THIS 'IMPACABLE' WAR AGAINST MIGRANTS
Review: The Immigrant War, by Vittorio Longhi - The Policy Press,
c/o the University of Chicago Press, 2013
By David Bacon
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19089-the-implacable-war-against-migrants
The immigration debate in the United States almost
FRESNO -- THE BEAUTY OF CHANGING CULTURE AND PAIN OF HOMELESSNESS
Photoessay by David Bacon
FRESNO, CA - 29SEPTEMBER13 - Fresno is a city with big
contradictions. It is home to thousands of indigenous migrants from
Oaxaca and southern Mexico, and hosts one of the oldest guelaguetza
dance
A NEW BRACERO PROGRAM WILL HURT FARM WORKERS
By David Bacon
New America Media, 9/16/13
http://newamericamedia.org/2013/09/a-new-bracero-program-will-hurt-farm-workers.php
Most media coverage of immigration today accepts as fact claims by
growers that they can't get enough workers to harvest
YESTERDAY'S INTERNMENT CAMP - TODAY'S LABOR CAMP
By David Bacon
September 15, 2013, Tule Lake, CA
Truthout Report/Photoessay
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18770-yesterdays-internment-camp-todays-labor-camp
A worker picks flowers and fruit off strawberry plants.
In Modoc County, farm
The Right to Stay Home:
How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration
by David Bacon
Beacon Press
Publication Date: September 10, 2013
Hardcover: 978-0-8070-0161-5; E-book: 978-0-8070-0162-2
More than 25 years since the last major revision
of national immigration policy, comprehensive
reform is now
GETTING PAST THE ICON -- SHOULD PHOTOGRAPHERS
DEPICT REALITY, OR TRY TO CHANGE IT?
By David Bacon
afterimage, the journal of media arts and cultural criticism, vol. 40, no. 6
http://vsw.org/afterimage/issues/afterimage-vol-40-no-6/
This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights
LAUNDERING THE PUBLIC IMAGE OF WORKER-KILLING SWEATSHOPS
By David Bacon
Truthout Analysis, 5/7/13
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16212-laundering-the-public-image-of-worker-killing-sweatshops
At the Ali Enterprises garment sweatshop in
Pakistan in 2011, 300 people burned to death
OAXACAN TEACHERS CHALLENGE THE TEST
By David Bacon
California Federation of Teachers website
http://cft.org/key-issues/quality-education/mexican-educators-face-reform.html
Recently an American Federation of Teachers
resolution declared that U.S. public schools are
held hostage to a testing
BANGLADESH DISASTER - WHO PAYS THE REAL PRICE OF YOUR SHIRT OR BLOUSE?
By David Bacon, The Progressive 4/26/13
http://www.progressive.org/bangladesh-disaster
Seven hundred workers have died in
factory fires in Bangladesh since 2005, the most
recent being the 112 who burned or jumped
DEMANDS RISE ON CONGRESS TO GUARANTEE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
By David Bacon
TruthOut (4/15/13)
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15788-demands-rise-on-congress-to-guarantee-immigrant-rights
In San Diego, California, nine activists
completed six days of a hunger strike outside the
Mission
For Unionists, Iraq's Oil War Rages On
The leader of Iraq's oil union is being threatened with prison - again.
