Marilyn Bechtel
LATEST ARTICLES BY Marilyn Bechtel
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U.S.
Californians to top insurer: Stop denying our care!
September 26, 2009SAN FRANCISCO - "Big Insurance: Stop denying our care! Public option Now!" and "Big Insurance: Sick of it!" read the signs, as hundreds of protesters jammed into the small sidewalk space in front of Wellpoint/Anthem Blue...
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Groups condemn attacks on Van Jones, green jobs leader
September 13, 2009In the aftermath of Van Jones’ abrupt Labor Day weekend resignation as the Obama administration’s special advisor for environmental jobs, human rights and environmental organizations are expressing outrage at the barrage of attacks against the green...
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Arson suspected in giant ‘Station Fire’
September 12, 2009Los Angeles County’s largest-ever brush fire, the Station Fire ― raging since Aug. 26 in the Angeles National Forest 20 miles north of Los Angeles ― was reported 42 percent contained Sept. 4 after ripping through...
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Labor
Elected officials join fight for NUMMI’s future
September 9, 2009“I was thinking I’d like to go work at the plant, with him,” Shaheem Broughton said, glancing toward his father, when a reporter asked him what he’d like to do after high school. “Now I may...
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Immigrant workers demand back wages from NBC Contractors
August 28, 2009HAYWARD, Calif. - "When I heard about NBC Contractors denying workers their rights and the pay they deserve, I thought about my father, and the struggles he went through when he emigrated from China 25 years...
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U.S.
Foreclosure sit in results in arrest of ACORN activists
August 4, 2009
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U.S.
ACORN Home Defenders win one in Oakland
March 18, 2009
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California budget: Back to Square One, as disaster looms
January 9, 2009he Gordian knot that is California’s budget process got a lot more complicated this week, as Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Jan. 6 vetoed a complex of compromise budget measures legislative Democrats sent him for signature, after...
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