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Stories and Photographs by David Bacon

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

PHOTOS WIN PUBLISHERS' AWARDS; MAY DAY MARCH WITH ILWU AND ANGELA DAVIS

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 PHOTOS WIN AWARDS FROM THE CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION - all published by Capital & Main First place award for featur...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

GUEST WORKER COVID PROTECTIONS ABANDONED - A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME

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GUEST WORKER COVID PROTECTIONS ABANDONED - A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME By David Bacon Capital & Main, 4/30/21 https://capitalandmain.com/i...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

A DEMOCRATIC FOOD SYSTEM MEANS UNIONS FOR FARMWORKERS

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A DEMOCRATIC FOOD SYSTEM MEANS UNIONS FOR FARMWORKERS By David Bacon Food First, 4/14/21 https://foodfirst.org/publication/a-democratic-food...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

FARMWORKERS NEED FAMILIES, NOT DEPORTATION AND EXPLOITATION

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FARMWORKERS NEED FAMILIES, NOT DEPORTATION AND EXPLOITATION By David Bacon and Anuradha Mittal Americas Program, 4/9/21 https://www.americas...
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

JOE BIDEN SHOULD ROLL BACK EXPLOITATIVE GUEST WORKER PROGRAMS

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JOE BIDEN SHOULD ROLL BACK EXPLOITATIVE GUEST WORKER PROGRAMS By David Bacon Jacobin, 3/9/20 https://jacobinmag.com/2021/03/biden-guest-work...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

UNHOUSED, THROWN OFF THE LEVEE, NO PLACE TO GO

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UNHOUSED, THROWN OFF THE LEVEE, NO PLACE TO GO By David Bacon Capital and Main, 2/16/21 https://capitalandmain.com/tulares-homeless-to-be-th...
Friday, February 5, 2021

FARMWORK IN THE ERA OF COVID-19

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 FARMWORK IN THE ERA OF COVID-19 By David Bacon The Progressive, On the Line, 2/5/21 https://progressive.org/magazine/on-the-line-farmwork-C...
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David Bacon is a California writer and documentary photographer. A former union organizer, today he documents labor, the global economy, war and migration, and the struggle for human rights. His latest book, In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte (COLEF / UC Press, 2017) includes over 300 photographs and 12 oral histories of farm workers. Other books include The Right to Stay Home (Beacon Press, 2013).and Illegal People (Beacon Press, 2008), which discuss alternatives to forced migration and the criminalization of migrants. Communities Without Borders (Cornell/ILR Press, 2006) includes over 100 photographs and 50 narraatives about transnational migrant communities, and The Children of NAFTA (UC Press, 2004) is an account of worker resistance on the US/Mexico border in the wake of NAFTA.
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