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Incarcerated Women Confront COVID, Forced Sterilizations

PBS recently released a documentary on the forced sterilization of women in CA prisons, as they struggle for accountability by the state and the CA Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation for the consequences of the practice, which went on for years. Although it has now been outlawed, there has been no justice or recompense for the hundreds of women who were affected. the PBS Independent Lens documentary is no longer available for streaming but the trailer is here: https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/nov/23/independent-lens-belly-beast/ Initial press reports said 148 women had been [...]

By |2020-12-31T02:55:19-05:00December 31st, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, California, Film & Documentaries, Girls, Health, Health Care, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Movements, News, People, Politics, Prisons, Solidarity, Whistleblowers, Women|0 Comments
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Nina Simone – Tomorrow Will Be the 22nd Century

I don't know how I was completely unaware of this incredible song by Nina Simone, whose music I have always loved, but it's mind-blowing and I can't resist sharing it.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYcgCiWAv8c

By |2020-12-16T20:46:01-05:00December 16th, 2020|Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Black Lives Matter, Features, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, In Memoriam, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Music, Nina Simone, People, Social Media, Women|0 Comments
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Ligia Gonzalez and “First Church” in Koreatown

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/first-unitarian-ligia-gonzalez/ This Lady known as the Church Lady, is really a Nicaragua-born political activist whose cause for social justice expresses her lifelong zest for living and for freedom…She's a Change Links subscriber. We couldn't run this story in the print edition, since it copyrighted and published in another local magazine, but we will look to do an interview or profile of our own, to revive our "People's Champions" feature. Her inner strength, pushed her into action over a year ago to protect her beloved gathering place, the [...]

By |2020-09-02T01:31:39-05:00September 2nd, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Features, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Peace, Poverty, Solidarity, Women|0 Comments
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International Women’s Strike

Celebrate International Women's Day in South LA      March 7th, join in solidarity with events happening globally for International Women’s Day, starting  at 12 noon, at 800 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (corner of MLK & Hoover) Los Angeles 90037. Public transport & parking are close by. Join a Feminism for the 99% dance party; interactive performance piece, rally, street art, music, healing & action areas. Wear Red.      To mark International Women’s Day women and girls in several countries participate in the International Women’s Strike, [...]

By |2020-02-29T00:30:20-05:00February 29th, 2020|#MeToo, Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Beyond Capitalism, Black Lives Matter, Events, Healthcare, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Movements, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity, Women|0 Comments
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Black Lives Matter Excluded from 4th Women’s March

Black Lives Matter–Los Angeles Excluded from Women’s March Los Angeles    Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles was excluded from the 4th Annual Women’s March in Los Angeles. WMLA did not invite Black Lives Matter to participate, failed to respond to an email request for inclusion, and further refused speaking time during a subsequent telephone conversation. This marks the first time that BLMLA will not participate and is the culmination of ongoing disagreement and tension where Black Lives Matter and some of our members, including children, have experienced significant [...]

By |2020-02-01T15:59:21-05:00February 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black Lives Matter, Events, Girls, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Melina Abdullah, Movements, Police Brutality, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity, Women|0 Comments
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Zapatista Women’s International Gathering & Declaration

ZAPATISTA WOMEN CALL TO CONQUER THE RIGHT TO LIFE IN FRONT OF 5,000 FEMINISTS From the correspondents Ejido Morelia, Altamirano, Chiapas “The right to life and all the rights we deserve and need, will not be given to us by anyone, nor by the capitalist system through the many laws and promises that it makes, but rather we must conquer them all the time and in all places,” the women members of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) affirmed this Friday upon [...]

By |2020-02-01T15:58:26-05:00February 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Mexico, Movements, News, Peace and War, Solidarity, Women|0 Comments
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The Dialectic of Sex: A Poem for Valentine’s Day

The Dialectic of Sex: A Poem for Valentine's Day by Michael Novick   I was at this camp with a bunch of mostly straight Marxists and I woke up in the middle of the night because I heard a couple fucking. The man would grunt and groan, and the woman wail and moan.   I thought of Shulamith Firestone, who expressed socialism as technology liberating man from work and feminism as technology liberating woman from child-bearing -- restoring Eden: lifting the curse of the casting from the [...]

