David Bacon is author of Illegal People—How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (2008), and The Right to Stay Home (2013), both from Beacon Press. His latest book,
about the US/Mexico border, More Than a Wall/Mas que un muro, is coming
in May, 2022 from the Colegio de la Frontera Norte. His photography archive is now in the Special Collections of the Green Library at Stanford University.
Rejecting proposals to tighten borders, a network of grassroots groups calls for reform based on “human, labor and civil rights for all.”
A campaign that brought together African-Americans and undocumented workers stopped an anti-immigrant bill in its tracks.
Last month six hundred employees at the fast food chain were fired in Minnesota. Their only crime was working.
With US approval and privatization the goal, the government is targeting organized labor.
The strike at Cananea highlights the extremely unsafe conditions of Mexican mines.
Holding the budget hostage while state unemployment tops 12 percent, California growers and their political allies have slashed funding for schools and social services. The March for California's Future is challenging the stranglehold that big agriculture exerts over the state.