David Bacon

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

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

PHOTOS WIN AWARDS FROM THE CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION – all published by Capital & Main

First place award for feature story:  A Century of Picking Grapeshttps://cnpa.com/cja2020/digital/gallery/Feature_Story_20_Feature_Story_MC.html#heading13https://capitalandmain.com/a-century-picking-grapes-why-the-census-matters-in-poplar First, second and third place awards for feature photos:https://cnpa.com/cja2020/digital/gallery/Feature_Photo_26_Feature_Photo_MC.html#heading12…

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.…

4 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