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Los Angeles Youth Head for International Meeting on Climate Change and Ocean Plastic Pollution in Havana, Cuba

by Mark Friedman, L.A. US Hands Off Cuba Coalition A delegation of a dozen young people from local universities who are environmental activists left for a week of educational programs in Cuba on April 26. “We have an opportunity to be part of an international meeting hosted by the National Aquarium (Acuario Nacional) to discuss the world-wide crisis of ocean plastic pollution and global climate change,” said delegation leader Johanna Cervantes, a [...]

By |2022-04-30T17:59:40-05:00April 30th, 2022|Activism, Beyond Capitalism, Climate Change, Cuba, Education, Environmentalism, Movements|0 Comments
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Helen Yaffe, film on Cuba’s Example

Saturday, April 2. 4:30-7 PM reception & public meeting.  Film Tarea Vida, speakers, entertainment McCarty Memorial Church 4103 W Adams Blvd., LA, CA 90018 Yaffe Articles: International marine science magazine.https://sevenseasmedia.org/cuba-shows-how-to-take-action-on-climate-change/ Yaffe on Science Friday, 2/18 - discussing Cuba's vaccines & Covid response.  https://www.sciencefriday.com/person/helen-yaffe/ Yaffe on NBC news. Special short on Cuba vaccines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u6uvNp5RPQ ​ ushandsoffcubacommittee.com     LA.US.Handsoffcuba@gmail.com END THE US EMBARGO OF CUBA. Normalize Relations.End the Trump/Biden sanctions, trade & travel bans. 

By |2022-03-29T23:00:31-05:00March 29th, 2022|Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Climate Change, COVID-19, Cuba, Environment, Films, Latin America, Peace, Socialism|0 Comments
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Fernando Velazquez, ¡Presente!

by Rose Mary Elizondo and others Fernando Velazquez was born on September 22, 1948, in Sinaloa, Mexico. He passed to the ancestors on February 12, 2022 of a brain aneurysm, a tragic loss for the peoples' movements globally and locally. He was born into a large family.  His mother was a true Matriarch. Fernando was a very hardworking person. He started working at a young age. He managed to obtain an education [...]

By |2022-03-02T01:46:51-05:00March 2nd, 2022|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, In Memoriam, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Latin America, Los Angeles, Movements, National Security, News, Obituary, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Public Radio, Social Media, Solidarity|0 Comments
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THE BIGGEST LIE WE LIVE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES

WHAT MOST AMERICAN PEOPLE DON’T KNOW and DON’T WANT TO KNOW By Frank Dorrel Publisher of ADDICTED To WAR: www.addictedtowar.com My name is Frank Dorrel. Along with AK Press, I publish and distribute the popular anti-war comic book titled: ADDICTED To WAR by Joel Andreas. What is this BIG LIE that I am talking about?  Well, it’s not Donald Trump claiming that he won the 2020 election for President. He got something like seven million fewer votes then Joe [...]

By |2022-02-12T15:33:06-05:00February 3rd, 2022|Activism, Afghanistan, Beyond Capitalism, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Commentary, Drones, Film Reviews, Films, Frank Dorrel, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Iraq, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, National Security, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Protests and Rallies, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, Veterans|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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Poetry Corner: Boricua en la Luna – Puerto Rican on the Moon

Boricua en la luna Por Don Juan Antonio Corretjer   Desde las ondas del mar que son besos a su orilla una mujer de Aguadilla vino a New York a cantar Pero no, solo a llorar un largo llanto y morir. De ese llanto yo nací como la lluvia una fiera. Y vivo en larga espera de cobrar lo que perdí.   Por un cielo que se hacía más feo más volaba [...]

By |2022-02-01T16:22:02-05:00February 1st, 2022|Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Immigration/Migrant rights, Latin America, Movements, Poetry Corner, Puerto Rico|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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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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