The trade treaty, now up for renegotiation, has displaced millions of Mexican workers, and many thousands of U.S. workers as well.
David Bacon
David Bacon is a California writer and photojournalist; his latest book is In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte (University of California / El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 2017).
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Art of the Border: Searching for Kikito
A French artist’s colossal installation on Mexico’s side of the border may make the invisible visible, but other subjects carry a sharper critical edge and pose deeper questions.
Posted inWorking in America
Braceros Strike After One Worker Dies
Risking deportation, Washington state farmworkers protest dangerous conditions in the fields.
Posted inWorking in America
Can Organic Farming and Unions Transform California’s Hottest Farm Belt?
Combined, they have to power to improve the lives of farmworkers and save the Salton Sea.
Posted inWorking in America
A New Farm Worker Union Is Born
Indigenous Oaxacan farm workers win themselves a union in the Pacific Northwest.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Fire and ICE: The Return of Workplace Immigration Raids
Undocumented workers face a new level of insecurity under the Trump administration.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Immigrant Communities Brace for Trump
Donald Trump promised to deport two million “criminal illegal immigrants” in his first 100 days in office. Immigrants and their allies are already organizing, protesting, and defending “sanctuary cities.”
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Latino Immigrants Are Changing the Politics of … Nebraska!
Organizing in Omaha and small towns with meatpacking plants is altering politics in this reddest of states.
Posted inAmerica and the World
When the River Turned Yellow
Sixty miles south of the Arizona border, the devastation from a toxic spill has led to an epochal battle between a transnational mining conglomerate and an alliance of miners and farmers.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Beyond Deportation: Fixing a Broken Immigration System
The Obama administration’s self-contradictory stance on deportation perpetuates a long tradition of U.S. immigration policies that ignore the root causes of migration.