Podcast appearances and mentions of David Bacon

More than two million farmworkers do the hard, sometimes backbreaking work of planting, growing, and harvesting crops in the U.S. Focusing on strawberry and grape pickers in California, David Bacon describes what the work involves, where the workers come from, and steps they're taking to protect their rights and pursue justice. (Encore presentation.) The Reality Check: Stories and Photographs by David Bacon David Bacon, More Than a Wall/Mas que un muro El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 2022 (Image on main page by David Bacon.) The post Laboring in the Fields appeared first on KPFA.

This is the talk from our 10:45 service on Sunday 2nd March 2025. The reading was Jeremiah 31:31-34. In this talk, David explores the new covenant that God offers through the prophet Jeremiah. Despite the Judeans' past wrongdoings and the dire consequences they faced, God promises to forgive them, write his law on their hearts, and enable them to know him intimately. David connects this promise to Jesus' words at the Last Supper and Paul's teachings in Romans, showing how this new covenant is now available to all who put their trust in Christ. The talk invites listeners to seek God's forgiveness, desire what he wants, and grow in knowing him personally and through the community of believers.

Hollywood, during its years has seen many suspicious deaths...some we know well, like Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, George Reeves....but no many people will have heard of David Bacon. In todays episode of the HCCP we look at this mysterious murder.Feel free to donate on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcastemail: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.comthanks to Cat at https://cattstruecrimecorner.com for todays story.

Union organizer and photojournalist David Bacon joins us to discuss cross-border labor solidarity, the fight for immigrant and domestic workers' rights, and how grassroots organizing is reshaping the future of […] The post David Bacon on Domestic Workers Organizing and Nancy MacLean: Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan appeared first on KKFI.

David Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people driving them to migrate. He also speaks about how immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why current immigration policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society.   Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month.https://latinwavesmedia.com/

In this interview I talk with artist and activist Art Hazelwood about art as political action versus politics as a subject. We start with his journey as a printmaker in San Francisco in the early 90s, where he engaged in political art through the Street Sheet newspaper. He elaborates on the distinction between social commentary and political action, emphasizing his active role in various causes including homelessness and union support. We also talk about his work with the San Francisco Poster Syndicate and teaching drawing at San Quentin prison, highlighting the importance of art as a transformative tool within the prison system. Additionally, we talk about his involvement in Mission Gráfica, a print studio, and his efforts in cataloging artists' estates. The conversation touches on the evolving role of artists, the value of ephemeral art, and the challenges and opportunities within the art world today. Episode image by James Hazelwood https://www.arthazelwood.com/ https://www.arthazelwood.com/impresario/publications/mission-grafica-book.html https://www.arthazelwood.com/impresario/publications/hobos-to-street-book.html Bainbridge Island Museum of Art video on Tipping Point by Art Hazelwood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx7VNp6sBoo Platemark website Sign-up for Platemark emails Leave a 5-star review Support the show Get your Platemark merch Check out Platemark on Instagram Join our Platemark group on Facebook Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Strike!, 2023. Screenprint. 19 x 12 ¾ in. San Francisco State University California Faculty Association Strike poster. Courtesy of the Artist. Installation shot of Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present. The California Historical Society, February 19–August 15, 2009. Installation shot of Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present. The California Historical Society, February 19–August 15, 2009. Installation shot of Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present. The California Historical Society, February 19–August 15, 2009. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Hobos to Street People: Artist' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 2008. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Mission Gráfica: Reflecting a Community in Print. San Francisco: Pacific View PR, 2022. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Die Aktion #70, Grimmiger Jäger / Grim Hunter, 500,000, 2021. Screenprint. 16 3/4 x 11 in. Marking the grim milestone of 500,000 dead of Covid in the US. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). New Masses #64, Last Tango, January 6, 2020, 2021. Screenprint. 17 x 12 in. Marking the attempted coup on January 6, 2020. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). The Road to Fascism: It's No Game,  2024. Screenprint. 17 1/2 x 21 ½ in. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Iraqopoly, 2006. Screenprint. 20 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Fascist Mix 'N Match, 2024. Screenprint. 9 x 10 ¾ in. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Le Charivari #76, July 19, 2024, Candidat a la Presidentielle 2016–2024, 2024. Screenprint. 17 x 11 1/4. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). A Sea of Blood, 2022. Woodcut. 19 ¾ x 14 in. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Culture Street / Gentrification Lane, 2016. Woodcut. Each panel: 36 x 24. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Must We Always Have This? Why Not Housing?, 2023. Screenprint. 16 3/4 x 11 ½ in. Created for Western Regional Advocacy Project's director Paul Boden and his 40 years of activism. Text is from a WPA poster from New York 1930s. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Tipping Point, 2021. Artist's book with screenprints (binding and design by Asa Nakata). Overall: 12 x 9 x 1 3/8. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Tipping Point, 2021. Artist's book with screenprints (binding and design by Asa Nakata). Overall: 12 x 9 x 1 3/8. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood street printing with San Francisco Poster Syndicate, 2023. Photo courtesy of David Bacon. Steamroller, six formerly incarcerated men and three of their teachers created a 3-foot square linocut print and printed it with a steamroller at Diablo Valley College, CA, in March 2024. Photo courtesy of Peter Merts. Steamroller, six formerly incarcerated men and three of their teachers created a 3-foot square linocut print and printed it with a steamroller at Diablo Valley College, CA, in March 2024. Photo courtesy of Peter Merts. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Ayudantes Animales del Sudoeste: Un Guía Para Viajeros Jóvenes / Animal Helpers of the Southwest: A Guide For Young Travelers, 2015. Artist's book with 12 woodcuts with screenprint borders and text. Sheet: 18 x 18 in. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). End Overdose Now, 2023. Screenprint. 18 1/2 x 11 1/8 in. Created for SF AIDS Foundation, HIV Advocacy Network and city budget fight. Courtesy of the Artist. Art Hazelwood (American, born 1961). Support Our Libraries, 2023. Woodcut. 19 1/4 x 12 1/2. Courtesy of the Artist.    

David Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people driving them to migrate. He also speaks about how immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why current immigration policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society. Apologies for the late show, some family emergencies to deal with recently, hope to be back on track now- Election Response show coming soon. Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. https://latinwavesmedia.com/

More than two million farmworkers do the hard, sometimes backbreaking work of planting, growing, and harvesting crops in the U.S. Focusing on strawberry and grape pickers in California, David Bacon describes what the work involves, where the workers come from, and steps they're taking to protect their rights and pursue justice. The Reality Check: Stories and Photographs by David Bacon David Bacon, More Than a Wall/Mas que un muro El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 2022 (Image on main page by David Bacon.) The post Laboring in the Fields appeared first on KPFA.

An up-and-coming Hollywood actor best known for his role in "The Masked Marvel,” crashed his sports car in a bean field in Los Angeles, California. The actor, christened David Bacon by the famous Hollywood film producer Howard Hughes exited the vehicle and stumble only a few feet before collapsing. In his back was a single stab wound to the back made by a six-inch-long "stiletto-like blade.” Some say it was the result of a love triangle and some say he was cursed from the start. What is known is that how came to meet this fate is still a mystery today.   Sources: Kantor, W. G. (2019, June 27). Who killed the Masked Marvel? EW.com. https://ew.com/celebrity/2019/06/27/who-killed-the-masked-marvel-true-crime/ The Love Triangle that Killed David Bacon. (n.d.). Criminal. https://vocal.media/criminal/the-love-triangle-that-killed-david-bacon   Join The Dark Oak Discussion: Patreon The Dark Oak Podcast Website Facebook Instagram Twitter TikTok Youtube This episode of The Dark Oak was created, researched, written, recorded, hosted, edited, published, and marketed by Cynthia and Stefanie of Just Us Gals Productions with artwork by Justyse Himes and Music by Ryan Creep

Amy's back to jump back into 1943 and the mysterious murder of a somewhat famous actor. Did he get stabbed with a stiletto? Why was he in a bathing suit? Plus: Robert Dinero's birthday, Mussolini escapes, Kennedy is a hero, an airshow tragedy in St. Louis, and more! Part of the Queen City Podcast Network: www.queencitypodcastnetwork.com. Information may not be accurate, as it is produced by jerks. Music by MATT TRUMAN EGO TRIP, the greatest American Band.

