Marilyn Bechtel
LATEST ARTICLES BY Marilyn Bechtel
-
Politics
Oakland city budget changes would prevent homelessness and create good jobs
June 17, 2021Spending plan also aims to reduce violence, restore parks, recreation centers, and cultural venues.
Read more -
Politics
Poor People’s Campaign hails Barbara Lee for leading ‘Third Reconstruction’ drive
June 10, 202153 cents of every discretionary dollar spent by Congress goes to the Pentagon, but just 15 cents goes to fight poverty.
Read more -
Labor
California labor maps plan to stop the Newsom recall
June 3, 2021Unions see their campaign as critical to preserving hard-won gains by workers in California.
Read more -
U.S.
Newsom proposes record-setting public spending with ‘California Comeback Plan’
May 20, 2021The new blockbuster budget reflects an expected $75 billion in tax revenue, paid mostly by the state’s richest residents.
Read more -
News
California’s new A.G. announces ‘Racial Justice Bureau’ to combat hate surge
May 14, 2021State Attorney General Rob Bonta says California is "in a full-on state of crisis, a full-on state of emergency when it comes to hate violence against the Asian Pacific Islander community."
Read more -
News
Right-wing recall election advances vs. California. Gov. Gavin Newsom
April 30, 2021It’s the sixth such effort by the right against him in the two years since his election but the only one that has achieved the necessary signatures.
Read more -
World
Afghanistan’s socialist years: The promising future killed off by U.S. imperialism
April 15, 2021From 1978 to 1992, Afghanistan made great strides in education, health care, economic development, and women's liberation - despite intense fighting with U.S.-backed fundamentalist militia forces.
Read more -
U.S.
Good Friday Swords into Plowshares participants call for abolition of all nuclear weapons
April 7, 2021San Francisco Bay area activists gathered to protest ever more dangerous nuclear weapons that can evade radar entirely after being launched from locations thousands of miles from their targets.
Read more