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 [...]
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 the Center for Biological Diversity The COP30 UN climate summit ended in Belém, Brazil with the establishment of a first-ever "just transition" mechanism for workers, Indigenous peoples and frontline communities transitioning to renewable energy economies. But the agreement lacks vital funding commitments from wealthy countries to the Global South for climate adaptation. The final agreement, which came two days after a fire at the summit venue, failed to include a roadmap [...]
High on the list of the crimes against humanity carried out by Donald J. Trump and his administration in the few short months of his second regime, along with unleashing and rearming a new Israeli genocide in Gaza, the bombardment of Yemen, the effort to destroy Social Security and the rest of the social safety net, the deportations and criminalization of hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees, and the attack on [...]
Governor Newsom’s California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has proposed to break the state’s contract with nearly two million solar customers, slash their solar credit, and slap them with a solar tax. These changes would apply to ALL solar customers who signed up for solar before April 2023 (NEM1 and NEM2). What they are proposing California currently requires PG&E, Edison, and SDG&E to sign an “interconnection agreement” with solar customers. For consumers [...]
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) https://antiracist.org/rebuilding-los-angeles/ The incineration of large parts of the Los Angeles area represents the extent to which settler colonial capitalism has sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind. It is the outcome of generations, centuries, of exploitation, land theft, genocide, privatization, gentrification, fossil fuel extraction and other social ills, economic crimes, and political malfeasance. In the wake of the massive and ongoing destruction, [...]
By Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA Some stories made a lot of news but not much difference in 2024. Some really significant stories and developments went unreported in the corporate media, and sometimes even the left press. The genocidal Israeli attacks on Palestinians, fully backed and financed by the US, entered its second year, and expanded into Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Yemen and Iran, as well as the swift US-Turkiye-Israel invasions into [...]
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Many people were stunned by the outcome of the presidential election, and the decisive, if close, victory of Donald Trump. How, they ask, could so many millions of people vote for an open racist and misogynist, immigrant-bashing vengeful narcissist who promised to be a dictator on day one, who has encouraged and unleashed openly fascist thugs, and who plans to use the [...]
BRICS, sub-imperialism and unequal ecological exchange Patrick Bond interviewed by Federico Fuentes https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/brics-sub-imperialism-and-unequal-ecological-exchange Patrick Bond is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, as well as a political economist and author of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique. In part 2 of this interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, he discusses some of the limitations in Vladimir Lenin’s views on imperialism and the need to incorporate the concept of "unequal ecological [...]
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The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Department of the Interior Nov. 28 to challenge its failure to release public records about why it rejected a rulemaking petition to phase out oil and gas extraction on public lands by 2035. “This lawsuit will shed light on the Biden administration’s dumbfounding refusal to align our country’s federal fossil fuel programs with its own climate goals,” said Taylor McKinnon with the Center for [...]