Today on the show: How would Project 2025 impact global health? We'll speak with long-time investigative reporter Anne-Christine D'Adesky, founder of Stop the Coup; Also our weekly frontline genocide report from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman, and long time labor photographer and reporter, David Bacon trains his wizened lens on wealthy wineries that routinely endanger workers lives. The post How Project 2025 Could Impact Global Health appeared first on KPFA.

Today we bring you a case all the way back from the 1940's era. David Bacon was a hero in cinema. However, he would not be able to enjoy his fame because the role he was best known for "The Masked Marvel" did not release until after his tragic and still unsolved murder.  Join Patreon here to binge bonus content! Crime Curious is creating a kick-ass exclusive listener experience | Patreon https://www.buymeacoffee.com/crimecurious  Music By: Michael Drzewiecki  Cover Art By: Charnell Lennox David Bacon, Whose 1943 Slaying Remains Unsolved, Made his Home at a Hollywood Hills ‘Castle' (yahoo.com) Home - The True Crime Database The ‘Masked Marvel Murder' – Part 12 | (ladailymirror.com) The Mysterious Death of Cape Cod's David Bacon - New England Historical Society The Unsolved ‘Masked Marvel' Murder | by Nicole Henley | Of Misdeeds and Mysteries | Medium

This is the talk from our 10:45 service on 12th May 2024 The passage was from Matthew 5 and David Bacon spoke with the title ‘Adultery, Divorse and Oaths.' Adultery: Jesus says looking at someone lustfully is committing adultery in your heart. He uses hyperbole saying it's better to gouge out your eye than to sin, meaning we need to take drastic measures to avoid lust, like avoiding certain media. Divorce: In Jesus' time, some men divorced their wives for trivial reasons. Jesus says marriage is precious and divorce should only happen for very serious reasons like adultery. He acknowledges the pain of divorce. The preacher says to seek help if your marriage is struggling, but leave if being mistreated. Jesus offers comfort and forgiveness to the divorced. Oaths: Rather than swearing oaths to show you'll keep a promise, Jesus wants his followers to simply be honest people of their word, who mean "yes" when they say yes and "no" when they say no. David says we all fall short of Jesus' high standards, but we can repent - turn from wrongdoing to God - and receive forgiveness and new life through Jesus' death and resurrection. Jesus gives us his Spirit to help us live out his challenging Sermon on the Mount teachings.

It's Hump Day! Sam and Emma speak with David Bacon, journalist and photographer focusing on labor issues, to discuss his recent piece in the Nation entitled "Big Ag's Latest Blow to Workers' Rights." Then, they speak with 2 members of the Princeton University Gaza Solidarity Encampment, who are currently on a hunger strike in opposition to Israel's offensive in Gaza. Check out David's piece here: https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/not-so-wonderful-company-ab2183/ Find out more about the Princeton hunger strikers & their demands here: https://www.instagram.com/princetondivestnow/ Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Help out the state of Utah by telling them what you see in public bathrooms here!: https://ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_complaint2.html Check out Seder's Seeds here!: https://www.sedersseeds.com/ ALSO, if you have pictures of your Seder's Seeds, send them here!: hello@sedersseeds.com Check out this GoFundMe in support of Mohammed Nasrallah, whose family is trying to leave Gaza for Egypt: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mohammed-nasserallah-and-family-go-to-egypt Check out this GoFundMe in support of Mohammad Aldaghma's niece in Gaza, who has Down Syndrome: http://tinyurl.com/7zb4hujt Check out the "Repair Gaza" campaign courtesy of the Glia Project here: https://www.launchgood.com/campaign/rebuild_gaza_help_repair_and_rebuild_the_lives_and_work_of_our_glia_team#!/ Check out StrikeAid here!; https://strikeaid.com/ Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: http://majority.fm/app Check out today's sponsors: Fast Growing Trees: This Spring Fast Growing Trees has the best deals online, up to half off on select plants and other deals. And listeners to our show get an ADDITIONAL 15% OFF their first purchase when using the code MAJORITY at checkout. That's an ADDITIONAL 15% OFF at https://FastGrowingTrees.com using the code MAJORITY at checkout. https://FastGrowingTrees.com code MAJORITY. Offer is valid for a limited time, terms and conditions may apply, Aura Frames: Right now, Aura has a great deal for Mother's Day. Listeners can save on the perfect gift by visiting https://AuraFrames.com/MAJORITY to get $30-off plus free shipping on their best-selling frame. That's https://AuraFrames.com/MAJORITY. Use code MAJORITY  at checkout to save. Terms and conditions apply. Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech @BradKAlsop Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/