By David Bacon
In These Times, web edition, 4/2/13
http://inthesetimes.com/article/14808/for_unionists_iraqs_oil_war_rages_on/
Hassan Juma'a, head of Iraq's oil workers union
Many
CORPORATE EDUCATION REFORM HITS SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
By David Bacon
Truthout Report
http://truth-out.org/news/item/15213-corporate-education-reform-hits-san-francisco-community-college
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (3/18/13) - On March 14, the day before the
Trustees at San Francisco Community
US-Style School Reform Goes South
By David Bacon
The Nation, April 1, 2013 edition
http://www.thenation.com/article/173308/us-style-school-reform-goes-south?page=full
Just weeks after taking office, Mexico's new
president, Enrique Peña Nieto, ordered the arrest
of the country's most powerful
SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FIGHTS FOR ITS LIFE
By David Bacon
Published in Perspective, the publication of the Community College
Council of the California Federation of Teachers, March 2013
http://cft.org/uploads/periodicals/perspective/CFT_perspective_March2013_R9_lowres.pdf
MERCADO WORKERS PROTEST SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND FIRINGS
By David Bacon, TruthOut Report, Monday, 25 February 2013
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14751-in-oakland-mercado-chain-workers-protest-sexual-harassment-firings
Valentine's Day sometimes brings
chocolates and sometimes flowers
LET'S STOP MAKING MIGRATION A CRIME
By David Bacon
Truth-Out oped, February 15, 2013
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14569-lets-stop-making-migration-a-crime
We need an immigration policy based on human, civil and labor rights,
which looks at the reasons why people come to the U.S., and how
MAKING A LIFE, BUT NOT A A LIVING
By David Bacon
Oxnard, CA
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13696-making-a-life-but-not-a-living-in-the-fields-lucrecia-camachos-story
Lucrecia Camacho comes from Oaxaca, and speaks
Mixteco, one of the indigenous languages and
cultures of Mexico that were hundreds
IT'S THE ONLY JOB I KNOW HOW TO DO
By David Bacon
Madera, CA
New America Media, 12/31/12
http://newamericamedia.org/2012/12/the-only-job-i-can-do--a-young-mothers-farm-work-story.php
Lorena Hernandez is a young farm worker and single mother from
Oaxaca. Today she lives in Madera, California
WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FIRE THAT KILLED 112 GARMENT WORKERS?
By David Bacon
Progressive Media Project, 11/28/12
The day after Black Friday demonstrations of
workers and supporters in front of hundreds of
Walmart stores across the US., a fire killed 112
workers making clothes for Walmart
There is No One Face of Hunger
Photographs by David Bacon
Addison Street Windows
2018 Addison Street in Berkeley, CA, between Shattuck and Milvia
November 1 - December 15
This gallery is in windows on the sidewalk, so the photographs can be
seen 24 hours a day
Hunger is faced by people
THE STORY OF A WALMART STRIKE
By David Bacon
TruthOut OpEd
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12822-anatomy-of-the-walmart-strike-one-day-at-a-time
SAN LEANDRO, CA (11/17/12) -- On past Black Fridays, the
nation's annual post-Thanksgiving shopping celebration, Walmart
stores have seen
BLOOD ON THE SILVER
Assassinations and Violence - the High Cost of Mining Concessions in Oaxaca
By David Bacon, NACLA Report, online edition
http://www.nacla.org/news/2012/11/9/blood-silver-high-cost-mining-concessions-oaxaca
SAN JOSE DEL PROGRESO, OAXACA (11/12/12) -
In the front room
GUEST WORKERS AND A UNION FOR TOBACCO WORKERS
By David Bacon
TruthOut Report, October 29, 2012
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12276-north-carolinas-tobacco-workers-stand-to-benefit-from-states-strong-farmworker-union
North Carolina has one of the lowest
percentages of union members
Facultad de Economia
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
El Area de Conocimiento de Economia Internacional de Posgrado
Academia de Economia Politica y el proyecto PAPIIT IN304312
Invitan a la Muestra Fotografica
Migracion de Jovenes Mexicanos en Estados Unidos
de David Bacon
Que tiene como
MEXICO'S LABOR LAW REFORM SPARKS MASSIVE PROTESTS
A plan to gut labor protections has spurred unrest in Mexico's streets.
