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The Status of Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Status of Mumia By Mumia Abu-Jamal I don't normally do this, that is, I don't write about myself. I find it much more interesting to tell other people's stories, the spinning balloon we live in, stories generated by the fragile human condition and the liberation struggles of humanity. But I divert from the topic, uncomfortably. This is a commentary on the commentator. Several weeks ago I underwent a medical procedure known as open heart surgery, a double bypass after it was known that there were obstacles [...]

By |2021-05-29T23:41:37-05:00May 29th, 2021|Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Black Lives Matter, Healthcare, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Politics, Prisons, Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Trump, GOP Stack the Supreme Court, Federal Judiciary

As we went to press, the Republican-controlled Senate ratified Trump’s third nomination to the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, a hard right religious reactionary who has opposed the Affordable Care Act, Roe v. Wade abortion rights, ruled repeatedly in favor of cops and prison guards in abuse cases, and testified that global warming is a controversial political issue. She was one of the lawyers who worked on Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court decision that ended the Florida vote count and allowed Bush to steal the 2000 [...]

By |2020-10-29T17:57:52-05:00October 29th, 2020|Commentary, Constitution, Health, Healthcare, Justice/Injustice|0 Comments
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California Court of Appeal Orders 50% Cut of Prisoners at San Quentin

California Court of Appeal Orders 50% Cut of Prisoners at San Quentin by Hadar Aviram https://www.hadaraviram.com/2020/10/20/breaking-news-california-court-of-appeal-orders-50-population-reduction-at-san-quentin/ [Excerpts] We won In re Von Staich, the habeas corpus case challenging CDCR’s mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis at San Quentin. Justice Kline wrote: “We agree that respondents–the Warden and CDCR–have acted with deliberate indifference and relief is warranted.” Here is an analysis of the opinion. Justice Kline begins by stating the magnitude of the San Quentin catastrophe. Even against the horrific history of disease and contagion in prisons–including three separate [...]

By |2020-10-29T17:55:47-05:00October 29th, 2020|Activism, California, California, Constitution, COVID-19, Disability issues, Education, Health, Healthcare, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Movements, News, Police Brutality|0 Comments
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Talkback to MoveOn

From: Greg Foisie Sun, 4 Jul 2020 5:26:02 PM +0000 (UTC) To: Talkbacks@Moveon Org   Dear Kelly, Oscar, Rahna, Jennifer, and the rest of the MoveOn team - Biden was opposed to busing during the 60s civil rights efforts to end segregation. Biden has been accused of sexual harassment & sexual attack.  His hands are all over women on numerous videos displayed on the internet. As Vice-President, Biden supported the Iraq War based on lies that killed over a million Iraqi's, the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan killing [...]

By |2020-08-01T18:25:09-05:00August 1st, 2020|Activism, Afghanistan, Biden, Commentary, Donald Trump, Economy, Elections, Greg Foisie, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Human Rights, Iraq, Movements, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Syria, Unity, Voting|0 Comments
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A Perspective on Privilege and COVID-19

"Author unknown" Thanks to Susana Hurlich <delfines8@nauta.cu> for sending it. "If anyone knows who wrote this, please let us know so we can give credit."   There are no bombs raining on our heads. I am not a prisoner held in solitary confinement, as millions are. I am not a refugee trying to escape with my life. I am not standing in line waiting to fill a pot of water. I have access to fresh food and I'm not starving. I have hot running water. My country [...]

By |2020-06-01T00:09:08-05:00June 1st, 2020|Anti-Racism/Racism, Big Business, California, Commentary, COVID-19, Disability issues, Economy, Economy, Health, Healthcare, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice|0 Comments
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Fight the virus with permanent supportive public housing.

by End Homelessness Now-LA   An April article in the  LA Times, “Affordable housing can cost $1 million per apartment in California. Coronavirus could make it worse,” provides a powerful argument for creating and operating permanent public housing for low income and very low income members of our community.   As the COVID-19 pandemic has brutally revealed, a system based on every fat cat out to make the highest possible profit is categorically incapable of meeting human needs.  Just as we need a universal, public healthcare system [...]

