July 4, 2026 - Atlanta Georgia Today's reading of the US Declaration of Independence leaves little to celebrate. The forefathers of the USA called to dissolve the political bonds that connected their new colonies to the British empire. However, the masses of people living here, created equal in the eyes of God/Allah/the Great Spirit, were in no way treated equally or free by those who proclaimed this land to be the “United [...]
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 [...]
By Mike Elk, PayDay report [Excerpts] The Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco. The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were guilty on all counts, and responsible for ordering the killing of Franco and her [...]
by the NDN Collective Nick Tilsen, the founder and CEO of NDN Collective, has spent most of his life within Indigenous movements and activism building relationships and community across Turtle Island. He developed NDN Collective to holistically build the power of Indigenous Peoples through capacity building, funding, philanthropy, and storytelling, with the strong conviction that our best days as Indigenous people are still ahead of us. Nick is often on the frontlines [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Olympic Reform Efforts Are Setting Us Up for a Double Disaster by the NOlympicsLA Coalition https://nolympicsla.com/2025/11/11/fighting-the-forever-games/ The Olympics have always been sold as temporary — a two-week spectacle of worldwide unity and athletic exceptionalism that brings honor (and infrastructure) to its rotating host city. With LA28 now less than 1,000 days away, the myth of Olympic legacy is breaking down, with reform campaigns multiplying and officials scrambling to make word salad slide [...]
© 10/10/25 by Mumia Abu Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/assata-returns-to-the-ancestors/ Her name, Assata Shakur, has become an iconic symbol of Black revolutionary resistance to the white nation and American Empire. Shot, beaten and threatened with death, Assata lived up to the meaning of her name: “She who struggles.” Born Joanne Deborah Byron on July 16, 1947, in Queens, N.Y., she came of age during the tumultuous 1960s, when young Black people joined movements and organizations [...]
by Thandisizwe Chimurenga Black August is observed every year to commemorate the fallen freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement, to call for the release of political prisoners in the United States, to condemn the oppressive conditions of U.S. prisons, and to emphasize the continued importance of the Black Liberation struggle. Black August originated in the concentration camps (prisons) of California in 1979 and its roots come from that history of resistance [...]
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/police-violence-against-protesters-journalists-cost-la/ Attorneys describe it as some of the worst such violence they have seen, much against journalists. The Los Angeles Press Club is suing the city. Excerpt: The LA Press Club documented at least 50 incidents of alleged police misconduct that led to injuries to reporters in LA since June 6, including at least five journalists being struck by 40mm less-lethal rounds, and journalists being charged at by mounted police. Jeremy Cuenca, a reporter [...]
RED ONION PRISONERS CONTINUE TO SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE IN DESPERATE RESPONSE TO ONGOING ABUSES by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson As of late-Feb 2025, Charles Coleman is housed in the medical department at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia after setting himself on fire yet again. Coleman was one of numerous men who set themselves on fire at the prison during 2024 in a desperate response to abusive and racist conditions there, which [...]
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles I agree with Steve Edinger about the warmongering and imperialist nature of the Democratic Party, the Biden-Harris administration, and the Harris-Walz campaign, and the threat Democratic Party forces pose to Pacifica. But to see the Republican Party, or figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene as legitimate opponents of war or intervention, or worthy of our support, is a dangerous illusion. As Steve himself acknowledges, only 21 [...]
