David Bacon
LATEST ARTICLES BY David Bacon
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Farm boss to workers: “You came here to suffer”
June 15, 2018"Growers don't want to look at how they can make the workplace better and attract more workers. They just want what's cheaper."
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Guest farm workers face exploitation, harsh conditions
June 13, 2018Many migrant workers on H-2A temporary agricultural visas are forced to contend with unsafe working conditions, wage theft and other labor law violations.
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We can change an unjust immigration policy
June 6, 2018If you think this isn't possible, remember that a decade after Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the U.S. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act.
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Iraq elections: A step toward rebuilding popular power
May 30, 2018A growing progressive alliance, recovering its oil wealth, could make Iraq a country to be envied by its neighbors instead.
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What’s in store for Hawaii landscape after eruptions?
May 29, 2018The landscape of congealed lava, after an eruption, is desolate and surreal, but in its way, also strangely beautiful.
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Filipino migrants gave grape strike its radical politics
May 3, 2018The great Delano grape strike started on September 8, 1965, when Filipino pickers stayed in their labor camps, and refused to go into the fields.
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Salinas farm workers march to oppose immigration raids
April 17, 2018Over a thousand farm workers and allies filled the streets of its working-class barrio to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
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A detention center vigil that defies La Migra
March 6, 2018"We can't just watch the immigration policy of this country play itself out and do nothing, while ICE and the Border Patrol hunt people down and tear their families apart."
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