Month: August 2023

By David BaconThe Nation, 4/12/23https://www.thenation.com/article/society/farmworker-camp-evictions/ Farmworkers in California labor camps see unprecedented rise in evictions.  As growers bring in more H-2A workers, affordable housing for local farmworkers has become sparse. Evicted farmworkers demand their homes back at a meeting of the Tulare County Housing Authority. Lidia Torres got scared when the new eligibility clerk at…

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Unearthing the history of protest against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Photographs © by David Bacon March 19, 2023, is the 20th anniversary of the start of the U.S. war in Iraq in 2003.  The war in Afghanistan was already underway, having begun a year and a half earlier.  Both wars marked a generation,…

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By David BaconTruthout, 3/7/23https://truthout.org/articles/eviction-of-300-person-encampment-in-california-shows-scorn-for-right-to-housing/ The Wood Street encampment of unhoused people under a freeway and railroad overpass was home to over 300 people. Volunteers helped residents try to resist eviction. The words “housing is a human right” used to appear in bright colors on a painted placard at the gateway to Wood Street Commons, which…

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