David Bacon

The Life of the Party, Bring American Communists Out of the Shadows — and Closets

  Published in Jacobin, Aug.15 https://jacobin.com/2024/08/communists-san-francisco-lgbt-race https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-life-of-party.html In the 20th century, American Communist Party members were portrayed as the Red…

1 year ago

The Use And Misuse Of A “Can”

This year the University would not be defeated so easily. On Jan. 4, in the dead of night, police reoccupied…

1 year ago

The Human Cost of a Strawberry Wage

Civil Eats, April 24 Driving north on California's Highway 101 through the central coast, a traveler approaches the Santa Ynez…

1 year ago

The Strategic Cross-Border Alliance

  Feb. 27 Interview with Benedicto Martinez and Robin Alexander UCLA - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment/NACLA Report…

2 years ago

Forced Migration and Detention Are the Real Immigration Crisis

While Republicans cry “invasion” and Democrats placate them with hard-line border policy, immigrants languish in prisons or die in dangerous…

2 years ago

Oaxacans Celebrate 30 Years of Organizing

Photographs by David Bacon On Dec, 1 the Centro Binacional de Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueña (the Binational Center for Oaxacan Indigenous…

2 years ago

Waiting For Refuge In Mexico City – Mexico City Streets

The neighborhood authorities who maintain the plaza have painted on a wall behind the migrant tents, "Amor es el vinculo…

2 years ago

What Does It Take To Win Power For Workers?

Raising the percentage of organized workers in the U.S. workforce by just one percent would mean organizing over a million…

2 years ago

A Journey Through Images

The photographer says these types of images are intended to document not only the real struggles of people, but to…

2 years ago

Photo Essay: A Cooperative Farm’s Long Path to Liberation for Farmworkers

A young chilacoyote seedling in a Tierra y Libertad greenhouse. On the Sakuma Brothers farm, over two hundred angry Mixtec…

2 years ago