By David Bacon
In These Times, web edition, 10/16/12
Economics students at the National Autonomous
University of Mexico march from the Plaza of
Three Cultures
THE BLOODY PRICE OF COLOMBIA'S FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
By David Bacon
September 28, 2011
Truthout News Analysis
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11817-blood-gold-and-coke-the-price-of-free-trade-in-columbia
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos
has restarted talks with the country's main
MEXICAN SUPERMARKET WORKERS AND UNION CONDEMN E-VERIFY
Photographs by David Bacon
SAN JOSE, CA (9/26/12) -- Mexican supermarket (or mercado) workers,
supporters and union organizers marched through the Latino immigrant
community on San Jose's East Side, from Guadalupe Church to the Mi
Pueblo
WHENEVER I GOT OUT OF SCHOOL, IT WAS STRAIGHT TO THE FIELDS
The Story of Javier Mondar-Flores Lopez
By David Bacon
New America Media 8/27/12
http://newamericamedia.org/2012/08/the-story-of-javier-mondar-flores-lopez.php
Three bills now making their way through
Sacramento promise
WORKERS PROTEST MISERY AT SUBWAY, AND GET FIRED
By David Bacon
Working In These Times
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/13660/workers_try_to_organize_airport_subway_get_fired/
OAKLAND, CA (8/9/12) -- Oakland is suppossed to be a union
town, but out at the Oakland airport, workers
THREE THOUSAND SAN FRANCISCO JANITORS PREPARE FOR A STRIKE
By David Bacon
TruthOut Report
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10816-three-thousand-san-francisco-janitors-prepare-for-a-strike
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (8/9/12) - The
national confrontation between janitors and some
of the world's
MEXICAN FARMERS UP AGAINST CANADIAN MINING GOLIATHS
By David Bacon
Truthout Report
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10501-canadian-mining-goliaths-devastate-mexican-indigenous-communities-and-environment
An assembly last fall in Oaxaca of the Binational
Front of Indigenous Organizations
WATSONVILLE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TAKE ON METHYL IODIDE
By David Bacon
Z Magazine, July 2012
http://www.zcommunications.org/watsonville-teachers-and-students-take-on-methyl-iodide-by-david-bacon
Teachers at Watsonville's Ohlone Elementary School were more
than relieved when Arysta
PEPPER SPRAYING STUDENTS IN SANTA MONICA
By David Bacon
TruthOut, 6/12/12
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9731-pepper-spraying-of-students-in-santa-monica
Today California community colleges
charge $36/unit, a fee due to increase to $46
this summer. Those fees have been the subject
NO MATTER WHAT THE RESULT, WE WILL CONTINUE TO RESIST
By David Bacon
TruthOut, 6/2/12
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9534-no-matter-what-the-result-we-will-continue-to-resist-says-mexican-electrical-workers-union-leader
Humberto Montes de Oca is the international
secretary for the Mexican
FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO A UNION, AND TO STAY IN MEXICO
By David Bacon
Working In These Times, 5/16/12
http://www.inthesetimes.org/working/entry/13220/fighting_for_the_right_to_a_union_and_to_stay_in_mexico/
Jacinto Martinez is the labor secretary of Section 65 of the Mineros,
Mexico's union
Every Worker is an Organizer
Fhotographs by David Bacon
This exhibit in the California State Capitol is organized by Assembly
Member Luis Alejo and his staff, and is part of the celebration of
the 50th anniversary of the United Farm Workers of America.
California State Capitol
Hallway next
faces of hunger
photographs of hunger in alameda county
by david bacon
california state capitol
hallway in front of the governor's office
sacramento, ca
starting may 8, 2012
reception 10am, may 8, in the governor's council room
For more articles and images, see http://dbacon.igc.org
See also
DEMONSTRATORS CONFRONT WELLS FARGO SHAREHOLDERS
Photos by David Bacon
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (4/24/12) - Thousands of angry
homeowners, immigrants, union members, Occupiers
and community groups converged on the annual
shareholders meeting of Wells Fargo Bank. In a
carefully choreographed
How Mississippi's Black/Brown Strategy Beat the South's Anti-Immigrant Wave
By David Bacon, for The Nation, web edition
http://www.thenation.com/article/167465/how-mississippis-blackbrown-strategy-beat-souths-anti-immigrant-wave
Jackson, Mississippi, April 20, 2012
In early April, an anti
MINNESOTA FARM WORKERS AND LABOR CAMPS
Photos by David Bacon
South of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota farm workers harvest
fruits and vegetables for some of the largest processors in the U.S.,
including Seneca Foods and Lakeside Foods. The food shows up in
supermarkets under the Green
HOW NOT TO GET SICK IN THE IMPERIAL VALLEY
By David Bacon
New America Media
http://newamericamedia.org/2012/03/imperial-valley-residents-must-fight-for-right-to-breathe-clean-air.php
SEELEY, CA (2/20/12) -- Until his knee gave out, Ramon Villa
Jr. dreamed he'd be a soccer star. Across
IMMIGRANT STEEL WORKERS MARCH AGAINST UNJUST FIRINGS
By David Bacon
Truthout
http://www.truthout.org/immigrant-steel-workers-march-against-unjust-firings/1329922142
BERKELEY, CA (2/18/12) -- Two hundred
immigrant workers, their wives, husbands,
children, and hundreds of supporters
SEATTLE PORT STRIKE CHALLENGES INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR LIE
Truck drivers in the Puget Sound shut down ports for two weeks-and
begin to shift the balance of power.
