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 [...]

LA Charter Commission Releases Report, Recommended Changes

The LA Charter Reform Commission has issued its report and recommendations. It will be considered by the City Council, which will determine which items move forward to a vote by Angelenos on which measures will be adopted. You can read the full report here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hHa0OLsFg9EmPPlO6QgUsGfzTKwQgOtp/view Key recommendations include a two-year budgeting process, an increase in the size of the City Council, greater power for the Chief of Police to discipline officers, and [...]

Welcome to the 2nd Quarter of the 21st Century!

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles (ARA-LA/PART) A "year in review" summary, as has been traditional in the January issue of Change Links annually, would recapitulate the horrors of the first year of Trump II, with which we are all too achingly familiar. I am instead going to take a longer view, and look back over the past quarter-century to see what got us into this deepening political, moral, economic and [...]

Regarding Newsom’s Proposition 50 on Re-Districting

Proportional Representation Is the Solution to Gerrymandering by Luke Pickrell, DSA Texas Republicans have redrawn their US House map five years early, aiming to flip up to five Democratic seats in next year’s election. The move ignited a nationwide “high-stakes showdown” over gerrymandering, one that now stretches to California’s ballot this November. In response to the Texas GOP’s redistricting push, Democrats from the state traveled to California and Illinois to plan a [...]

Chris Hedges and Kshama Sawant on Mamdani Primary Victory

Chris Hedges Hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman, enraged by Zohran Mamdani’s securing an overwhelming majority to become the Democratic Party’s nominee to run for mayor of New York City, said he and his wealthy associates will pour “hundreds of millions of dollars” into the candidacy of anyone willing to run against Mamdani in the general election. Ackman, who supports Donald Trump, added that he has an unnamed candidate he is ready to bankroll. [...]

Trump: A Factual Record

Trump facts by Aayush Godara I made sure I fact checked these, so feel free to check yourselves, but these may be a good reason not to trust Donald. May I share some facts?   64 Times Mentioned In Epstein Report. 97 Times Pleaded The Fifth. 34 Felony Convictions. 91 Criminal Charges. 26 Sexual Assault Allegations. 6 Bankruptcies. 5 Draft Deferments. 4 Indictments. 2 Impeachments. 2 Convicted Companies. 1 Fake University Shut [...]

Gov. Newsom Attacks Rooftop Solar

Governor Newsom’s California Public  Utilities Commission (CPUC)  has proposed to break the state’s contract with nearly two million solar customers, slash their solar credit, and slap them with a solar tax. These changes would apply to ALL solar customers who signed up for solar before April 2023 (NEM1 and NEM2).   What they are proposing California currently requires PG&E, Edison, and SDG&E to sign an “interconnection agreement” with solar customers. For consumers [...]

Reactionary Results in California Vote

The Democrats seeking to "flip" seats back to their party in CA all supported Prop. 36, which turned drug and petty property crimes into felonies, and the electorate followed suit, adopting the measure which strengthened the three strikes approach, and rejected Prop. 6, which would have abolished slavery (involuntary servitude) inside CA prisons. Voters also adopted a measure targeted at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, whose Housing is a Human Rights campaign has [...]

Free and Equal Elections Independent Presidential Debate Airs on KPFK

In a bold but years-belated move, Pacifica Foundation radio station KPFK-90.7 FM, finally conducted a participatory live event of the October 23, 2024 Third Party Presidential Debates, produced and sponsored by “Free & Equal.org”. Pacifica Foundation's national radio network, boasts a mission statement and bylaws that promote support for all voices to be heard and global conflict resolution toward a peaceful planet. Sadly however, words can be real on paper to be [...]

Protests for Palestine at the DNC

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor 28 Aug 2024 https://blackagendareport.com/protests-palestine-dnc Protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago took place against the backdrop of Israel’s ever more horrifying war on Gaza. Since the Israeli air and ground war began after October 7, the Gaza Health Ministry has registered the death toll at more than 40,000 . Palestinian Civil Defense and OCHA, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, estimates that another [...]

Who Else is Running for President?

by Michael Novick for Change Links To the extent the corporate media paid attention to any other candidates for US president besides the nominees of the Republican and Democratic Parties, they focused their coverage on independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Combined with his name recognition, previous work, and family associations, this attention showed him at about 8% in some national polls before Biden's withdrawal. His support swiftly slipped to about half [...]

Of Republicans, Democrats, and the March on the RNC

by Andrea Bauer, Freedom Socialist Party/Radical Women I was assigned to travel to Milwaukee in mid-July wearing two hats. One was to represent the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) and Radical Women (RW) in the protest against the Republican National Convention on its opening day, Monday, July 15. The other was to report on the protest and the convention for the Freedom Socialist. Well, as I finished outlining my story on July 21, [...]

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