SAVE THE LOS ANGELES PEACE CENTER! Update: CA Attorney General has blocked the sale. Since 1989, the Peace Center, created and funded through the generosity of Aris Anagnos, has provided rent-free offices and meeting spaces to diverse peace and justice groups throughout Los Angeles, enabling them to focus on the work they do best: educating and organizing for justice. The Peace Center’s continued existence is now being threatened. The building is for [...]
by Aris Anagnos For the third time within nine months the people of Greece were called to the polls on September 20. In January, for the first time, the people of Greece were able to vote a progressive leftwing government into power, SYRIZA, the Coalition of the Radical Left. Previous attempts at the end of WWII were drowned in blood, first by the British offensive against the Greek Resistance movement in 1944, [...]
The Greek People Rise Up By Aris Anagnos The Greek elections in January are nothing less than a peaceful revolution accomplished by free elections. The triumphant winner is SYRIZA, acronym for ìCoalition of the Radical Left. This formerly small leftist party won 36.4% of the popular vote, 8.5% more than the runner up right wing New Democracy Party, which formed the majority of the previous government. SYRIZA is an amalgam of leftists, [...]
