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Beware Pro-Israel Lobby’s 2026 CA Agenda

by Marcy Winograd, Jewish Voice for Peace, CTA Caucus Jewish and Allied Educators for Palestine Almost overnight, the CA Jewish Public Affairs Committee (JPAC) changed its name to “Jewish California” [see: https://www.jewishcal.org/], a re-branding likely aimed at distancing JPAC’s image from that of AIPAC, a rhyming acronym for the toxic American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The re-branding of JPAC followed a 2025 interview [see: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DP0JTBhDRgh/] in which podcaster Van Latham asked California [...]

By |2026-05-30T16:29:59-05:00May 30th, 2026|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Decolonization, Education, Ethnic studies, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel and Palestine, Los Angeles, Movements, Newsom, Palestine, Palestinian, Repression|0 Comments
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LA Charter Commission Releases Report, Recommended Changes

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 |2026-04-03T23:13:37-05:00April 3rd, 2026|Activism, Constitution, Elections, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, News, Police, Police Brutality, Voting|0 Comments
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FIFA: Move the World Cup from the US

International Coalition Calls to Move World Cup from US by Black Alliance for Peace https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/2026/3/4/100-days-from-the-world-cup-an-international-coalition-is-calling-on-fifa-to-move-the-games-from-the-us-the-us-is-unsafe-for-non-europeans-and-is-operating-as-a-rogue-state With the FIFA World Cup in L.A.  now under 100 days away, an international coalition has launched a coordinated boycott campaign demanding that FIFA move matches from the United States. The Coalition warns that US thuggery is creating a humanitarian crisis, both domestic and international. International sport is not neutral. Mega-sporting events function as instruments of political [...]

By |2026-04-02T22:08:44-05:00April 2nd, 2026|Activism, Donald Trump, Events, Iran, Los Angeles, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Politics, Solidarity, Sports, World Cup|0 Comments
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FBI Raids Home & Office of LAUSD Supt. Carvalho Over A-I Ed Tech

by Michael Novick, UTLA-retired As Change Links was going to press, the FBI raided LAUSD headquarters on Beaudry in DTLA and the home of superintendent Alberto Carvalho in San Pedro. The FBI announcement also provided an address in Florida that was searched. Public records show that property is linked to an individual who worked with AllHere, an education technology startup that created a highly touted A-I chatbot for the Los Angeles school [...]

By |2026-02-26T23:38:03-05:00February 26th, 2026|A-I Artificial Intelligence, Anti-capitalism, Artificial Intelligence, California, Crime, Education, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, News, Students, Tech|0 Comments
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GOP Q-Anon Congressional Candidate Convicted

The LA Times reports that Omar  Navarro, who ran to represent LA's 43rd CD seat held by Maxine Waters in 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022, has been convicted of electoral fraud and essentially embezzlement, and sentenced to prison. Navarro was a purveyor of Q-Anon conspiracy claims lauding Donald Trump. According to federal prosecutors, as reported by the Times, "From July 2017 to February 2021, he funneled tens of thousands of dollars in [...]

By |2026-02-26T23:37:27-05:00February 26th, 2026|California, California, Capitalism, Elections, Fascism, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, News, Politics|0 Comments
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Save Oakwood Park in Venice from Gentrification

by Lydia Ponce Our beloved Oakwood Park, a sanctuary for families and children in the heart of our community, has recently become a place of concern rather than solace. Over the past few years, incidents involving dogs being illegally off-leash have increased at an alarming rate. As a neighbor who frequents this park, I have witnessed firsthand the unsettling consequences of such negligence. One child has been a victim twice of these [...]

By |2026-02-01T02:54:36-05:00February 1st, 2026|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Gentrification/Displacement, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Lydia Ponce, Movements, News, People, Solidarity|0 Comments
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LA Olympics 2028: Point/Counterpoint – Fair Games

Labor and Community Demands on the LA Olympics by the Fair Games Coalition Los Angeles will become the mega events capital of the world over the next several years. During 2026 through 2028, our city will host—among other events—the FIFA World Cup, the Super Bowl, and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Such mega events and the massive investments required to make them happen should have a positive impact for the city’s residents, [...]

