Ellisons to Take Over CNN/HBO along with CBS; Warner Bros. along with Paramount from press reports The Ellison family is poised to control one of the world’s largest media conglomerates following a legal settlement with statecleared a significant hurdle to the sale of Warner Bros. AGs. It Discovery to Paramount Skydance. [The news was greeted with a protest at the gates of Paramount’s Hollywood studios. A judge must still sign off on [...]
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 [...]
Male chauvinism & lack of union democracy led to abuses Radical Women statement by Yolanda Alaniz On March 18, 2026, the New York Times published an article documenting reports that in the 1970s United Farm Workers (UFW) leader César Chávez had sexually molested underage girls Ana Murguia and Debra Rojas and later raped Rojas. UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta also came forward to tell of being raped twice by Chávez in the 1960s, assaults that [...]
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 [...]
Dolores Huerta Speaks https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555 “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for. I have encouraged people to always use their voice. Following the New York Times’ multi-year investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez, I can no longer stay silent and must share my own [...]
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 [...]
The LA Times reports that Omar Navarro, who ran to represent LA's 43rd CD seat held by Maxine Waters in 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022, has been convicted of electoral fraud and essentially embezzlement, and sentenced to prison. Navarro was a purveyor of Q-Anon conspiracy claims lauding Donald Trump. According to federal prosecutors, as reported by the Times, "From July 2017 to February 2021, he funneled tens of thousands of dollars in [...]
https://opentools.ai/news/city-of-davis-passes-boycott-resolution-on-musk-owned-companies-but-starlink-stays [Excerpts] In an intriguing twist during a City of Davis city council meeting on February 17, 2026, a resolution to boycott Elon Musk's companies, such as Tesla and SpaceX, was approved, albeit with amendments. Interestingly, Starlink was exempted from this resolution due to its essential role in providing emergency services to the community. The council's move stems from accusations against Musk of democracy endangering ideologies and various labor law violations. However, [...]
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles (ARA-LA/PART) A "year in review" summary, as has been traditional in the January issue of Change Links annually, would recapitulate the horrors of the first year of Trump II, with which we are all too achingly familiar. I am instead going to take a longer view, and look back over the past quarter-century to see what got us into this deepening political, moral, economic and [...]
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 [...]
