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See original posting on Truthout to view the incredible photos that accompany this article. In the 150-year history of workers in the…
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.
Introduction On January 29, 1993, workers at the Versatronex plant in Sunnyvale, California, filed out of its doors for the last…
Adriana, a woman from a Zapotec family in Oaxaca, was deported just hours earlier Benjamin Campista, a leader of the cooperative,…
Truthout Editorial Note: Workplace raids by gun-wielding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that resulted in the mass arrests of dozens and…
Photo: David Bacon Students and teachers march in Oakland, Calif., to protest the termination of adult education programs The United States today…
High in the mountains overlooking Bakersfield and the south end of the San Joaquin Valley is a piece of California's past, the…
Hashmeya Muhsin, head of the electrical workers union, talks with other union leaders at a meeting in Basra. (Photos by David Bacon)…
San Francisco and Oakland, California – In San Francisco and Oakland, immigrants and community activists protested Arizona’s SB 1070, which would require…
The federal government has tried to define for us what being hungry means. They’ve come up with a yardstick, "food insecurity," which…
Thousands of left-wing activists just spent a week at the US Social Forum in Detroit, gathered again under the banner "Another World…