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In Worthington, Iowa, a federal prosecutor gets a grand jury indictment against Braulio Pereyra-Gabino, union vice-president at the local Swift meatpacking plant.…
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.
The Bush administration has no love for unions anywhere, but in Iraq it has a special reason for hating them. They are…
Red Springs, North Carolina (5/10/07) — To organizer Eduardo Peña, “the raid was like a nuclear bomb” – more precisely, a neutron…
Ana Valencia still tries to eke out a living as a miner in the hills near the headwaters of Colombia‘s Rio Salvajina.…
For the last several months, agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have carried out well- publicized immigration raids in factories, meatpacking…
Of all the supporters of corporate immigration reform, Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff is the most honest. The day of the notorious raids…
This spring, poverty and migration provided the economic and social roots for an uprising that began with Oaxaca’s teachers and mushroomed into…
A U.S. trade deal with Colombia may just have been signed, but foreign investment projects have already cost Afro-Colombians their land and…
W hile the turmoil in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca was in the headlines last fall for weeks, little media coverage…
In 1947, Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the crash of a plane carrying Mexican immigrant farm workers back to the border.…