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Bacon: For Unionists, Iraq’s Oil War Rages On
Znet Article, April, 05 2013
David Bacon
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The big multinational petroleum giants now run the nation’s fields
Bacon: US-Style School Reform Goes South
Znet Article, March, 18 2013
David Bacon
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Since the fall, teachers in Mexico have been demonstrating and striking against standardized tests and removing the voice of the union in hiring
Bacon: In Oakland, Mercado Chain Workers Protest Alleged Sexual Harassment, Firings
Znet Article, February, 27 2013
David Bacon
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Valentine's Day sometimes brings chocolates and flowers, but in Oakland, California, it brought angry women out to the Mi Pueblo supermarket in the heart of the barrio
Bacon: The Dignity Campaign’s Alternative Vision for Immigration Reform
Znet Article, February, 11 2013
David Bacon
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The Dignity Campaign is a loose network of more than forty immigrant rights and community organizations, unions and churches
Bacon: RIP Leo Robinson, Soul of the Longshore
Znet Article, January, 23 2013
David Bacon
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For many of us, Leo Robinson was an example of what being an internationalist and a working-class activist was all about
Bacon: Who's Responsible for the Fire that Killed 112 Garment Workers?
Znet Article, December, 02 2012
David Bacon
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The day after Black Friday demonstrations, a fire killed 112 workers making clothes for Walmart at the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh
Bacon: Anatomy of the Walmart Strike: Walking Out, One Day at a Time
Znet Article, November, 22 2012
David Bacon
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In the lead-up to Black Friday, Walmart workers - supported by a number of unions - have organized a series of work stoppages to protest low wages and unfair working conditions
Bacon: North Carolina's Tobacco Workers Stand to Benefit From State's Strong Farmworker Union
Znet Article, November, 01 2012
David Bacon
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The occupational hazards of North Carolina's tobacco workers can be meliorated by unionization and the freedom for laborers to shop their skills around
Bacon: Mexico’s Labor Law Reform Sparks Massive Protests
Znet Article, October, 18 2012
David Bacon
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A plan to gut labor protections has spurred unrest in Mexico’s streets
Bacon: Three Thousand San Francisco Janitors Prepare for a Strike
Znet Article, August, 13 2012
David Bacon
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The national confrontation between janitors and some of the world's richest property owners has arrived in San Francisco
Bacon: Mexican Farmers Up Against Canadian Mining Goliaths
Znet Article, August, 02 2012
David Bacon
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The mines promise jobs, but they produce very few, Oaxacan activists charge, while their social and environmental cost is high
Bacon: How Mississippi's Black/Brown Strategy Beat the South's Anti-Immigrant Wave
Znet Article, April, 22 2012
David Bacon
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An anti-immigrant bill like those that swept through legislatures in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina was stopped cold in Mississippi
Bacon: Labor Law Reform – A Key Battle for Mexican Unions Today
Znet Article, February, 29 2012
David Bacon
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Progressive unions in Mexico today are fighting for their survival
Bacon: From Perote to Tar Heel
Znet Article, February, 16 2012
David Bacon
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How Smithfield Foods Fought the People of Veracruz, in Mexico and North Carolina
Bacon: How US Policies Fueled Mexico's Great Migration
Znet Article, January, 10 2012
David Bacon
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The experience of Veracruz migrants reveals a close connection between US investment and trade deals in Mexico and the displacement of its people
Bacon: Unions and Immigrants Join Occupy Movements
Znet Article, December, 10 2011
David Bacon
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The vision of Occupy has enormous support among immigrants and unions
Bacon: Fighting the Firings
Znet Article, August, 27 2011
David Bacon
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After years of ‘silent raids’ and federal workplace audits, unions and community allies are going on the offensive
Bacon: Utah’s New Immigration Bills: A Blast From the Past
Znet Article, June, 26 2011
David Bacon
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Utah legislators want to popularize an immigration policy that has strong corporate support and deep historical roots
Bacon: Growing Ties Between Mexican and U.S. Labor
Znet Article, June, 22 2011
David Bacon
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Workers in U.S. and Mexican mines have a long history of mutual support
Bacon: The Rebirth of Solidarity on the Border
Znet Article, June, 03 2011
David Bacon
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A vibrant and strong labor movement on the border would change Mexico’s politics
Bacon: A Labor Law Bosses Would Love
Znet Article, May, 03 2011
David Bacon
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All the reforms have been part of a program of economic liberalization opening Mexico to private capital
Bacon: One Hundred and Fifty Years After General Strike
Znet Article, April, 23 2011
David Bacon
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In the 150-year history of workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, the watershed event was one that happened 70 years ago - the San Francisco general strike
Bacon: Up Against the Open Shop - the Hidden Story of Silicon Valley's High-Tech Workers
Znet Article, March, 05 2011
David Bacon
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On January 29, 1993, workers at the Versatronex plant in Sunnyvale, California, filed out of its doors for the last time.
Bacon: The Rise and Fall of Employer Sanctions
Znet Article, January, 10 2011
David Bacon
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In this essay, David Bacon and Bill Ong Hing argue that ICE raids-be they of the Bush or the Obama kind-should cease. The basis for these operations-employer sanctions-should be repealed, and true reform that recognizes the rights of all workers s...
Bacon: California’s Perfect Storm
Znet Article, October, 09 2010
David Bacon
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When the current recession hit, California had already fallen from one of the country’s leaders in per-pupil education funding in the 1950s to 49th among the 50 states in the last decade.
Bacon: Is the US Pulling the Plug on Iraqi Workers?
Znet Article, August, 29 2010
David Bacon
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Early in the morning of July 21, police stormed the offices of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Basra, the poverty-stricken capital of Iraq's oil-rich south. A shamefaced officer told Hashmeya Muhsin, the first woman to head a nationa...
Bacon: Protesters Demand Immigrant Rights and Condemn the Arizona Law
Znet Article, August, 04 2010
David Bacon
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In San Francisco and Oakland, immigrants and community activists protested Arizona's SB 1070, which would require police and local law enforcement to check the immigration status of people they suspect might be undocumented, on the day the law too...
Bacon: Another Immigration Policy Is Possible!
Znet Article, July, 04 2010
David Bacon
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Thousands of left-wing activists just spent a week at the US Social Forum in Detroit, gathered again under the banner "Another World is Possible." Among them hundreds added a new subtext: "Another Immigration Policy is Possible!"
Bacon: Hundreds of Union Janitors Fired Under Pressure From Feds
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
David Bacon
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Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Francisco's major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers. Some 475 janitors have been told that unless they can show legal immigration status, they will lo...
Bacon: Down Prison Road
Znet Article, April, 29 2010
David Bacon
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High in the mountains overlooking Bakersfield and the south end of the San Joaquin Valley is a piece of California's past, the California Correctional Institution, or as inmates know it, Tehachapi.
