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photos from the edge 35 – Sit -In at the National Labor Relations Board

  The classic unionbusting strategy for breaking unions - the permanent replacement of strikers by scabs - received its blessing from the Reagan administration in...

photos from the edge 34 – Picking The Colonizers’ Vegetable

  A farm worker finishes pulling the sprouts from a stalk, Watsonville, CA. All photos: David Bacon By David Bacon The Bittman Project - June 17 https://bittmanproject.substack.com/p/picking-the-colonizers-vegetable   On a...

photos from the edge 33 – What Could Have Been, Half A Century After The Grape Strike

  Photo essay by David Bacon June 18 https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2026/06/photos-from-edge-33-what-could-have.html   Rafael Navarro, 72 years old, still works as a farm worker in a grove of organic Keitt mango...

Life After Mother

Life After Mother, Five to Ten Years

About the time I closed that life chapter, my mother had a stroke, which started a chain of events that led to her death two years later and, once again, I was the only close relative to shoulder the burdens that accompanied the end of her life.