Marilyn Bechtel
LATEST ARTICLES BY Marilyn Bechtel
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Tens of thousands march for climate, jobs and justice
September 11, 2018Around the world, 350.org reported that over a quarter of a million people took part in more than 900 actions in 95 countries.
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California governor signs bail reform; gun control measures advance
August 30, 2018When Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 10, the California Bail Reform Act, on Aug. 28, the state took a step no other state has yet taken.
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Bills addressing police misconduct face decisive votes in California legislature
August 21, 2018Among measures still to be decided are two designed to address repeated instances of police misconduct.
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Nuclear abolition: Protesters confront Livermore Lab on Hiroshima anniversary
August 10, 2018Nobuaki Hanaoka was an infant in Nagasaki in August 1945 when the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb. He recalled how, when he was a child, "death came down with the rain.”
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California battles GOP assault on Affordable Care Act
July 26, 2018Ever since the Affordable Care Act came fully into effect in 2014, California has been a leader in making affordable health care available to millions in the state.
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People’s World event in California calls for ‘Sanctuary for All’
July 11, 2018At the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library on July 4, the demand was: “No Ban, No Wall, No Mass Incarceration.”
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Tens of thousands rallied for Families Belong Together
July 6, 2018The mass demonstration in San Francisco was typical of the outpourings against Trump’s harsh and inhumane policies.
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Workers: ‘Make one job at Marriott enough to live on!’
June 29, 2018"We have to let a huge corporation like this know we are united and we are empowered!”
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