More Information About These and COMMUNITY CALENDAR & PROGRESSIVE NEWS - APRIL 2019 Other Events in the Calendar, beginning on p. 3: Tue Apr 2 - Diné Grandmothers Sun Apr 7 Marcha por Zapata Tue Apr 9 LA Police Commission decision on Predictive Policing Fri Apr 12 Puerto Rican Film Night STOP THE WARS - PEACE, EQUALITY & JUSTICE FOR ALL! Sat-Sun Apr 13-14 IWW Organizer Training Beyond the Green New Deal: LA Times Festival of Books, USC Eco-Socialism & De-Colonization Fri Apr 19 UCLA Earth Month by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA Tribal nations protect their homelands, rights, sacred sites, Environmental catastrophes in the US mid-west waters, air, and bodies from further destruction. Sat Apr 20 LA River Clean-Up and southern Africa underscore the fact that life- “However, ...we remain concerned that unless changes are made..., the Green New Deal will leave incentives ... to Mon Apr 22 Earth Day threatening damage from capitalist-induced climate change is happening. Hundreds died as a result of continue causing harm to Indigenous communities.... the most impactful way to address the problem is to keep fossil Wed Apr 24 Armenian March for Justice the cyclone in Mozambique and elsewhere, where fuels in the ground. We can no longer leave options for the Thu Apr 25 Labor, Environmental, fossil fuel industry to determine the economic and energy future of this country. Until the Green New Deal can be Social Justice Fair, CSUDH explicit in this demand and close the loop on harmful incentives, we cannot fully endorse the resolution.” http:// Sun Apr 28 State of the Environment www.ienearth.org/talking-points-on-the-aoc-markey-green-new-deal- CSULB gnd-resolution/ The IEN identifies several major problems with the Skid Row Today Green New Deal: 1: Its goal of “net-zero emissions” implies the use of and 2040 “carbon accounting” including carbon pricing systems and/or Payments for Ecological Services. This provides by LA Community Action Network [excerpts] opportunity to fossil fuel industries to continue extraction LA is one of the most expensive cities in the US, Credit: mohammad hashemi http://www.w3.org/2000/svg and combustion. Geoengineering technologies like Carbon right behind NY and SF. Rents are rising, forcing the resultant flooding has caused an “inland sea”. 1000s more into the streets every year. Housing is a Record flooding in Nebraska has caused multi- basic human right, the key to solving this crisis, and million-dollars of destruction, and more flooding is criminally scarce in a city with our resources. anticipated. Things are getting worse. Tim Radford of With simple changes to our land use policies, we can build a city where homelessness isn’t common Climate News Network reports British meteorologists or lethal. LA is updating all 35 community plans that warning that although 2018 broke all records for form the city’s General Plan. Each Community Plan greenhouse gas emissions, 2019 will see even more reflects a vision for neighborhoods and designates carbon dioxide added. https://climatenewsnetwork.net/ land for uses including jobs, housing, manufacturing, human-carbon-emissions-to-rise-in-2019/ Some point to the “Green New Deal” introduced by Ocasio-Cortez transportation, open space and amenities. In October 2016, the Dept of City Planning proposed to and Markey as the answer. rezone parts of Skid Row to include market rate housing as But the impact of US economic and military actions part of the Downtown community plan update, or DTLA around the world, make it clear that decolonization and 2040. No one who lives, works or shares a stake in Skid demilitarization are central to overcoming global climate Row gave input to this plan. In response, we formed Skid injustice. As the Indigenous Environmental Network Row Now & 2040 to include community groups, non- has pointed out, the Green New Deal leaves much to be profits and individuals who believe everyone deserves a desired. “The IEN applauds the Green New Deal resolution for its vision, intention, and scope. ... From sea level rise home and a voice in the future of their neighborhood. Capture Sequestration can be claimed as producing net Skid Row Now & 2040 wants generations of families and to loss of land, Indigenous frontline communities and Tribal nations are already experiencing the direct impacts zero emissions as well as “building green infrastructure.” Skid Row residents to lead full, vibrant lives in Downtown Carbon trading allows polluters to buy and sell permits to LA, so we’ve created the following guidelines for the City of climate change, and we are encouraged to see these congressional leaders ... help Indigenous communities and pollute and privatizes the air that we breathe. Planning Department, District 14 and the Mayor’s Office. 2: “Renewable/Clean Energy” need to be clearly No displacement of extremely-low-income residents defined. Burning “bridge fuels” like fracked gas, should occur; policies that promote the Human Right Health, Environment municipal waste and biomass, nuclear energy and large- to Housing should be enacted. The DTLA 2040 update scale hydroelectric dams all pose major environmental shouldn’t include any policies or zoning changes that harm Threats of 5G justice concerns. low-income communities of color. This includes policies by John P. Thomas, Health Impact News, 3. Restoring and protecting threatened and fragile that lead to criminalization. If adopted, this approach for Waking Times https://www.wakingtimes. ecosystems is linked to supporting climate “resiliency.” will prevent displacement of current Skid Row residents, com/2019/01/08/20000-satellites-for-5g-to-be-launched-sending- Restoration projects could be used as climate mitigation enrich lives and show the way to ending homelessness in focused-beams-of-intense-microwave-radiation-over-entire-earth/ schemes. Programs like REDD+ “financialize” Nature and all 35 communities. We’re waiting to hear a response from turns it into commodities to be sold in speculative markets. City Planning, Jose Huizar and Mayor Garcetti. 4. Compensation for farmers might include funding for GMOs and/or Climate Smart Agriculture, so-called Policy Recommendations: “carbon farming” for “offsets” of industrial pollution. 1. No Net Loss - All existing units must be protected with 5. Weak language on indigenous peoples sovereignty: the inclusion of a No Net Loss policy to ensure baselines “Stakeholders” don’t explicitly include indigenous people. of affordable housing units remain in DTLA. The city’s community plan update must mirror and IEN suggests the following language instead: support other city policies that have been passed to ensure a baseline of affordable housing units existing in “The Green New Deal must be developed in transparent Downtown. and inclusive consultation ... and partnership in 2. Inclusionary Zoning - The DTLA 2040 concept map recognition of the sovereignty and self-determination of proposes to change Skid Row’s light manufacturing zone Public attention about 5G has been focused on federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native into a traditional housing zone, boosting land values the plans of telecom companies to install millions of Tribes and villages including all ...rights secured under tremendously for Developers. Skid Row Now & 2040 is small cell towers on electric utility poles, on public treaties, statutes, executive orders and federal and state recommending the creating of a 25% set aside to generate buildings and schools, on bus stop shelters, in public court cases. These projects will also include ...Native 7,000 new units. parks, and anywhere they want in national parks and Hawaiian organizations and State recognized Tribes. Acknowledge