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Litigation Initiated Against Unfair Pacifica Election Process

A legal process was begun this week against the just-concluded Pacifica elections for national and local board members under the new, improperly-imposed Bylaws. A motion for a temporary restraining order to prevent the certification of the election results, citing irreparable harm if the process proceeds, was denied by a judge in L.A. Superior Court. However, the underlying legal challenge, seeking an "order to show cause" and demand for documentation, as well as [...]

By |2026-10-02T02:29:37-05:00October 1st, 2026|Anti-Racism/Racism, Elections, Free Speech, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Public Radio, Social Media, Unity, Volunteer, Voting|0 Comments
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No to the Spectacle of Death, No to the Whitewashing of Hate

By Marylin Cavanagh The killing of Charlie Kirk has triggered a wave of headlines, media trials, and a political spectacle where real justice seems to matter least. No one who defends human dignity can celebrate a death. Violence is not justice. But we also cannot accept that this case be used to silence dissent, whitewash years of hate speech, and normalize the idea that those who challenge political power and its mouthpieces [...]

By |2025-09-30T23:34:53-05:00September 30th, 2025|Activism, Constitution, Death Penalty, Donald Trump, Fascism, Free Speech, Human Rights, JD Vance, LGBTQ+, Movements, Politics, Unity|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: Solidarity Forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUwcL5H2Im0 When the union’s inspiration Through the workers blood shall run There can be no power greater Anywhere beneath the sun Yet what force on earth is weaker Than the feeble strength of one But the union makes us strong   Refrain: Solidarity forever (3x) For the union makes us strong   It is we who plowed the prairies Built the cities where they trade Dug the mines and built the workshops [...]

By |2025-04-25T01:43:37-05:00April 25th, 2025|Activism, Anarchism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Economy, Historical, Labor, Movements, Music, Politics, Poverty, Socialism, Solidarity, Unions, Unity|0 Comments
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One Struggle, Many Fronts!

One Struggle, Many Fronts - Uniting the Many to Defeat the Few! by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles (ARA-LA/PART) https://antiracist.org Just over a month in power, the Trump-Vance-Musk regime and its acolytes and minions are continuing their rapid-fire and relentless assaults on labor, immigrants, Black, Indigenous, Raza, and Asian-Pacific Islander people, women, LGBTQIA+ people, public health, education, freedom of speech and the press, the environment, and international solidarity, while encouraging other fascist [...]

By |2025-03-01T02:39:23-05:00March 1st, 2025|Abortion, Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, Donald Trump, Ecology, Education, Environmentalism, Fascism, Health, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous Nations, Journalists, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Police, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Public Radio, Repression, Reproductive Rights, Socialism, Solidarity, Unity, War|0 Comments
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Grassroots Community Radio Coalition Endorsements (Ad)

Grassroots Community Radio Coalition Endorsements for KPFK Listener and Staff Delegate on the Local Station Board   Listener Candidates Jack Neff Marisol Bielma Gina DeBaca JJack Artz Roberto Diaz Paul Pereira Denis P. Recendez Todd Williams Bella De Soto - disqualified by the National Election Supervisor due to suspension by PNB Diana Parmeter Sasha Karlik Ahjamu Makalani Ian Johnston   Staff Candidates Ninel Centeno Brenda Martinez Jeanine Rohn   These are candidates [...]

By |2024-08-07T11:53:14-05:00August 7th, 2024|Activism, Ads, Anti-Racism/Racism, Free Speech, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Internet, Movements, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Politics, Public Radio, Social Media, Solidarity, Unity|0 Comments
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PDF of June 2023 print edition of Change Links

By |2023-06-02T18:38:54-05:00June 2nd, 2023|Activism, Ads, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Brazil, Calendar, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Climate Change, Cuba, Ecology, Economy, Elections, Film & Documentaries, Films, Homelessness, Independent Journalism, Labor, Latin America, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Mexico, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Poetry Corner, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Reviews, Russia, Socialism, Unity, Venezuela, Voting, War|0 Comments
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Peoples Summit for Democracy 2022

Peoples Summit June 8-10 at LATTC, in the tradition of each Summit of the Americas since the 2005 Mar Del Plata Summit, we, unionists, activists, grassroots organizations and progressive people of the Americas are calling for a People’s Summit to counter the 9th “Summit of the Americas” to be held in the US for the first time, here in Los Angeles, CA. The People’s Summit will host three days of art, music, [...]

