Month: December 2023

OAXACANS CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF ORGANIZINGPhotographs by David Bacon     On December 1st the Centro Binacional de Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueña (the Binational Center for Oaxacan Indigenous Development) celebrated its 30th anniversary.  Dancers, musicians, gigantes and diablos led several hundred indigenous Oaxacan families, together with a handful of community supporters, as their procession made its way…

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RIDING SPANISH SUBWAYS Photographs by David Bacon Descending the long escalator into Madrid’s Sol metro station, I try to imagine what it was like during the Civil War.  Even this far undergroound, the boom of howitzers, the howling sirens and the earth shaking under the bombs had to have been terrifying.  Like so many European metro…

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CAN PRESIDENT BIDEN’S EXECUTIVE ORDER DELIVER FOR CARE WORKERS?By David BaconEqual Times, 27 October 2023https://www.equaltimes.org/in-a-sector-built-on-historic?var_mode=calcul Honorata Nono (left) is a Filipina immigrant domestic worker and organiser. She takes care of Michiko Uchida in her home in San Francisco, California.  (Photo (c) David Bacon) As the age of the US population continues to rise – and…

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MEMORY AND REVOLUTION IN MEXICO CITY – Mexico City StreetsSocial movements claim public space in one of the largest cities in the Americas.by David BaconThe Progressive – October 9, 2023https://progressive.org/latest/memory-and-revolution-mexico-city-bacon-231009/ Every day Mexico City taxi drivers, trying to navigate the city’s intense traffic, tune into the morning’s radio announcements of marches and demonstrations.  There are…

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LIFE LIVED IN PUBLIC – Mexico City StreetsPhotographs by David Bacon In most of the world people live much of their lives outdoors, in the street.  Mexico City is no different.  A lot happens in the street here.  Public life means not so much events for public consumption, but more life lived in the public…

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