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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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Cisco Drake (Frank Giron) – presente!

The Herald Dispatch Newspaper in Los Angeles was an independent African American News Paper. A vanguard in its geopolitical reportage with an aggressive editorial format. But because of its unabashed model, it fell victim to much political attacks, the locale was even burglarized and bombed twice. Finally, after its publishing 20 year run from 1954 to 1974 it was forced to close operations. Its proud editors-in-chiefs: Mr. Samford Alexander and Wife Pat [...]

By |2022-01-01T01:27:54-05:00January 1st, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Bella De Soto, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, Immigration/Migrant rights, In Memoriam, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Latin America, Los Angeles, Poverty, Socialism, Solidarity, War, Women, Writers|0 Comments
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What the Monroe Doctrine Signifies to Latin America

By Prof. Cisco Drake For the people of Latin America, since December 2, 1823, when then U.S. President James Monroe established a Doctrine that would always identify its rule over the vast region then classified as Latin America, it is impossible to understand why the economic and political conditions in the Countries of Latin America have compelled so many to migrate to other lands, usually to the U.S., since this Doctrine was [...]

By |2022-01-01T01:25:26-05:00January 1st, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Economy, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Human Rights, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Solidarity|0 Comments
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The Long Roots of Venezuela’s Communal Road to 21st Century Socialism

Excerpt from “Back to the Future” by Chris Gilbert https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/19/back-to-the-future-the-long-roots-of-venezuelas-communal-tradition/ (The full piece is behind a paywall). Despite the change-over from Trump to Biden, the US continues its financial, commercial and clandestine attacks on Venezuela, and its claims that the country is a dictatorship, even though the Chavista Socialist Party has won numerous free and fair elections. This article examines some of the historical and theoretical bases for the Venezuelan effort to [...]

By |2022-01-01T01:24:47-05:00January 1st, 2022|Activism, Anarchism, Anti-capitalism, Historical, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Movements, News, Politics, Socialism, Solidarity, Venezuela|0 Comments
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Elections in Central, South America Show a New “Pink Tide”

by   Michael Novick As Change-Links was going to press, voters in Honduras appeared to have elected the left candidate for president, ending 12-years of a coup-based conservative government (installed after Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed off on the overthrow of the elected president, Manuel Zelaya). According to Reuters, "Leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro raced to an early lead in the Honduran presidential election on Sunday, November 28, partial election [...]

By |2021-12-02T01:34:19-05:00December 2nd, 2021|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Brazil, Honduras, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Politics, Poverty, Venezuela|0 Comments
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Grassroots Community Radio Coalition candidates for KPFK LSB

-Paid Political Ad - Vote for Grassroots Community Radio Coalition Candidates for LSB Defend Democracy, Diversity, Accountability & Community Radio! Money Out of Pacifica Politics - Keep Pacifica Whole and Committed to Peace, Justice & Self- Determination! Grassroots candidates are predominantly Black, Indigenous & People of Color, and majority women, reflecting the community. In alphabetical order: Deidra Bynum, Marisol Cruz, Fernando S. Fernando, Kelly Flores, George Funmaker, Rob Macon, Jack Neff, Michael [...]

By |2021-09-03T02:37:58-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Activism, Ads, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Cuba, Elections, Free Speech, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Latin America, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Homeowners, Lydia Ponce, Michael Novick, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Police, Politics, Poverty, Protests and Rallies, Public Radio, Unions, Unity, Voting|0 Comments
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NATO in “Latin” America

by Rick Rozoff https://antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2021/07/14/natos-800-mile-border-with-south-america/#comments The website of NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium featured a story on Bastille Day in which it interviewed a French officer with the SHAPE military police.  SHAPE had been based in France until Charles de Gaulle evicted it in 1967 when he withdrew from NATO’s integrated military structure. The interview was unremarkable until the Frenchman was asked what were some aspects of France [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:33:42-05:00August 1st, 2021|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Big Business, Brazil, Canada, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Columbia, Cuba, Donald Trump, Economy, Haiti, Historical, Latin America, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Puerto Rico, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, War|0 Comments
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Oppose the US Blockade/Embargo and Intervention in Cuba

by Christopher Gunderson https://www.facebook.com/christopher.gunderson.7/posts/10159909775310362 People can have legitimate grievances and nonetheless be acting in a manner that strengthens US imperialism. Indeed, this is exactly the strategy that US imperialism pursues against its adversaries. It uses every tool at its disposal to aggravate the contradictions and antagonisms that exist within those countries that have dared to defy its hegemony. It does this in the hope of politically destabilizing them in ways that can [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:22:40-05:00August 1st, 2021|Activism, Biden, COVID-19, Cuba, Donald Trump, Historical, Latin America, Movements, National Security, News, Obama, Peace, Peace and War, Politics|0 Comments
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Rural Teacher Pedro Castillo Poised to Write a New Chapter in Peru’s History

By Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores With his wide-brimmed peasant hat and oversized teacher’s pencil held high, Peru’s Pedro Castillo has been traveling the country exhorting voters to get behind a call that has been particularly urgent during this devastating pandemic: “No más pobres en un país rico” - No more poor people in a rich country. In a cliffhanger of an election with a huge urban-rural and class divide, it appears [...]

By |2021-07-01T23:55:50-05:00July 1st, 2021|Activism, Beyond Capitalism, Democracy, Elections, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Melina Abdullah, Movements, News, Politics, Socialism|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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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 [...]

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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Paid Ad: Nicaragua Support Fund U.S.A. International

--paid advertisement-- Nicaragua Support Fund U.S.A. International [In Spanish, Fondo de Apoyo a Nicaragua USA-Internacional (FAN)] 1226 N. Alvarado Street Los Angeles, California 90026      Since late 2014, our organization has been collecting voluntary tax payments, to be forwarded to the National Budget of the Government of Nicaragua. We have not yet forwarded any of the payments, because we’re still working on getting more people on board. At the present time, our [...]

By |2021-04-08T14:34:04-05:00April 8th, 2021|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Economy, Fund Drives, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Socialism, Solidarity, Steve Edinger, Sustainability|0 Comments
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