the ... Tribes that develop ... their own Free, 3. Affordable (Low Income) Housing Creation - With on federally owned land. In local urban communities, Prior and Informed Consent laws [for] Indian Country, much of the cities’ affordable housing funding being lost there would be a cell tower approximately every 500 inclusive of their lands, waters, territories and resources; with the dissolution of the Community Redevelopment feet along every street. and off-reservation hunting, fishing, medicine gathering, Agency, Skid Row Now & 2040 suggests the creation of As bad as these small cell towers might seem from the food gathering, cultural and spiritual practices...” funding sources for affordable housing in Downtown, such standpoint of constant exposure to radio frequency (RF) Indigenous people worldwide pay a heavy price for as Developer fees and a new 1% impact bond for rental radiation in close proximity to the source, perhaps an even US practices. US imperialism continues to have primary subsidies. more alarming prospect will be the beaming of millimeter- See: “Skid Row 2040,” p. 7 See: “5G Threat,” p. 7 See: Decolonization, p. 7 Medical Neglect of People with Disabilities Kills April 2019, Vol. 25 Number 10 by Autistic Self Advocacy Network https://autisticadvocacy.org/2019/03/disability-rights- statement-on-the-deaths-at-wanaque-center-for-nursing-and-rehabilitation/ IN MEMORY OF As people with disabilities and loved ones of people For the time being, the Wanaque Center is not allowed to with disabilities, as disability rights advocates, and admit new pediatric patients – but many of the survivors as human beings, we are horrified by the deliberate of the outbreak still live there. They have been left in the neglect which led to the deaths of 11 children last fall care of the same people who demonstrated disregard for at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, their lives during the outbreak. The Center’s administrator, medical director, and director of nursing have all kept their an institution for medically fragile children. As new jobs. reports continue to emerge, we are disturbed by a lack The state of NJ and the federal Medicaid system knew of action to bring justice to the victims, ensure the for years that conditions at Wanaque, where nearly 100 safety of the survivors, and correct state and federal medically fragile children lived, were dangerous and could policies which directly led to these deaths. We call easily lead to a fatal viral outbreak, yet they did not intervene for action to ensure that no more vulnerable children until children had died. Medicaid is a crucial support for are left to die because of our society’s broken health people with disabilities, but NJ has the country’s lowest care system and devaluation of the lives of people Medicaid rate, and its restrictive program leaves families with disabilities. with few or no options for in-home nursing. Many families aren’t made aware of options to receive long-term care at The outbreak of severe adenovirus, which began on home, and families without resources to fight extended Co-founder & Editor John Johnson, September 26, infected 36 children, 11 of whom died. appeals are often unable to access services to which they Wanaque had for years been an overcrowded institution b. July 4, 1944 - d. April 13, 2014 are entitled. NJe is culpable for allowing the system failure where children were routinely left uncared-for, rooms that led to the institutionalization of nearly 100 children at were unsanitary, medical equipment was allowed to rust, Editorial Staff: Adolf Alzuphar, Terrie Brady, Donna Buell, Wanaque in the first place, and for enabling years of child and staff did not wash their hands between attending to Uncle Don B. Fanning, Greg Foisie, Sheila Goldner, Jeff neglect and endangerment which was ultimately fatal. The patients. Wanaque had been investigated in 2016 and 2017 Hirsch, Ray Jones, Rob Macon, Michael Novick, Dean Ruby, deaths of these 11 children were a policy choice. New and found to have multiple critical failures in infection David Troy & others. Jersey and CMS must choose differently going forward. control measures—but these failures were allowed to go The undersigned organizations call for action in the unaddressed, ultimately leading to the fall outbreak. Deadline for articles and ads is the 15th, wake of these cruel and preventable deaths. Those in The medical director, whose approval was required in power at the Wanaque Center must be fired. Their long- deadline for calendar items is the 20th order to dispense medications or hospitalize an ill child, term neglect of the children in their care, their decision of the month before publication. was absent and disengaged. 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Peace vigils: http://change-links.org/ongoing- Fridays, Interfaith Communities United for LA Times Festival of Books, USC, April 13-14 peace-vigils-and-community-programs/ Justice & Peace breakfast forum, 7-9a, Immanuel https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/ Presbyterian, 3300 Wilshire Blvd., LA 90010. For http://ocprogressiveevents. Other Calendars: donation, bring packaged non-perishable food for Thru May 2: Print As Protest art exhibit, LA Valley info/, http://la.indymedia.org/calendar/, https://www. the church food pantry. Guest speakers, reflections, College featuring the work of Inge Bruggeman, Diana- facebook.com/pg/ieprogressivealliance/events/, coffee and bagels! www.icujp.org. Sofia Estrada, Michael Krueger, Kimiko Miyoshi, Tim http://www.activistsandiego.org/event, https://vcpjn. Musso, and Sergio Teran. Gallery hours, when the org/calendar/ https://echoparkfilmcenter.org Fridays, 5-6p, a lively Vigil for Peace & Justice, college is in session: Mon + Wed 2-4p, Tue + Thu On - Going & Continuing Events sponsored by KPFK 90.7FM-LSB Outreach 11a-2p; M, T, Th 6-9p. Viewing appointments outside Committee & friends. Join us for a fun time of regular hours can be made by contacting Gallery Weekends, Crenshaw Farmers Market offers farm outreaching & making noise at Sunset Blvd & Echo Director at [email protected]. LAVC Art Gallery is in fresh produce and artisan goods, featuring locally Park Ave. Bring your signs... the Art Building, 5800 Fulton Avenue, Valley Glen grown favorites. Ties into the mall’s health initiative 91401 promoting wellness in the Crenshaw community. The B Fit program includes weekly Zumba, cardio 1st Friday of the month, LA FOR YOUTH, 4-6p, kick and yoga classes, blood pressure screens and 1726 N. Spring St, LA 90013. [email protected] Apr 11- Sep 1, Black Is Beautiful: The Photography annual health & wellness fairs. Contact Sustainable of Kwame Brathwaite, exhibition at Skirball Cultural 1st & 3rd Friday, LA Poverty Department Movie Economic Enterprises for more info: www.seela.org Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., LA 90049, 310- Nights, 7p, Skid Row History Museum and Archive, 440-4500, www.skirball.org. Featuring over 40 250 S. Broadway, LA 90012. movienights@ photos of black women and men with natural hair Sundays, RAC-LA Food Program (El Programa lapovertydept.org. Free screenings & conversation and clothes that reclaimed their African roots, this is Comida) Revolutionary Autonomous Communities, about issues important to Skid Row and downtown the first-ever major exhibition dedicated to this key 1-5p, SE corner of Wilshire Bl & Parkview St, LA with support of Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. figure of the second Harlem Renaissance. Inspired 90057, free produce distribution. https://www. by the writings of activist and black nationalist 3rd Fri: Lawyers in the Library, 1-4p, www. facebook.com/raclosangeles/ Marcus Garvey, Brathwaite (b. 1938) combined his lalawlibrary.org/classes, 213-785-2516, 301 W. political vision with the medium of photography to 1st, LA 90012. Register on-line, check-in 12:45. Sundays, Serve the People LA, 4-6p, Mariachi effect social change. With his brother Elombe Brath Ref doesn’t guarantee consultation of approx. 20 Plaza, 1817 E 1st St, LA 90033. STPLA free food (1936-2014), Brathwaite founded 2 organizations: minutes. & clothing distributions (along with books, shoes, African Jazz-Art Society and Studios, a collective of etc). We also engage the community on happenings artists, playwrights, designers, and dancers, in 1956; around the neighborhood and city, learn about and Grandassa Models, a modeling agency for black grievances and provide legal services with help women, in 1962. from the LA Ctr for Community Law & Action. https:// servethepeoplela.wordpress.com/ 1 - Mon

