Marilyn Bechtel
LATEST ARTICLES BY Marilyn Bechtel
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Labor
Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians say California patients still being denied timely care
July 5, 2022State Sen. Scott Weiner: “You can’t give someone a first appointment and then make them wait two or three months for their second and subsequent appointments, because that completely undermines effective mental health treatment.”
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Politics
Western states declare abortion access pact in opposition to Supreme Court
June 28, 2022California, Oregon, and Washington say they’ll uphold access to reproductive healthcare and protect patients and medical professionals against efforts by other states to impose rules outside their borders.
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Politics
Despite San Francisco recall, justice candidates surge ahead in California primaries
June 13, 2022The S.F. recall was a loss for progressives, but there were a number of positive signs in other races.
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Labor
Students back teachers in one day strike in Oakland
May 4, 2022"If we’re going to do this important work, we need to do it right, and we need to do it with everybody at the table and talk to the people I feel I work for: the...
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World
Good Friday vigil: No nuclear weapons, diplomacy, not war, in Ukraine
April 20, 2022The urgency of organizing against nuclear weaponry, much of it designed at the Livermore Lab in California, was one of the demands for peace at the annual Good Friday event, a virtual one this year. Nagasaki,...
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U.S.
Public readings of King’s ‘Beyond Vietnam’ explore its meaning for today
April 11, 2022The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. triggered a new level of unity between the civil rights and peace movements in the U.S.
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Politics
Ignoring community, Oakland school board will proceed with closures and mergers
February 24, 2022Parents, teachers, and students get little say.
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U.S.
Defying the community, Oakland school board votes to close, merge schools
February 11, 2022The decision follows protests by the community which is determined to continue their fight for quality public education.
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