Marilyn Bechtel
LATEST ARTICLES BY Marilyn Bechtel
-
News
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.
Read more -
News
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.”
Read more -
U.S.
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.
Read more -
Labor
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!”
Read more -
U.S.
Protesters outraged as Trump administration tears immigrant children from parents
June 6, 2018Oakland protesters gathered at the office of Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern, whose anti-terrorist training program has also trained law enforcement personnel to aid ICE agents in anti-immigrant raids.
Read more -
U.S.
California Senate makes big move for affordable housing
May 24, 2018San Francisco's Unified School District has over 2,200 homeless students.
Read more -
U.S.
“We Run UC”—Support workers strike the Univ. of California system
May 9, 2018A study conducted by AFSCME Local 3299 shows starting wages of black and Latino workers are about 20 percent lower than those of their white counterparts.
Read more -
U.S.
My Lai massacre exhibit puts Vietnam War in broad perspective
April 6, 2018We often honor the soldiers who fought, but forget that we had the luxury, as a country, to go to war where other people lived.
Read more