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A.I.’s Dirty Secret: It’s Powered by Digital Sweatshops

Millions of human workers in digital sweatshops power Artificial Intelligence by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA The current strikes by screen-writers and actors in the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have focused attention on the use of AI-- "Artificial Intelligence" using large language models by big corporations -- to try to automate creative jobs and other work, through the use of computers that can simulate voices, generate designs, and produce meaningful literary and analytical texts. [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:38:44-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Anti-capitalism, Artificial Intelligence, Asia, Big Business, China, Economy, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Philippines, Tech|0 Comments
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Harry Belafonte, Anti-imperialist Human Rights Activist

Mainstream media obituaries of Harry Belafonte emphasize his breakthrough successes as a singer, actor, and producer of records, films, and television, but tend to limit their praise to his iconic public figure stature as an advocate of civil rights. In fact, Belafonte was an unreconstructed radical and socialist throughout his long life and career. Born in Harlem of West Indian immigrant parents in 1927, he lived in Jamaica with his grandmother from [...]

By |2023-04-29T01:33:15-05:00April 29th, 2023|Activism, Africa, Aging, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Cuba, Democracy, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Immigration/Migrant rights, In Memoriam, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Obama, Obituary, Politics, Poverty, Socialism, Unions, Venezuela|0 Comments
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Mayans Protest Land Grab

by Michael Novick Over a dozen masked Mayans and several solidarity supporters disrupted a presentation at the Spanish language stage of the LA Times Festival of Books on the campus of the University of Southern California on Sunday, April 23. The ire at the interview of Richard Hansen by a reporter for LA Times at one of the last events of the weekend literary event grew out of Hansen's role in the [...]

By |2023-04-29T01:30:57-05:00April 29th, 2023|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Human Rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Mexico, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Lawrence Phillip Reyes, Presente!

In Memoriam July 7, 1958 - December 31, 2022   Lawrence Reyes, Boricua independentista, revolutionary internationalist, father, labor organizer, mental health social worker, practitioner of the "Red Road" of Indigenous traditional spiritual practice, KPFK Local Station Board listener delegate and Pacifica National Board director, passed away December 31 due to complications of diabetes. His death is an incalculable loss to all who knew his warmth, heart, dedication and passion personally and to [...]

By |2023-02-02T19:49:04-05:00February 2nd, 2023|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Disability issues, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, In Memoriam, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, Obituary, Pacifica/KPFK, People, Politics, Poverty, Prisons, Public Radio, Puerto Rico, War|0 Comments
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LAPD Chief Moore Must Go!

Tell Mayor Bass: Chief Moore Must Go by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action As Change-Links was going to press, LA Chief of Police Michel Moore filed a request for re-appointment to a second five-year term, and newly-elected Mayor Karen Bass announced that she would be meeting with him to discuss it. Moore was first appointed in 2018, supported by the Police Commission (which rubber-stamps almost everything the LAPD and its chief do). Last [...]

By |2023-01-02T19:21:09-05:00January 2nd, 2023|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, California, Gentrification/Displacement, Historical, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, People, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Dynamic New Programming, Newscast on KPFK 90.7 Pacifica Radio

KPFK, listener-sponsored Pacifica community radio for Los Angeles and all of Southern California, is refreshing its programming schedule, adding new more radical, community-based, solution-oriented programming, and launching a locally produced newscast for the first time in over a decade. Anti-racist, anti-war, and anti-capitalist viewpoints are taking center stage in a new morning mix radio magazine. The station is bringing back some other important voices from communities of color that have been missing [...]

By |2022-12-03T21:00:46-05:00December 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Calendar, California, Democracy, Environment, Environmentalism, Events, Free Speech, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Public Radio, Socialism, Solidarity, Surveillance, Volunteer|0 Comments
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End Violence Against Women in the US and Globally

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action L.A. The attack on women’s bodily autonomy in the US reflected in the Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court, that stripped away Constitutional protection of women’s right to terminate a pregnancy, is the tip of the iceberg of violence against women in the US and globally. A major factor in the rise of the neo-fascist right in the US has been organized misogyny among many young white [...]

By |2022-11-06T15:36:45-05:00November 6th, 2022|#MeToo, Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Feminism, Girls, Health, Healthcare, Human Rights, Michael Novick, Movements, Peace and War, Social Media, Women|0 Comments
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KPFK: Under New Management

and Open to the Community KPFK – Under New Management By Michael Novick, KPFK interim General Manager Change Links has carried many articles with my byline before, but this one is unique. I am writing to you as the new unpaid interim General Manager of KPFK. I was recently appointed to that position by the Pacifica Executive Director, Stephanie Wells. She and the Pacifica National Board determined that there was no money [...]

By |2022-10-03T00:03:57-05:00October 3rd, 2022|Anti-Racism/Racism, Asian-American, Black liberation, California, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Economy, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Public Radio|0 Comments
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September 11th Is Here Again!

September 11 is Here Again by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA Sept. 11, 2001 is now farther in the past than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were when the U.S. began escalating its aggressive military role in Vietnam. A full generation has come age since "9-11"; about 20% of the US population has been born since the US government responded by launching the War on Terror. US military doctrine has moved [...]

By |2022-09-01T12:13:24-05:00September 1st, 2022|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Brazil, Chile, China, Climate Change, Historical, Iraq, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Peace, Peace and War, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Socialism, Solidarity, Venezuela, War|0 Comments
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Aid & Abet Abortion

Aid and Abet Abortion: The People Must Exercise Countervailing Power by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-L.A. Like the Dred Scott decision, which made it clear that Black people had no rights that a white person (or the state) were bound to respect and made the Civil War inevitable, recent decisions by the Supreme Court, not only the Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, but also others stripping the "Miranda" warning of Constitutional status, [...]

By |2022-07-02T02:05:11-05:00July 2nd, 2022|Abortion, Anarchism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Feminism, Michael Novick|0 Comments
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Memorial Vigil Against Gun Violence: Where Do We Go From Here?

Memorial Day Vigil in L.A. to End Gun Violence: Where Do We Go From Here? by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action L.A. On Memorial Day May 30, 2022, from 10am until a little past 12 noon, the Black Jewish Justice Alliance (BJJA), Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), SCLC, BEND THE ARC along with Clergy 4 Black Lives & NAACP-SFV held an Ecumenical and Interfaith community vigil to Honor the Lives [...]

By |2022-06-03T01:48:21-05:00June 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, California, Events, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Non-violence, Peace Vigils, Protests and Rallies, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Urgent Appeal to So Cal’s Civil Society and Creative Communities

Urgent Appeal to So Cal’s Civil Society and Creative Communities on Behalf of KPFK by Michael Novick I am writing as the chair of the Local Station Board, a listener member elected to the governance of KPFK, listener-sponsored, non-commercial educational Pacifica free speech community radio (90.7 in L.A., 98.7 in Santa Barbara, 93.7 in San Diego, 99.5 in Ridgecrest/China Lake, and world-wide at kpfk.org). I am writing with a simple and immediate [...]

By |2022-05-18T14:45:17-05:00May 18th, 2022|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Commentary, COVID-19, Disability issues, Economy, Elections, Free Speech, Fund Drives, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, Immigration/Migrant rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous Nations, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Low income, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Poverty, Public Radio, Social Media, Solidarity, Unions, Voting, War|0 Comments
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