By |2020-05-31T23:56:45-05:00May 31st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Banks, California, Commentary, COVID-19, Disability issues, Economy, Economy, Gentrification/Displacement, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Homelessness, Human Rights, Los Angeles, Movements, Politics, Poverty, Solidarity, Unions|0 Comments
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April 2020 Change Links: PDF of Print Edition

 

By |2020-03-30T18:47:08-05:00March 30th, 2020|Activism, Ads, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Asian-American, Bernie Sanders, China, COVID-19, Democracy, Donald Trump, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Independent Media, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Mexico, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace Vigils, Socialism, Solidarity|0 Comments
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The Futility of Capitalist Planning for a Global Coronavirus Pandemic

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-L.A. The videos linked to here are from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation/Bloomberg School of Public Health "table-top" exercise planning for a novel corona-virus global pandemic (Center for Health Security planning exercise that took place in October 2019), urging governments and private businesses to work together to allocate and distribute medical supplies and treatments and deal with other aspects of such a pandemic. https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/videos.html These videos illustrate the impossibility of real planning under capitalism. They talked endlessly about how only private global [...]

By |2020-03-29T03:07:11-05:00March 29th, 2020|Anti-capitalism, Capitalism, China, Commentary, COVID-19, Economy, Economy, Europe, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Internet, Michael Novick, News, Politics, Socialism, Wall Street|0 Comments
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: “Things Fall Apart”

Things Fall Apart © by Mumia Abu-Jamal March 27, 2020 The great African writer, Chinua Achebe, I believe, wrote a novel of the ravages of colonialism, which bore the title, "Things Fall Apart."  He borrowed the title from the famed Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, who wrote: "Things fall apart. The center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." * We see, outside our doors, our windows, a world we did not know, that now exists. A silent, unseen disease, gives vent to massive unease, [...]

By |2020-03-30T19:57:04-05:00March 28th, 2020|Activism, Africa, Anti-Racism/Racism, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Health, Healthcare, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Politics, Prisons|0 Comments
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IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

Donald Trump Minimizing and Sugarcoating Coronavirus Perils! By Ralph Nader Donald Trump can’t fake his way through the coronavirus. It’s spreading and doesn’t respond to his delusions. Donald is flailing, failing, fibbing, stumbling, and scapegoating. With the stock market collapsing and the economy shaking, Donald fears defeat in November. Trump is a daily clear and present danger and he is the worst person to handle the COVID-19 crisis. Last weekend, Trump and Mike Pence met with Brazilian officials at Mar-a-Lago, after which Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s press secretary [...]

By |2020-03-28T18:39:20-05:00March 28th, 2020|Activism, Banks, Bernie Sanders, Big Business, Capitalism, Commentary, Donald Trump, Economy, Economy, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Justice/Injustice, Movements, National Security, News, Politics, Ralph Nader, Socialism, United States|0 Comments
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Solidarity Forever: Social Cohesion as the Antidote to Social Distancing

Social Cohesion and Social Solidarity as the Antidote to Social Distancing by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles I think we should try to rename "Social Distancing." People in the U.S. are already far too socially distanced from each other, driving in our steel cocoons, riding the buses and trains in unreceptive, unresponsive isolation, each glued to our own screen, ears filled with our own soundtrack. Let's call it socially responsible distancing, adopting it as a sacrifice, and thereby acknowledging our social connection to, interaction with, and responsibility [...]

By |2020-03-26T01:11:39-05:00March 26th, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, Democracy, Ecology, Economy, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Homelessness, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous Nations, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Non-violence, Palestine, Peace, Poverty, Prisons, Protests and Rallies, Socialism, Solidarity, Unions, Volunteer|0 Comments
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Global Pandemic: Notes From Italy’s ‘Red Zone’

Notes From Italy's 'Red Zone' by Anthony Cristofani, Special to Change Links I moved to Italy two months ago because I thought it would be a more reasonable government under which to live and work for change.  After the COVID-19 outbreak friends and family started writing and calling me with great worry in their voices, asking how bad it was here.  In truth, I’m all the more grateful I moved here, and far more worried about my old home, the USA.       Let’s start with the government’s response [...]

By |2020-03-25T17:09:42-05:00March 25th, 2020|Beyond Capitalism, COVID-19, Economy, Europe, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Homelessness, Independent Journalism, Italy, Jails, Labor, News|0 Comments
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