David Bacon
LATEST ARTICLES BY David Bacon
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U.S.
Domestic workers and their children march for rights
January 27, 2012One Filipina caregiver from the East Bay explained that she sleeps in the same bed as her client: "What I'd like would be a bed where I could sleep by myself," she said.
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U.S.
Tenants get together and fight slumlord
December 13, 2011Doyle Gardens sounds like it might be a pleasant apartment complex, where residents stroll down walkways between flowerbeds surrounded by greenery. Its name is a lie.
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U.S.
Occupy California students fight cuts and fee hikes
November 14, 2011Students at the University of California walk out of classes to protest budget cuts and rising tuition, and to support the New York City demonstration, Occupy Wall Street.
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U.S.
Border communities are ground zero for hunger
April 18, 2011For the people who live in boder towns, some with roots going back for generations, these tiny communities are home to growing hunger and poverty.
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U.S.
Students, faculty occupy building to protest cuts
April 14, 2011Students and faculty at California State University in East Bay marched to administration offices, then occupied the building in protest.
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Opinion
Chipotle fires Mexican workers for crime of working
March 29, 2011Three months ago the chain that made its fortune selling Mexican food made by Mexican workers fired hundreds of them throughout Minnesota. Their crime was that they worked, but had no immigration papers.
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Labor
Foundry workers strike to save their healthcare
March 23, 2011A strike yesterday of over 450 workers in one of the largest foundries on the west coast brought production to a halt Sunday night, at Pacific Steel Castings.
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Labor
Hundreds of union janitors fired under pressure from Feds
May 21, 2010Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Francisco's major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers.
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