Marilyn Bechtel
LATEST ARTICLES BY Marilyn Bechtel
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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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News
Fast Food Sector Council advances in California, but CalCare health bill on hold
February 4, 2022A new council to regulate the fast food industry moves closer to reality, but California's single-payer health system gets a delay.
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Mundo Popular
Aniversario del tratado nuclear observado con llamados a la ratificación de EE. UU.
January 31, 2022
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Politics
Nuke treaty anniversary observed with calls for U.S. ratification
January 27, 2022Demonstrations happen at the Livermore lab, one of two places making all U.S. nuclear warheads.
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