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At 8:30 AM on October 21, 2002, Oaxaca state police arrested a dangerous schoolteacher. Romualdo Juan Gutierrez Cortez was pulled over as…
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.
N o! That’s what hundreds of thousands of people were saying as they came out of their homes into the streets all…
T oday the U.S./Mexico border is the subject of intense political controversy. Most of the fireworks focuses, however, on the idea that…
Equality has become an unmentionable word in Congress.It doesn’t come even once in the 300-page omnibus immigration bill introduced last week by…
O n February 18 Ali Hassan Abd (Abu Fahad), a leader of the al-Daura oil refinery’s union, was walking home from work…
The House of Representatives has just passed HR 4437, by Wisconsin Republican James Sensenbrenner, incredibly with the votes of over 30 Democrats.…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In Chicago’s cavernous Navy Yard convention center, delegates were lined up at the four microphones scattered across the…
CHICAGO, IL (7/26/05) – On the second day of its convention in Chicago, the AFL-CIO took an historic step, calling for the…
Who are guest workers? Guest workers are given a visa to enter the US to work on a temporary basis. To obtain…
The world of the border turns labor law on its head-old, established legal rights are just so much ink on paper, and…