On this episode, my guest is David Bacon, a California writer and documentary photographer. A former union organizer, today he documents labor, the global economy, war and migration, and the struggle for human rights. His latest book, In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte (COLEF / UC Press, 2017) includes over 300 photographs and 12 oral histories of farm workers. Other books include The Right to Stay Home and Illegal People, which discuss alternatives to forced migration and the criminalization of migrants. Communities Without Borders includes over 100 photographs and 50 narraatives about transnational migrant communities and The Children of NAFTA is an account of worker resistance on the US/Mexico border in the wake of NAFTA.Show Notes:David's Early YearsLearning about Immigration through UnionsThe Meaning of Being UndocumentedNAFTA and Mexican MigrationThe Source of Corn / MaizeBinational Front of Indigenous Organizations / Frente Indigena de Organizacaions BinacionalesThe Right to Stay HomeAndres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) CampaignThe Face & History of Immigration in the USAImmigration Reform and AmnestyThe Violence of Fortuna Silver Mines in OaxacaSolidarity, Change and OptimismHomework:The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican MigrationIn the Fields of the North / En los campos del norteIllegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes ImmigrantsCommunities without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of MigrationThe Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico BorderDavid's Twitter AccountDavid's Official WebsiteTranscript:Chris: [00:00:00] Welcome to the End of Tourism podcast, David. It's an honor to have you on the pod. To begin, I'd like to ask you where you find yourself today and what the world looks like for you there. David: Well, I live in Berkeley, here in California, and I am sitting in front of my computer screen having just what I've been up to today before talking with you. Chris: Hmm. Well, thank you so much for joining us, and thank you for your work. Perhaps I could ask you what drew you to the issues of labor and migration.David: Sure. Well, I come from a kind of left wing union family, so I knew about unions and workers and strikes and things like that from probably since before I can remember. And so I was kind of an activist when I was in high school, got involved in the [00:01:00] student movement in the 1960s at the University of California, got involved in the free speech movement, got tossed out by the university, actually, and wound up going to work after that, really, because I got married, had a daughter, and I got married, had a daughter, and, I needed to get a job and, you know, worked for quite a while as a a printer in the same trade that my father was, had been in went back to night school to learn more of the, of the trade, how to do different parts of it, how to run presses and so forth and then got involved, this is, you know, in the late 60s, early 70s got involved in the movement to support farm workers, really, and I was one of those people, you know, if you're my age, you remember this, if you're younger, you probably don't, but we used to picket supermarkets to try to get them [00:02:00] to stop selling the grapes and the wine and the lettuce that was on strike, and we would stand out in front of Safeway and other supermarkets with our red flags with the black eagle on them, And ask customers, you know, not to go into the store, not to buy the products that farmworkers were on strike against.And I got really interested in. I'm curious about the workers that we were supporting. You know, I grew up in Oakland and so I didn't know anything about farm workers, really. I didn't know anything about rural California, rural areas, didn't speak Spanish didn't know much about Chicano, Latinos.Oakland's a pretty diverse city, but in the area of Oakland where I grew up in you know, in our high school, you know, the students were African American or they were white, and that was a big racial question in, in school when I was in high school. So I grew up not knowing any of these things.[00:03:00] And Because I was involved in, you know, standing out in front of these stores and supporting workers, I, you know, began wondering, who are these workers that we're supporting? And eventually, I went to work for the union. I asked a lawyer friend of mine who was in their legal department if they needed any help, and of course he said yes.I went down to, Oxnard and de Santamaria began working for the union, originally taking statements from workers who had been fired because of their union activity. I didn't know much Spanish, so I had to learn Spanish on the job. Fortunately, you know, the workers were very patient with me and would help me learn, help me correct my still bad pronunciation and bad grammar.And, and I began to learn. And that process has been going on ever since, really. That was a, that was a formative time in my life. It taught me a lot of [00:04:00] things. It taught me about, you know, the culture of. farm workers who were mostly Mexican in those years, but there were still a good number of Filipino workers working in the fields.That eventually led me to the woman I eventually married, my wife, who was the daughter of of immigrants from the Philippines from a farm worker family. So I learned about that culture and I began learning about immigration, which I hadn't really known anything about growing up. Why people come to the U.S., what happens to people here. I, I saw my first immigration raid. When I was an organizer, I later became an organizer for the union as my Spanish got better. And I remember going to talk to a group of workers that I had met with the previous night, who were worked up in palm trees picking dates.And I went down to the date grove, this was in the Coachella Valley, and there was this big green van, and there were the [00:05:00] workers who I'd been talking to the previous night being loaded into the van. I was just You know, really shocked. The van took off. I followed the van all the way down to the Imperial Valley, to El Centro, where the detention center was.Stood outside the center trying to figure out what the hell is going on here. What am I going to do? What's going to happen to these people? And that was sort of an introduction to the meaning of being undocumented, what it meant to people, what could happen. And that made me an immigrant rights activist, which I've also been ever since, too.But also, over time, I got interested in the reasons why people were coming to the U. S. to begin with. You know, what people were finding here when people got here was very, very difficult work, low pay, immigration raids, police harassment, at least, and sometimes worse than that, poverty. You know, Why leave Mexico if this is what you're going to find?[00:06:00] And it also made me curious about the border. And so that also began something that has continued on in all those years since. I eventually went to the border, went to Mexico, began getting interested and involved in Mexican labor politics, supporting unions and workers in Mexico, you know, doing work on the border itself.After the Farm Workers Union, I worked for other unions for A number of years and they were generally reunions where the workers who were trying to join and we were trying to help were immigrants. So the government workers union, the women in the sweatshops sewing clothes or union for factory workers.And so my job was basically to help workers organize and. Organizing a union in the United States is like well, you know, people throw around this word, you know, this phrase class war and class warfare pretty freely, but it is like a war. You know, when [00:07:00] workers get together and they decide they want to change conditions and they want to you know, get the company to, speak to them and to deal with them in an organized way.They really do have to kind of go, go to war or be willing to, for the company to go to war with them. You know, really what people are asking for sometimes is pretty minimal, you know, wage raises or fair treatment at work or a voice at work. You know, you think, you know, what's wrong with that. But generally speaking when employers get faced with workers who want to do that they do everything possible to try and stop them.Including firing people and harassing people, calling them to meetings, threatening people, scaring people. You know, there's a whole industry in this country that consists of union consultants who do nothing but, you know, advise big companies about how to stop workers when they, when they try to organize.So that's what I did for about 20 years. Was help workers to get organized, form a union, get their bus to sit down and talk [00:08:00] to them, go out on strike, do all those kinds of things. And eventually I decided that I wanted to do something else. And I, I was already involved in, you know, starting to take photographs.I would carry a camera and I would take pictures of what we were doing as workers. We would joke about it, kind of. I would tell workers, well, you know, we're going to take some pictures here and you can take them home to your family and show them, you know, that you're really doing what's right here and 20 years from now you'll show your grandkids that, you know, when the time came, you stood up and you did what was right and people would joke with each other about it.And I discovered also that you could use them to get support for what we were doing. You know, we could get an article published in a newspaper somewhere. Some labor newspaper might run an article about us. You might get some money and some help or some food or something. But after a while, you know, I began [00:09:00] realizing that these photographs, they had a value beyond that.And that was that they were documenting this social movement that was taking place among immigrants and, and Latino workers, especially here on the West Coast of people basically trying to. Organize themselves for social justice in a lot of different ways, organizing unions for sure, but also trying to get changes in U.S. immigration laws, immigration policies those people who are citizens and able to vote, registering to vote, political change. You have to remember that if you go back to the 1960s or 1970s, Los Angeles was what we used to call the capital of the open shop. In other words, it was one of the most right wing cities in America.You know, the mayor Sam Yorty was a right wing Republican. The police department had what they called the Red Squad, whose responsibility it was is to go out and to deal with [00:10:00] people that wanted to change anything or to organize and Unions or strikes or belong to left wing political parties or whatever.And today, Los Angeles is one of the most progressive cities in the United States, and it has to do with what happened to those primarily Central American and Mexican and workers of color, women, who over time got organized and changed the politics of Los Angeles. And so, you know, I was really fascinated by it.This process, I was involved in it as an organizer and then later as a somebody taking photographs of it and writing about it that and so that's, that's sort of the transition that I made for the last 30 some odd years. I've worked as a freelance writer and photographer, basically doing the same kind of thing.I look at it as a way of organizing people, really, because the whole purpose of writing the articles and taking the [00:11:00] photographs is to change the way people think, and make it possible for people to understand the world better, and then to act on that understanding, which to me means trying to fight for a more just world, a more just society.And so. That's what, that's the purpose of the photographs, that's the purpose of the writing, is to, is to change the world. I think it's a big tradition in, in this country, in the United States of photography and of journalism that is produced by people who are themselves part of the movements that they are writing about or documenting, and whose purpose it is to sort of help to move forward social movements for social change.Chris: Amen. Some of the stories you were mentioning remind me of my mother who also worked for a labor union most of her life. And I was definitely still very much concerned with the state of affairs. I should [00:12:00] say that you know, I'm incredibly grateful as well to have a man of your stature and experience on the pod here to speak with us your work Has definitely opened my eyes to a lot of things I hadn't seen living here in southern Mexico, in, in Oaxaca.And one of these, these books, which I'd like to touch on a little bit today, is entitled, The Right to Stay Home. how U. S. policy drives Mexican migration. And we're actually at the 10 year anniversary of the publication of this book. So I feel honored to be able to speak with you in this regard about it.And, you know, it's, for me, someone who was a backpacker and a tourist, and then later a resident of this place, of Oaxaca, to come to understand much more deeply the complexities and nuances around migration, and especially in the context of Mexican migration to the United States. [00:13:00] What's left out of the conversation