3rd Sunday, SoCal350 monthly meeting, Women 4 Women and Children Advocacy St. Athanasius at the Cathedral Center, Committee of Valley Community Healthcare, 840 Echo Park Ave., LA 90026, http://bit.ly/ 12n–1p, 6801 Coldwater Canyon Ave Suite 1B, LA SoCal350Updates; facebook.com/SoCal350 91605. Committee takes an active and leadership climate action. Every 1st and 3rd Saturday: End Homelessness role in outreach, advocacy and fundraising Now-LA, 2-4pm, a grassroots campaign to for Valley Community Healthcare’s women’s Mondays, Support Honduran Refugees, 6-8p, pressure L.A. City and County public officials reproductive health and pediatric programs via a Central American Resource Center (CARECEN- to use their vacant properties for large-scale, specific event(s) or plan of action to be created LA), 2845 W 7th St, LA. Respond to Trump’s permanent, supportive public housing to end and implemented by the group. W4W engages zero tolerance policies on Refugees and Asylum the homelessness catastrophe. Solidarity Hall, caring, compassionate and dynamic women in the and to prepare to receive the Refugee Caravan 2122 W. Jefferson Blvd., L.A. 90018, just west of vital programs and women and children of Valley from Honduras and other immigrants from Central Arlington Ave. Free street parking. 323-723-6416, Community Healthcare. https://www.facebook.com/ America. Come organize with Central Americans, [email protected], https://www. events/2558723374153980/ bring a friend or two, and get ready to roll up your facebook.com/endhomelessnessnowla/ An Evening Service with Marianne Williamson, sleeves. 7:30–9:30p, First Unitarian Church, 2936 W 8th St, Every 2nd Saturday of month: Welcome Home LA 90005. Williamson is running for president in Tuesdays, Join Black Lives Matter, Stop LAPD LA, resources for those returning from jail, prison 2020. www.uula.org Spying and allies at LA Police Commission and juvenile detention, Chuco’s Justice Center meeting at LAPD HQ, 9:30a, 100 W. 1st St to of Youth Justice Coalition. Location may be speak out against racist police murders with changing, contact YJC, PO Box 73688, LA 90003, 2 - Tue impunity. See agenda, schedule here: http://www. (323) 235-4243 | fax (323) 846-9472 | or action@ Progressive Book Club potluck picnic, sunrise to lapdonline.org/police_commission youth4justice.org. http://www.youth4justice.org/ sunset, Balboa Park (Victory Blvd & Woodley Ave). Contact Mic 818-277-8352. Every 2nd & 4th Saturday, SOLA Food Co-Op at . This Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Farmers Market Dine´ Black Mesa Grandmothers with their Co-op is unique, because it’s planning to open beautiful woven rugs, 10a-4p, Autry Museum the first-ever Organic Grocery in Leimert Park in Griffith Park. Fundraiser for their long legal Community. You can become a member. www. battle on Black Mesa. They are available until Apr solafoodcoop.com/ 7 to talk at schools and other venues. Contact: [email protected]. Contact for the Last Saturday, Move to Amend Local Meeting, Elders: Salina Begay 928-299-1505. 1-3p, Holy Grounds Coffee & Tea, 5371 Alhambra Av, L.A. 90032, 323-255-1279.

Tuesday evenings, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Apr 3-13 Poor Peoples Campaign Bust Tour, meets weekly at LA CAN, 838 E. 6th St. LA, CA Chico-San Diego, stops in Pacoima, Pomona. https:// 90021. http://stoplapdspying.org - see website www.facebook.com/events/386225685533971 for meeting topics. https://www.facebook.com/ stoplapdspying Wed Apr 17-Sat Apr 27 50-500 Elders Committee Little Tokyo to Manzanar Spirit Run. Commute Wednesdays, 4-6p, Black Lives Matter-led vigil portion, 4/17-21, camping 4/21-27. Contact Mo outside DA Jackie Lacey’s office with families Nishida, [email protected], 323-371-4502. who have lost loved ones to police & sheriff’s deputies. DA Lacey has indicted only a single law Saturdays thru Apr 27: Turning Challenges into enforcer for over 445 murders by local police & Co-opportunities Collective REMAKE presents a deputies. 211 W. Temple, DTLA. cooperative education & development workshop

series. RSVP: [email protected] Wednesdays, 6-7:30p, LA CAN Legal Clinic, Community Healing and Trauma Prevention Center, LA CAN, 838 E. 6th St. LA, CA 90021. Free Legal MLK Center for Public Health, 11833 Wilmington Clinic for Low-Income Residents. Must sign-in Ave, LA 90059. before 6:15p. For more info, call 213.228.0024 Southern California Community Calendar continued...

FILM: The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975, IfNotNowLA, Estee Chandler, Jewish Voice for - Watercolor; Gallery Girls - Life Drawing; Emily 1:30 pm, free, Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Peace LA, Dena Takruri, AJ+ (Al Jazeera), Saree Greenfield - Paper Portraiture; Jeremy Bregman Sepulveda Blvd., LA 90049, 310-440-4500. Using Makdisi, professor of comparative literature at - Origami; Aimee Ward - Papermaking. Bring-Your- a treasure trove of discovered 16mm film shot by UCLA and author of Palestine Inside Out: An Own Food Container, Mugs, Water Bottles, and Swedish journalists in the 60s-70s, director Göran Everyday Occupation, and many others. https:// Utensils and you’ll get discounts and special offers. Olsson and coproducer Danny Glover chronicle uscannenberg.formstack.com/forms/israel_palestine Food vendors. 8 Conservation organizations the evolution of the Black Power Movement. 2011, 100 min. https://www.skirball.org/programs/film/black-power- Topanga Peace Alliance Film: 7:30p, 8 - Mon mixtape-1967-1975 Topanga County Library, Meeting Room, 2nd floor, 122 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd, 90290. Volunteer Orientation for Santa Monica Pier McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club, 6p, Discussion after film. https://www.facebook.com/ Aquarium and Heal the Bay, 6:30–8:30p, Heal Marina Del Rey Library, 4533 Admiralty Way, MDR events/248766462717299/ https://www.facebook. the Bay,1444 9th St, Santa Monica 90401; www. 90292, free. http://laughtears.com/McLuhanWake. com/groups/53323228710/ healthebay.org; Heal the Bay has empowered over html. Finnegans Wake turns 80--publ. May 4, 1939. 100,000+ volunteers to improve our environment and communities. Our volunteers are an integral part 6 - Sat 3 - Wed “Co-op Jump-Start”, all day, also Sat Apr 13, LA L.A. Tenants Union Sección Oeste-Westside Trade Tech College, Washington & Grand, LA. Local, 6:30p, Oakwood Recreation Center Introduction to worker coops and coop principles, a 767 California Ave, Venice 90291. Bilingual English/ preview of coop business models and governance, Spanish (Sindicato de Iniquilinos). and exercises to think about a good business idea and about forming a team. Info, pre-register, and , 7-9p, 9666 Save Porter Ranch: Monthly Meeting sliding scale fee: https://lacooplab.com/classes/ Lemona Ave, North Hills 91343.

