David Bacon
LATEST ARTICLES BY David Bacon
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Labor
San Francisco hotel workers on strike
November 23, 2009About 650 workers at the St. Francis Hotel, one of the city's oldest and most luxurious, walked out on strike on November 18.
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U.S.
Students occupy university building to protest fee hikes
November 22, 2009Students occupied Wheeler Hall on the University of California campus in Berkeley, protesting a decision by university regents to raise fees.
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Labor
San Diego: land of day laborers, farm workers and guest workers
November 3, 2009In Oceanside, Carlsbad, Del Mar and north San Diego County, immigrant day laborers wait by the side of the road, hoping a contractor will stop and offer them work.
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U.S.
Undocumented workers give more than they get
October 3, 2003The Urban Institute estimated in its May 1994 report, “Immigration and Immigrants, Setting the Record Straight,” that the undocumented population of the U.S stood between 2.5 and 3.5 million people in 1980, and rose to between...
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