as someone who grew up in urban North America and Toronto, Canada very much on the left in my earlier years, in terms of organizing and, and and protesting, the, the, the dialogues and the conversations always seem to be around the the treatment of migrants once they arrived and, and not necessarily, as you said, why they left in the first place, the places that they left and the consequences to the places that they left.And so I guess to begin, I'm wondering if you could offer our listeners a little bit of background into How that book came to be written and what was the inspiration and driving factors for it? David: The book came to be written to begin with because I began going to Mexico and trying to understand how [00:14:00] the system of migration works in the context of the world that we live in, you know, people call it globalization or globalism, or you could call it imperialism.So I was trying to understand that from the roots of first having been involved with people as migrants once they had arrived here in the U. S. I was trying to understand Well, two things. One was why people were coming, and also what happens to people in the course of coming. In other words, the journey that people make.Especially the border. The border is the big And the border has very important functions in this because it's really the crossing of the border that determines what the social status of a migrant is, whether you have papers or not, whether you're documented or not, which is a huge, [00:15:00] huge, huge distinction.So as a result of that, and as a result of kind of listening to people listening to the movement in Mexico talk, about it, investigating, going to places like Oaxaca. I first wrote a book that tried to look at this as a system, a social system. It's really part of the way capitalism functions on a international or global basis in our era because what it does is it produces Displacement, the changes that are, you take a country like Mexico, and this is what the first book, the first book was called Illegal People.And what it looked at was the imposition on Mexico, for instance, it starts with NAFTA, the free trade agreement. In fact, the first book I ever wrote was about the border and was called The Children of NAFTA, the [00:16:00] North American Free Trade Agreement. But this book Illegal People, what it really tried to do is it tried to look at the ways in which People were displaced in communities like Oaxaca.And of course, for Oaxaca, Oaxaca is a corn growing state. It's a rural state. Most people in Oaxaca still live in villages and small communities. Oaxaca's a big city, and there's some other cities there, but, but most people in Oaxaca are still what you call rural people. And so NAFTA, among the many changes that it imposed on Mexico, one of the most important was that it allowed U. S. corn corporations, Archer Daniels Midland Continental Grain Company other really large corporations to dump corn in Mexico at a price that we were subsidizing through the U. S. Farm Bill, our tax money. In other words, we're, our tax money was being [00:17:00] given to these corporations to lower their cost of production.And that allowed them to go to Mexico and to sell corn at a price that was so low that people who were growing corn in a place like Oaxaca could no longer sell it for a price that would cover the cost of growing it. That had an enormous impact on people in Oaxaca because what it did was it forced people to basically to leave in order to survive.It's not that people were not leaving Oaxaca already before the agreement passed. There were other reasons that were causing the displacement of people in rural communities in Oaxaca. A lot of it had to do with this relationship with the U. S. even then, but certainly NAFTA was like pouring gasoline on all of that.And so three million people was the estimate that in a period of 10 years were displaced as corn farmers in Oaxaca. That's a huge percentage of the population of Oaxaca. [00:18:00] And so people were forced to go elsewhere looking for work. People went, you know, to Mexico City. You know, Mexico City, the metro system, the subway system in Mexico City was built primarily by workers who came from somewhere else.A lot of them from Oaxaca. Who wound up being the low cost labor that the Mexican government used to build a subway system. They went to the border, they became workers in the maquiladoras, in the factories that were producing everything from car parts to TV screens for the U. S. market. And then people began crossing the border and coming to the U.S. as either farm workers in rural areas of California or as low paid workers in urban areas like Los Angeles. So one of the big ironies, I think, of it was that here you had farm work, farmers who were being forced off their land. And remember that these are corn farmers, so [00:19:00] the Domestication of corn happened first in Oaxaca, and the first earliest years of domesticated corn, thousands of years old, have been discovered in archaeological digs in Oaxaca and caves near Oaxaca City to begin with.So here we have people to whom the world really owes corn as a domesticated crop, who are winding up as being wage workers on the farms of corporate U. S. agribusiness corporations in California, Oregon, Washington, eventually all over the United States. That was the migration of Oaxacan people. And so you could sort of see In this, as sort of a prism, what the forces were, what the social forces at work are, in other words, that in the interests of the profits of these big corporations, these trade agreements get negotiated between [00:20:00] governments, okay, our government, the U.S. government negotiates with the Mexican government, but that's like David negotiating with Goliath, or the other way around, rather, you know, The agreements are really imposed. It's not to say that the Mexican government of those years was opposed to it. It was a neoliberal government too, but the power in this negotiation is held by the U.S. government. And so that trade agreement in the interest of making Mexico a profitable place for, you know, Archer Daniels Middleton to do business gets imposed on Mexico. And then as a result of that, people get displaced and they wind up becoming a low wage workforce for other corporations here in here in the U.S. In fact, sometimes they Wind up working for the same corporation Smithfield foods, which is a big producing corporation [00:21:00] went to Mexico. It got control of huge areas of a valley called the Peralta Valley, not that far from Mexico city. And they began. Establishing these huge pork or pig raising facilities.In fact, that's where the swine flu started was because of the concentration of animals in these farms. Again, displacing people out of those communities. And people from the state of Veracruz, where the Perote Valley is located, many of them wound up getting recruited and then going to work in North Carolina at the huge Smithfield Foods Pork Slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, North Carolina.So that sort of tells you a lot about how this system works. It produces displacement. In other words, it produces people who have no alternative but to migrate in order to survive. And those people go through all the things that people have to go through in order to get to the United [00:22:00] States because there are no real visas for this kind of migration.And them wind up being The workforce that is needed by the system here, Smithfield Foods or other corporations like them in order for them to make high profits here. And in the process of doing this, I was developing a a relationship with a very unique organization in Mexico, in Oaxaca, a part of which exists in Oaxaca, called the Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales, which is the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations.And this is an organization that was actually started by Oaxaca migrants in the U. S., in Los Angeles, and then expanded both into the Central Valley here in California and then expanded back into Mexico in Baja, California, where there are also big corporate farms where primarily Oaxaca, people from Oaxaca are the workforce, and eventually chapters in Oaxaca itself.[00:23:00] And so I would got to be friends with many people in this organization, and I would go and take photographs at their bi national meetings, they would have meetings in Mexico where people could come together and and talk about their situation. And, you know, I began, obviously, listening to what people were talking about.And, People developed this, I think, very kind of path breaking, unique analysis of migration in which they talked about a dual set of rights that migrants need and migrant communities need in this kind of world. And so, What they said was, on the one hand people need rights as migrants where they go.In other words, people, when they come to the United States, need legal status. People need decent wages, the ability to organize, you know, an end to the kind of discrimination that people are subject to. But, [00:24:00] people also need a second set of rights as well, which is called the right to stay home. And that is the title of the book, The Right to Stay Home.And what that means is that, People need political change and economic and social change in their communities of origin, which makes migration voluntary. So these are communities that are so involved in the process of migration that it would not make any sense to say that migration is bad, because In many cases, these are communities that live on the remittances that are being sent by migrants, by members of people's own families who are living and working in the United States.So the discourse in these meetings was sort of on the order of saying that people have the right to migrate, people have the right to travel, people have the right to leave, but they also have the right to stay home. They have the right to a decent future. A young [00:25:00] person who is growing up in Santiago, Cusco, Oaxaca in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, for instance, has a right to a future in Oaxaca so that you can make a choice.Do you want to stay and have a decent life for yourself in Oaxaca, or do you want to leave and hopefully have a decent life for you and wherever you go, whether Baja California or California or Washington State? So in order to have a Right to stay home. What has to happen? What do people need? It's kind of a no brainer. People need well high farm prices to begin with. They need the ability to raise corn, tomatoes, Whatever crop it is that they need and sell it at a price that is capable of sustaining those families and communities. People need education.They need healthcare, but people also need political change because the Frente Indígena is a political organization. And so it was fighting [00:26:00] against the domination of Oaxaca by the old PRI, the party of the institutionalized revolution, which had been running Mexico for 70 years, trying to find a government that would begin to push for those kinds of social rights.And that was you know, a very important kind of eye opening for me was to hear people talking about the right to stay home, so much so that I said, you know, we need a book about this. So we're not just describing the system itself, how it works, but we are talking about what are people's responses to it?What do people think should happen here? And this was one of the most important developments of it. And it was not just. The people in Oaxaca, the more I did work on trying to investigate it and document it, there's part of the book, and also this was being done in people's [00:27:00] voices, the main voice in the right to stay home belongs to Rufino Dominguez, who was one of the founders of the Frente Indígena, who was my teacher in this, and so at one point they did knock the PRI out of power in Oaxaca and elected a governor, Gabino Cuei, who turned out to be not as good as people had hoped that he would be, but he was not the PRI.And he appointed Rufino, the head of the Oaxacan Institute for Attention to Migrants. So here was Rufino who had, was a left wing radical who spent his whole life opposing the government in Oaxaca, who then joined it for a while until he could no longer stomach what was going on there and had to leave.But. Pushing for that kind of political change in Oaxaca. There's another part of the book that talks about the miners in Cananea near the border with the United States. And their Effort to try to. win justice from this huge corporation that [00:28:00] was basically intent on destroying their union. And when they were forced out on strike, those miners also had to cross the border to Arizona to become workers in Arizona to survive.Again, you know, you see how the system is working here, but they also were talking about what kind of political change has to happen in Mexico for the right to stay home. to become reality. And that movement in Mexico grew strong enough so that, you know, after The Right to Stay Home was published, some years after, since it was, as you said, 10 years ago that Andrés Manuel López Obrador campaigned.He went all around the country speaking in every little tiny village that Mexico has, practically, in the course of four years. And one of the main