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“We have to go back to the social teachings our movement is based on—to the idea of justice”
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.
Organizing in Omaha and small towns with meatpacking plants is altering politics in this reddest of states
Months of strikes and organizing in Washington led to the first U.S. farmworker union in years
Sixty miles south of the Arizona border, the devastation from a toxic spill has led to an epochal battle between a transnational mining conglomerate and an alliance of miners and farmers
ARVIN, CA – Two farm workers pull weeds in a field of organic potatoes. By mid-afternoon the temperature is over 100 degrees.…
A striking teacher from Michoacán demonstrates in Mexico City in front of a line of police. Canadian and US teachers have organized…
Lao Dong belongs to the official union federation, but it maintains an independent critical voice
Lead in Flint water, mold in Detroit schools
Photo of the bombing of Hanoi Station on Christmas Day 1972, from the Hoa Lo Museum in Hanoi. On the plane to…
This is the most important legacy of Spain. If there is to be any alternative, it will only exist because those who don’t benefit from the current system fight to bring a new one into being