David Bacon
LATEST ARTICLES BY David Bacon
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Labor
California State Fair exhibit recognizes farmworkers
July 26, 2017For the first time, the fair has an exhibition that not only pays tribute to field laborers, but also acknowledges the long history of their struggle to organize unions.
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Labor
Indigenous Oaxacan farm workers win themselves a union in the Pacific Northwest
June 28, 2017”That’s the priority-to raise our living standards. We know the contract will change our lives. Now, if we make a little more, our children will have other possibilities."
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U.S.
Unintentionally, Trump has put the idea of sanctuaries on steroids
June 26, 2017CWA, NNU, ATU, UE: "We will march and stand with our sister and brother immigrant workers against the terror tactics of the Trump administration."
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U.S.
Oakland’s Friday farmer’s market and its vegetable vocabulary of love
April 27, 2017The market attracts immigrants from many countries. You can hear a dozen languages in the people filling its four blocks.
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World
The sadness of the border wall
March 31, 2017Such carefully controlled and brief encounters are the ultimate conclusion of a process that, at its beginning, had no controls at all.
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World
International Women’s Day takes on deep meaning in 2017
March 10, 2017This year International Women's Day has a deep meaning because of the desperate situation in which our country finds itself.
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Culture
The Border Wall, in photographs and music
February 6, 2017People in the U.S. need to understand what goes on at the border. This country needs a reality check about the wall.
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U.S.
What Trump can and can’t do to immigrants
January 23, 2017"We have to go back to the social teachings our movement is based on—to the idea of justice.”
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