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A People’s Vaccine Against a Mutating Virus and Neoliberal Rule

by Nicolas J. S. Davies Photo credit: UNICEF Teachers and students were able to return to school in Lao Cai, Viet Nam, in May 2020 A recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID pandemic in the United States are at their lowest level since it began. Only half of Americans are either “very worried” (15%) or “somewhat worried” (35%) about the virus, while the other half are “not very worried” (30%) or “not worried at all” (20%). But the news from around the world [...]

By |2021-07-01T23:56:44-05:00July 1st, 2021|Activism, Biden, China, COVID-19, Economy, National Security, Nicolas Davies, Politics, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Juneteenth is Now a Federal Holiday

Juneteenth now a Federal Holiday by Rob Macon Juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of African-American slaves, is now a federal holiday in the United States. Celebrating African-American culture annually in the U.S. since 1865, it originated in Galveston, Texas. President Joe Biden signs bill declaring June 19th as Juneteeth, marking the end of slavery. June 7, 1979, President Jimmy Carter decreed that June would be Black Music Month, an annual celebration for nearly 40 years, acknowledged African- American music in the United States. Black music has shaped and [...]

By |2021-07-01T23:54:27-05:00July 1st, 2021|Biden, Black Lives Matter, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Politics, Rob Macon, Slavery|0 Comments
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PDF of June 2021 print edition of Change Links

By |2021-05-29T23:46:02-05:00May 29th, 2021|Activism, Ads, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Black Lives Matter, Calendar, California, COVID-19, Events, Garcetti, Health, Housing, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous Nations, Israel and Palestine, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Movements, Palestine, Peace, Peace Vigils, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Social Media, Socialism|0 Comments
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The Emperor’s New Rules

The Emperor’s New Rules by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The world is reeling in horror at the latest Israeli massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza. Much of the world is also shocked by the role of the United States in this crisis, as it keeps providing Israel with weapons to kill Palestinian civilians, in violation of U.S. and international law, and has repeatedly blocked action by the UN Security Council to impose a ceasefire or hold Israel accountable for its [...]

By |2021-05-29T23:36:42-05:00May 29th, 2021|Biden, Medea Benjamin, National Security, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Politics, Security and Insecurity, United States, War|0 Comments
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Biden Continues Trump’s Sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua

Biden Keeps Trump Inhumane Policy on Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua Report from Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) Venezuela MercoPress: Biden picks for Western Hemisphere career diplomat who favors sanctions against Venezuela  Biden’s candidate for the office of Undersecretary of the State Department for the Western Hemisphere, Brian A. Nichols, has said sanctions against the Nicolás Maduro regime must continue. Nichols also said that “the extensive efforts of Russia, China, Iran, Turkey and others to avoid sanctions are deeply concerning. We, who want to see democracy in Venezuela, must [...]

By |2021-05-29T23:34:37-05:00May 29th, 2021|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Cuba, Donald Trump, Human Rights, Latin America, Movements, Peace, Politics, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, Venezuela, War|0 Comments
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Calling on the Squad to Downsize Biden’s Military & Nuclear Budget

Squad & Co: Unite as a Bloc to Downsize Biden’s Military Budget   Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd    Photo credit: ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons)   Imagine this scenario:   A month before the vote on the federal budget, progressives in Congress declared, “We’ve studied President Biden’s proposed $753 billion military budget, an increase of $13 billion from Trump’s already inflated budget, and we can’t, in good conscience, support this.”   Now that would be a show stopper, particularly if they added, “So we [...]

By |2021-05-04T23:20:03-05:00May 4th, 2021|Activism, Afghanistan, Biden, Medea Benjamin, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, War|0 Comments
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Biden’s Reckless Syria Bombing Is Not the Diplomacy He Promised

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The February 25 U.S. bombing of Syria immediately puts the policies of the newly-formed Biden administration into sharp relief. Why is this administration bombing the sovereign nation of Syria? Why is it bombing “Iranian-backed militias” who pose absolutely no threat to the United States and are actually involved in fighting ISIS? If this is about getting more leverage vis-a-vis Iran, why hasn’t the Biden administration just done what it said it would do: rejoin the Iran nuclear deal and [...]

