David Bacon
LATEST ARTICLES BY David Bacon
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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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U.S.
Silicon Valley breeding nationwide schools-for-profit scheme
October 2, 2014Nearly every metropolitan area these days has its own wealthy promoters of education "reform." Few areas, however, have as concentrated a group as Silicon Valley.
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World
“In the Fields of the North” photos on the border wall
September 10, 2014"In the Fields of the North" is an exhibition of photographs of farm workers in the U.S., almost all migrants from Mexico.
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U.S.
U.S. trade policy linked to crisis at the border
July 9, 2014The mass migration of children from Central America has been at the center of a political firestorm over the past few weeks.
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U.S.
No Bill of Rights on U.S.-Mexico border
June 30, 2014Tucson is 60 miles from the Mexican border, within a 100-mile zone where immigration authorities say important due process rights can be suspended.
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World
Around world, migrants demand right to stay home
November 4, 2013The immigration debate in the United States usually treats the migration of people into this country as something unique. But it is not.
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Labor
Blueberry pickers strike at Labor Camp 2
September 4, 2013When the blueberry picking started, the company fired Federico Lopez on July 10 for asking for a wage raise, and workers went on strike on July 11 to get his job back.
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