California

University faculty to chancellor: “We are not your ATM!”

November 18, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

In California State University faculty's first such action since collective bargaining began almost 30 years ago, two of the system's 23 campuses were idled in a one-day strike Nov. 17.

Health care reform law already helps uninsured

November 14, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

Advocates say nearly three-quarters of California's four million people with no health coverage are people of color, with Latinos making up nearly 60 percent of the total uninsured.

Thousands join largely peaceful Occupy Oakland protest

November 3, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

Nov. 2 in Oakland was packed with rallies, marches, gatherings of children and families, and a disability community action. Later a picket line of 5,000 shut down the Port of Oakland, the nation's fifth busiest port,...

Occupy Oakland at the crossroads

October 26, 2011 By Juan Lopez

Getting lost is the goal of the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement, which is to make the banks accountable to the people and pay for the mess they created.

Police evict Occupy Oakland

October 25, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

In a massive pre-dawn raid Oct. 25, Oakland and other area police evicted hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters from their two-week-old encampment in front of City Hall and a smaller camp in a nearby park.