By |2021-03-01T03:16:45-05:00March 1st, 2021|Activism, Biden, Commentary, Drones, Iran, Iraq, Movements, Non-violence, Peace, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Politics|0 Comments
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The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Empire

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies In 2004, journalist Ron Susskind quoted a Bush White House advisor, reportedly Karl Rove, as boasting, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.” He dismissed Susskind’s assumption that public policy must be rooted in “the reality-based community.” “We’re history’s actors,” the advisor told him, “…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” Sixteen years later, the U.S. wars and war crimes launched by the Bush administration have [...]

By |2021-02-03T13:08:41-05:00February 3rd, 2021|Afghanistan, Biden, California, Donald Trump, Economy, Historical, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Medea Benjamin, Movements, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Peace and War, Russia, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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Biden Administration Day One Immigration Actions

by National Immigration Law Center https://www.nilc.org/biden-administration-day-one-immigration-actions/ Excerpts   On January 20, 2021, just hours after being sworn in, President Joe Biden took several immigration-related actions that together signal a new era for immigration policy. They comprise an important first step towards redressing some of the ways in which immigrant communities have been profoundly harmed — in particular, over the past four years — and towards the United States becoming more welcoming of immigrants and refugees. These Day One actions are the first of what we will fight [...]

By |2021-01-30T04:18:15-05:00January 30th, 2021|Activism, Biden, California, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Movements, Politics|0 Comments
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Don’t Let Them Use “Domestic Terrorism” to Criminalize Our People Again

Senator Biden speaks at the signing of the 1994 Biden Crime Bill as Attorney General Janet Reno, President Bill Clinton, and local law enforcement officials look on. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) By Shakeer Rahman, Pete White, and Hamid Khan Joe Biden returning to power in this moment is ominous. As Democrats retake the presidency, Trump devotees have shown they can supplement their harm toward Black and brown people with violent defiance of the political system. Across the mainstream partisan spectrum, their actions are begrudgingly referred to as “domestic [...]

By |2021-01-30T04:17:20-05:00January 30th, 2021|Activism, Biden, Commentary, Gentrification/Displacement, Hamid Khan, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Movements, National Security, Police, Politics, Solidarity, Surveillance|0 Comments
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COVID, Climate & Capital Crisis: Fascism is Built from Above and Below

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles https://antiracist.org/fascism-is-built-from-above-and-below/ Those inclined to heave a sigh of relief and let down our guard about the threat of fascism because of Trump's failed Beer-Hall-Putsch of a coup attempt on January 6, or the "peaceful transition of power" on January 20, or by the eventual tracking and arrests of many of those who broke into the Capitol, or by the prospect that having been impeached a second time, Trump himself may be convicted and prevented from holding further public office, need to [...]

By |2021-01-30T04:14:35-05:00January 30th, 2021|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Climate Change, Commentary, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Economy, Historical, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Politics, Solidarity, Surveillance, War|0 Comments
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Eisenhower’s Warning on Military-Industrial Complex More Apt than Ever

Eisenhower's Ghost Haunts Biden's Foreign Policy Team By Nicolas J. S. Davies   In his first words as President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, Antony  Blinken said, “we have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence.” Many around the world will welcome this promise of humility from the new administration, and Americans should too.   Biden's foreign policy team will also need a special kind of confidence to confront the most serious challenge they face. That will not be a threat from a hostile foreign country, but the controlling and [...]

By |2020-12-02T14:07:19-05:00December 2nd, 2020|Biden, Big Business, Commentary, Constitution, COVID-19, Economy, Haiti, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Movements, National Security, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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