By David Bacon
In These Times, Website edition, 2/21/12
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12775
BORDER PHOTOS SHOW ON THE BORDER WALL ITSELF
Border Wall, Mexicali, Baja California Norte
February 2 through April 30
Beyond Borders -- photographs by David Bacon
On February 2, the Center for Cultural Investigation of the
Autonomous University of Baja California mounted an exhibition of 18
MARCHING AWAY FROM THE COLD WAR
By David Bacon
Chapter 11 in Wisconsin Uprising - Labor Fights Back
Monthly Review Press, 2012
http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb2808/
One sign carried in almost every May Day march of the last few years
in the United States says it all: We are Workers
DOMESTIC WORKERS AND THEIR CHILDREN MARCH FOR RIGHTS
Story and photos by David Bacon
Working In These Times, 1/27/12
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/12631/domestic_workers_and_their_children_march_for_rightshttp://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/12631
CAN THE TRIQUIS GO HOME?
By David Bacon
New America Media, 1/19/12
http://newamericamedia.org/2012/01/can-the-triquis-go-home.php
OAXACA, MEXICO -- Just before Christmas, the
women and children who'd spent 17 months living
on the sidewalk outside the governor's palace in
Oaxaca announced
Increasing Reliance on Guest Worker Programs
By David Bacon
Americas Program website, Posted on: 14/01/2012
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/6067
Editor's Note: This is the second installment of
a three-part series on migrant rights by
journalist and immigration activist David Bacon
The Modern Immigrant Rights Movement
By David Bacon
Americas Program website, Posted on: 14/01/2012
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/6080
Editor's Note: This is the third and final
installment of a three-part series on migrant
rights by journalist and immigration activist
David Bacon
OAXACA'S NEW GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR MIGRANT RIGHTS
Story and Photographs by David Bacon
TruthOut Report, 1/5/12
http://www.truth-out.org/oaxacas-new-government-calls-migrant-rights/1325614305
OAXACA, MEXICO - The Oaxacan Institute for Attention to Migrants,
and its director Rufino Dominguez
How US Policies Fueled Mexico's Great Migration
The Nation
David Bacon | January 4, 2012
http://www.thenation.com/article/165438/how-us-policies-fueled-mexicos-great-migration
This article was reported in partnership with The
Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute and
the Puffin Foundation
People of the Central Valley 5
AFRICAN AMERICAN TENANTS FIGHT A STOCKTON SLUMLORD
Photos and text by David Bacon
STOCKTON, CA (12/12/11) - Doyle Gardens sounds like it might be a
pleasant apartment complex, where residents stroll down walkways
between flower beds surrounded by greenery. Its
Just Cause and Occupy Oakland Fight Fannie Mae and Banks
Photos by David Bacon
OAKLAND, CA - 06DECEMBER11 - Activists from Causa Justa:Just Cause
and Occupy Oakland protested foreclosures, and demanded that banks
stop foreclosures and allow families to move into foreclosed and
vacant homes
FROM PLANTON TO OCCUPY
Unions and Immigrants and the Occupy Movement
By David Bacon
http://www.truth-out.org/unions-and-immigrants-join-occupy-movements/1323183717
OAKLAND, CA (12/5/11) -- When Occupy
Seattle called its tent camp Planton Seattle,
camp organizers were laying a local
Occupy San Francisco March for Immigrant Rights
Photos by David Bacon
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 26NOVEMBER11 - Participants in Occupy San
Francisco live in tents in an encampment in Justin Herman Plaza. The
camp protests the exploitation of 99% of the population by the
wealthiest 1%, as well
Union Supporters Still Fired With Impunity
by: David Bacon, Truthout 11/21/11
http://www.truth-out.org/print/9203
Los Angeles, California - When a private
employer, like the Los Angeles Film School
(LAFS), decides to fight the efforts of its
workers to form a union, there is very little
This Camera Fights Fascism:
The Photographs of David Bacon and Francisco Dominguez
de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA
July 29 - December 4, 2011 and January 14 - February 5, 2012
Tuesday - Sunday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening Thursday, September 22nd, 6PM
David Bacon
MEXICO'S INDIGNADOS HAVE HAD IT UP TO HERE
By David Bacon
TruthOut Photoessay, 9/10/11
http://www.truth-out.org/mexicos-indignados-have-had-it-here/1315597112
MEXICO CITY - Last week Mexican President
Felipe Calderon gave the fifth state of the
nation speech since his (many say
SOMETHING LESS THAN PROSPECTIVE CITIZENS
Borrowed hands -- does the H-2A guest worker visa program make it
easy to exploit farm workers?
