by Michael Novick, former interim General Manager, KPFK-90.7 FM Pacifica radio in Los Angeles What is one of the most critical aspects of these new bylaws, (which we consider an illegal substitution, because they were not adopted by any …
Illegal Bylaws Change Threatens Democracy, Diversity at Pacifica Radio Read more »
Sinking Roots of Revolutionary Resistance by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) As resistance to ICE and the use of military troops reaches a flashpoint in Los Angeles and spreads across the US, we must work …
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By Cannon Taylor [Excerpt] The album “PO$T AMERICAN” begins with the sound of Gregg Deal thumping an animal-skinned hand drum. He opens his mouth and belts out the American Indian Movement’s intertribal song of protest — more specifically, a …
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By Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-L.A./People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The resistance to European colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Americas has a history over 500 years in length. Resistance to capitalism stretches back over more than two centuries. The …
Obama, Imperialism and the Paradox of Plenty amid Poverty by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) In the 1960s, liberal and conservative social theorists used to speculate about the reasons for “the paradox of poverty amid plenty.” …
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Remarks by Gerald Horne at FCM/PFB Town Hall, 01-25-2025, with response to a question from a listener from Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African Peoples Socialist Party, another keynote speaker Thank you for inviting me to this important forum. …
Espa~nol abajo. The incineration of much of the Los Angeles area represents the extent to which settler colonial capitalism has sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind of generations, centuries of settler colonialism, land theft, genocide, privatization, gentrification, fossil fuel …
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Many people were stunned by the outcome of the presidential election, and the decisive, if close, victory of Donald Trump. How, they ask, could so many millions of people …
https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/mumia-embraces-lgbtq-liberation-on-99-5-fm-wbai/ excerpts from an interview by Out-FM (This interview with Mumia by Bob Lederer and the associated documentary also ran in full on KPFK’s Somethings Happening program, as well as in a later one-hour edited version. The full transcript with …
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA (ARA-LA/PART) I have paid close attention to the TV series NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) ever since NCIS Los Angeles ran an episode fictionalizing Occupy LA’s Occupy the Ports action that I was involved …
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by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) During the Vietnam War era, the peace, antiwar and internationalist solidarity movements in the US came with a wide diversity of tactics and actions that persisted, grew and intensified …
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by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles It would be wrong to assume that Donald J. Trump’s distancing himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-produced “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise”, is only an electoral ploy. It is true that …
Project 2024, Agenda 47, and Conflicts Within the Right Read more »
The Mathematics of Repression and Exploitation by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action/People Against Racist Terror The New York Times a few years ago ran an interesting series about mathematics — “Me, Myself and Math” — how numbers appear in and affect …
