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Nuclear Extortion?  Abolish Nuclear Weapons

By Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin In a moment of candor, President Biden told Democratic Party contributors the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is the highest since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Soviet Union installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, 90 miles from Florida. Referring to Russian President Putin’s veiled threats to use short-range nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the President added it was the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis such [...]

By |2022-11-06T16:11:48-05:00November 6th, 2022|Activism, Commentary, Historical, Human Rights, Medea Benjamin, National Security, Non-violence, Nuclear Power, Peace and War, Russia, Security and Insecurity, United States|0 Comments
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End Violence Against Women in the US and Globally

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action L.A. The attack on women’s bodily autonomy in the US reflected in the Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court, that stripped away Constitutional protection of women’s right to terminate a pregnancy, is the tip of the iceberg of violence against women in the US and globally. A major factor in the rise of the neo-fascist right in the US has been organized misogyny among many young white [...]

By |2022-11-06T15:36:45-05:00November 6th, 2022|#MeToo, Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Feminism, Girls, Health, Healthcare, Human Rights, Michael Novick, Movements, Peace and War, Social Media, Women|0 Comments
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Justice Deferred is Justice Denied

Mumia Denied a New Trial, Appeal in the Works By Noelle Hanrahan, prisonradio.org On October 26, 2022, a proposed order denying Mumia Abu-Jamal’s constitutional claims of jury bias and suppressed evidence was issued by Common Pleas court Judge Lucretia Clemons. Abu-Jamal’s defense petition had included newly discovered evidence buried in the prosecutor’s own files.  This evidence documented key witnesses receiving promises of money for their testimony and evidence of favorable treatment in [...]

By |2022-11-06T15:28:39-05:00November 6th, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Constitution, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Noelle Hanrahan, Police, Politics, Prisons, Protests and Rallies|0 Comments
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KPFK: Under New Management

and Open to the Community KPFK – Under New Management By Michael Novick, KPFK interim General Manager Change Links has carried many articles with my byline before, but this one is unique. I am writing to you as the new unpaid interim General Manager of KPFK. I was recently appointed to that position by the Pacifica Executive Director, Stephanie Wells. She and the Pacifica National Board determined that there was no money [...]

By |2022-10-03T00:03:57-05:00October 3rd, 2022|Anti-Racism/Racism, Asian-American, Black liberation, California, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Economy, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Public Radio|0 Comments
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Books: No Pasaran! Anti-Fascist Dispatches

No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis Shane Burley (Editor); Tal Lavin (Foreword); David Renton (Afterword) Publisher: AK Press  https://akpress.org Format: Book Binding: pb Pages: 564 Released: October 25, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781849354820   Now available for preorder. Order your copy now and receive a ¡No Pasarán! enamel pin with your copy. Both will ship as soon as the book is released! ¡No Pasarán! is an anthology of antifascist writing that [...]

By |2022-10-03T00:08:33-05:00October 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anarchism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Book Reviews, Books, COVID-19, Free Speech, Historical, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Labor, LGBTQ+, Movements, Police Brutality, Politics, Prisons, Protests and Rallies, Psy-Ops, Reviews, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Involuntary Servitude in Prison is Slavery

They Killed ACA3 But Prison Slavery Continues in CA by SF BayView Editor Nube Brown https://sfbayview.com/2022/08/they-killed-aca3-but-slavery-still-lives/ Last month [SF BayView] ran an article about the killing of ACA3, The End Slavery in California Act. To be clear, just because legislators allowed themselves to be strong-armed against their better nature and fear-mongered by the governor to ensure the bill didn’t make it to the floor for a last and final opportunity to [bring [...]

By |2022-08-12T11:31:00-05:00August 12th, 2022|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, California, California, Commentary, Democracy, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Justice/Injustice, Movements, News, Politics, Prisons|0 Comments
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Open Letter to Pres. Joe Biden from Political Prisoner Sean Swain

Dear President Biden:   I write to implore you not to nominate Gary C. Mohr as director of the Bureau of Prisons. Mr. Mohr is a radical, right-wing extremist who, as director of the Ohio prison system, instituted a domestic torture program to silence and neutralize his critics and political opponents. He committed crimes against humanity that are now challenged in international court, in Sean Swan versus the United States, InterAmerican Commission [...]

By |2022-07-02T02:00:28-05:00July 2nd, 2022|Activism, Anarchism, Biden, Constitution, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Police Brutality, Politics, Prisons, Sean Swain, Slavery|0 Comments
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KPFK Seeking a General Manager

KPFK 90.7 FM, Pacifica's listener sponsored free speech community radio for all of Southern California, is seeking a new General Manager. The job announcement is at https://pacifica.org/jobs_kpfk.php. According to the job description: "KPFK is the strongest FM signal west of the Mississippi, broadcasting at 112,000 watts of power, serving most of Southern California from Santa Barbara to San Diego, webcasting at KPFK.org, with an eclectic mix of public affairs, talk, news, culture, [...]

By |2022-06-03T02:07:53-05:00June 3rd, 2022|Economy, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Internet, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Public Radio|0 Comments
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The Summit of the Americas and the Crisis of US Hegemony

By Angel Guerra Cabrera [EDITOR'S NOTE: Union del Barrio and a coalition of other groups are holding a protest outside the Summit of the Americas Wed. June 8, 4 PM at Olympic & Figueroa when Joe Biden is scheduled to appear.] The chaotic political situation created by the US government in the face of the VIII edition of the so-called Summit of the Americas reflects, in the first place, the reluctance of [...]

By |2022-06-04T23:45:26-05:00June 3rd, 2022|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, Cuba, Historical, Human Rights, Indigenous, Latin America, Mexico, Movements, National Security, News, Politics, Russia, Socialism, Solidarity, Venezuela|0 Comments
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Peoples Summit for Democracy 2022

Peoples Summit June 8-10 at LATTC, in the tradition of each Summit of the Americas since the 2005 Mar Del Plata Summit, we, unionists, activists, grassroots organizations and progressive people of the Americas are calling for a People’s Summit to counter the 9th “Summit of the Americas” to be held in the US for the first time, here in Los Angeles, CA. The People’s Summit will host three days of art, music, [...]

By |2022-06-04T23:48:46-05:00June 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Black liberation, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Democracy, Economy, Films, Health Care, Homelessness, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Movements, Politics, Puerto Rico, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, Unions, Unity|0 Comments
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PDF of June 2022 print edition

By |2022-06-03T02:01:44-05:00June 3rd, 2022|Abortion, Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, Calendar, China, Elections, Europe, Feminism, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Movements, News|0 Comments
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