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Harry Belafonte, Anti-imperialist Human Rights Activist

Mainstream media obituaries of Harry Belafonte emphasize his breakthrough successes as a singer, actor, and producer of records, films, and television, but tend to limit their praise to his iconic public figure stature as an advocate of civil rights. In fact, Belafonte was an unreconstructed radical and socialist throughout his long life and career. Born in Harlem of West Indian immigrant parents in 1927, he lived in Jamaica with his grandmother from [...]

By |2023-04-29T01:33:15-05:00April 29th, 2023|Activism, Africa, Aging, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Cuba, Democracy, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Immigration/Migrant rights, In Memoriam, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Obama, Obituary, Politics, Poverty, Socialism, Unions, Venezuela|0 Comments
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VIRTUAL NATIONAL TOWN HALL: What Next, Pacifica?

by PacificaFightback.com Via Zoom Sat. Mar 25, 3pm PT Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrf-iqqjMoH93vA-cBkWNRlMdoAPRhn2c- After you register you will receive a link by email. Keeping Pacifica Open to All of Us If you want to run to become a Delegate at your station, or work on a campaign for delegates committed to reviving a mission-driven, democratic, transparent and accountable Pacifica, get in touch with us now at: pacificafightback@gmail.com An era of war, growing economic [...]

By |2023-03-11T23:31:26-05:00March 2nd, 2023|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Democracy, Elections, Events, Fund Drives, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Internet, Internet, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Non-violence, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, People, Politics, Poverty, Public Radio, Social Media, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Dynamic New Programming, Newscast on KPFK 90.7 Pacifica Radio

KPFK, listener-sponsored Pacifica community radio for Los Angeles and all of Southern California, is refreshing its programming schedule, adding new more radical, community-based, solution-oriented programming, and launching a locally produced newscast for the first time in over a decade. Anti-racist, anti-war, and anti-capitalist viewpoints are taking center stage in a new morning mix radio magazine. The station is bringing back some other important voices from communities of color that have been missing [...]

By |2022-12-03T21:00:46-05:00December 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Calendar, California, Democracy, Environment, Environmentalism, Events, Free Speech, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Public Radio, Socialism, Solidarity, Surveillance, Volunteer|0 Comments
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Victory for the Planet in Brazil

Lula Defeats Bolsonaro in Brazil Run-Off https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Is-Back-Says-Lula-After-Election-Victory-20221030-0017.html "Today, we are telling the world that Brazil is back and is too big to be relegated to the sad role of a pariah," Inacio Lula da Silva exclaimed in a victory speech after defeating incumbent right wing president Jair Bolsonaro. Globo reported that Bolsonaro would recognize Lula's victory. "What I hear the most in my international trips is that the world misses that sovereign [...]

By |2022-11-06T15:26:50-05:00November 6th, 2022|Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Brazil, Climate Change, Democracy, Elections, Indigenous Nations, Labor, Latin America, News, Politics, Unions|0 Comments
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CIA Hypocrisy on Whistleblowers Exposed

The CIA Blows the Whistle  on its Hypocrisy about  ‘Sources and Methods’ by William Neuheisel (Responsible Statecraft) Reuters recently published new reporting on the story of one of the worst U.S. intelligence failures in decades. From approximately 2010 to 2013, dozens of CIA informants in China, Iran, and elsewhere were rounded up and executed, jailed, or flipped to double agents. In Iran and China, almost the entirety of the CIA’s network in [...]

By |2022-11-06T15:24:57-05:00November 6th, 2022|Asian-American, Commentary, Constitution, Democracy, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Independent Journalism, Justice/Injustice, News, Peace, Peace and War, Politics|0 Comments
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Involuntary Servitude in Prison is Slavery

They Killed ACA3 But Prison Slavery Continues in CA by SF BayView Editor Nube Brown https://sfbayview.com/2022/08/they-killed-aca3-but-slavery-still-lives/ Last month [SF BayView] ran an article about the killing of ACA3, The End Slavery in California Act. To be clear, just because legislators allowed themselves to be strong-armed against their better nature and fear-mongered by the governor to ensure the bill didn’t make it to the floor for a last and final opportunity to [bring [...]

