David Bacon
LATEST ARTICLES BY David Bacon
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Labor
Grapes of Wrath: California farmworkers fight to unionize
January 20, 2015No union can survive without being able to win contracts and thus being able to make substantial changes in wages and conditions.
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Labor
Recycling workers say “enough!”
November 3, 2014Within days of each other last week, two groups of Northern California recycling workers declared they'd had enough of what they see as regimes of indignity and discrimination.
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World
Oaxacans want the right not to migrate
October 29, 2014For six weeks hundreds of teachers in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca have been living in tents, in the capital city's main plaza, the zocalo.
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World
Globalization and NAFTA caused migration from Mexico
October 15, 2014U.S. trade and immigration policy are linked. They are part of a single system, not separate and independent policies.
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World
Tribunal takes up Mexico’s migrant hell
October 9, 2014Photos of "La Bestia" have become famous around the world, showing young migrants crowded on top of boxcars, riding from the Guatemala border to near the U.S.
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U.S.
Silicon Valley breeding nationwide schools-for-profit scheme
October 2, 2014Nearly every metropolitan area these days has its own wealthy promoters of education "reform." Few areas, however, have as concentrated a group as Silicon Valley.
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World
“In the Fields of the North” photos on the border wall
September 10, 2014"In the Fields of the North" is an exhibition of photographs of farm workers in the U.S., almost all migrants from Mexico.
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U.S.
U.S. trade policy linked to crisis at the border
July 9, 2014The mass migration of children from Central America has been at the center of a political firestorm over the past few weeks.
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