things he talked about was the right to alternatives to forced migration. And I was there in Mexico City in the Zócalo when he took office. He finally won it.I don't want to go into all the things that had to [00:29:00] happen for Andrés Manuel López Obrador to win an election and become president of Mexico. But in his, in his inaugural speech as he was being sworn in, he talked about, we are going to make Mexico into a place where Mexicans can be happy living, where you don't have to go to the United States in order to survive, and I think you can talk about the, Things that the Mexican government has not been able to accomplish in the last four or five years.But I think one thing is beyond question and that is that that has been the main direction of the policy of the government of Mexico in that period of time because that's what got him elected. was this idea that, as he said, we are going to reject the liberal, neoliberal hypocrisy of the last six administrations in Mexico, meaning no more trade agreements like NAFTA, no [00:30:00] more opening Mexico up to U.S. corporations to come in and make money and as a result of which everybody's going to have to leave, that there had to be some kind of different direction in Mexico. So, in a way, I think that. Maybe that book, The Right to Stay Home, was like a little grain of sand that joined with other little grains of sand like it in helping to move forward that process of political change, because it happened on really on both sides of the border.Gosh, millions and millions of Mexicans who are living in the United States. So the process of political discussion that goes on about the kind of government Mexicans should have happens not just in Mexico, it happens here too. You know, part of Mexico is here on this side of the border. So you know, the book, and the book actually was published in Spanish and in Mexico as well too.So I think that it talked about things that were very important to people. [00:31:00] At the time, and that people are still debating about what has to happen in order for the right to stay home to be a reality. And I think it's something very important for people in this country to listen to and to think about as well, too, because in all the debates about migration that happen in here in the U.SThere's not a lot of attention that's paid to this whole idea of the two sets of rights, what has to happen. You know, certainly, you know, there are people like Trump and the right wing of the Republican Party that just, you know, never going to talk about anything like this. But even among Democrats, even in the Biden administration, you know, it's really too much about how to manage the border, you know, which basically boils down to how many people are we going to detain and deport.Rather than thinking about what kind of [00:32:00] world do we want to live in. Therefore, what kind of places migration going to have in it? ⌘ Chris Christou ⌘ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Chris: Yeah, I mean, it's, it's it's been fascinating reading and rereading this book in, in, in part to be able to give voice to not just migrants and not just migration issues in the places that people move to or migrate to, but also in the places that they, that they leave behind and the voices of the people that they leave behind.And you know, I think for. Many North Americans, especially those who are first or second generation citizens of those countries of Anglo North America, of Canada and the United States, that these are, these are the stories these are the voices that that maybe they haven't heard of in their own families as well.And so, you know, you started to mention a little bit about this. the kind of superficiality, perhaps, if I'm, if I can say it in that, in those terms, of the [00:33:00] political conversation around migration in the United States, in Canada, and perhaps even in Mexico. And so I'd like to ask you about the reception and perhaps the fallout Once the book was published, and I'm curious how the declaration to the right to stay home or the right to not migrate has altered at all the political or social social landscape in rural Mexico, you know, at least in terms of the people that you know in these places.And also if there was any response, any, any ground shaking movements as a result of the book coming out among activists in the United States. David: Well, I think that the book contributed to an important change. In the immigrant rights movement in the United States here, because, you know, having participated in that movement as an activist [00:34:00] for, gosh, 40 some odd years now, maybe more, Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986 with the so called amnesty law.Which not only gave amnesty to undocumented people, but also made it illegal for undocumented people to work in the United States after that and started the whole process of the border militarization. In fact, you know, the negative parts of that bill were so bad that many people like myself opposed the bill, even if it had amnesty in it, saying that it was not a this was not a good deal.And I think that over time. You know, history has proven that we were right not that amnesty was unimportant and not worth fighting for, but that the price that we paid turned out to be much higher than people were willing to give it credit for, you know, at the time. But what was also really missing from that debate, for instance, in [00:35:00] those years, was any sense that we had to really deal with and think about the causes of migration and the roots of migration, the displacement.It was really all about the status of people when they were here. You know, should it be legal or illegal for people to work? Should people get papers or should people not get papers? And that was a very limiting Conversation, because what really, what it really meant was that it could not acknowledge the fact that the migration from Mexico is not going to stop.For instance, the, in that, in that bill, the, the qualifying date for amnesty was January 1st, 1982, meaning. That if you came before that date, you could apply for the amnesty and get legalization, and if you came after that date, you couldn't get it. For people migrating from [00:36:00] Oaxaca, for instance, almost everybody came after.So all the Oaxacans who came to the United States, hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people really hardly anybody. Qualified for amnesty because of that bill, which is one reason why legal status is such an enormous question for the Oaxacan community here in the U. S. So it, the, the discussion of that bill didn't acknowledge that and also by setting that date, it was, I think, very cynical because Mexico had what was called the Peso Shock in 1982, where the economic crisis in Mexico got so bad that Mexico had to devalue its currency.And what that meant was that thousands, hundreds of thousands of people in Mexico lost their jobs and had to come to the United States. And by setting that date, January 1st of that year, what you were really saying is, none of those people are going to qualify for amnesty. So they were [00:37:00] already here. But also it didn't acknowledge that, you know, in the, that, that bill set up a a commission to study the causes of migration, supposedly.And that commission came back and recommended the negotiation of a trade agreement between the U. S. and Mexico. And it said, well, in the short run, maybe this would result in the displacement of a lot of people, but in the long run, it would lead to the economic development of Mexico, and then people would have jobs and they wouldn't have to come here.Well, that was another very, very cynical kind of thing, because the negotiations of NAFTA started not long after the report of that commission, and in fact, NAFTA did lead to the displacement of millions of people in Mexico. There were four and a half million migrants from Mexico living in the U. S.when NAFTA went into effect and by 2010 it was [00:38:00] 12 and a half million people. So an enormous increase in people and the rise in Mexican living standards. Never happened. Well, that's not true. When López Obrador finally came into office he began taking measures to raise wages and raise the living standards in Mexico, which previous administrations had resisted bitterly because they wanted to attract investment.And things have started to improve economically for workers and farmers in Mexico a little bit. But up until then, so being unable to face the roots of migration and its connections to corporate America and the way our government was on the one hand producing migration or doing things to produce migration on the other hand making The status of migrants, illegal criminalizing it here.It was a really, a very difficult debate for people in [00:39:00] the immigrant rights movement. As a result, a lot of organizations said, well, MSD, we need MSD. Let's just forget about a lot of other stuff. Let's just get down to seat on what we paid a really bad price for it. Today I think there is a lot more discussion in the immigrant rights movement about what happens in Mexico and Central America in particular that causes people to come to the United States.I think still there's not enough of a willingness to deal with the economic part of it. the poverty. So these days, the way it gets dealt with is mostly by talking about the violence in Honduras. For instance, San Pedro Sula, which is called the murder capital of the world. You know, I wrote a whole article about how did San Pedro Sula become such a violent place to begin with?And what did it have to do with U. [00:40:00] S. companies going and growing bananas in Honduras? But in any case it gets put down, I think too much to violence, to the exclusion of the causes of the violence. What is the, what is the root cause of violence in Central American countries? The Civil War in El Salvador was fought about who was fighting on what side, what kind of changes were people proposing.The more you unpeel it, the more you look at it, the more you see that this is really, again, about the economic and political relationship between the U. S. and China. Those countries. And so I think that books like Illegal People, like The Right to Stay Home, played a role in trying to get us to look more at this as a whole system, what produces migration, and then criminalizes migrants here.I think that it's a very [00:41:00] limited accomplishment. Because we still have an extremely unjust immigration system. You know, we all hated Trump and the detention centers and, and his racist orders. But the reality is, is that we have more people crossing the border this last year than any other previous time in our history.And we have thousands and thousands of people living in detention. In the United States in detention centers and in detention centers on the Mexican side of the border. And this is under a democratic administration. So, I think that we have to be real about how limited our impact has been up to now.But, having said that, I think it is still a big advance for us to be able to talk. in this country, in the United States, about the roots of migration, and also be able to reach out to organizations and people and communities in Mexico and talk about, well, [00:42:00] okay, what is our, what should our relationship be?Well, how do we work together? How are we going to be able to try and change this system together? I think those efforts are kind of only starting, really. I don't think there's nearly enough of it, but I think that's the future. That's where the change is going to come from. Chris: And I can't stress enough, you know, how devoid of complexity and nuance most any political conversation has these days, and that most people don't go looking for it, in part because You know, most people haven't been taught.So, you mentioned a little bit earlier, as you wrote in, in your book, The Right to Stay Home, about the consequences of mining companies, as an example, in, in Mexico. Foreign owned mining corporations. And Here in Oaxaca, it's very well known that these corporations undertake geological testing without the [00:43:00] consent of communities, that they lie to the communities about concessions when trying to push their way into the territory, and then sponsor community violence by dividing the people against each other through bribery, corruption.Intimidation, threats, and sometimes assassination. And so, I'm curious, first, if you could offer a little bit more of what you've seen in this regard, and secondly, why do you think that in this example that, you know, Canadians, in the context of the one particular mine here in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, is a Canadian owned mine, why they have no idea that this is happening on foreign soil in their names?You David: know, I wrote a long article about San Jose del Progreso in the Vice Centrales in, in Oaxaca, and Fortuna Mine there, which is a Canadian, Canadian company. And I think this is [00:44:00] another way of seeing what this kind of, just to use shorthand, this free trade arrangement between the US, Canada and Mexico, what it really means for people on the ground.Mexico in previous administrations changed this mining law so that it became possible. And the purpose of to make it possible