PDF of March 2023 issue of Change Links GalleryPDF of March 2023 issue of Change Links
Activism, Africa, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Calendar, California, Classified Ads, Climate Change, COVID-19, Disability issues, Editorial cartoon, Environment, Events, Features, Feminism, Girls, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Immigration/Migrant rights, In Memoriam, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Peace, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Poetry Corner, Wall Street
Who’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine? GalleryWho’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine?
Activism, Capitalism, China, Climate Change, Ecology, Economy, Europe, Medea Benjamin, Movements, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, Ukraine, United States, War
Who’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Photo: Half a million tons of methane rise from the sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline. Photo credit: Swedish Coast Guard With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to [...]
Poetry Corner – Questions for “Shomrim” by Leonard Cohen
Questions for Shomrim By Leonard Cohen And will my people build a new Dachau And call it love, Security, Jewish culture For dark-eyed children Burning in the stars Will all our songs screech Like the maddened eagles of the night Until Yiddish, Arabic, Hebrew, and Vietnamese Are a thin thread of blood clawing up the side of Unspeaking steel chambers I know you, Chaverim The lost young summer nights of our childhood [...]
USC grad student workers win unionization vote GalleryUSC grad student workers win unionization vote
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USC grad student workers win unionization vote
We are an organization by, of, and for Graduate Student Workers (GSWs) who want to unionize in order to improve our teaching, research, and employment experience at USC. Our work as Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, and Assistant Lecturers not only benefits the university and the California economy, but also has positive impacts worldwide. We work in many different fields and have varied experiences, but our dedication to teaching and research unites us [...]
Package of Anti-Racism Bills introduced in CA Legislature
Anti-Racism Package of Bills introduced in CA Legislature by Perla Brito https://www.davisvanguard.org/2023/02/anti-racism-bill-package-introduced-aimed-to-address-systemic-barriers-faced-by-communities-of-color-in-california/ Assemblymember Corey A. Jackson announced in February the introduction of an “Anti-Racism Package” he said is designed to address the “systemic barriers faced by communities of color in California.” The package includes four measures directed at promoting “equity and justice across the state,” said the lawmaker, starting with ACA-7: “Increasing Life Expectancy, Education and Economic Opportunity.” The legislator said the [...]
February 2023 Community Calendar GalleryFebruary 2023 Community Calendar
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February 2023 Community Calendar
See continuing and ongoing events at the end of the calendar. Change Links cannot publish without your support. Send events, articles or poetry to changelinks2@gmail.com or via http://change-links.org/submit/ Please subscribe as well. Subscriptions to the print edition are $12/25/50 a year, low income, regular or sustainer (sliding scale), payable to “AFGJ,” our fiscal sponsor, with “Change Links” in the memo. All events announced are encouraged to donate $5 (per event), payable [...]
Lawrence Phillip Reyes, Presente! GalleryLawrence Phillip Reyes, Presente!
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Lawrence Phillip Reyes, Presente!
In Memoriam July 7, 1958 - December 31, 2022 Lawrence Reyes, Boricua independentista, revolutionary internationalist, father, labor organizer, mental health social worker, practitioner of the "Red Road" of Indigenous traditional spiritual practice, KPFK Local Station Board listener delegate and Pacifica National Board director, passed away December 31 due to complications of diabetes. His death is an incalculable loss to all who knew his warmth, heart, dedication and passion personally and to [...]
News on Climate Action Around the World
Summary of reports on DEMOCRACY NOW! by Terrie Brady On Democracy Now! on December 23 there was a report about an effort by Exxon Mobil to start off shore oil drilling off Guyana. There is a lawyer, Melinda janki, who is from Guyana trying to stop this. Antonia Juhasz wrote in WIRED magazine about this. Antonia Juhasz also wrote a book , The Tyranny of Oil on this subject. Also on Democracy [...]
What Can the US Bring to the Peace Table for Ukraine?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just issued its 2023 Doomsday Clock statement, calling this “a time of unprecedented danger.” It has advanced the hands of the clock to 90 seconds to midnight, meaning that the world is closer to global catastrophe than ever before, mainly because the conflict in Ukraine has gravely increased the risk of nuclear war. This scientific assessment should [...]
MEMOIR FROM A LONG TIME VOLUNTEER AT PACIFICA FOUNDATION-KPFK 90.7 FM GalleryMEMOIR FROM A LONG TIME VOLUNTEER AT PACIFICA FOUNDATION-KPFK 90.7 FM
Anti-Racism/Racism, Bella De Soto, Commentary, Free Speech, Historical, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Protests and Rallies, Public Radio, Socialism, Solidarity
MEMOIR FROM A LONG TIME VOLUNTEER AT PACIFICA FOUNDATION-KPFK 90.7 FM
WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING at PACIFICA RADIO TODAY ? by Bella De Soto Pacifica Radio is possibly the last Non-Commercial Broadcasting Radio Bastion on the FM dial! I first joined Pacifica-KPFK 90.7 FM Radio Station in 1995, when I sent my $25.00 annual membership subscription check. Since then, I have been involved as a volunteer with KPFK through different committees of the LSB-Local Station Board. But these LSB Committees were not [...]
Free Assange!
End Prosecution of Julian Assange - Defend Journalists & Whistleblowers By Chris Garaffa https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/01/24/tribunal-in-washington-calls-on-president-biden-to-end-prosecution-of-julian-assange-and-to-defend-rights-of-journalists-and-whistleblowers/ Nearly 13 years after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released the video Collateral Murder exposing the brutal and intentional killing of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists, over 150 people packed the same room in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. for the Belmarsh Tribunal. January 20th’s sitting was the third of the Tribunal, following events in London [...]
LAPD Chief Moore Must Go! GalleryLAPD Chief Moore Must Go!
Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, California, Gentrification/Displacement, Historical, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, People, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity
LAPD Chief Moore Must Go!
Tell Mayor Bass: Chief Moore Must Go by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action As Change-Links was going to press, LA Chief of Police Michel Moore filed a request for re-appointment to a second five-year term, and newly-elected Mayor Karen Bass announced that she would be meeting with him to discuss it. Moore was first appointed in 2018, supported by the Police Commission (which rubber-stamps almost everything the LAPD and its chief do). Last [...]