By |2022-06-04T23:48:46-05:00June 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Black liberation, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Democracy, Economy, Films, Health Care, Homelessness, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Movements, Politics, Puerto Rico, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, Unions, Unity|0 Comments
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Open Letter from Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and Citizens of the World Against War and Nuclear Weapons

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and other Nobel Peace Prize Laureates have launched a historic call to reject war and nuclear weapons. Now they are asking Avaaz and citizens around the world to join them in protecting our planet. We reject war and nuclear weapons. We call on all our fellow citizens of the world to join us in protecting our planet, home for [...]

By |2022-03-29T23:01:47-05:00March 29th, 2022|Activism, Environmentalism, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Movements, Non-violence, Peace and War, Ukraine, Unity, War|0 Comments
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Survivors Speak Out: “Movement Pains” by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Movement Pains column written 10/18/21 © 2021 by Mumia Abu-Jamal   I call this “Movement Pains.”   Every social movement begins in pain. When people see or experience social injustice, movements are born. This should surprise none of us, for our mothers brought each of us forth at the crucible between death and life. When we see or experience social injustice, we viscerally sense pain and are urged by internal forces to [...]

By |2021-12-02T01:35:55-05:00December 2nd, 2021|#MeToo, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, Girls, Movements, Reproductive Rights, Unity, Women|0 Comments
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Grassroots Community Radio Coalition candidates for KPFK LSB

-Paid Political Ad - Vote for Grassroots Community Radio Coalition Candidates for LSB Defend Democracy, Diversity, Accountability & Community Radio! Money Out of Pacifica Politics - Keep Pacifica Whole and Committed to Peace, Justice & Self- Determination! Grassroots candidates are predominantly Black, Indigenous & People of Color, and majority women, reflecting the community. In alphabetical order: Deidra Bynum, Marisol Cruz, Fernando S. Fernando, Kelly Flores, George Funmaker, Rob Macon, Jack Neff, Michael [...]

By |2021-09-03T02:37:58-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Activism, Ads, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Cuba, Elections, Free Speech, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Latin America, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Homeowners, Lydia Ponce, Michael Novick, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Police, Politics, Poverty, Protests and Rallies, Public Radio, Unions, Unity, Voting|0 Comments
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Democracy Hangs in the Balance at KPFK & Pacifica

Dual Elections at KPFK in June Reveal Dueling Futures for Pacifica Radio by Michael Novick, KPFK Local Station Board Chair June 1 opens the regularly scheduled election process for listener and staff delegates to the KPFK Local Station Board (LSB), under the Bylaws that make Pacifica radio a unique democratically governed national media institution. June 7, a separate special costly election process begins on a revision of those Bylaws which, if it [...]

By |2021-06-03T17:13:43-05:00May 29th, 2021|Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Free Speech, Fund Drives, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Michael Novick, Movements, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Public Radio, Social Media, Solidarity, Unity, War|0 Comments
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Baldwin Hill Elementary Magnet School Parents Declare a “Charter-Free” Zone

Baldwin Hills Elementary School Parents Won a Resolution from West Adams Neighborhood Council Declaring their School a “Charter Free Zone https://michaelkohlhaas.org/wp/2019/03/24/baldwin-hills-elementary-school-parents-present-resolution-to-west-adams-neighborhood-council-declaring-school-a-charter-free-zone-co-locating-privatizers-from-new-los-angeles-charter-scho/B [Edited excerpts] Since January 2019, I’ve been following the story of New Los Angeles Charter Elementary School and its forcible colonization of Baldwin Hills Elementary Pilot and Gifted Magnet School. I was inspired by the UTLA strike and a fine article by Daniel Hernandez of LA Taco. After a relatively minimal [...]

By |2021-04-30T18:45:12-05:00April 30th, 2021|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Black Lives Matter, Education, Gentrification/Displacement, Independent Journalism, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, People, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Unity, Women|0 Comments
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