for foreign corporation to get a mining concession anywhere in Mexico and develop a mine without having to get the consent of the people who live in the community around it.Basically saying that, you know the Mexican government was entitled to sell off these concessions regardless of what the people there thought about it. And so the purpose of this was to, again, attract foreign investment into Mexico. This is part of the neoliberal policy that says [00:45:00] that the economic development policy of Mexico should be to sell pieces of Mexico to foreign investors, to foreign corporations.And supposedly this money is going to make life better. For people in Mexico well, first of all, it's a very corrupt system, so the selling of mining concessions involves, you know, millions and millions of dollars that wind up in the pockets of those people who grant the concessions. So it was a source of enormous corruption in the Mexican government in granting those concessions and in passing that change in the law to begin with.And then in fighting for changes in the legal system, the free trade set up, those mining corporations could then, basically, it gave them not only a kind of impunity against communities that protested about it, but in which they could even sue the Mexican government. If the Mexican government tried to stand in the way and say, well, you [00:46:00] can't develop the mine, then the mine could sue the Mexican government and say, well, you deprived us of potential profits and you owe us millions of dollars.And there were decisions like the metal cloud decision that allowed for this kind of thing to happen. So what this meant is on the ground, you have mining mining concessions sold and mines being developed all over Mexico. In the face of local opposition, and the mine in San Jose de Progreso is a really good example of that, where you have a Canadian company that comes in and says, okay, we are going to, in fact, they weren't the originators of the mine, they basically bought a mine that had been played out by previous owner.And so we are going to dump a lot of money into this and we are going to make it a producing mine and the impact on the community. We don't really care. And so the impact is really enormous. You know these are open pit mines. They're a scar on the land. They [00:47:00] contaminate the water, the aquifer, so that these farming communities can no longer support themselves in the same way.In order to develop the mine, what they do is they divide the communities. And so, as you said, in San Jose de Progreso, they bought off the town's, the town's government who basically gave the company permission to do whatever it wanted to in spite of local opposition. Then when local opposition got organized to, to oppose it, the company cooperated with the with the local leaders that it had bought off to basically go after those leaders in a very violent way.So, Bernardo Vazquez. who had was from this community. He had actually gone to the United States and become a farm worker in Petaluma, in California. And then seeing what was happening in his community, went back to San Jose de [00:48:00] Progreso and to and began leading the opposition. And he was then ambushed and assassinated.Other people in his, around him were also killed, and then the violence went both ways. People on the other side got killed. And so this whole community became a warring camp, camps against each other. You know, I remember when I visited there, there are two taxi companies in this community. There's a taxi company that's associated with the People who are pro mine and the taxi company is associated with people who are against it.And you better not get into the wrong taxi because you could, some terrible things could happen to you. I took pictures of these threats that were spray painted on the walls of, some of the irrigation canals there, Bernardo Vasquez, your time has come, you know that was before he was assassinated.A lot of the people who work in the mine come from somewhere else, some of them from Canada[00:49:00] but it takes a few of the jobs in hand somehow. to certain people in the community there as a way of buying them off and giving them a stake in the continuation of the mine. And so what happens is that you have a community that's a continuing, a continuous war with itself.And this happens all over Mexico. In fact, it's not just Mexico, this is happening in El Salvador, it's happening in Guatemala, and actually mostly by Canadian companies. So you ask, do people in Canada know about this? I think there are some journalists like Dawn Bailey who have Canadian journalists who have tried to write about it, and tried to make people in Canada aware of it.I don't think that most people in Canada have the faintest idea of what those corporations are doing, and that's because I think the corporate media in Canada has very little interest in showing that, partly because, you know, they have the same basic set of economic interests that the mining corporations themselves do.[00:50:00] Probably share, same shareholders, who knows? In any case That's something that could happen and that should happen if people in Canada became more aware of what these companies were doing and then began taking action in Canada to try to restrict them. I think it would have a big impact on the ability of these communities in Oaxaca to survive.I think that San Jose the Progresso is going to be a war with itself and this continuing political violence is going to happen. Until the company, basically until the company leaves, really. I don't see any other solution, I don't see how the mine can continue operating there under any ownership and not have this war taking place there.So, but I think that the way to get that company to leave is for people in Canada to take some action in cooperation and in solidarity with the people in that [00:51:00] community. So, maybe by Organizing delegations from Vancouver or Toronto down to San Jose del Progreso would be a way of helping that to develop.That's possibly something that might happen, but basically you need that relationship in order, I think, in order to stop this from happening. Chris: Hmm. Thank you. Yeah, and you know, of course it just ends up contributing to migration, right, and exile, displacement within those communities. And and so I'm curious, what do you think the right to stay home or the right to not migrate can offer us as modern people, as citizens or migrants in the context of the current crises and perhaps the crises to come?You know, you mentioned that Immigration the numbers, the number of people coming into the United States over the last year has just been unprecedented. The number of migrants [00:52:00] flowing through Oaxaca, for example, in Southern Mexico right now is unprecedented and it really seems, you know, like.not just my opinion, but in terms of statistics and predictions and all of these things, that it's only going to get more unprecedented. So I'm curious what you might, what you might think that this, this declaration, the right to stay home or the right to not migrate, might offer us going forward. David: Well, I think it offers us something to fight for.That it gives us a vision of what a future could and should look like in the communities where displacement is taking place. In San Jose de Progreso, for instance, the right to stay home means a community that's not at war with itself, which means that the mining operation has to end. But, Ending the mining operation doesn't necessarily mean that people are [00:53:00] going to have an educational system or a health care system that's capable of meeting their needs.So you need political change in Oaxaca, San Jose de Progreso, and Mexico in general, that is able to deliver those things. For people. I think we could take that same thing and and look at people coming from Venezuela. There are a lot of Venezuelan migrants who are crossing Mexico coming to the U.S. border. On the one hand, the U. S. government is sort of a little bit more friendly. to Venezuelan migrants, although it's still doing whatever it can at the border to try to keep people out. Because, you know, this gets used in the media in the U. S. as a way of saying, well, this is the proof that the socialist government in Venezuela is incompetent and corrupt and ought to be removed, which has been U.S. policy for a long time. But in reality, the economic problems in [00:54:00] Venezuela would certainly be a lot less if Venezuela wasn't subject to the U. S. sanctions regime, which is basically sought to strangle the Venezuelan economy. And so the people who are leaving Venezuela, whether they're middle class people who are, you know, fed up with the problems of Caracas or whether they're poor people who have you know, have to migrate in order to survive those are due to U.S. policy again. So really, the right to stay home means in the United States that people in the United States, progressive people especially, have to seriously take a look at what the impact of U. S. policies are on the people that are being subjected to them, and to begin with, cause no harm.That would be a good starting place to stop those policies that are actively producing migration. You know, the people who drowned in the Mediterranean, those 600 people who [00:55:00] drowned in that horrible boating accident, who were they? A lot of them were Afghans. A lot of them were Iraqis. Why were they leaving?What were they doing on that boat? They were the product of that U. S. war. Now, I was a very active, you know, opponent of, of the war. I went to Iraq twice to try to make connections with trade unionists and other people in Iraq who were trying to fight for kind of a progressive nationalist solution to the economic problems of Iraq in the wake of the occupation to end the occupation.But you know, that's kind of what we need. We need to take responsibility for the impact of what this government has done. When we take a look at what the, what is going to happen to the people of Palestine and Gaza, [00:56:00] Under the bombardment, you know, if people were able to leave Gaza, there would be literally hundreds of thousands of people going wherever they could.And the Middle East simply in order to get out from under the Israeli bombs. And those bombs are coming from where? They're coming from the United States, that military aid package. You know, you cannot have a military policy and a military aid package the way the U. S. passes them without its having enormous impacts on migration, on the displacement of people, and at the same time it also Produces impacts here in the U.S. that we also need to take a look at and see what the relationship are. You know, people migrate in the U. S. as well, too. We have factories to close when Detroit stopped being an [00:57:00] auto manufacturing center and the Factories in Detroit closed, the car factories, thousands and thousands and thousands of auto workers became migrants in the U.S., going from city to city to city, looking for. So the price of the economic crisis that exists for us isn't felt just by people in Mexico or Palestine or Iraq. It's felt here in the United States and in Canada too. These problems They require a political solution, you know, they require us to organize ourselves in a way that is strong enough to force political change on our government here, so that it takes responsibility for the past devastation.And the past displacement and also stops doing the things that are going to keep on causing it in the future. And then I think we can think about kind of repairing the world. I think we have to repair the world, too, after this. But the first thing we have [00:58:00] to do is we have to stop hurting it. We have to stop the damage, and that means having enough political courage and enough political power to make our government do that.That's a tall order. That's a tall order. I don't think it's something from today to tomorrow. But it's a long process. You know, I'm a, I grew up during the anti Vietnam War movement and the civil rights movement, and I saw this country at a time when it was possible and when we did it. So I'm the optimist.I believe that it's within our power to do this. But looking at where we are right now, I think we have a long way to go. And so, you know, if what I do contributes is granito de arena to it, you know, a lo mejor. Chris: Thank you so much, David. Yeah, it's definitely really, really important to hear words such as yours in a time of deep nihilism.[00:59:00] And, and also the absence and I think the disregard of, of Elder Voices in our midst and in our movements. So, I deeply appreciate your willingness to speak with me and, and to our listeners today. And just finally, before we depart, how might our listeners find out more about your work?How might they purchase your books? David: I have a blog and a lot of what I write and the pictures that I take are up there and I put them up there pretty regularly. And so the way to find it is to Google my name, David Bacon, and the blog is called The Reality Check. And so if you Google that together, you'll find it and that's how you can connect.Chris: Thank you so much, David. David: My pleasure. Thank you for having me. Get full access to ⌘ Chris Christou ⌘ at chrischristou.substack.com/subscribe