Westside Repair Cafe hosted by Transition Culver 4 - Thu City, 12n– 4p, Camera Obscura Art Lab, 1450 Ocean LA Students Deserve general assembly Ave, Santa Monica 90401. The Westside Repair monthly meeting, 4:15-6:30p, 3651 S. Vermont Café returns to connect folks with broken household Av (2 blocks n. Of Expo Vermont Metro Station). items to volunteers who will demonstrate repairs. We are divesting from a culture of criminalization Bring small household goods and see if their lives of youth of color: As you read this, schools are can be extended! Please RSVP but repairs are made applying to be part of the first wave to eliminate first come, first served. Drop off larger items curbside right out front before parking. No gas powered the racist random searches and usher in a new Heal the Bay Aquarium, Santa Monica Pier era. Applications are due March 15, and if you and appliances allowed onsite. If you know how to fix in fulfilling Heal the Bay’s mission – they advocate your school are applying, let us know right away! something please email [email protected]; for safe, healthy and clean water in Los Angeles [email protected] they welcome volunteers! through education, interpretation, science and more. Volunteer Orientation occurs every second Monday Protect Our Species Lecture & Vegan Cooking Climate Forward: Navigating the Politics of of the month. Attend one to learn more about Heal Demo Featuring Joni Newman and Andy Shrader, Climate Change, 9-5:30p, USC, Town and Gown the Bay, our various volunteer programs, and current 5p, The Duck Club,15 Riparian View, Irvine. www. (TGF) 665 Exposition Blvd, LA 90089. With former water issues in LA County. Once you attend a eventbrite.com/e/earth-day-2019-protect-our-species Secy of State John Kerry as keynote speaker, the Volunteer Orientation you will be able to sign up for conference brings together experts from both sides a host of volunteer training opportunities and events: Celebrating Alex Odeh, 4-6p, Makara Center for of the political aisle to identify how to break the Aquarium volunteers work at our Santa Monica Pier the Arts, 811 N Main St, Santa Ana, 92701, free. Aquarium. They also attend outreach events and Marks what would have been the 75th birthday of represent Heal the Bay all over LA. Beach Captain poet, activist, and Santa Ana resident Alex Odeh, volunteers support our beach cleanups every 3rd Sat assassinated leader of the American Arab anti- of the month. Discrimination Committee; as well as the 25th Anniversary of the statue dedicated in his honor at the Santa Ana Public Library. Odeh’s story remains 9 - Tue untold to many city residents, and this event LA Police Commission decision on Predictive promotes awareness of his work as a poet and Policing, 9:30a, 100 W. 1st. (LAPD HQ). Join Stop human rights activist. The performance will feature LAPD Spying and allies to demand: “Shut It Down!” newly translated readings of Odeh’s book “Whispers www.stoplapdspying.org in Exile” in English, Spanish and Arabic, set to an original music score. https://www.facebook.com/ , events/297368920926860/ Homeland Security Since 9/11: Janet Napolitano hosted by LA World Affairs Council and Town Hall LA, 7–9p, World Affairs Council, 3535 Hayden 7 - Sun Avenue, Suite 200, Culver City 90232. Tickets: www.lawac.org. Napolitano, former Secy Homeland political gridlock that is preventing action against the Marcha por Zapata, Coordinadora Independencia, Security, will discuss how the department has growing threat of climate change. https://calendar. 9a-6p, El Parque de Mexico Conmemorando al Gral. succeeded and failed since its inception, and usc.edu/event/climate_forward_navigating_the_ Emiliano Zapata, 9a Los 5 Puntos (Five Points) whether it can keep the US safe as security risks politics_of_climate_change 3300 E Cesar Chavez East Los Angeles, Ca 90063. Evento Comunitario: Parque México, Valley Blvd & evolve. She will also discuss the effectiveness Mission Av., Lincoln Heights 90031 of terrorism prevention since 9/11 and the rise of LEVELLING UP: Engaging Our Students in citizens who are radicalized in the US as terrorist PROJECT BASED LEARNING, 6–8:30p, Virginia groups find new ways to recruit online. Looks like Avenue Park Thelma Terry Bldg., 2200 Virginia Paper Earth Fair, 11a, Tarzana Community & Cultural Center, Tarzana. PAPEREARTH.ORG Family fair that a good opportunity for a protest or a chance to ask Ave, Santa Monica 90404, Child care provided. embarrassing questions. Committee For Racial Justice will host Dr. Ben connects art and earth. Learn how to create beautiful Drati, Superintendent for SMMUSD schools, and things and protect our beautiful world through paper some district staff who will introduce a new program crafts, food, gardening, advocacy, and a little zero 10 - Wed waste. FREE. 5 Paper art workshops: Nick Runge of project based learning that will start next fall at Data & Displacement FTP Studies Special SAMOHI. Such programs have a strong positive Series, 7–9p, La Conxa, 2628 E Cesar Chavez, impact on student achievement. The pilot program E. LA 90033. Every 2nd & 4th wed of the month. will have 100 9th graders involved in a ground- RSVP is mandatory! [email protected]. breaking approach to education. Current SMMUSD net, Fomenting Theory & Praxis study group created 8th graders need to apply by April 30. for the purpose of debating/discussing and learning from movement’s in rebellion throughout Hue Hue 5 - Fri Tonantzin aka mother earth as in all over the globe (europe included). Reframing the discourse on Israel/Palestine, 9a-5p, USC Annenberg Hall 106, free. Amid Laughtears Salon, (rsvp 310 306 7330 for location political turmoil and human rights concerns in the & time) free - politics, art, culture discussion Middle East and rising charges of anti-Semitism at home, the time is right for for a civil and respectful conversation between scholars, journalists and 11 - Thu activists across a wide range of perspectives. Fair Housing Conference, 8a–12n, Victoria Panel topics will include reframing the future: Gardens Cultural Center, 12505 Cultural Center expanding the possible outcomes in for Israelis Dr, Rancho Cucamonga 91739, $50. https://www. and Palestinians.Panelists include Michal David, facebook.com/events/2183978775263945/ Sierra Club Rio Hondo Group-Chapter Meeting, they are the pioneering godmothers of the musical to learn, so invite your friends! Food Justice and 7p, Dinner/Social Gathering; Program/Speaker movement known as “Punky Reggae”. The film tells Chemical “-icides”. Also Apr 19, focusing on Air and 7:30p, Coco’s Restaurant, 1250 East Imperial the story of the band and the lives of the women Water. https://www.facebook.com/events/2104272779657890/ Highway, Brea CA. [email protected]. involved, from the bands inception in 1976 to the bands end in 2010 coinciding at the death of lead Change Links monthly planning conference call, Is the US Ready for the Next Recession? A vocalist Ari Up. Filmmaker William Badgley & Slits 7:30p, email [email protected] for details. Zócalo/UCLA Anderson Event, Moderated by Founder/First Drummer Palmolive In Attendance! Get involved, plan the May issue of Change Links! Erica E. Phillips, Managing Editor, LA Business Journal, 7:30p, The RedZone at Gensler, 500 S 14 - Sun 18 - Thu Figueroa St, LA 90071. When the next recession hits, the US may not be well-positioned to fight IWW Organizer Training, 9a-5p, Peace Center, Whittier Peace 3rd Thursday Film Night, 7p, St. back. Instead of building up surpluses that could 3916 S. Sepulveda Bl, Culver City. (See Sat 13). Matthias Episcopal Church (Chase Room), 7056 stimulate the economy in a downturn, the federal Washington Ave., Whittier 90602, N/E corner of government has cut taxes and run up trillion-dollar LA Times Festival of Books, USC, https://events. Wardman St. Washington Ave (not Blvd) runs