California

California’s longest serving death-row prisoner on pain and Native identity

August 1, 2022 By Special to People’s World

As the Monache and Cherokee 63-year-old awaits a new hearing for a 1978 murder he denies committing, Douglas Ray Stankewitz shares the cultural tools and memories he depends on to stay alive.

Life of the party: Portrait of L.A.’s perpetual progressive Jan Goodman

August 1, 2022 By Ed Rampell

In The Tempest, Shakespeare mused “What’s past is prologue,” which is certainly true for Jan Goodman, whose radical roots set the stage for a lifetime of activism.

New California bill creates private right of action against illegal weapons

July 28, 2022 By Marilyn Bechtel

Bill turns right wing tactics on abortion against right wing backers of unlimited dangerous weapons on the streets.

California law allows victims to sue gun companies

July 21, 2022 By Marilyn Bechtel

Nearly every industry is held to account when their products cause harm or injury—all except one, the gun industry.

Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians say California patients still being denied timely care

July 5, 2022 By Marilyn Bechtel

State Sen. Scott Weiner: “You can’t give someone a first appointment and then make them wait two or three months for their second and subsequent appointments, because that completely undermines effective mental health treatment.”