David Bacon

GUEST WORKER COVID PROTECTIONS ABANDONED – A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME

The laborers are arriving to just-relaxed COVID-19 health and safety requirements for farmworkers, courtesy of a Superior Court judge in…

4 years ago

A Democratic Food System Means Unions for Farmworkers

The boycott was a participatory, democratizing strategy, and since then it has become a powerful tool for community-based union organizing.…

4 years ago

Farmworkers Need Families, Not Deportation And Exploitation

Today the Biden administration is seeking ways to undo the damage to immigrants and workers wrought by Trump's executive orders.…

5 years ago

Joe Biden Should Roll Back Exploitative Guest Worker Programs

By separating the immigration of families, in which migrants become community members and eventually citizens, from the recruitment of migrants…

5 years ago

Unhoused, Thrown Off the Levee, No Place To Go

NLIHC president and CEO Diane Yentel explained, "Cities must stop attempting to criminalize and hide their communities' homeless people and…

5 years ago

Farmwork In the Era of COVID-19

In the trees and under the vines farmworkers do the best they can to take care they don't get sick.…

5 years ago

Lila Downs, Beautiful New Song to Essential Workers

Iconic Grammy and Latin Grammy Award winning singer Lila Downs is one of the most singular and powerful voices, whose…

5 years ago

HOUSING IS A RIGHT. DURING A PANDEMIC, IT’S ALSO A FIGHT.

California is the richest state in the United States, so it's easy to forget that its rural poverty and substandard…

5 years ago

CANCEL THE RENT: A RISING NATIONAL RENT STRIKE MOVEMENT GAINS MOMENTUM

But with the pandemic, rent strikes have become a widespread response to brutal economic pressure. According to the Terner Center…

5 years ago

WILL THE SUPREME COURT OVERRULE FARMWORKER UNION RIGHTS?

An organizer talks at lunchtime with a D'Arrigo Brothers worker with a union button on her cap. Capital & Main, November 20,…

5 years ago