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The Oaxacan Institute for Attention to Migrants, and its director Rufino Dominguez, called for a new era of respect for the rights…
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.
This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute and the Puffin Foundation. Some names of the…
Oakland, California – When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp "Planton Seattle," camp organizers were laying a local claim to a set…
On September 5, Mexican President Felipe Calderon gave the fifth state of the nation speech since his (many say fraudulent) election in…
BERKELEY, CALIF.—When the current wave of mass firings of immigrant workers started three years ago, they were called “silent raids” in the…
Last week the Utah legislature passed three new laws that have been hailed in the media as a new, more reasonable, approach…
This is the fourth article of a series on border solidarity by journalist and immigration activist David Bacon. All articles in the…
The growth of cross-border solidarity today is taking place at a time when U.S. penetration of Mexico is growing – economically, politically,…
The war in Iraq is supposedly over. The U.S. administration says the occupation, which began on March 20, 2003, is ending as…
MEXICO CITY—Changing labor law sounds like some technical modification, a subject lawyers argue about in musty hearing rooms. In Mexico, it has…