PDF of Vol. 37 #1, Feb-Mar. 2025
Defend Free Speech & Community Media
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. …
Rebuilding Los Angeles
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 …
PART’s Perspective: When Will We Ever Learn?
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 …
Mumia Abu Jamal Embraces LGBTQ Liberation
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 …
Autonomous Warrior: US, UK, Australia Hold Robot Navy War Games
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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PART’s Perspective: Moratorium Against Genocide & Apartheid
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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Project 2024, Agenda 47, and Conflicts Within the Right
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 …
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The Math of Repression and Exploitation
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 …
A-I squared – Artificial Intelligence: Product and Tool of American Imperialism
Artificial Intelligence: Product and Tool of American Imperialism by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Most of the fears expressed about A-I have focused on a couple of issues. There are fears of a fourth industrial revolution …
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Which Way Forward for Pacifica Radio?
by Michael Novick The Pacifica Foundation, license holder for five stations in many of the largest metropolitan areas in the US — WBAI in NY, WPFW in DC, KPFT in Houston, KPFA in Berkeley and KPFK in Los Angeles …
End the Genocide Against Palestine! End the Settler-Colonial Occupation!
PART’s Perspective End the Genocide Against Palestine! End the Settler-Colonial Occupation! by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) War crimes and crimes against humanity are being carried out daily by Israel, not only in Gaza, but …
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A.I.’s Dirty Secret: Digital Sweat-shops
Millions of human workers in digital sweatshops power Artificial Intelligence by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The current strikes by screen-writers and actors in the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have focused attention on the use of AI– “Artificial …
Vol. 35 #2 April-June 2023
The wonderful cover graphic on this issue, and the inside illustration, Capitalism Breaks my Heart, authorized for our use by the artist, Susan Simensky-Bietila, are from the latest World War 3 Illustrated, available from AK Press here: https://www.akpress.org/frontlines-of-repair.html