David Bacon
LATEST ARTICLES BY David Bacon
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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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How unions help immigrants resist deportations
February 14, 2018Unite Here has played a leading role in the defense of immigrant rights in California and throughout the country.
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Berlin honors anti-fascists; we should honor fighters for equality
January 29, 2018It's all about class and race, and who holds power when those monuments are erected. Berliners can see it, walking through their city every day.
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Fighting for breath by the dying Salton Sea
December 19, 2017The children of North Shore are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine, whose sudden illnesses warn of a greater disaster to come.
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California farm workers finally win 25-year-old Gerawan Farms case
December 8, 2017