Month: October 2023

By David BaconPositively Filipino, 8/30/23https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/from-spain-to-delanothe-radical-roots-of-farm-workers-unions We can’t talk about defending the human and labor rights of farm workers without talking about their history of organizing unions-and the efforts by the government to suppress them. Liberal mythology holds that farm worker unions didn’t exist until the creation of United Farm Workers in the ’60s and that…

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by David BaconOn the Line – The Progressive – August 24, 2023https://progressive.org/magazine/waiting-for-refuge-in-mexico-city-bacon-20230824/ A Haitian refugee shows her frustration at not being able to reach her destination. With all the attention on the detention centers on the border, U.S. media rarely if ever acknowledges that camps of migrants and displaced people exist all over Mexico. In…

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By David BaconThe Nation, 8/29/23 Marchers leave Petaluma on their 3-day trek to San Francisco. At the beginning of the 1990s, Sahuayo, a small city of factories and craftspeople near Michoacan’s Lake Chapala, could not provide enough work to support its growing population. People had been leaving Michoacan for years, seeking jobs in the maquiladoras…

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