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Bacon: Feds crack down on immigrant labor organizers
Znet Article, May, 19 2007
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Feds crack down on immigrant labor organizers
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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
Bacon: No Rest for the Weary
Znet Article, February, 26 2005
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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
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The Death of Hadi Saleh
Bacon: How The Lockout Backfired
Znet Article, November, 26 2004
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How The Lockout Backfired
Bacon: Labor Needs "that Vision Thing"
Znet Article, November, 10 2004
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Labor Needs "that Vision Thing"
Bacon: Black/Migrant Rivalry for Jobs Can Be Eased
Znet Article, August, 25 2004
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Occupation and Human Rights
Bacon: Europe Protests Bitter Cuts
Znet Article, April, 17 2004
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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
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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: U.S. Arrests Iraq's Union Leaders
Znet Article, December, 15 2003
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U.S. Arrests Iraq's Union Leaders
Bacon: The War on Iraq's Workers
Znet Article, November, 26 2003
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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
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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: In Iraq, Labor Protest Is A Crime
Znet Article, August, 25 2003
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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...
