Marilyn Bechtel
LATEST ARTICLES BY Marilyn Bechtel
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California labor maps plan to stop the Newsom recall
June 3, 2021Unions see their campaign as critical to preserving hard-won gains by workers in California.
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Newsom proposes record-setting public spending with ‘California Comeback Plan’
May 20, 2021The new blockbuster budget reflects an expected $75 billion in tax revenue, paid mostly by the state’s richest residents.
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California’s new A.G. announces ‘Racial Justice Bureau’ to combat hate surge
May 14, 2021State Attorney General Rob Bonta says California is "in a full-on state of crisis, a full-on state of emergency when it comes to hate violence against the Asian Pacific Islander community."
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Right-wing recall election advances vs. California. Gov. Gavin Newsom
April 30, 2021It’s the sixth such effort by the right against him in the two years since his election but the only one that has achieved the necessary signatures.
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Afghanistan’s socialist years: The promising future killed off by U.S. imperialism
April 15, 2021From 1978 to 1992, Afghanistan made great strides in education, health care, economic development, and women's liberation - despite intense fighting with U.S.-backed fundamentalist militia forces.
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Good Friday Swords into Plowshares participants call for abolition of all nuclear weapons
April 7, 2021San Francisco Bay area activists gathered to protest ever more dangerous nuclear weapons that can evade radar entirely after being launched from locations thousands of miles from their targets.
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Justice bills progressing in California legislature
April 1, 2021One bill would allow any registered voter to run for sheriff.
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Oakland, Marin County to launch pilot programs for guaranteed income
March 26, 2021“The poverty we all witness today is not a personal failure,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said, “it is a systems failure.”
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