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May Day, West Coast style

May 3, 2016 By David Trujillo

Two large May Day marches converged upon downtown Los Angeles; the flow of marchers and supporters continued for miles.

This week in women’s history: Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House

March 22, 2016 By Special to People’s World

Pelosi is the first woman, the first Californian, and first Italian-American to lead a major party in Congress and to hold the Speakership.

Health care, housing, education top California’s legislative agenda

January 14, 2016 By Marilyn Bechtel

Gov. Brown is calling for "significant increases" for education, health care, environment, and infrastructure spending in the $123 billion 2016-17 general fund.

All eyes are on Paris

December 1, 2015 By Shawn Roselius And Chauncey K. Robinson

We recently attended the NorCal climate march in Oakland, where we asked those who attended why the issue of climate change is so important and what needed to be done.

Native student challenges California professor who denies genocide

November 4, 2015 By Albert Bender

In 1852 the California legislature paid $1.1 million to citizen militias to hunt and kill Native Americans.