David Bacon

What Happened To All The Flower Carriers?

But there is more than a coincidental similarity between Rivera's image of the man bent beneath a huge bunch of…

2 years ago

No Papers?  Lose Your Home!

USDA and Housing Authorities could follow the process established in employment law, where reverification is barred once the original documents…

2 years ago

Oakland’s Encampment Eviction Betrays The Human Right To Housing

In one small section residents and supporters erected several small homes and a common area for meetings, entertainment and other…

3 years ago

Across The Tracks

A community of migrants and unhoused people call the shuttered downtown of this California city home. This project is supported…

3 years ago

Ill Harvest In Rural California, Farmworkers Fend For Themselves For Health Care

Where government and health care institutions are absent, some communities turn to grassroots action. Capital and Main https://capitalandmain.com/in-rural-california-farmworkers-fend-for-themselves-for-health-care Carmen Hernandez…

3 years ago

Why Farmworker Legalization Failed

For farmworkers, real change requires a much larger base of organized workers. Today, less than 1 percent of the farm…

3 years ago

Social Justice Writing And Photography – The Reality Check And Beyond

What I'm getting at is that union organizing and workplace activism in general makes you a good listener. You have…

3 years ago

Exhibition: Two Years Of Heat And COVID In The San Joaquin Valley

This exhibition presents this complex reality through documentary photographs taken in the course of the pandemic and the past two…

3 years ago

Will Gov. Newsom Sign two Bills Strengthening “Guest Worker” Rights?

AB 857 would require recruiters and employers to notify workers, in Spanish and in writing, about those protections. It also…

3 years ago

Oakland’s Largest Homeless Camp Dodges The Bullet For Now

In one small section residents and supporters erected several small homes and a common area for meetings, entertainment and other…

3 years ago