David Bacon

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 week 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…

4 weeks 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…

2 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…

2 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…

3 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…

5 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…

6 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…

6 months ago

Trump’s Executive Orders — The Return of Cold War Repression

Trump's border czar Tom Homan, who headed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in the last Trump administration, announced at…

9 months ago

The Evolving Strategy for Defending Immigrant Workers

If employers can get replacement workers at low wages, they have no loyalty to the workers they now have. But…

9 months ago