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Crenshaw Mall Quietly Sold to Failed Developer, not Black Community

The Battle For The Crenshaw Mall Continues by Downtown Crenshaw We have confirmed the Crenshaw Mall was quietly sold to the corrupt, racist and failed developer David Schwartzman of Harridge Development Group. This is of course disappointing. At its root, the decision by the sellers of the mall (public pension funds and Deutsche Bank/DWS) to sell to Schwartzman instead of the Black community illustrates that systemic and generational racism in real estate remains alive and well over 70 years after the landmark Shelley v. Kraemer Supreme Court [...]

By |2021-09-03T02:29:56-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Banks, Black Lives Matter, Capitalism, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Housing, Los Angeles, Low income, Movements|0 Comments
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Fauxgressives on Neighborhood Councils: Liberal Slogans Encasing Developers’ Agenda

Fauxgressives on the march, winning recent Neighborhood Council elections By Dick Platkin* https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/22421-fauxgressives-on-the-march-winning-recent-neighborhood-council-elections Planning Watch: Lately my in-box has included emails from local community activists dealing with “progressives” who won recent Neighborhood Council elections.  One email included a recent on-line article from Knock-LA, written by an LA Forward organizer who spearheaded these successful election campaigns.  This article, however, revealed little about what these winners hope to achieve through LA’s Neighborhood Councils. Do the newcomers support the Peoples Budget and its shift of the LAPD’s enormous budget to [...]

By |2021-09-03T02:29:10-05:00September 3rd, 2021|Banks, Big Business, Capitalism, Democracy, Dick Platkin, Economy, Elections, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Housing, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Homeowners, Low income|0 Comments
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NATO in “Latin” America

by Rick Rozoff https://antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2021/07/14/natos-800-mile-border-with-south-america/#comments The website of NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium featured a story on Bastille Day in which it interviewed a French officer with the SHAPE military police.  SHAPE had been based in France until Charles de Gaulle evicted it in 1967 when he withdrew from NATO’s integrated military structure. The interview was unremarkable until the Frenchman was asked what were some aspects of France that outsiders (and perhaps not a few insiders) might not know. He said that France [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:33:42-05:00August 1st, 2021|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Big Business, Brazil, Canada, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Columbia, Cuba, Donald Trump, Economy, Haiti, Historical, Latin America, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Puerto Rico, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, War|0 Comments
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Victory for Democracy and Diversity at Pacifica

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA      The outcome of the recent Bylaws referendum at Pacifica, allowing the Local Station Board elections of listener and staff delegates to go forward, is a victory for democracy, diversity, accountability and a commitment to mission-driven, community-based radio.       The New Day bylaws change, according to the same rules that governed the previous Bylaws referendum, in accordance not just with Pacifica's existing Bylaws, but with the California Corporations Code governing non-profit membership organizations, required the separate approval of two classes of members -- [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:33:04-05:00August 1st, 2021|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, Elections, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Public Radio|0 Comments
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KPFK Local Station Board Listener and Staff Delegate Elections Are Underway

If you were a member of KPFK, listener-sponsored free speech non-commercial Pacifica radio in Los Angeles and Southern California, as of June 30, you will be able to vote for delegates to the Local Station Board, which has oversight over local management, budget, and compliance of station programming with the Pacifica mission. Here is the timeline from the National Election Supervisor; there is also a local election supervisor for KPFK itself, whom you can reach at LES-kpfk2021@pacifica.org. There is lots more information at https://elections.pacifica.org, and stay tuned [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:30:57-05:00August 1st, 2021|Elections, Free Speech, Los Angeles, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Public Radio|0 Comments
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August 2021 Community Events Calendar

August 2021 Change Links calendar development file Change Links cannot publish without your support. Send events, articles or poetry to changelinks2@gmail.com or via http://change-links.org/submit/  Please subscribe as well. Subscriptions to the print edition are $12/25/50 a year, low income, regular or sustainer (sliding scale), Payable to “AFGJ,” our fiscal sponsor, with “Change Links” in the memo. All events announced are encouraged to donate $5 (per event), payable to AFGJ, mail to Change Links, PO Box 34236, LA 90034. It helps keep this publication solvent. Thanks in advance. [...]

By |2021-08-09T19:59:48-05:00August 1st, 2021|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Coolants Making the Planet Hotter

Refrigerants a Priority to Address Climate Change by Terrie Brady Drawdown by Paul Hawken rates refrigeration as the number one driver of climate change. These refrigerants are ubiquitous. They are in our air conditioners, in our homes and cars. They are in our refrigerators in our homes and in the refrigerators in grocery stores, restaurants and the transport chain for refrigerated goods. The problem with these appliances is the chemicals in them leak out during repairs and the worst leaks occur at the end of use. The [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:24:44-05:00August 1st, 2021|Activism, Capitalism, Climate Change, Ecology, Terrie Brady|0 Comments
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Genocide Schools

“Genocide Schools” by Mumia Abu-Jamal © 07/02/21 While most of us think of schools as a social good, in the history of some people, that has not been the case. Among Canada’s indigenous people, those we have come to call “Indians,” schools have become a place of pain, sorrow, and loss. For the better part of a century these schools, called residential schools, were where indigenous children came to be whipped, punished, and traumatized for the sin of not being white. First run by the government, later [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:23:36-05:00August 1st, 2021|Anti-Racism/Racism, Historical, Human Rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prisons, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Oppose the US Blockade/Embargo and Intervention in Cuba

by Christopher Gunderson https://www.facebook.com/christopher.gunderson.7/posts/10159909775310362 People can have legitimate grievances and nonetheless be acting in a manner that strengthens US imperialism. Indeed, this is exactly the strategy that US imperialism pursues against its adversaries. It uses every tool at its disposal to aggravate the contradictions and antagonisms that exist within those countries that have dared to defy its hegemony. It does this in the hope of politically destabilizing them in ways that can be further exploited to produce regimes more compliant with US imperialist objectives. It is a [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:22:40-05:00August 1st, 2021|Activism, Biden, COVID-19, Cuba, Donald Trump, Historical, Latin America, Movements, National Security, News, Obama, Peace, Peace and War, Politics|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: The ramifications of being Black in the united states

The ramifications of being Black in the united states by Mariana Franco [Excerpt]   Death Loss of Breath final words "I can't breathe" Death from privileged white tears Death from soulless blue shield devils Black death shadowing over Black lives matter Too many names to say too many names to say Too many names to say the ramification of being Black in the united states is death We got to rise up we got to thrive The ramification of being Black in the united states needs to [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:21:25-05:00August 1st, 2021|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Black Lives Matter, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Contests, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Poetry Corner|0 Comments
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Housing & Gentrification Issues

Community Control of the Crenshaw Mall! Fight Gentrification! The major players involved in the sale of the Crenshaw Mall trying to gentrify Black L.A. are some of the world’s most powerful people and shady characters. It can get complicated, so we broke it all down. Several of America's largest public pension funds #LACERA #NYCERS #UCRegents #TRSNYC #TexasTeachers are the investors in Capri Urban Investors, a private equity fund that owns the Crenshaw Mall. To manage and sell the mall, the pension funds selected DWS, a subsidiary of [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:20:26-05:00August 1st, 2021|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Banking Reform, Banks, Big Business, Black Lives Matter, California, California, Gentrification/Displacement, Housing, Los Angeles, Low income, News, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity|0 Comments
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