Marilyn Bechtel
LATEST ARTICLES BY Marilyn Bechtel
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Struggle for prison health care enters new phase
May 9, 2012Last month California unveiled a comprehensive plan on how to ensure "a quality medical care system for years to come."
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May Day strikes and actions dot the Bay Area
May 3, 2012Bay Area unions and immigrant rights organizations marked May Day with picket lines, rallies and marches in cities around the region.
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Foreclosed tenants tell bank: Let us stay!
April 27, 2012Though legal papers to evict them have yet to be filed, the bank, which now owns the building, is pressing the families to leave.
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Protesters to Wells Fargo: Make mortgages affordable!
April 25, 2012Though they didn't shut the meeting down, their shouts and chants wafted all the way up to the 15th floor meeting room.
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LA-Long Beach port truck drivers win important victory
April 19, 2012Employee drivers at Toll Group logistics company in southern California last week became one of the few groups of port truck drivers to become unionized.
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Wells Fargo charged with bias over upkeep of foreclosed homes
April 16, 2012Wells Fargo is becoming the focus of a new kind of protest - against the way it manages the foreclosed homes it owns.
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Demonstrators protest raids at medical pot facilities
April 3, 2012Protesters, many of them medical marijuana users, massed in downtown Oakland to protest the raiding by federal agents of Oaksterdam University, which trains workers for the medical marijuana industry.
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Protesters shut down recruiting center
April 3, 2012They protested the killing of 17 civilians by a U.S. soldier earlier in the month and other atrocities against Afghan civilians, and demanded an end to nearly eleven years of war.
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