By |2020-02-01T15:57:08-05:00February 1st, 2020|Michael Novick, Movements, Poetry Corner, Politics, Women|0 Comments
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Abortion Rights & Women’s Empowerment

Abortion Policy By Imani  Beckett <imanikbeckett@gmail.com> In May, following the Supreme Court appointment of Brett Kavanagh, many "red" (GOP-dominated) states began passing laws that would make it effectively impossible to get an abortion, with the hope of those laws going to the Supreme Court and overturning Roe v Wade. The main argument from pro-lifers is that a fetus is a baby and deserve all of rights of a human baby. I personally don’t agree with this line of reasoning. But from what I’ve seen, debates over whether [...]

By |2019-07-22T20:27:06-05:00July 30th, 2019|Activism, Girls, Health, Health, Health Care, Human Rights, Movements, Women|0 Comments
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Center-Left Candidate Reaches Guatemala Run-Off Election

Guatemala: Center-Left Sandra Torres Wins 1st-Round Vote, Goes to Runoff httpss://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Guatemala-Center-Left-Sandra-Torres-Wins-1st-Round-Vote-Goes-to-2nd-Round-20190617-0006.html Guatemala's presidential election was headed for a runoff as results Monday gave center-left candidate Sandra Torres a clear lead but far short of the outright majority needed to avoid a second round against a conservative rival. With votes tallied from 94 percent of polling stations, preliminary results from Sunday's election gave former first lady Torres 25.27 percent of the vote, followed by conservative Alejandro Giammattei with 14.08 percent, the electoral tribunal's website said. Torres said she [...]

By |2019-07-04T20:19:42-05:00July 4th, 2019|Elections, Latin America, News, People, Politics, Women|0 Comments
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War on Women

We can't wait another lifetime for reproductive rights by  Helen Gilbert, Radical Women, www.socialism.com Radical Women has been fighting for reproductive rights since our founding. We’re proud our earliest members worked with Black women from the anti-poverty program to hold one of Washington’s first rallies for legal abortion at the state capitol in Olympia. We’re proud Radical Women have confronted the fetus fetishists in clinic defense in Seattle, LA, NYC, Melbourne, and elsewhere. We need to step up clinic defense now because the abortion bans are going [...]

By |2019-06-12T23:13:48-05:00June 1st, 2019|Activism, Human Rights, Movements, Politics, Socialism, Women|0 Comments
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Sexist Stereotyped Robots Reflect Sexism in Tech

Sexist stereotyped robots: "I'd Blush If I Could" httpss://news.un.org/en/story/2019/05/1038691 Why do most voice assistants have female names, and why do they have submissive personalities? The answer, says a new report released on Friday by UNESCO, the UN’s Education, Science and Culture agency, is that there are hardly any women working in the technical teams that develop these services and other cutting-edge digital tools.   The publication, produced in collaboration with the Germany Government and the EQUALS Skills Coalition – an alliance of public and private sector partners [...]

By |2019-06-01T03:31:57-05:00June 1st, 2019|Capitalism, Economy, Girls, Internet, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Movements, News, Wall Street, Women|0 Comments
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Defend Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange

Veterans For Peace Stands with Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange   httpss://www.veteransforpeace.org/our-work/position-statements/veterans-peace-stands-chelsea-manning-and-julian-assange   The People Have the Need to Know: Veterans For Peace Stands with Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange   Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning are both in jail right now.  They are being persecuted by the very elite who are pursuing regime change wars around the globe and who do not want the people to know the truth about what they are up to. Curiously, Assange has been charged with conspiring with Chelsea Manning to [...]

By |2019-05-03T03:15:09-05:00May 3rd, 2019|Activism, Afghanistan, Democracy, Donald Trump, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Iraq, Jails, Justice/Injustice, LGBTQ+, National Security, Peace, People, Politics, Social Media, Solidarity, Veterans, War, Whistleblowers, Women|0 Comments
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