Month: August 2023

Español abajo. A JOURNEY THROUGH IMAGESBy Alberto del Castillo TroncosoAfterword to the book, More Than a Wall/Mas que un muro, by David BaconOjarasca, supplement to La Jornada, Mexico CIty, August 2023https://issuu.com/lajornadaonline/docs/ojarasca_316 Richmond, California – 2018Lourdes Barraza and one of her daughters, outside the West County Detention Center where her husband Fernando was being held for…

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Photographs by David BaconFor a full set of photographs, click here.Para una carpeta completo de fotografías, haga clic aquí. On Saturday, August 7, marchers left Petaluma on a three-day march to the Federal Building in San Francisco.  A simultaneous march left San Jose bound for the same destination.  These are part of national demonstrations to…

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Por David BaconPerspectivas Latinoamericanas, Marzo 2023https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X221149440 David Bacon es un fotógrafo y escritor que ha documentado los movimientos sociales en México/EE.UU. frontera durante 30 años. Las fotografías que aquí se reproducen son seleccionadas del libro “Más que un muro/Más que un muro” publicado por el Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, México, 2022. Para más…

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by David BaconLatin American Perspectives, March 2023https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X221149440 David Bacon is a photographer and writer who has documented the social movements on the Mexico/U.S. border for 30 years.. The photographs reproduced here are selected from the book  “More Than a Wall/Mas que un muro” published by the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico, 2022. For…

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By David BaconThe American Prospect / Capitol & Main – 6/23/23 Company housing provided to H-2A mushroom workers. Photo courtesy Elizabeth Strater. Mushrooms grown for the supermarket thrive on a mixture of straw and manure.  Huge piles of it are heated to prepare the growth media, spreading the pungent stink of ammonia through the barns. …

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A review of Labor Power and Strategy, by John Womack Jr., edited by Peter Olney and Glenn PerusekPM Press, 2023, 190pp with index and notes Reviewed by David Bacon The Nation, 7/17/23https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/womack-labor-power-strategy-strikes/ Silicon Valley electronics worker. Mountain View, California, 2001,  Photo:  David Bacon Half a century ago I got a job in a huge semiconductor…

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By David BaconCivil Eats, 6/29/23 https://civileats.com/2023/06/29/photo-essay-a-cooperative-farms-long-path-to-liberation-for-farmworkers/ A young chilacoyote seedling in a Tierra y Libertad greenhouse. On the Sakuma Brothers farm, over two hundred angry Mixtec and Triqui farmworkers stopped work in 2013, over the firing of a coworker. They needed a spokesperson to present their demands, and Ramon Torres was an unlikely choice. He…

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GUADALUPE, CA – 13JUNE23 – Strawberry workers went on strike against Wish Farms, a large berry grower in Santa Maria and Lompoc, for two days.  They demanded that the company stop cutting piece rates, and live up to promises of better pay.The workers rallied in front of the company office in Guadalupe, a small farmworker…

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Photoessay by David BaconCapital and Main, 4/24/23https://capitalandmain.com/wood-street-commons-final-stand A community supporter moves a chain link fence section to bar access into the Wood Street Commons encampment. Since Monday, April 10, 60 of Oakland’s unhoused people have been facing earth movers with metal jaws, piling their belongings and refuse into garbage and dumpster trucks. Their encampment, which…

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Russia should withdraw its troops in Ukraine and stop its bombing campaign.  There should be a cease-fire and negotiations to end the war.  Prolonging the war in Ukraine, however, is US policy. That makes it important for people on the left to understand the sources of this policy, and particularly the purpose and role of…

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