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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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Urgent Appeal to So Cal’s Civil Society and Creative Communities

Urgent Appeal to So Cal’s Civil Society and Creative Communities on Behalf of KPFK by Michael Novick I am writing as the chair of the Local Station Board, a listener member elected to the governance of KPFK, listener-sponsored, non-commercial educational Pacifica free speech community radio (90.7 in L.A., 98.7 in Santa Barbara, 93.7 in San Diego, 99.5 in Ridgecrest/China Lake, and world-wide at kpfk.org). I am writing with a simple and immediate [...]

By |2022-05-18T14:45:17-05:00May 18th, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Commentary, COVID-19, Disability issues, Economy, Elections, Free Speech, Fund Drives, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, Immigration/Migrant rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous Nations, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Low income, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Poverty, Public Radio, Social Media, Solidarity, Unions, Voting, War|0 Comments
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Casualties of War

Casualties of War: Truth, Journalism and Critical Thought by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA While forces on the right loudly lament so-called cancel culture, the real censorship is coming from the corporate and even so-called progressive media and the state. Consider the recent decision by the British to allow the extradition of Julian Assange, after years of house arrest and incarceration, to stand trial in the US on charged related to his [...]

By |2022-04-30T18:02:42-05:00April 30th, 2022|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Drones, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Police Brutality, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Support the A-G Ethnic Studies Requirement at the University of California

by the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council Starting in 1968, students at two public universities in California–first San Francisco State and then UC Berkeley–courageously led the way for the grassroots formation of ethnic studies by going on strike and shutting down their campuses despite police brutality and military repression. Well over half a century later, the University of California has at long last proposed an ethnic studies requirement that centers what has [...]

By |2022-04-30T17:58:54-05:00April 30th, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Asian-American, Black liberation, California, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Education, Historical, Human Rights, Indigenous Nations, Movements, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Struggle for Native Prisoners’ Rights at Federal Prison in Adelanto

Correction and Retraction (June 28, 2022): The original text of this article when it was initially published back on April 5 indicated that USP Victorville was on a facility-wide lockdown due to a series of drug overdoses. It was also reported that prison staff were bringing drugs into the facility. This information came from outside activists and has subsequently been proven partially false. There was an overdose-related facility-wide lockdown that did take [...]

By |2022-06-29T00:14:00-05:00April 5th, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, California, Human Rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, News, Prisons, Uncategorized|0 Comments
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In Memoriam- Joe Maizlish

https://www.committeetobridgethegap.org/2022/03/21/in-memoriam-joe-maizlish-war-resister-gentle-soul-dear-friend/ Joe Maizlish—war resister, gentle soul, and dear friend of Bridge the Gap—died March 16, 2022. While a graduate student in history at UCLA in 1968, to protest the Vietnam War, Joe gave up his draft deferment and publicly refused induction. He served 2 ½ years in various federal prisons, a substantial amount of the time in solitary confinement. In the decades since, he worked diligently against war and injustice. He helped [...]

By |2022-03-29T23:01:06-05:00March 29th, 2022|Activism, Historical, Human Rights, In Memoriam, Movements, National Security, Non-violence, Peace and War, Prisons|0 Comments
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Blood on their Hands

War in Ukraine: US, NATO Share the Blame with Putin by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA https://antiracist.org/blood-on-their-hands/ Putin's valid criticism of a US "Empire of Lies" and of NATO war-making and warmongering do not add up to a justification of the Russian invasion. Consortium News shares Putin’s rationale here: https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/24/what-putin-says-are-the-causes-aims-of-russias-military-action/  I recommend reading it to understand Putin's rationale, not to support it. Much of Putin’s condemnation of US and NATO aggression since the [...]

By |2022-03-02T01:50:37-05:00March 2nd, 2022|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Biden, Europe, Human Rights, Independent Media, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Socialism, Solidarity, War|0 Comments
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Alternatives to Surgical Abortion

Change Links note: As abortion is increasingly criminalized, and as reproductive rights stand to be overturned by the Supreme Court, we are printing this informational piece about non-surgical methods to terminate a pregnancy, to empower women. We also heartily recommend collective mass action to end the war on women! Methods of Non-surgical Abortion      Medical abortion is a way to end a pregnancy by using abortion-inducing drugs as an alternative to surgical [...]

By |2022-03-02T01:47:27-05:00March 2nd, 2022|Abortion, Activism, Feminism, Girls, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Historical, Human Rights, Movements, News|0 Comments
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