David Bacon
LATEST ARTICLES BY David Bacon
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U.S.
Oakland’s Friday farmer’s market and its vegetable vocabulary of love
April 27, 2017The market attracts immigrants from many countries. You can hear a dozen languages in the people filling its four blocks.
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World
The sadness of the border wall
March 31, 2017Such carefully controlled and brief encounters are the ultimate conclusion of a process that, at its beginning, had no controls at all.
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World
International Women’s Day takes on deep meaning in 2017
March 10, 2017This year International Women's Day has a deep meaning because of the desperate situation in which our country finds itself.
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Culture
The Border Wall, in photographs and music
February 6, 2017People in the U.S. need to understand what goes on at the border. This country needs a reality check about the wall.
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U.S.
What Trump can and can’t do to immigrants
January 23, 2017"We have to go back to the social teachings our movement is based on—to the idea of justice.”
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World
Guadalajara in the street
December 20, 2016The International Book Fair is a big deal in Guadalajara. Behind and around it is the culture of its streets.
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Labor
Immigrant communities brace for Trump
November 23, 2016“People here have to remember the power they’ve built on a local level and use it,” one immigrants’ rights activist says, “even in the face of a national defeat.”
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Culture
Streets of Berlin – Kids
November 3, 2016These images have their own language beyond words.
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