [...]

By |2019-01-03T00:22:12-05:00January 3rd, 2019|Activism, Garcetti, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Human Rights, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, Music|0 Comments
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Local Punk Scene Supports Self-Expression, Helping Others & Unity

Local Punk Scene Supports Acceptance, Self-Expression, Reaching Youth, Helping Others, and Unity by Greg Foisie Alf Presented Resist and Exist, Nausea and Six More Local Punk/Grind Bands – October 13, at Café Nela in Highland Park, NE LA.   In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black. -- Kate Rockland, Falling Is Like This When I came across [...]

By |2017-11-05T02:44:16-05:00October 28th, 2017|Events, Greg Foisie, Movements, Music, Peace, Reports, Reviews|0 Comments
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