north annual deficits and a $21 trillion debt. Most people latimes.com/festivalofbooks/ south two blocks east of Greenleaf Park (there is are unprepared for bad times, with only half saying additional parking in the back of the church). Walk they could come up with $400 in an emergency. Suzy Williams & Michael Jost, 6p,The Write Off through the 2nd gate north of Wardman. The Chase UCLA Anderson Forecast director Jerry Nickelsburg, Room, 21791 Ventura Blvd, Woodland Hills 91364 Room is just to the left. Film will be chosen from UC Riverside economist Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera, 818-610-8308 Opening for The Bonedaddys. DVDs brought that night. http://whittierpeace.org/ and UCLA Anderson economist and statistician https://www.thewriteoffroom.com/ Ed Leamer visit Zócalo to gauge the country’s https://www.facebook.com/events/523535211504756 19 - Fri readiness for recession. https://www.zocalopublicsquare. org/event/america-ready-next-recession/ UCLA Earth Month: Project TEAL, 6:30-8p, 15 - Mon Trainings for Environmental Activists and Leaders Words And Ideas-Black Is Beautiful: Then and Policing LA: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the is a workshop designed to give you the tools you Now, 8p, Skirball Cultural Ctr, see ongoing events. LAPD, 12n-1:30p, USC, Doheny Memorial Library need to become stewards of our planet, focusing Hear from Kwame S. Brathwaite, the artist’s son (DML)241, Free. When Watts erupted in August on environmental justice, including water, food, air, and director of the Kwame Brathwaite Archives, 1965, the uprising drew strength from decades of and toxic injustices. Speakers TBA; food provided. along with fashion designer Mimi Plange and pent-up frustration with employment discrimination, This event is open to anyone and everyone who photographer Tyler Mitchell, as they examine the residential segregation, and poverty. But the more is willing to learn, so invite your friends! Water social impact of Brathwaite’s photography. Black Is immediate grievance was anger at the racist and Justice and Air Quality. https://www.facebook.com/ Beautiful will be open to ticketholders from 6:00 to abusive practices of the LAPD. Yet in the decades events/2104272779657890/ 8:00 pm. A book signing of the exhibition catalogue after Watts, the LAPD resisted all but the most limited follows the program. Books available for purchase. demands for reform made by activists and residents 20 - Sat of color, instead intensifying its power. In Policing Los Suzy Williams & Michael Jost, https://www. Angeles, Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic The Great L.A. River Cleanup, 9a–12n, 2800 coffeegallery.com/ 8p, Coffee Gallery 2029 Lake history of policing, anti-police abuse movements, Casitas Ave, LA 90039. Humanist Community of Ave, Altadena 91001, https://www.facebook.com/ race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 USC joins Friends of the LA River. Tickets: folar. events/703901416691859/ Watts uprising to the 1992 rebellion. Felker-Kantor is visiting assistant prof of history at Ball State Univ. https://dornsife.usc.edu/events/view/1538373/policing-los- 12 - Fri angeles-race-resistance-and-the-rise-of-the-lapd/ 2nd Annual Puerto Rican Film Night hosted by Puerto Ricans In Action, 7:30–11p, Echo Park Mindful Mondays for Wellbeing w/ Susan Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado at Sunset, LA 90026. Lopez, 7-9p. $25. (every 3rd Monday of month), Tickets · $10 - $15 www.eventbrite.com; https:// Self Help Graphics & Art: 1300 E. 1st Street, East www.facebook.com/events/294320104547294/ LA 90033. Session 1: Introduction to Mindfulness [email protected] and Grounding in the Body. Reviewing the support and history of mindfulness from different cultures and traditions (naming and honoring those that came before us-shared these traditions), different mindfulness practices for connecting to our body, bringing awareness to our relationship to our body, and how we can begin using the body to access rallybound.org The Humanist Community of USC and presence. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mindful-mondays-for- the Secular Student Fellowship are joining Friends of wellbeing-with-susan-lopez-tickets-59193450203 the Los Angeles River for the annual LA River Clean up on April 20 at the Bowtie Parcel @ Fletcher Dr. 16 - Tue Click this link to register and in Step 2, click to “Join a Team” and search for Humanists of USC. https:// The Source Program (for Homeless Services), folar.rallybound.org/bowtieparcel/Account/Register 12:30–3p, Exposition Park Regional Library - LAPL, 3900 S Western Ave, LA 90062. Tickets: www.lapl. Our Voice, Our County: Earth Day Fair & Expo Puerto Rico is stillstruggling to recover from Hurricane Maria org. One-stop-shop of resources and services to hosted by Day One and Liberty Hill Foundation, and the consequent disaster capitalism of US colonialism. help homeless Angelenos transition to independent 9a–12n, Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N Raymond and supported living. Services are also available for 13 - Sat Ave, Pasadena 91103. Tickets by Eventbrite- eligible low-income residents. All services are free of Register to reserve your seat(s). Share your vision “Co-op Jump-Start”, all day, LA Trade Tech charge, may vary by month and include: Same day for the future that balances the environment, equity, College, Washington & Grand, LA. transportation to emergency shelter; Free California and economy. Earth Day Festival to follow at 12n. ID vouchers for the DMV; Free cell phones; Housing assessment through the Coordinated Entry System; IWW Organizer Training, 9a-5p, Peace Center, LA Eco-Village Tour with Cooperative Resources Enrollment into Medi-Cal and CalFresh. 3916 S. Sepulveda Bl, Culver City 90230. Also Sun and Services Project, 10:30a–1p, 117 S Bimini 14. To reserve a spot please fill out our registration Pl, LA 90004. Tickets: laecovillage.org https://www. form: http://tinyurl.com/y3kqx2yt Workplace 17 - Wed facebook.com/events/291257901570932/ democracy. A world without bosses. How can we MOM - MEDIA DISCUSSION, 6-9p, Beyond help make it happen? The Industrial Workers of 21 - Sun the World is a union for all workers, dedicated Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd Venice 90291. Free. to organizing on the job, in our industries and in Passover Seder, Jewish Voice for Peace, 2-5p, our communities. We aim to win better conditions UCLA Earth Month: Project TEAL, 6:30-8p, Culver City. Details: [email protected] today and to build a world in which production and distribution are organized to meet the needs of the 22 - Mon Earth Day entire population, not just a handful of exploiters. March for Science - Los Angeles, 9a, Pershing National Organization For Women-Orange Square (5th & Hill) DTLA. A celebration of our passion County Chapter Meeting & Guest Speaker, 1p, for science and the many ways science serves our Museum of Woman, 17905 Sky Park Circle, #A, communities and our world. The March for Science is Irvine CA. Info: www.ocnow.org an unprecedented global gathering of scientists and science enthusiasts joining together to acknowledge LA Times Festival of Books, USC, https://events. the vital role science plays in our lives and the need latimes.com/festivalofbooks/ to respect and encourage research that gives us insight into the world. https://www.facebook.com/ Trainings for Environmental Activists and Leaders events/discovery/ “HERE TO BE HEARD: The Story of The Slits”, is a workshop designed to give you the tools you 2 Screenings: 7p & 9:15p, Echo Park Film Center, need to become stewards of our planet, focusing on Learn how to ask for help (& get it), 6–8:30p, The 1200 N. Alvarado LA 90026. A film about the world’s environmental justice, including water, food, air, and first all girl punk