David Bacon
LATEST ARTICLES BY David Bacon
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Labor
To raise wages in Panama, dockers join a U.S. union
April 6, 2015In Panama they call longshore pay "hunger wages." Workers' families live below the government's own poverty line, and some families literally go hungry.
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U.S.
Adjunct Prof. Leleua Loupe’s office: the trunk of her car
February 12, 2015"At the beginning of the semester," explains historian and lecturer Leleua Loupe, "students don't know history or understand the world around them."
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U.S.
Republicans step up their attacks on immigrants
February 2, 2015After the Republican majority was elected, Richard Trumka warned its defunding proposal "would further exploit and force our community members to continue to live and work in fear."
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Labor
Grapes of Wrath: California farmworkers fight to unionize
January 20, 2015No union can survive without being able to win contracts and thus being able to make substantial changes in wages and conditions.
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Labor
Recycling workers say “enough!”
November 3, 2014Within days of each other last week, two groups of Northern California recycling workers declared they'd had enough of what they see as regimes of indignity and discrimination.
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World
Oaxacans want the right not to migrate
October 29, 2014For six weeks hundreds of teachers in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca have been living in tents, in the capital city's main plaza, the zocalo.
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World
Globalization and NAFTA caused migration from Mexico
October 15, 2014U.S. trade and immigration policy are linked. They are part of a single system, not separate and independent policies.
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World
Tribunal takes up Mexico’s migrant hell
October 9, 2014Photos of "La Bestia" have become famous around the world, showing young migrants crowded on top of boxcars, riding from the Guatemala border to near the U.S.
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