CA Legislature Must Pass SB 2 and AB 118! California, along with the entire U.S., is in a moment of reckoning that the people tasked with protecting public safety are far too often those who are compromising it - and we must develop public safety solutions that do not involve police. Community-based organizations are demanding police accountability and are scaling-up emergency response programs as an alternative to police. The California legislature must [...]

Prayers of Petition © by Barbara Jane Reyes   Excerpt:   To the Patron Saint of Encumbered Wives   Hija con la barba, pray for us Bearded maiden of the cross, we have Many stake claim upon us No sanctuary from the fathers’ will Santa Librada, crucificada Our husbands’ whims, and our sons This burden of patriarchs Ravaging the sad vessels of namesake. Hija con la barba, virgo fortis Bearded maiden, they [...]

Sabina Virgo      The peoples' movements suffered another great loss recently with the death of Sabina Virgo of cancer. Change Links joins many other friends, relations and comrades in grief at her passing. Sabina was a labor organizer and leader, a climate justice activist, a co-founder of the Crack the CIA Coalition and the Martin Luther King Coalition for Jobs and Justice of Greater LA, an incisive political theoretician and analyst, and [...]

May Day is International Working Peoples' Day There are multiple calls for a General Strike, as well as Rent Strikes and other manifestations on Friday May 1, May Day. Here are a few, and we appreciate hearing from you about others. Here's a call, from Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi, which has had dozens of organizations around the US on weekly planning calls in response to the COVID crisis and its consequences, but [...]

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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, [...]

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