Something radical happened here!; The altar of the testing god; “Go big or go home”; David Bacon's “Working Coachella”; Innovation and ConTech Today's labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today's labor history: Tompkins Square Riot @NEAToday @COSALC_ @photos4justice @WoodyGuthrieCtr @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Something radical happened here!; The altar of the testing god; “Go big or go home”; David Bacon's “Working Coachella”; Innovation and ConTech Today's labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today's labor history: Tompkins Square Riot @NEAToday @COSALC_ @photos4justice @WoodyGuthrieCtr @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Photojournalist David Bacon on his new photo exhibit on farmworkers, which opens today in Riverside, CA Today's labor history: Sex worker organizer Margo St. James dies Today's labor quote: Woody Guthrie @photos4justice @WoodyGuthrieCtr @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Photojournalist David Bacon on his new photo exhibit on farmworkers, which opens today in Riverside, CA Today's labor history: Sex worker organizer Margo St. James dies Today's labor quote: Woody Guthrie @photos4justice @WoodyGuthrieCtr @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

David Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people driving them to migrate. He also speaks about how immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why current immigration policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society. Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. https://latinwavesmedia.com/

David Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people driving them to migrate. He also speaks about how immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why current immigration policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society. Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. https://latinwavesmedia.com/

This is the talk from our 10:45am morning service on Sunday 25th June. David Bacon continued our series in 1 John thinking aout Love and truth from 1 John 3.