By David Bacon
California Lawyer, September 2011
http://www.callawyer.com/story.cfm?eid=917686evid=1
In the fall of 2006 Irma Luna, a community
FIGHTING THE FIRINGS
By David Bacon
In These Times web edition, 8/23/11
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11857/fighting_the_firings
After years of 'silent raids' and federal workplace audits, unions
and community allies are going on the offensive.
BERKELEY, CA -- When the current
Faces of Hunger
Photographs by David Bacon
Oakland City Hall Rotunda
1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, California
August 22 to September 2
Reception Thursday, August 25, 5:30 to 7:30 PM
There is no one face of hunger. It is in every neighborhood in our
community -- young and old, working
$54 A MONTH FOR WATER YOU CAN'T DRINK
By David Bacon
New America Media, 8/22/11
http://newamericamedia.org/2011/08/dying-for-a-glass-of-clean-water-in-cas-san-joaquin-valley.php
LANARE, CA - When Mary Broad moved to Lanare in 1955, there were only
four other families still living in this tiny
San Francisco March Protests S-Comm Deportations
Photos by David Bacon
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 12AUGUST11 - Immigrants, unions, churches and
social service organizations march through downtown San Francisco to
the office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division
of the Department
LOS ANGELES JANITORS FIGHT FOR THEIR JOBS
By David Bacon
TruthOut Photoessay
http://www.truth-out.org/los-angeles-janitors-fight-their-jobs/1311960769
LOS ANGELES, CA - 22JULY11 - Over 1400 Los Angeles janitors, members
of United Service Workers West SEIU, protest the firing of immigrant
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See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border
(University of California, 2004)
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html
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http://dbacon.igc.org
SOUTH OF SILICON VALLEY, HUNGER HAUNTS HOLLISTER
By David Bacon
Hollister, CA 6/4/11
http://newamericamedia.org/2011/06/south-of-silicon-valley-hunger-haunts-california-town.php#
Every year when the spring comes, families get in their big pickup
trucks in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas
Immigration and the Culture of Solidarity
by David Bacon
Published by the Americas Program on June 20,/2011
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/4938
Editor's Note: This is the fifth and final article of a series on
border solidarity by journalist and immigration activist David Bacon.
All
Growing Ties Between Mexican and U.S. Labor
by David Bacon
Published by the Americas Program on June 14, 2011
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/4858
Editor's Note: This is the fourth article of a series on border
solidarity by journalist and immigration activist David Bacon. All
articles
The Rebirth of Solidarity on the Border
by David Bacon
Published by the Americas Program on May 31, 2011
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/4697
Editor's Note: This is the third article of a series on border
solidarity by journalist and immigration activist David Bacon. This
article
Labor Law Reform - A Key Battle for Mexican Unions Today
by David Bacon
Published by the Americas Program on: May 26, 2011
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/4654
Editor's Note: This is the second installment of
a series on border solidarity by journalist and
immigration activist David Bacon
The Hidden History of Mexico/U.S. Labor Solidarity
By David Bacon
Published by the Americas Program on: May 22, 2011
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/4606
Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a series on border
solidarity by journalist and immigration activist David Bacon
CITY WORKER BARGAINING RIGHTS UNDER SIEGE IN SILICON VALLEY
By David Bacon
Truthout
http://www.truthout.org/city-worker-bargaining-rights-under-siege-silicon-valley/1305819127
SAN JOSE, CA 5/17/11) -- Members of the city workers union in San
Jose, the capital of California's Silicon Valley
WILL PUBLIC WORKERS AND IMMIGRANTS MARCH TOGETHER ON MAY DAY?