band; formed in London in 1976, Riveter: Marina Del Rey, 4505 Glencoe A, MdR, toxic injustices. Speakers TBA; food provided. This 90292. Last event in this series in partnership with The contemporaries of The Clash & The Sex Pistols, event is open to anyone and everyone who is willing Riveter and The Rabbit Hole. Seeds tokens (https:// Education/Unschooling/Unlearning; Neo-Liberalism; 4th Annual Maker Faire, 8a-5p, Sierra Vista Bldg. www.facebook.com/seedsgives/) allow anyone to Indigenous Empowerment; Food Justice; Health; Glendale Community College, 1500 N Verdugo ask for monetary help - and receive it as a gift - with Conscious and Inclusive Parenting; and Women’s Rd, Glendale, free. Where art, innovation and no strings attached. To make the tokens as easy Rights. For more information, please email science meet. A faire for artists, craftspeople, to use as we could, we’ve loaded them on simple [email protected] or https://www.facebook.com/ scientists, hobbyists, techies, musician, makers and gift cards. For every card you buy, another will be events/2288556091422706/ more! Interactive workshops & lectures. Network donated to someone in need. Instagram: @seedsgives with industry professionals. https://www.eventbrite. https://www.facebook.com/events/153420265533972/ com/e/glendale-community-colleges-4th-annual-maker-faire- tickets-52125028363 23 - Tue 28 - Sun In Remembrance: Classical Music by Armenian Composers, 7:30p, UCLA Hammer Museum, 10899 State of the Environment Conference, 9a–4p, Wilshire Blvd. LA 90024, 310-443-7000, info@ CSULB, 1250 N Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach hammer.ucla.edu, Co-presented by the UCLA Herb 90840. Join CSULB’s Student Sustainability Alpert School of Music. UCLA Armenian Music Coalition (SSC) for the second annual State of Ensemble brings Armenia’s rich musical history to the Environment Conference. Free day-long event life with mezzo-soprano Danielle Segen, the VEM invites CSULB staff, students, faculty, environmental String Quartet (Ji Eun Hwang, Aiko Richter, Morgan leaders, policymakers, scientists, and businesses O’Shaugnessey, Jason Pegis), and special guest to engage in discussion about our current state of the environment and our role in the future of sustainability. FREE breakfast, snacks and lunch will be provided to all participants. This is a free Earth Week event and all are welcome. Learn more at csulb.edu/sustainability

US Concentration Camp at Manzanar, one of 13 for 7 Dudley Cinema - GEM (Geo Earth Mother) Gaia Japanese-Americans during World War II. Goddess - Celebration of the Primal Mother of all life: beauty, love, fertility with RIA films, dancers, 27 - Sat poets and music, 6p, Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Manzanar Pilgrimage, https://manzanarcommittee. Blvd Venice 90291, Free. In the spirit of Marija org/2019-manzanar-pilgrimage/ Annual visit to one Gimbutas and Annabelle Serpentine & Butterfly of the concentration camps that held Japanese- Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YostqK_hFkE Americans during World War II. Our bus to the 50th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage from Los 29 - Mon Angeles’ Little Tokyo is full. To get on wait list, e-mail [email protected] or Housing is a Human Right Orange County, call (323) 662-5102 for details. Anaheim Poverty Task Force, 7–10p, UUCA - Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim, 511 S LA–based composer Artashes Kartalyan. Program Harbor Blvd, Anaheim 92805. Join our coalition features chamber music by Komitas Vardapet Encuentro 25 Years of Zapatismo, marking 25 of organizations and individuals working together , 9a–10p (see 26- Fri). and compositions by Aram Khachaturian, Edward years of Zapatismo to achieve supportive, affordable, and permanent Mirzoian, and Alan Hovhaness. housing for homeless individuals. 3rd Monday each https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2019/04/in- Maestra Circle w/ Lara Medina, 11a-1p. Donation. month we meet with the OC Poor People’s Campaign remembrance-classical-music-by-armenian-composers/ Casa Coatlicue, 1501 Loma Verde St, Monterey at Youth on the Move in Santa Ana. Park, 91754. This platica will center the wisdom of 24 - Wed maestra Lara Medina. She will guide conversation 30 - Tue March For Justice hosted by Armenian Genocide by sharing her experience with prayer & spirituality. Committee, 1p, T.C. Los Angeles Başkonsolosluğu / RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maestra-circle-with-lara- Opening your Non- Profit Organization hosted by medina-tickets-57244461726 Turkish Consulate, 6300 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 2010, LA VEDC Women’s Business Center, 5:30–7:30p, 5121 90048. The AGC, a coalition of 21 religious, political, Van Nuys Blvd. Suite 300A, Sherman Oaks 91403. youth, charitable, athletic and social organizations Socialist Feminist Transitions and Visions: Find the steps to open your own Non Profit 503, C3 holds annual March for Justice for the Armenian Theorizing a Socialist Humanist Alternative Corporation by determining the name, the purpose, Genocide on Wilshire between Fairfax and San to Private and State Capitalism, 2:30-5:30p, appoint board of directors, draft bylaws, file the Vicente, in front of the Turkish Consulate. Art Share L.A., 801 E 4th Pl, LA 90013. Free registration form, and file a tax ID number from the parking available. Art Share L.A. is near the IRS: all the steps to open a Non- Profit organization Little Tokyo Metro Train Station (Gold Line) 5th and if this is the right way to go with your idea. 25 - Thu class in a series on Socialist feminism. For more https://www.facebook.com/events/2274977289406108/ information & to obtain the readings, contact CSU Dominguez Hills 11th annual Labor, Social [email protected] or call Frieda Hate Speech Online: Should Social Media be & Environmantal Justice Fair, 9a-3:30p. Afary at 310-210-3748. A $5 donation per class is moderated? 5-6p, LA Law Library, 301 W. 1st, LA requested but is not mandatory. 90012. Rick Eaton of Simon Wiesenthal Ctr, EG Change Links monthly distribution meeting, Southers of USC Homegrown Violent Extremism 7:30p, Peace Center, 3916 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Studies, others, moderated by Beverly White (NBC4). Culver City 90230, free parking, dial 22 for entry. Free, RSVP lawdays.lalawlibrary.org

26 - Fri Upcoming events Green New Deal Tour - LA, hosted by Sunrise May 1 International Workers’ Day Movement LA, 7–10p, LA Trade Tech-Technical College, 400 W. Washington Blvd., LA 90015. RSVP: Multiple immigrant workers’ rights demos and https://actionnetwork.org/events/la-green-new- marches, downtown, East LA and MacArthur Park. deal-town-hall In 2018, young Sunrise leaders put May 2-10 the Green New Deal on the map and permanently changed the conversation on climate policy in this 35th LA Asian Pacific Film Festival country. The political establishment is scrambling to Climate Change: Making a Future for Earth, https://www.vconline.org/festival/ keep up with thousands of people across the country 1-2:30p, Santa Monica Public Library: Main branch, who are eager to take action and bring the promise Santa Monica Blvd & 6th St, SM, Multipurpose Room, May 3 of the Green New Deal into reality. 2nd Floor. Free. Learn how climate change affects the earth’s natural systems, as well as solutions happening UndocU Conference at CSU Long Beach, the Dream Success Center, CSULB. Keynote speaker: Encuentro 25 Years of Zapatismo, marking 25 locally, nationally, and internationally to prevent its Dr. Roberto Gonzales, Prof., Harvard Grad School years of Zapatismo, 9a–10p, also April 27 9a-10p, worst effects. Co-presented by Citizens’ Climate of Education, author of Lives in Limbo. Lobby. Light refreshments. http://calendar.smgov.net/ CSULA, 5151 State University Dr, LA 90032. https://mydocumentedlife.org/2019/02/06/register-for-this-years- Continuing the diálogo, learning from experience. library/eventsignup.asp?ID=29492&ret=eventcalendar.asp undocu-conference-at-csu-long-beach/ Free public event hosted by by CSULA Latin American Studies CLASSIFIED AD Program and Eastside Café. Papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, art Driver-pal wanted, also penpal, Christian, projects, performances, installations, Buddhist, Judeo, Mindful New Age, booths, dialogues, and other All Cultures, nationality, ethnicity, activities related to the Zapatista movement and to movements and millennial (All Ages). organizations that are inspired Apply to Rev. Raphael: by it. Themes include: Art and [email protected]. Political Change /Artivism; Activism Be available for visit/pensit/paper pickup / Social Movements; Autonomy / (security background). Self-determination; Horizontalismo; SKID ROW 2040 5G THREAT DE-COLONIZATION

