David Bacon

Read the lastest David Bacon stories here.Bio for David Bacon is a writer and photojournalist based in Oakland and Berkeley, California, Bacon is an associate editor at Pacific News Service, and writes for TruthOut, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Progressive, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. He has been a reporter and documentary photographer for 18 years, shooting for many national publications.

photos from the edge 39 – Paris Of The Streets

  Photographs by David Bacon Paris at one time was the most photographed city in the world. The boy with…

2 days ago

photos from the edge 35 – Sit -In at the National Labor Relations Board

  The classic unionbusting strategy for breaking unions - the permanent replacement of strikers by scabs - received its blessing…

2 months ago

photos from the edge 34 – Picking The Colonizers’ Vegetable

  A farm worker finishes pulling the sprouts from a stalk, Watsonville, CA. All photos: David Bacon  By David Bacon…

2 months ago

photos from the edge 33 – What Could Have Been, Half A Century After The Grape Strike

  Photo essay by David Bacon June 18 https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2026/06/photos-from-edge-33-what-could-have.html    Rafael Navarro, 72 years old, still works as a farm…

2 months ago

photographs from the edge 29 – A Monument To Civil rights?

It makes no sense to me to celebrate our civil rights victories, and preserve the places that help us remember…

5 months ago

photos from the edge 27 – JESSE JACKSON, PRESENTE!

But I remember him best because he came out for workers again and again, long after he wasn't running for…

6 months ago

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…

9 months 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…

10 months 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…

10 months 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…

11 months ago