By |2025-12-03T14:56:59-05:00December 1st, 2025|Activism, Beyond Capitalism, Events, Housing, Labor, Los Angeles, Low income, National Security, Olympics, Politics, Sports|0 Comments
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Letter to the Editor: Violations of Democracy, Transparency at Pacifica

The International community faces the loss of a critical media stronghold of free speech. The Pacifica Foundation, Inc. is a non-commercial, educational radio broadcasting network comprising five FCC licensed FM radio stations.  It began in 1949 as a registered California non-profit for public good, providing a uniquely independent platform for news, education and the arts.  Its origin as a pacifist organization promoting peace can be found at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/pacifica-radio In recent years Pacifica [...]

By |2025-03-01T02:36:28-05:00March 1st, 2025|Abolition, Activism, Anti-capitalism, California, Economy, Free Speech, Fund Drives, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Journalists, Labor, Letters to the Editor, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Politics, Public Radio, Public Transit, Repression|0 Comments
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Capitalism & Colonialism are the Disaster – Solidarity & Liberation are the Solution

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) https://antiracist.org/rebuilding-los-angeles/ The incineration of large parts of the Los Angeles area represents the extent to which settler colonial capitalism has sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind. It is the outcome of generations, centuries, of exploitation, land theft, genocide, privatization, gentrification, fossil fuel extraction and other social ills, economic crimes, and political malfeasance. In the wake of the massive and ongoing destruction, [...]

By |2025-02-07T01:07:17-05:00February 7th, 2025|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Banks, Bernie Sanders, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, California, California, Climate Change, Commentary, Democracy, Ecology, Economy, Economy, Education, Environment, Environmentalism, Fascism, France, Gentrification/Displacement, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Homeowners, Low income, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Politics, Poverty, Repression, Socialism, Solidarity|0 Comments
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KPFK Local Station Board Faces Gestapo-Like Policies

By Bella De Soto In the past 2 months, a set of Gestapo-like disciplinary policies have taken center stage at meetings of the KPFK Local Station Board, instead of the Agenda itself!  Most KPFK local Station Board Committees like the Governance, Finance and Outreach committee have been closed down (Outreach was combined with Fundraising). The agenda for the next meeting, Jan. 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM Pacific, was posted at: https://www.kpftx.org/    [...]

By |2025-01-02T01:43:15-05:00January 2nd, 2025|Activism, Banks, Bella De Soto, Commentary, France, Free Speech, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Los Angeles, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Politics, Public Radio, Repression, Social Media|0 Comments
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Counterpoint: No Peace with the GOP or Dems!

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 [...]

By |2024-11-30T20:55:21-05:00November 30th, 2024|Activism, Alex Caputo-Pearl, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arlene Inouye, Banks, Bernie Sanders, Betty Forrester, Black liberation, California, Carlos Quintanilla, Cecily Myart-Cruz, Charles Fredricks, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Climate Change, Colleen Schwab, Commentary, Daniel Barnhart, Democracy, Education, Elections, Environmentalism, Fascism, France, Historical, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Journalists, Juan Ramirez, Justice/Injustice, Kamala Harris, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Mark Lipman, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, National Security, News, Obama, Palestine, Palestinian, Paul Cleveland, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, People, Police Brutality, Politics, Poverty, Prisons, Puerto Rico, Robert Reich, Ron Scherer, Sue Sturgis|0 Comments
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Reactionary Results in California Vote

The Democrats seeking to "flip" seats back to their party in CA all supported Prop. 36, which turned drug and petty property crimes into felonies, and the electorate followed suit, adopting the measure which strengthened the three strikes approach, and rejected Prop. 6, which would have abolished slavery (involuntary servitude) inside CA prisons. Voters also adopted a measure targeted at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, whose Housing is a Human Rights campaign has [...]

By |2024-11-30T20:27:42-05:00November 30th, 2024|Banks, Bernie Sanders, California, California, Carlos Quintanilla, Charles Fredricks, Contests, Death Penalty, Democracy, Elections, France, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, News, Paul Cleveland, Politics, Robert Reich, Ron Scherer, Sue Sturgis, Voting|0 Comments
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