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David Bacon
David Bacon is a photojournalist, author, political activist, and union organizer who has focused on labor issues, particularly those related to immigrant labor. He has written several books and numerous articles on the subject and has held photographic exhibitions. He became interested in labor issues from an early age and he was involved in organizing efforts for the United Farm Workers, the United Electrical Workers, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the Molders' Union and others.
When the Peoples’ Power movement brought down Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, land reform was one of its most important demands. …
The current fight within the Republican Party highlights, once again, that ensuring a steady labor supply for corporations remains Trump’s primary focus.…
The history of working-class organizing in the United States is full of examples of immigrant resistance to mass deportation, sweeps, and other…
On August 17, a group of committed migrant activists set forth on a three-day march from Silicon Valley to San Francisco, highlighting…
Humberto Montes de Oca is the Secretary for Internal Relations of the Mexican Union of Electrical Workers (SME). He was originally a…
Review of Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System by Bill Ong Hing (Beacon Press, 2023) A photograph by Brandon Bell, distributed by…
At the beginning of the 1990s, Sahuayo, a small city of factories and craftspeople near Michoacan’s Lake Chapala, could not provide enough…
Half a century ago, long before the Internet, I got a job in a huge semiconductor plant. In Silicon Valley’s factories, we…
Prolonging the war in Ukraine, however, is US policy. That makes it important for people on the left to understand the sources…