By David Bacon
Working In These Times, 4/28/11
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7246/will_public_workers_and_immigrants_march_together_on_may_day/
One sign carried in almost every May Day march of the last few years
says
BEYOND BORDERS
Photographs by David Bacon
Addison Street Windows Gallery
2018 Addison Street (between Shattuck Av./ Milvia St.) Berkeley, CA
April 22 thru May 31, 2011
street encuentro / meet the artist --
Thursday, May 12, 6-8 PM, at the Windows
Addison Street Windows Gallery presents
JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND A DECENT LIFE
After 150 Years, Bay Area Working Families Fight for the Same Goals
By David Bacon
Truthout, 4/21/11
http://truthout.org/one-hundred-and-fifty-years-after-general-strike-bay-area-workers-still-fighting-justice
In the hundred and fifty year history
BORDER COMMUNITIES ARE GROUND ZERO FOR HUNGER
Photos and story by David Bacon
New American Media, 4/18/11
http://newamericamedia.org/2011/04/border-communities-are-ground-zero-for-hunger.php
TIERRA DEL SOL, CA - The tiny towns in the borderland of East
San Diego County - Campo, Boulevard
Students and Faculty Occupy a Building in Protest at California State
University East Bay
Photos by David Bacon
HAYWARD, CA 4/13/11 -- Students and faculty at California State
University, East Bay, marched to the administration building on the
campus and then occupied the building in protest
University/ILR Press, 2006)
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575
See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border
(University of California, 2004)
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html
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CESAR CHAVEZ AND THE FARM WORKERS MOVEMENT
By David Bacon
Working In These Times, 4/1/11
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7142/cesar_chavez_and_the_state_of_the_farm_workers_movement/
The U.S. media tends to view social movements as the creation
of strong leaders, especially
FIRED FOR THE CRIME OF WORKING
By David Bacon
In These Times, April 2011
http://www.inthesetimes.org/article/7073/fired_for_the_crime_of_working
The words Mexico and Mexican can hardly be found on the
website of the country's largest chain of Mexican fast food
restaurants, Chipotle
EIGHT YEARS OF IRAQ'S OCCUPATION, EIGHT YEARS OF MISERY
By David Bacon
3/28/11
When demonstrations broke out in other countries of the
Middle East and North Africa, people in Baghdad, Basra and Kirkuk had
been taking to the streets for years. There has basically been no
change
EIGHT YEARS OF IRAQ'S OCCUPATION - EIGHT YEARS OF MISERY
By David Bacon
TruthOut News Analysis, 3/24/11
http://www.truth-out.org/for-iraqs-unemployed-nothing-has-changed-eight-years68633
The war in Iraq is supposedly over. The U.S. administration
says the occupation, which began
FOUNDRY WORKERS STRIKE TO SAVE THEIR HEALTHCARE
Photos and text by David Bacon
BERKELEY, CA 3/22/10 -- A strike of over 450 workers in one
of the largest foundries on the west coast brought production to a
halt Sunday night, at Pacific Steel Castings. The work stoppage,
which began
UTAH'S IMMIGRATION BILLS - A BLAST FROM THE PAST
By David Bacon
In These Times, web edition
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/7098/utahs_immigration_bills_a_blast_from_the_past
OAKLAND, CA (3/17/11) -- Last week the
Utah legislature passed three new laws that have
been hailed
MEXICANS AND JEWS FIGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF MERCADO WORKERS
Photographs by David Bacon
OAKLAND, CA 3/13/11 -- Rabbi Sheldon Lewis joined Members of the
Progressive Jewish Alliance, the Jeremiah Fellowship, Mexican
supermarket (or mercado) workers and union organizers protest the
firing of 300
Up Against the Open Shop -- Photographs of the Versatronex Strike
By David Bacon
On January 29, 1993 workers at the Versatronex plant in
Sunnyvale, California, filed out of its doors for the last time.
