David Bacon

Rooted In Exclusion, Towns Fight For The Right To Water

In 2001 residents of this unincorporated community began asking Exeter to extend its water lines to provide service. The city…

4 years ago

A Candidate For Mixtecos in The Republican Heartland

If all the immigrant farmworkers in San Joaquin Valley agriculture could vote, Kevin McCarthy would probably not be the Congressman…

4 years ago

Gov. Newsom Vetoes Vote-By-Mail Law For Farmworkers

Senator Alex Padilla, appointed by Newsom to fill Vice-President Kamala Harris's seat, supported the bill. "As Secretary of State," he…

4 years ago

The Supreme Court’s Real Target — Farm Workers’ Organizing Rights

Most of the media coverage of the recent Supreme Court decision about the farmworker access rule took for granted the…

4 years ago

Living With Climate Change In Farmworker Communities

This rural poverty of the southern San Joaquin stands in stark contrast to the enormous wealth the labor of its…

4 years ago

In 114-Degree Heat Farmworkers Are Still At Work

A recent report by Vermont Law School's Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, "Essentially Unprotected," points out that only California,…

4 years ago

Good for Growers, Bad for Workers

There should be no question that undocumented farmworkers need and deserve legal status in this country.  They have fed us,…

4 years ago

Who’s “Taking” from Whom?

The court, and the growers, deliberately confuse the mechanism of the rule with rights, calling it a right of organizers…

4 years ago

FISHING IN THE BOHOL SEA

The net in, and the fish in buckets, they turn the prow towards Bohol's hills in the distance. In no…

4 years ago

ILWU AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA UNIONS CELEBRATE MAY DAY

The marchers without exception called on Congress to pass the PRO Act, a labor law reform bill that would penalize…

4 years ago