Pacifica Foundation, the non-profit licensee for non-commercial educational stations in NY, DC, Houston, L.A. and Berkeley, is launching an election process under new Bylaws, adopted without the required notice or member approval, that change many of the rules and strip …
Urgent: Pacifica Elections Nomination Process Extended Read more »
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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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 …
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 »
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 …
Democracy, Diversity, Commitment to Peace & Racial Justice Again Under Threat by Proposed New ByLaws by Pacifica Fightback https://pacificafightback.org The folks who illegally shut down Pacifica station WBAI in NYC in 2019, and who were behind the “Pacifica Restructuring …
Democracy & Diversity at Stake at Pacifica Radio – Voting Begins June 7 Read more »
PARTs Perspective All Power to the Imagination by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The so-called left in the US continues to be in the grip of defeatism and acceptance of the parameters and limits of …
PART’s Perspective: All Power to the Imagination! Read more »
Those inclined to heave a sigh of relief and let down our guard about the threat of fascism because of Trump’s failed Beer-Hall-Putsch of a coup attempt on January 6, or the “peaceful transition of power” on January 20, …
I delayed writing this reflection until after midnight on Thursday Nov. 5, so essentially early Friday, Nov. 6. As I write, the election of a president has still not as yet been accomplished, even though a clear and insurmountable majority …
PART’s Perspective: People Get Ready: The Best Defense is a Good Offense by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Trump’s hospitalization with COVID-19 increases the range of eventualities in the upcoming national election, adding death and …
PART’s Perspective: Police, Protests, and People’s Power Building Communities of Resistance by Michael Novick The smoke has cleared, figuratively speaking, from the Republican and Democratic Party conventions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. With, if not the whole world, then at …
The 1992 Elections and their Consequences The political landscape has been substantially reshaped by the November 1992 national elections. It is a positive development that the electorate as a whole rejected the politics of hate and fear espoused by George …
