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Books: No Pasaran! Anti-Fascist Dispatches

No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis Shane Burley (Editor); Tal Lavin (Foreword); David Renton (Afterword) Publisher: AK Press  https://akpress.org Format: Book Binding: pb Pages: 564 Released: October 25, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781849354820   Now available for preorder. Order your copy now and receive a ¡No Pasarán! enamel pin with your copy. Both will ship as soon as the book is released! ¡No Pasarán! is an anthology of antifascist writing that [...]

By |2022-10-03T00:08:33-05:00October 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anarchism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Book Reviews, Books, COVID-19, Free Speech, Historical, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Labor, LGBTQ+, Movements, Police Brutality, Politics, Prisons, Protests and Rallies, Psy-Ops, Reviews, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Books: The Story of Anti-Racist Action

We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action Authors: Shannon Clay, Lady, Kristin Schwartz, and Michael Staudenmaier • Foreword by Gord Hill Series: PM Press/Working Class History Published: 11/29/22 Format: Paperback/Hardcover Size: 6x9 Pages: 320 What does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst? We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that [...]

By |2022-10-03T00:08:08-05:00October 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anarchism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Book Reviews, Books, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Independent Media, Movements, Politics, Protests and Rallies|0 Comments
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Book Review: Border Crossings by “Manuel Tiago” (Alvaro Cunhal), reviewed by Peter Lownds

‘Border Crossings’: Small episodes of the epic fight against fascism in Europe by Peter Lownds Local L.A. activist and writer Eric A. Gordon’s recent translation, Border Crossings (New York: International Publishers, 2021) is one of a series of fictional books written by Manuel Tiago, the nom de plume of Álvaro Cunhal (1913-2005), a beloved radical who held various posts in the Portuguese Communist Party, both before and after the fall of the [...]

By |2022-03-07T23:31:47-05:00March 7th, 2022|Anti-Racism/Racism, Book Reviews, Books, Europe, Historical, Movements, Reviews, Russia, Socialism, 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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Fungi’s Lessons for Adapting to Life on a Damaged Planet

Fungi’s Lessons for Adapting to Life on a Damaged Planet   Book review: Entangled Life: How Fungi Change Our Make Our World, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures, by Merlin Sheldrake, Random House   https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fungi-s-lessons-for-adapting-to-life-on-a-damaged-planet   EXCERPT:   Merlin Sheldrake’s new book Entangled Life looks at the complex world of fungi, its adaptive ability, and its interconnectedness with all other forms of life. He spoke with Robert Macfarlane,author of Underland, (see [...]

By |2021-03-01T03:07:22-05:00March 1st, 2021|Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Food, Health, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Murder Incorporated: Book Three-Perfecting Tyranny

MURDER INCORPORATED: Empire/Genocide/Manifest Destiny Book Three: Perfecting Tyranny by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, Foreword by Angela Davis Prison Radio, San Francisco CA, 2020, 420 pp., $20, ISBN  978-7346489-1-1 (softcover) also available as hardcover and e-book (softcover $25 including shipping from Prison Radio, PO Box 411074, SF CA 94141, https://prisonradio.org Reviewed by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA-People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The culminating third volume in the history of US empire and [...]

By |2021-01-30T04:19:01-05:00January 30th, 2021|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Book Reviews, Books, Democracy, Historical, Independent Journalism, Indigenous, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, National Security, Peace and War, Politics, Reviews, Security and Insecurity, Socialism, Solidarity, United States, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Book Review: Mowing Leaves of Grass

Mowing Leaves of Grass by Matt Sedillo FlowerSong Books, McAllen, TX, 2019 ISBN 9781733809290 https://www.flowersongpress.com https://www.mattsedillo.com/ reviewed by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action L.A. https://antiracist.org If you haven't heard or seen Matt in person, you may not be able to hear the staccato machine gun cadence of his spit fire delivery leaping off the pages of this book of his recent poetry. Here's an example on-line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQUAxBr1Kco of Matt presenting his poem "The [...]

By |2022-03-24T23:27:16-05:00July 1st, 2020|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Book Reviews, Books, Donald Trump, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Mexico, Michael Novick, Movements, Peace and War, Poetry Corner, Poverty, Reviews, Writers|0 Comments
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Community Calendar July 2020

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 |2020-07-19T17:55:25-05:00July 1st, 2020|Activism, Big Business, Book Reviews, California, Elections, Letters To Editors, Los Angeles, News, Peace Vigils, Poetry Corner, Politics, Reviews, Social Media, Socialism|0 Comments
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Echoes of Fascism: “The Terror of the Unforeseen”

Echoes of Fascism The Terror of the Unforeseen by Henry Giroux, reviewed by Stephen Rohde Reprinted with permission from the Los Angeles Review of Books Nine years before the Civil War, the former enslaved person, and ardent abolitionist, Frederick Douglass condemned a nation for stubbornly clinging to the abomination of slavery in his blistering speech What to the Slave Is Your Fourth of July. “We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the [...]

By |2019-10-02T05:48:54-05:00October 2nd, 2019|Book Reviews, Books, Constitution, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Politics, Psy-Ops, Reviews, Solidarity, Stephen Rohde|0 Comments
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Book Review: Race After Technology

Race After Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Ruha Benjamin https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509526390 From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent [...]

By |2019-09-05T17:11:09-05:00September 5th, 2019|Anti-Racism/Racism, Book Reviews, Books, Justice/Injustice, Reviews|0 Comments
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WAR: Murder Incorporated/America’s Favorite Pastime

MURDER INCORPORATED Book Two: America’s Favorite Pastime (Spoiler alert -- It’s WAR!) "empire\genocide\manifest destiny" by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, foreword by S. Brian Willson, Afterword by David Swanson; Prison Radio, POB 411074 San Francisco CA, 2019, $20 ISBN: 978-0-9989600-6-7 Reviewed by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA This second volume of a distinctly non-academic 3-book history of US imperialism by political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and film-maker Stephen Vittoria makes it clear that "endless [...]

By |2019-06-01T03:40:34-05:00June 1st, 2019|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Book Reviews, Books, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Michael Novick, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, National Security, Peace, Peace and War, People, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Reviews, Socialism, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Viking Economics: A Review

Viking Economics:  How the Scandinavians Got It Right—and How We Can, Too by George Lakey Reviewed by Jeffrey Hirsch In a brief look at America currently, we might ask, “Why do we have a president as incompetent, vicious and unqualified as Donald Trump?” But to look at Donald Trump in isolation is a big mistake. CBS gave him almost two billion dollars  in free air time running up to the 2016 election [...]

By |2019-02-04T02:25:09-05:00February 4th, 2019|Banking Reform, Banks, Bernie Sanders, Beyond Capitalism, Big Business, Book Reviews, Capitalism, Economy, Economy, Jeffrey Hirsch, Politics, Reviews|0 Comments
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