...Continued from p. 1 ...Continued from p. 1 length microwaves at the earth from thousands of new responsibility for damage to the climate. According to the communication satellites. Univ of Michigan, in 2018, 80% of the energy in the US The FCC gave approval to SpaceX on March 29, 2018, came from oil, gas, and coal. Only 11% came from so-called to launch 4,425 satellites into low orbit around the Earth. “renewables”; 40+% of that was biomass, which requires 20,000 satellites are expected to be put into low and high a large amount of land and energy to produce and still orbit by several companies. These satellites will use the causes carbon emissions. According to PopularResistance. ...Continued from p. 1 same type of phased array antennas as will be used by the org, “The US is the largest crude oil producer in the world. ground-based 5G systems. They will send tightly focused This week, Mike Pompeo met with oil and gas industry Assess the feasibility of various financing mechanisms beams of intense microwave radiation to each specific 5G executives to remind them of their role in fueling wars to and establish a suitable tax-increment financing district in device and each device will send a beam of radiation back control the world’s oil. Bill Van Auken reports, “Pompeo’s the Downtown/Skid Row neighborhood. to the satellite. speech provided a blunt description of US predatory aims Previous generations of RF cellular communication across the planet that involve the interests of [its] energy 4. Vacancy Tax - 1% of a vacant building’s value for every used large antennas to send a blanket of radiation in all conglomerates.” He was open about US imperialist aims year vacant towards affordable (Low income) housing, directions. The lower frequencies they used and the broad regarding oil in Iran and Venezuela.” charged annually. distribution of microwaves limited the numbers of cellular The US military is responsible for the worst and most devices that could connect through an individual tall 5. Anti-Displacement Protections - Tenant legal tower. The much shorter length microwaves used for 5G representation to fight evictions, end discrimination by will make it possible to use small phased array antennas to landlords against housing voucher recipients, and create send and receive signals. Phased array antennas consist of anti-harassment penalties for landlords. clusters of hundreds of tiny antennas that work together to The DTLA 2040 update should support the human shoot a ray of energy at a target just like a bullet. and economic development of the Skid Row Community The microwaves they produce will be strong enough to while preserving its culture, well-being and values, such pass through walls and human bodies. Otherwise to use a as through increased accessibility to parks and open space, 5G smart-phone you’d have to stand outside when using social services, health care services, pedestrian and bike- the device. Each 5G product (such as autonomous cars) friendly amenities. will also have multiple phased array antennas to create Increase land zoned for social services for homeless a beam of radiation back to the utility poles or toward and/or extremely low-income residents, with new social a specific satellite in space. This means if you’re ina services sites linked to social spaces like parks, community crowded location, such as an airport or on a train, there centers, and transit stops. will be 100s if not 1000s of such beams. The effective Skid Row crosswalks and street lights should be better radiated power of the 5G phased array antennas in phones timed to acknowledge the needs of disabled and elderly will be 10 times more powerful than 4G phones. neighborhood residents. Improve pedestrian safety by No one will be free from exposure. Stationary widespread pollution on earth, yet this goes unreported by upgrading lighting, signage, and crosswalks and by equipment such as Wi-Fi hubs will be permitted to use corporate media and unaddressed by US environmentalists. introducing speed-bumps on the numbered streets, plus a microwaves15X stronger than signals from 5G phones or It wasn’t the focus of restrictions at the UN Climate bike infrastructure plan to ensure ZERO traffic fatalities. 150 times stronger than 4G phones. Change Conference. Global operations of the US military The Refresh Spot model will be expanded to provide Arthur Firstenberg, author, researcher, and advocate (wars, interventions, over 1000 bases around the world 24/hr restroom attendant services in all Skid Row parks. for limiting RF exposure from the environment, explains and 6000 facilities in the US) aren’t counted against US All 311 trash and bulky item pick-ups in Skid Row will the analysis of 5G radiation that was published in greenhouse gas limits. According to Steve Kretzmann, be handled by Skid Row residents employed by the Microwave News in 2002. He stated: “When an ordinary director of Oil Change International, “The Iraq war was city to minimize trauma created by strangers throwing electromagnetic field enters the body, it causes charges responsible for ...more than 60% [of the emissions as] that away resident’s critical possessions such as medicines, to move and currents to flow. But when extremely short of all countries. . . . [M]ilitary emissions abroad are exempt identification and shelter. electromagnetic pulses enter the body [5G], something from national reporting requirements under US law and the Skid Row is one of the largest recovery communities in else happens: the moving charges themselves become UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.” https:// the nation. Yet bars and off-sale alcohol outlets are often little antennas that re-radiate the electromagnetic field and www.projectcensored.org/2-us-department-of-defense-is- proposed and permitted to generate upscale development send it deeper into the body.” These re-radiated waves are the-worst-polluter-on-the-planet/ that is out of range for our community. No new bars, called Brillouin precursors. So people in the US must struggle to keep hydrocarbons “alcohol sale permits”, or new marijuana dispensary/ These are the companies with the biggest plans to in the ground, resist US militarism, and uphold the cannabis stores shall be permitted in the Skid Row deploy satellites: SpaceX: 12,000 satellites; OneWeb: sovereignty of indigenous people. This includes offering neighborhood. 