David Bacon
LATEST ARTICLES BY David Bacon
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U.S.
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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World
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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Environment
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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Labor
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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Labor
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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Politics
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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Labor
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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Opinion
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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