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Port Chicago disaster remembered

July 24, 2009 By Special to People’s World

320 men died on July 17, 1944, in a munitions explosion aboard a ship being loaded at the Port Chicago Navy Magazine with armaments bound for the war in the Pacific.

Historic local victory points the way forward

February 20, 2009 By Bob Patenaude

RICHMOND, Calif. — Along with its historic national result, the 2008 election brought groundbreaking local victories, too — among them, passage of Measure T by this city’s voters. The measure, called by its supporters “A Fair...

California budget: Back to Square One, as disaster looms

January 9, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

he 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...

Health workers strike for safe staffing, job security

November 1, 2008 By Marilyn Bechtel

Bright purple tee-shirts filled the plaza at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, as striking health care workers gathered to demand the highly profitable company improve staffing levels, stop contracting work out and drop proposed takeaways in...

Labor pushes minimum wage hikes

April 29, 2005 By Martha Hancock

To counter the anti-people program being put forward by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his corporate backers, the California Labor Federation is putting forward its own program for economic recovery.