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KPFK: Under New Management

and Open to the Community KPFK – Under New Management By Michael Novick, KPFK interim General Manager Change Links has carried many articles with my byline before, but this one is unique. I am writing to you as the new unpaid interim General Manager of KPFK. I was recently appointed to that position by the Pacifica Executive Director, Stephanie Wells. She and the Pacifica National Board determined that there was no money [...]

By |2022-10-03T00:03:57-05:00October 3rd, 2022|Anti-Racism/Racism, Asian-American, Black liberation, California, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Economy, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Public Radio|0 Comments
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KPFK Seeking a General Manager

KPFK 90.7 FM, Pacifica's listener sponsored free speech community radio for all of Southern California, is seeking a new General Manager. The job announcement is at https://pacifica.org/jobs_kpfk.php. According to the job description: "KPFK is the strongest FM signal west of the Mississippi, broadcasting at 112,000 watts of power, serving most of Southern California from Santa Barbara to San Diego, webcasting at KPFK.org, with an eclectic mix of public affairs, talk, news, culture, [...]

By |2022-06-03T02:07:53-05:00June 3rd, 2022|Economy, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Internet, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Public Radio|0 Comments
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Urgent Appeal to So Cal’s Civil Society and Creative Communities

Urgent Appeal to So Cal’s Civil Society and Creative Communities on Behalf of KPFK by Michael Novick I am writing as the chair of the Local Station Board, a listener member elected to the governance of KPFK, listener-sponsored, non-commercial educational Pacifica free speech community radio (90.7 in L.A., 98.7 in Santa Barbara, 93.7 in San Diego, 99.5 in Ridgecrest/China Lake, and world-wide at kpfk.org). I am writing with a simple and immediate [...]

By |2022-05-18T14:45:17-05:00May 18th, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Commentary, COVID-19, Disability issues, Economy, Elections, Free Speech, Fund Drives, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, Immigration/Migrant rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous Nations, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Low income, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Poverty, Public Radio, Social Media, Solidarity, Unions, Voting, War|0 Comments
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Casualties of War

Casualties of War: Truth, Journalism and Critical Thought by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA While forces on the right loudly lament so-called cancel culture, the real censorship is coming from the corporate and even so-called progressive media and the state. Consider the recent decision by the British to allow the extradition of Julian Assange, after years of house arrest and incarceration, to stand trial in the US on charged related to his [...]

By |2022-04-30T18:02:42-05:00April 30th, 2022|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Drones, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Police Brutality, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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March 2022 Community Calendar of Events

Change Links cannot publish without your support. Send events, articles or poetry to changelinks2@gmail.com or via http://change-links.org/submit/  Please subscribe as well. Subscriptions to the print edition are $12/25/50 a year, low income, regular or sustainer (sliding scale), Payable to “AFGJ,” our fiscal sponsor, with “Change Links” in the memo. All events announced are encouraged to donate $5 (per event), payable to AFGJ, mail to Change Links, PO Box 34236, LA 90034. It [...]

By |2022-03-07T23:22:05-05:00March 2nd, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Bella De Soto, Calendar, Events, Films, Homelessness, Housing, Immigration/Migrant rights, Jeffrey Hirsch, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace and War, Protests and Rallies, Public Radio, Reproductive Rights|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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Askia Muhammad – Black Journalist by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Askia Muhammad - Black Journalist by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/askia-muhammed-black-journalist He was known as Askia Muhammad. And in his 76 years of life, he was principally known, and indeed renowned, as a Black journalist. But he was also a poet, a photographer, and hosted a radio program in Washington DC's Pacifica station, WPFW. He was a senior editor and correspondent for the Final Call, the weekly journal of the Nation of Islam. He [...]

By |2022-03-02T01:46:20-05:00March 2nd, 2022|Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Black liberation, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, In Memoriam, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, News, Pacifica/KPFK|0 Comments
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Retraction and Correction

In the last issue of Change Links, we ran a piece about the issues facing Pacifica, partly in response to an opinion piece in the L.A. Progressive in which the writer had announced his decision to withdraw his funds and pledges from Pacifica. Michael Novick, author of the Change Links piece, understood that to mean the writer, and by implication the L.A. Progressive, were urging people to do the same. The writer [...]

By |2022-03-02T01:45:12-05:00March 2nd, 2022|Commentary, Errata, Michael Novick, Pacifica/KPFK|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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Why It’s More Important Than Ever to Support KPFK & Pacifica

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART), KPFK LSB Chair 2021, 2022 Some people are advocating cutting off donations to KPFK and Pacifica., in particular to support the claims and efforts of New Day Pacifica. This is a counter-productive and destructive proposal. KPFK and Pacifica need and merit our support to maintain and build the independence and impact as democratic media of free speech, non-commercial listener-sponsored community radio, a [...]

By |2022-02-01T16:27:36-05:00February 1st, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Calendar, COVID-19, Free Speech, Fund Drives, Historical, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, Independent Journalism, Internet, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Public Radio|1 Comment
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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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