4,560 satellites; Boeing: 2,956 satellites; Spire Global: concrete alternatives, like the Mutual Aid centers in Puerto The permit process, tax incentives, transit access and 972 satellites. Arthur Firstenberg states: Honeywell has Rico, or the clean water programs supported by Puerto public walkways relating to grocery stores, farmer’s already signed a memorandum of understanding to become Ricans in Action here in L.A., to recovery efforts controlled markets and healthier food options will be incentivized OneWeb’s first large customer—it plans to provide high- by US NGOs and the military. Similarly, to respond to the and streamlined to prioritize access to nutrition and better speed Wi-Fi on business, commercial, and military aircraft devastation in Africa, we must support self-determined living. throughout the world. grassroots efforts. More than 1.5 million people have Over many years Skid Row has emerged as a Ground-based 5G systems are already being been affected across the three Southern African countries, neighborhood with a number of profound and important implemented in dozens of major cities. Cities can’t “say Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The Chimanimani values that are reflected in daily life and celebrated and no” to 5G. FCC regulations prevent cities from objecting district in Mozambique has been cut off by torrential rains further imagined in neighborhood manifestations of arts on the basis of health concerns – they only can speak to and winds that swept away roads and bridges knocking and culture. Exemplary cultural values of the neighborhood aesthetics and the placement of equipment. out power and communication lines. Global Citizen offers include: empathy, looking out for each other, sharing, The first two 5G test satellites were launched by specific ways to help victims, as well as general guidelines second chances, recovery, inclusion, tolerance, and SpaceX in February of 2018. Hundreds of other satellites for providing conscientious assistance to formerly embracing difference. Community emphasis is on making are expected to be launched in 2019.. The full set of 20,000 colonized peoples. See https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/ and sharing art rather than solely being a relatively passive satellites could be put in orbit during the next two years. To content/how-to-help-victims-cyclone-idai/ and https:// audience member. put this into perspective, as of September 2017 there were www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/all-hands-all-hearts- Skid Row business owners will be charged a mandatory 1,738 operating satellites in orbit. This means the number resilient-response/ bond towards resident-created murals on Skid Row, which of satellites will increase by 11 times. The rocket fuel Decolonization as central goes beyond the current will be repayable by hosting murals on buildings’ exteriors used in these launches is very destructive to the Earth’s Green New Deal resolution. As the Democratic Socialists or widely visible interior blank walls. ozone layer which protects us from the harsh effects of of America acknowledge in their paper on an eco-socialist Skid Row will be an open market similar to Venice radiation from the sun. Rockets using liquid kerosene as Green New Deal, we must “demilitarize, decolonize, Boardwalk where anyone can advertise and conduct fuel destroy less ozone, but they release massive amounts and strive for a future of international solidarity.” They business on the street without fear of police harassment. of carbon soot, especially at high altitudes. 5G satellites call for abandoning global military domination, and A Skid Row Neighborhood Council will ensure Skid have a relatively short lifespan, which means there will be building consensus throughout the Global North for de- Row residents have a voice in future decisions about land high numbers of launches for the foreseeable future. carbonization that outpaces less-industrialized countries, use, law enforcement policy and everything else within the Millions will suffer from radiation exposure with who have contributed the least to and are suffering the domain of a standard Los Angeles Neighborhood Council. symptoms such as headaches, weakness, impaired ability most from global warming. The US, they propose, should Reduce law enforcement personnel and budget by 20% to learn and reason, chest pain, and numerous other welcome refugees, share life-saving technologies freely, over four years in Skid Row, using the savings to increase symptoms that will baffle most conventional physicians. and provide mitigation resources requested by peoples in personnel and budget for health care workers. Skid Row Today, it’s possible to live in a location that has reduced levels of microwave exposure, by choosing a living space the Global South. needs fewer police and more doctors. Their proposal continues, “Recognize the sovereignty of far from cell phone towers. However, soon no matter In order to build a Skid Row for today and for 2040, Indigenous peoples... Accept the decisions of Indigenous the Department of City Planning must ensure that the where we live, 5G will irradiate us. communities regarding future green infrastructure projects that community plan update recognizes, affirms and strengthens Can 5G Implementation be Stopped? impact their lands.... Remove US military presence around the the history and culture of Skid Row. DCP must work with As far as I can tell, at this point, the only way that 5G world; end military aid and arms exports; and demilitarize our the community of Skid Row to ensure displacement does will be stopped will be by congressional action. If enough borders.” This is a step forward, along with acknowledging we not occur. 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Classified ad: $5 for First class postage land prices began to collapse. More than our business is dominated by large organic 250,000 farms died that decade, and more operations that are more factory than farm. 4 lines (1 column wide) than 900 farmers committed suicide in the Although small organic farms pioneered the (about 36 words). upper Midwest alone. concept, organic certification has become Farmers felt the impact most directly, a label mega-farms co-opted and used to $5 requested per but there were few in rural communities break us. Six dairy farms in Texas feed calendar listing. who were untouched. All the businesses thousands of cows organic grain and stored that depended on farm dollars watched forage, with no access to a blade of grass, as their incomes dried up and the tax base they produce more milk than all 453 organic shrank. Farm foreclosures meant fewer dairy farms in Wisconsin combined. Then Pay to AFGJ/Change-Links families and fewer kids, so schools were they ship it north, undercutting our price. forced to close . The Main St cafes— We can’t make ends meet and are forced out where farmers talked prices, the weather of the business. We played by the rules, but and politics — shut down as well. we no longer have a level playing field. As devastating as the 1980s were Despite this, I hung on, but I couldn’t for farmers, today’s crisis is worse. continue milking cows indefinitely. Perhaps If you like what you’ve read -- Ineffective government subsidies and it’s for the best. A few years before we sold insurance programs are worthless in the our herd, we had to install huge fans in our face of plummeting prices and oversupply barn — the summers were getting too hot Subscribe to Change-Links! (and tariffs certainly aren’t helping). The for the cows to be out during the heat of glut of organic milk has caused a 30% the day. Climate change would have made Subscriptions finance decrease in the price I was paid for my our future in farming that much harder. We milk over the past two years. Wisconsin, could have adapted, I think, but we ran out the paper. where I live, had lost 382 dairy farms by of time. That’s why, after my 40 chances, August; last year, the number at the same I’m done. Regular subs are $25, Sustainers $50, Low Income $12 a year, payable to AFGJ with Change Links in the memo, (we cannot process checks made out to “Change Links”) & mail to: Change Links, PO Box 34236, Los Angeles CA 90034 Name: ______

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