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Human Rights Day in the real world

December 12, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

Outside, gray skies and a chill wind cast a pall over drab storefronts and modest homes in the economically struggling West Oakland neighborhood.

The human face of budget cuts

December 8, 2009 By David Bacon

Cesar Cota was the first in his family to attend college and "now it's hard to achieve my dream," he says, "because the state put higher fees on us."

Budget cuts hampered response to giant fire, firefighters charge

November 28, 2009 By Press Associates Inc.

LOS ANGELES - In the latest indication of how budget cuts endanger public safety, the firefighters union president says the mayor's slashes hampered the response to the huge Station Fire in September.

In economic crisis, ordinary people create solutions

November 25, 2009 By Michael Robert Langdon

"We the people" - Local communities are creating human networks of food banks, community gardens, medical clinics, telephone hotlines and more.

Students, faculty & workers protest U of Calif. hikes, cutbacks

November 19, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

Thousands of students, faculty, campus workers and community supporters gathered Nov. 18 in historic Sproul Plaza to protest at proposed 32 percent fee hike.