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On March 17 Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the U.S. The Mississippi bill, SB 2988, requires employers to use an electronic system called E-Verify.

Bacon: Hollywood Comes to Blows with Upton Sinclair

Zmag Article, May, 01 2008 David Bacon
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Writing us out of a movie made from "Oil!" expropriated one of the most important works of our history.

Bacon: Sportswriter At The Barricades

Zmag Article, January, 01 2007 David Bacon
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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: The People Shout No

Zmag Article, May, 01 2006 David Bacon
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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 David Bacon
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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: Iraqi Labor’s Resistance

Zmag Article, January, 01 2006 David Bacon
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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: Democracy, But More

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 David Bacon
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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 David Bacon
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Fear of Firing

Zmag Article, June, 01 2003 David Bacon
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I n a landmark opinion, Brooklyn judge, Steven Davis, a hearing officer for the National Labor Relations Board, ordered Extreme Building Services, an asbestos removal company, to stop “physic...

Bacon: The Barbed Wire Straitjacket

Zmag Article, February, 01 2003 David Bacon
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I n 1981, when President Ronald Reagan replaced thousands of air traffic controllers and threw their leaders in jail, the permanent replacement of strikers became a normal aspect of U.S. labor rela...

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