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Bacon: The Death of Hadi Saleh
Zmag Article, March, 01 2005
David Bacon
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W hen they came for Hadi Saleh on January 4, they found him at home in Baghdad with his family. First, they bound his hands and feet with wire. Then they tortured him, cutting him with a knife. He finally died of stran...
Bacon: No Rest for the Weary
Znet Article, February, 26 2005
David Bacon
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San Francisco - Time to eat in the middle of the workday sounds pretty simple - something most people take for granted. Yet in reality, many, if not most, people who work in restaurants have to put in their entire shift without stopping. That's a...
Bacon: The Death of Hadi Saleh
Znet Article, January, 28 2005
David Bacon
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The Death of Hadi Saleh
Bacon: How The Lockout Backfired
Znet Article, November, 26 2004
David Bacon
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How The Lockout Backfired
Bacon: Labor Needs "that Vision Thing"
Znet Article, November, 10 2004
David Bacon
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Labor Needs "that Vision Thing"
Bacon: U.S. Corporations Win the Immigration Debate: The growth of "managed migration"
Zmag Article, November, 01 2004
David Bacon
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Last February George Bush finally introduced his long-awaited plan for immigration reform. For three years, the Administration raised expectations with compassionate-sounding, pro-immigrant rhetoric. But when the package f...
Bacon: Britain's War Over Managed Migration An
Zmag Article, September, 01 2004
David Bacon
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T he debate over immigration has become a global one. According to the Geneva-based Migrant Watch, over 130 million people live outside the countries in which they were born. All over the world hug...
Bacon: Black/Migrant Rivalry for Jobs Can Be Eased
Znet Article, August, 25 2004
David Bacon
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Blacks, Latinos and labor are three of the most stalwart constituencies in Democratic Party politics. But the interests of the groups have increasingly brought them into conflict. Take what happened in Los Angeles during the early 1980s. Up unti...
Bacon: Service Employees Leader Says The War Is An Issue To Workers
Znet Article, August, 09 2004
David Bacon
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LOS ANGELES, CA (7/30/04) - On June 22 the national convention of the Service Employees International Union, with 1.7 million members the US' largest, voted unanimously to oppose the occupation of Iraq. This was followed a few days later by a simi...
Bacon: Iraq's Labor Upsurge Wins Support from U.S. Unions
Znet Article, July, 29 2004
David Bacon
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Iraq's Labor Upsurge Wins Support from U.S. Unions
Bacon: The General Strike Can Teach Unions How to Grow
Znet Article, July, 15 2004
David Bacon
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San Francisco, CA - Archie Brown was first a ship scaler, and then a longshoreman - a dockworker all his life. He was there 70 years ago, when thousands of maritime workers closed west coast ports from San Diego to Canada. He saw the tanks and gun...
Bacon: Occupation and Human Rights
Znet Article, April, 17 2004
David Bacon
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Occupation and Human Rights
Bacon: Europe Protests Bitter Cuts
Znet Article, April, 17 2004
David Bacon
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Berlin, Germany - Europe's war between unions, trying to protect the remnants of the welfare state, and governments bent on shredding them further, brought a million people into the streets on Sunday. Half a million came out in both Berlin and R...
Bacon: The Los Angeles Grocery Workers Strike
Znet Article, March, 11 2004
David Bacon
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LOS ANGELES, CA (3/4/04) - The southern California grocery strikers are true working-class heroes. Seventy thousand held fast to their strike over four and a half months, a remarkable achievement in the current "jobless recovery." Many had to find...
Bacon: Looting the Iraqi Economy
Zmag Article, March, 01 2004
David Bacon
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J uly 14 has been Iraq’s National Day since 1958. This year, under the occupation, it was declared a “Saddam-era holiday” and its celebration banned. Instead, occupation au...
Bacon: U.S. Arrests Iraq's Union Leaders
Znet Article, December, 15 2003
David Bacon
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U.S. Arrests Iraq's Union Leaders
Bacon: The War on Iraq's Workers
Znet Article, November, 26 2003
David Bacon
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ (10/20/03) -- The disaster that is the occupation of Iraq is much more than the suicide bombings and guerilla ambushes of U.S. troops which play nightly across U.S. television screens. The violence of grinding poverty, exacerbated by...
Bacon: NAFTA AT TEN
Znet Article, November, 19 2003
David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (11/16/03) -- This week thousands of demonstrators will fill Miami streets, in a show of opposition to free trade unseen (at least in this country) since the battles in Seattle four years ago. Opponents plan to hit the proposal f...
Bacon: Labor Organizing
Zmag Article, September, 01 2003
David Bacon
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W olfgang Mueller is the top organizer for the German union at IG Metall’s campaign among high-tech workers, including those at the Siemens Electrical Corporation. DAVI...
Bacon: In Iraq, Labor Protest Is A Crime
Znet Article, August, 25 2003
David Bacon
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Iraq's legal code may be in disarray. The streets of Baghdad may be filled with thieves and hijackers who seem to have little fear of being arrested. But US occupation authorities seem to have no trouble identifying one crime, at least. For the fo...
