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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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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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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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