David Bacon

The Power Imbalance at the Root of the H-2A Farmworker Visa Program

What the Trump Administration also ruled was that growers can now charge workers for the housing that formerly they had…

5 days ago

Poverty and Deportees on the Streets in Tijuana

With photos and an interview with Laura Velasco Dollars and Sense, November/December https://www.dollarsandsense.org/poverty-and-deportees-on-the-streets-in-tijuana/ In the U.S. media, even in progressive…

1 month ago

Trump Drops the Hammer on Farmworkers

In addition, the new regulation allows growers to charge H-2A workers for housing, which they previously had to provide for…

1 month ago

photos from the edge 20 Farmworkers and Deportees – Survival is Resistance

People arriving to work in U.S. fields come from communities that speak languages that long predate European colonization, and their…

2 months ago

photos from the edge19 – BERKELEY’S STUDENT AND WORKING CLASS HISTORY

But Berkeley also has a working class history that is much less discussed. In the years after World War 2…

3 months ago

Why Lelo Juarez Chose Self-Deportation

Since discovering in the 1980s the huge profits to be made in federal contracts, the company has become one of…

3 months ago

photos from the edge 16 – Concretions and Ancient Molars at Bowling Ball Beach

Long before early humans first walked the shorelines of northern California, in the surf this huge creature used its shovel-like…

4 months ago

Photos From the Edge 13 – Washington Square Park

The park was a home for immigrants and artists. As a teenager fresh from Udine in north Italy, Tina Modotti…

6 months ago

Why the B-52 Failed to Defeat the Vietnamese

The Christmas bombing of Vietnam was a war crime. No U.S. official was ever tried and punished for it, and…

7 months ago

How To Fight Trump’s Attack On Farmworkers

The UFW currently represents H-2A workers under contract in California as well, as a result of organizing drives where resident…

7 months ago