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https://chuangcn.org/2020/02/social-contagion/ Two brief excerpts from a much longer and richer analysis of how and why COVID-19 emerged where and when it did in China, and its consequences. Wuhan is known colloquially as one of the “four furnaces” (四大火炉) of China for its oppressively hot humid summer, shared with Chongqing, Nanjing and alternately Nanchang or Changsha, all bustling cities with long histories along or near the Yangtze river valley. Of the four, Wuhan, however, is also sprinkled with literal furnaces: the massive urban complex acts as a sort [...]

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Change Links cannot publish without your support. Send events, articles or poetry to changelinks2@gmail.com or via https://change-links.org/submit/ Please subscribe. All events announced are encouraged to donate $5.00 (per event), payable to AFGJ, mail to Change Links, PO Box 34236, Los Angeles, CA 90034. It helps keep this publication solvent. We thank you in advance.   Peace vigils: https://change-links.org/ongoing-peace-vigils-and-community-programs/   Other Calendars: https://ocprogressiveevents.info/, https://la.indymedia.org/calendar/, httpss://www.facebook.com/pg/ieprogressivealliance/events/, https://www.activistsandiego.org/event, httpss://vcpjn.org/calendar/, httpss://echoparkfilmcenter.org   KPFK 90.7 FM Non-Commercial Listener-Sponsored Pacifica Community Radio Local Station Board (LSB) election process is underway. Voting will take [...]

Chelsea Manning & Julian Assange: Political Prisoners of the Big Lie by Defending Rights & Dissent <info@rightsanddissent.org>   For the first time in US history, a publisher of information has been indicted under the Espionage Act. Hours ago, the DOJ announced they were bringing 17 Espionage Act charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This is in an addition to a previous charge of conspiring to crack a password to a DOD computer. All of these charges stem from WikiLeaks’s decision to publish information provided to it by [...]

Kingdom of Cages by Matt Sedillo   Los Angeles, city of pigs, kingdom of cages Database, the Fuhrman tapes, the Ayres report Darryl Gates, Tom Bradley, Lee Baca, Willie Parker The red lines, red squads, ramparts, Rodney King The thin blue line on an all-white jury Murderous metropolis that kills for appearances Chicano Moratorium, eighty-four Olympics CRASH, the battering ram Twin towers, Operation Hammer, Safe city La Loma, Bishop, Palo Verde, Arcadia Los Angeles is a city designed to be divided Postcard paradise, gentleman's apartheid Service and [...]

As C-L was going to press, a run-off was scheduled in Brazil between the far-right militarist Jair Bolsonaro and the candidate of the Workers' Party (PT), Fernando Haddad. This piece explains what's at stake.--Ed. NOT HIM: Stand against Fascism in Brazil and the Recolonization of Latin America https://theinternationalcommittee.org/not-him-stand-against-fascism-in-brazil-and-the-recolonization-of-latin-america/ From our International Solidarity we call on all the democratic and progressive forces, the honest men and women of Brazil and Latin America to support in a unitary and forceful way the candidacy of Fernando Haddad-Manuela D’Avila in the [...]