November 2026 Change Links community calendar

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Non-profit Housing Corp. SRO May Fail – LA City Must Act

by Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN) cangress.org Politico reported that SRO Housing is facing “severe financial distress” and could dissolve within a matter of months. SRO Housing is the largest nonprofit housing corporation in Los Angeles; they manage 33 buildings with about 2,600 units of affordable housing for formerly unhoused people, primarily in Skid Row. Skid Row, a majority Black community, is home to the highest concentration of poverty and houselessness [...]

Letter to the Editors

Dear Change Links: I am writing in the hopes that it may influence some people at the recent No Kings and other protests I have attended. I think it is very important to demonstrate opposition to what our government is doing. As a disabled veteran, I am very concerned especially about the wars the US is waging or financing, and about the militarism at our so-called Department of War. But I think [...]

Local Struggles on Many Fronts: ICE, LAUSD, World Cup

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 [...]

San Gabriel Valley Residents Unite Against Data Centers – Rally May 2

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 [...]

LA Charter Commission Releases Report, Recommended Changes

The LA Charter Reform Commission has issued its report and recommendations. It will be considered by the City Council, which will determine which items move forward to a vote by Angelenos on which measures will be adopted. You can read the full report here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hHa0OLsFg9EmPPlO6QgUsGfzTKwQgOtp/view Key recommendations include a two-year budgeting process, an increase in the size of the City Council, greater power for the Chief of Police to discipline officers, and [...]

USC, Navy Program Appears Linked to Israeli Brigade that Massacred Paramedics

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 [...]

FBI Raids Home & Office of LAUSD Supt. Carvalho Over A-I Ed Tech

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 [...]

GOP Q-Anon Congressional Candidate Convicted

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 [...]

Welcome to the 2nd Quarter of the 21st Century!

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 [...]

High Hypocrisy

of the Pacifica National Board, KPFK Local Station Board majority by Rodrigo Argueta Vargas Today we learned that Donald Trump made the board of the Kennedy Foundation vote to change its official name to include his name too, now the official name is the Donald Trump and John F Kennedy Center...  Then the white house speaker said the vote was unanimous. Nevertheless Joyce Beatty who is a member of the board said it [...]

Palantir Colonizes Los Angeles

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 [...]

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