By |2022-08-12T11:31:00-05:00August 12th, 2022|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, California, California, Commentary, Democracy, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Justice/Injustice, Movements, News, Politics, Prisons|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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In Memoriam: Ronald Spriestersbach

Rest in Power Ronald Spriestersbach, 1928-2021 Ron Spriesterbach, who passed away recently at age 93, was a warm friend and good comrade, an anti-racist and anti-imperialist to the core and to the last. Ron is pictured above on the right with his comrade Reza Pour. Like Reza, Ron was a former member of the KPFK Local Station Board and active with the Grassroots Community Radio Coalition as a manifestation of his lifelong [...]

By |2022-02-03T00:45:14-05:00February 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Climate Change, Democracy, Education, Energy, Environmentalism, Health, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, In Memoriam, Independent Journalism, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, News, Obituary, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Politics, Socialism, Solidarity, Veterans, War|0 Comments
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Victory of Chilean Left Presidential Candidate Strengthens a Trend

Victory of Chilean Left Presidential Candidate Strengthens a Trend Excerpted from TelesurEnglish.net Frente Amplio (Broad Front) candidate Gabriel Boric, 35, won a decisive run-off victory in alliance with the Chilean Communist Party against a right-wing opponent (whose father was a member of Hitler’s Nazi Party) in a changing Latin America, at times unstable. His victory comes after the triumphs earlier in 2021 of Pedro Castillo in Peru and Xiomara Castro in Honduras, [...]

By |2022-01-01T01:30:57-05:00January 1st, 2022|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Chile, Climate Change, Constitution, Democracy, Elections, Human Rights, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, LGBTQ+, Movements, News, Politics|0 Comments
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Interview with the General Manager: On the Future of KPFK

THE FUTURE OF LISTENER-SPONSORED KPFK Change Links Exclusive: Interview with new KPFK General Manager Miquel Calçada Listener sponsored free speech community radio station KPFK 90.7 FM, part of the Pacifica Foundation, is a unique democratically governed media institution. After an extensive search, a new General Manager was recently hired and started his tenure in mid-September. Change Links got a chance to conduct this interview with him to give our readers more of [...]

By |2021-12-02T01:40:17-05:00December 2nd, 2021|California, Democracy, Features, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Internet, Internet, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, News, NPR, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, People, Politics, Public Radio|0 Comments
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Free Public Transit Now! End Anti-Black Policing & Policies on Metro!

The Bus Riders Union Calls on the Metro board to cease and desist all Anti-Black policies Immediately! Fight on the side of the BRU This Thursday Dec 2nd at 10am At the Metro Board Meeting This Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 at 10 AM the Bus Riders Union will be introducing the following motion and asking MTA board members to send it to the CEO for implementation “The MTA Board acknowledges that after [...]

By |2021-12-01T22:52:24-05:00December 1st, 2021|Activism, Black Lives Matter, Commentary, Democracy, Eric Mann, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, News, Police, Police Brutality, Poverty, Protests and Rallies, Public Transit, Solidarity, Surveillance|0 Comments
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KPFK, Pacifica  Face Uncertain Future

by Michael Novick, KPFK LSB Chair The future of KPFK and Pacifica are up in the air, as newly-elected or re-elected Local Station Board members are to be seated in December here and at the other four Pacifica stations in Berkeley, Houston, New York and Washington DC. New general managers recently took the helm at KPFK and at KPFT in Texas, with big problems to overcome. The L.A. station has been mired [...]

By |2021-11-03T00:29:44-05:00November 3rd, 2021|Democracy, Independent Media, Internet, Michael Novick, Pacifica/KPFK, Public Radio|0 Comments
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