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Bacon: AfroColombians Oppose Free Trade Agreement
Znet Article, May, 14 2007
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AfroColombians Oppose Free Trade Agreement
Bacon: Immigration Policy Should Protect Human Rights
Znet Article, March, 30 2007
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Immigration Policy Should Protect Human Rights
Bacon: Which Side Are You On?
Znet Article, January, 31 2007
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Of all the supporters of corporate immigration reform, Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff is the most honest. The day of the notorious raids at the Swift and Company meatpacking plants, he told the media the raids would show Congress t...
Bacon: Teachers in Oaxaca Face Repression and Violence
Znet Article, January, 21 2007
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This spring, poverty and migration provided the economic and social roots for an uprising that began with Oaxaca's teachers and mushroomed into a virtual insurrection demanding the resignation of the state's governor. According to Jaime Medina, a ...
Bacon: Murder and Migration
Znet Article, January, 16 2007
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A U.S. trade deal with Colombia may just have been signed, but foreign investment projects have already cost Afro-Colombians their land and their lives. Development projects anywhere in the world often have a high human cost. In Colombia, th...
Bacon: Sportswriter At The Barricades
Zmag Article, January, 01 2007
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W hile the turmoil in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca was in the headlines last fall for weeks, little media coverage noted that at its center was a crusading newspaper, Noticias. The paper’s ...
Bacon: Justice Deported
Znet Article, December, 17 2006
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Justice Deported
Bacon: Oaxaca's Dangerous Teachers
Znet Article, September, 20 2006
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At 8:30 AM on October 21, 2002, Oaxaca state police arrested a dangerous schoolteacher. Romualdo Juan Gutierrez Cortez was pulled over as he was driving to his school in the rural Mixteca region. Police took him to Oaxaca de Juarez, the state cap...
Bacon: The People Shout No
Zmag Article, May, 01 2006
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N o! That’s what hundreds of thousands of people were saying as they came out of their homes into the streets all over the country—a million in Los Angeles, half a million in Chicago, t...
Bacon: Hunger On The Border
Zmag Article, April, 01 2006
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T oday the U.S./Mexico border is the subject of intense political controversy. Most of the fireworks focuses, however, on the idea that more enforcement can keep people from crossing it. Lost in th...
Bacon: Equality, Or Not
Znet Article, March, 06 2006
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Equality has become an unmentionable word in Congress.It doesn't come even once in the 300-page omnibus immigration bill introduced last week by Senator Arlen Specter, nor in any of the others Congress is considering. They all deny equality to mil...
Bacon: Iraqi Labor’s Resistance
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
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O n February 18 Ali Hassan Abd (Abu Fahad), a leader of the al-Daura oil refinery’s union, was walking home from work in Basra, Iraq with his young children when gunmen ran up and shot him.&n...
Bacon: The Border Is a Common Ground between Us
Znet Article, December, 20 2005
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The House of Representatives has just passed HR 4437, by Wisconsin Republican James Sensenbrenner, incredibly with the votes of over 30 Democrats. It is the most repressive immigration bill in decades, and would deprive immigrants of important due...
Bacon: Unions At War
Znet Article, August, 11 2005
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In Chicago's cavernous Navy Yard convention center, delegates were lined up at the four microphones scattered across the floor. San Francisco's Nancy Wohlforth stood at mic number 2. She'd been waiting for this moment for two y...
Bacon: AFL-CIO Convention Calls For Troop Withdrawal From Iraq
Znet Article, July, 27 2005
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CHICAGO, IL (7/26/05) - On the second day of its convention in Chicago, the AFL-CIO took an historic step, calling for the rapid withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, and an end to the country's occupation. Public attention has focused largely on the...
Bacon: Guest Workers
Znet Article, July, 14 2005
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Who are guest workers? Guest workers are given a visa to enter the US to work on a temporary basis. To obtain a guest worker visa, a worker must have an offer of employment, or a job waiting in the US. This requirement sets up a system of labor r...
Bacon: Stories from the Borderlands
Znet Article, July, 08 2005
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The world of the border turns labor law on its head-old, established legal rights are just so much ink on paper, and even the decision of federal judges to enforce the law are simply ignored. NAFTA's labor and environmental "side- agreements" have...
Bacon: Democracy, But More
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
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O ver one million people filled the streets along the historic route of Mexican social protest on May Day, marching from the Angel of Independence to the Zocalo and then filling the enormous square at the city’s ...
Bacon: Who Murdered Gilberto Soto?
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
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A s evening fell on November 5, Gilberto Soto received a call on his cell phone at his mother’s home in a working-class neighborhood of Usulutan, El Salvador. Unable to understand the caller, Soto stepped o...
Bacon: Change Direction Or Die
Znet Article, March, 02 2005
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BERKELEY, CA (2/21/05) - For almost a year, a debate has been growing within the US labor movement over its direction, structure, politics and vision. Previous attempts have been made to discuss the problems of labor in the post-McCarthy period, n...