Seventeen years have passed since, but there are still electronics
workers
UP AGAINST THE OPEN SHOP -
The Hidden Story of Silicon Valley's High-Tech Workers
By David Bacon
New Labor Forum -- winter 2011
truthout, 3/4/11
http://www.truth-out.org/up-against-open-shop-hidden-story-silicon-valleys-high-tech-workers68167
Introduction
On January 29, 1993 workers
Divide and Deport: On Immigration, Thom Hartmann
and Lou Dobbs Have Much in Common
By David Bacon
Working In these Times, Feb 28, 2011
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7007/divide_and_deport_on_immigrants_thom_hartmann_and_lou_dobbs_have_much_/
Radio host and author Thom Hartmann has
Beyond Borders:
Immigration Images and Stories
Photographs by David Bacon and Kathya Landeros
Viewpoint Photographic Art Center
2015 J. Street, Suite 101
Sacramento, CA 95811-3124
Phone: 916-441-2341
Exhibit Dates:
Wed, 03/09/2011 - Sat, 04/02/2011
Artist Reception Date:
Fri, 03/11/2011 - 5:30pm
UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS STAND UP TO CHIPOTLE
By David Bacon
The Nation, web edition, February 15, 2011
http://www.thenation.com/article/158513/undocumented-immigrants-stand-chipotle
Last month six hundred workers at the Chipotle fast food
chain were fired in Minnesota
People of Watsonville 4 - Migrant Education at Ohlone School
By David Bacon
Watsonville, CA 11/19/10
Migrant Education is a product of the civil rights and farm worker
movements of the 1960s. California's Migrant Education Program was
established in 1967, two years into the five-year historic
HOW THE P'URHÉPECHAS CAME TO THE COACHELLA VALLEY
By David Bacon
New America Media, 1/11/11
http://newamericamedia.org/2011/01/coachella-labor-camp.php
THERMAL, CA -- Pierce Street sounds like
an avenue in any city old enough to name a street
after a nineteenth century president
People of Watsonville 3 - Stopping the Death of our Children
By David Bacon
Watsonville, CA 11/7/10
The 17th annual memorial and march for young people in Watsonville,
who have died as a result of violence in the Latino community.
Domiciano Ramirez, who lost his son, sits next to his wife
MANAGED LABOR OR HUMAN RIGHTS?
By David Bacon
Working USA, Fall 2010
http://www.truth-out.org/the-pitfalls-using-immigration-a-labor-supply-system-employers66547
Displacement and Labor Migration
A political alliance is developing between
countries with a labor export policy
://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575
See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border
(University of California, 2004)
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html
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David Bacon, Photographs and Stories
http://dbacon.igc.org
FEDERAL RAIDS AGAINST IMMIGRANT WORKERS ON THE RISE
By David Bacon
Race, Poverty the Environment | Fall 2010
http://urbanhabitat.org/node/5826
While the criminalization of undocumented
people in Arizona continues to draw headlines,
the actual punishment of workers because
The People of Watsonville 2 - Migrant Head Start
By David Bacon
Watsonville, CA 9/29/10
Children of migrant farm workers, many of them from indigenous Mixtec
families from Oaxaca, begin learning basic reading, writing and
social skills in a day care nursery school program run by Migrant
Head
The People of Watsonville 1 -- Picking the Colonizers' Vegetable
By David Bacon
Watsonville, CA 11/19/10
The California coast, from Davenport south through Santa Cruz,
Watsonville and Castroville, is brussels sprouts country. Most of
this vegetable in north America comes from these fields
Public Workers -- A Visual Reality Check
By David Bacon
In California cities like San Jose and San Francisco, voters this
election will decide on ballot measures to weaken the retirement
system for public workers. These are the same kind of measures that
have brought workers into the streets
/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575
See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border
(University of California, 2004)
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html
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David Bacon, Photographs and Stories
http://dbacon.igc.org
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