Editora contribuyente del LAP Verónica Silva acompaña el podcast para conversar sobre su nuevo número para Marzo 2023: "El Estado y la Acumulación de Capital en México."  Los temas discutido incluyen el proceso histórico del neoliberalismo y sus efectos en las políticas, la sociedad, y  la económia de México. Además, conversamos sobre la presidencia de Andrés Manuel López Obrador, y los fracasos y succesos de las políticas progresistas en el país. Para más información sobre nuestro publicación, el podcast, o nuestros invitados escribanse a latampodcasts@gmail.com Foto de portada proporcionada por David Bacon.  

Gender confusion is sweeping through a generation of young people. Radical activists are pushing to have young children decide their own gender and undergo life-altering procedures and take hormones with unknown risks. This dangerous practice is now being advanced at the highest levels of medicine, government, and education. Many young people who transitioned are now telling their stories and warning others about the dangers they were not told. David Bacon is someone who barely survived an attempted gender transition. At 18, David became a woman named Lisa and took hormones that nearly cost him his life. He is courageously sharing his experience so that other young people are not deceived.

David Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people driving them to migrate. He also speaks about how immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why current immigration policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society. Support Latin Waves by becoming a member for as little as $1 per month. https://latinwavesmedia.com/

Award-winning labor journalist and photographer David Bacon discusses his 30-year career covering the struggles of farmworkers and migrant communities through oral histories, articles, and photographs.

Our very first pod extra! Members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network meet online every Wednesday to share information about upcoming shows, and get advice from other labor podcasters and radio producers. Often we feature special guests who we think our fellow broadcasters might want to book on their shows. We decided to go ahead a record these sessions and share excerpts of them with our listeners, both as a preview of some of the shows in the Network, and as a behind-the-scenes look at how podcast and radio producers put together the shows you listen to. Our guests this week are longtime photo journalist David Bacon and Good Jobs First Executive Director Greg LeRoy. Plus we've got a very special blast from the union communications past! #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Broadcast on August 25, 2022 While hosts Chris Garlock and Ed Smith are off this week, check out The Heartland Labor Forum's show: The Federal Reserve is trying to slow inflation by raising interest rates while at the same time corporate profits are at an all-time high: is our monopolized economy really what's driving inflation? Then, what do you know about the border wall between the US and Mexico? In his new book More Than a Wall, photojournalist David Bacon shows how the border is more than a wall that separates. It's the people and their history of common struggles against racism, labor trafficking and a broken immigration system. Also, Safety First with Mary Erio. “Radio That Talks Back to the Boss,” the Heartland Labor Forum has been around for more than 30 years, airing weekly on KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio. HLF is one of the members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, more than 150 labor radio shows and podcasts across the country and around the world that – like Your Rights At Work -- focus on issues affecting working people. Produced by The Heartland Labor Forum and Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nasella. @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod #1u #UnionStrong @Heartland_Labor

In this episode we speak with David Bacon, the Director of Design at Transpire, a consulting firm based in Melbourne, Australia that designs and builds digital experiences that transform & inspire.  Listen in as David describes what it's like to work as a designer at Transpire and the importance of growing designers through all stages of their careers. Learn about open opportunities at Transpire and what characteristics David prioritizes when hiring designers.  Here's a look at our discussion: 0:36 : How has the design industry changed in the past few years? 2:16 : David's journey from a scientific background to a career in design 4:34 : What does product design look like at Transpire? How does Transpire grow it's designers? 16:00 : What characteristics does David look for when hiring designers 20:43 : The impact of the pandemic on Transpire's onboarding process & team culture 24:01 : Roles currently open at Transpire 30:40 : How to get in touch with David and learn more about Transpire Links mentioned in this episode: Transpire's Website Transpire's Careers Page David Bacon's LinkedIn Profile

The Federal Reserve is trying to slow inflation by raising interest rates. At the same time corporate profits are at an all-time high. We’ll ask UMKC economists if our monopolized economy is really what's driving inflation. Then, what do you know about the border wall between the US and Mexico?  In his book More Than […] The post Inflation and Monopoly: What's the Connection? And David Bacon: More Than a Wall – 30 Years of Photos appeared first on KKFI.

Lameness is one of the most costly challenges facing British dairy farmers today, with each case amounting to around £330. Affected animals produce less milk, take longer to get back in calf, and are more likely to be culled. Addressing lameness incidences on your farm will not only help your bottom line but also make a big difference to animal welfare and staff morale. In this episode, Knowledge Exchange Manager Alan McFadzean is joined by Dr James Wilson and herd manager David Bacon, to talk about the results from a recent AHDB funded study into whether non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can improve cure rates for claw horn lesions. Find more information on lameness in dairy cows Feedback We'd love to know what you think of our podcasts. If you'd like to give your feedback, please complete our short questionnaire, which will help us to improve the podcast on an ongoing basis, or email: foodandfarming@ahdb.org.uk.    This episode was produced and edited by Kate Smith, Marcomms Executive (Dairy).

On Tuesday March 22nd several workers left work at Washington Bulb over a wage dispute. In this episode, Brenda Bentley and Liz Darrow recap the strike that followed, with live audio from the front lines. Since the recording of this episode, Trabajadores de las Flores, a committee that was elected by flower pickers at Washington Bulb Co. have signed an agreement with the company to ensure worker health and safety and a process to continue discussions about improving conditions.Read more background on the tulip strike from David Bacon here.Songs in this episode:Bread and Roses by Joan BaezWhich Side Are You On by Tom Morellophoto credit: Bodi Halleck of Sattva PhotoSupport the show (https://foodjustice.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=2)

On President's Day, The US Customs and Immigration Services released a statement announcing and celebrating the president's plan to expand the H2A labor program as an answer to widening calls for immigration reform. The memo is deeply problematic and at the same time not at all surprising.In this episode, Lelo Juarez, Rosalinda Guillen, and David Bacon respond to the memo and discuss the damage that an already unmitigated labor exploitation program is doing to families in the US and in other countries that are impacted by upside down US policies.Read the Dignity Campaign's statement on Abolishing H2A here.Songs in this episode:Dark Eyes by Lila DownsEl Conchinito by Los Jornaleros Del NorteMany thanks to Rosa Martha Zarate Macias for our theme music. Find more music from Rosa here.Support the show (https://foodjustice.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=2)

This is the talk from our 10.30am service on 30th January 2022. The passage was Matthew 11:28-30 and David Bacon spoke with the title 'Being with Jesus: Yoked to Jesus'

Listen to an interview with photographer and union activist David Bacon who speaks about the efforts to build solidarity between trade union movements in Iraq, particularly within the oil sector and labour unions in the US. David was deeply involved in US Labour Against the War within the context of the mass mobilizations against the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Info on David Bacon's work here : http://dbacon.igc.org This interview was produced for broadcast on CKUT 90.3fm by Stefan @spirodon Christoff Music on this edition by Beirut based composer Charbel Rouhana.

On September 12, 1943, David Bacon was seen driving a car erratically in Santa Monica, California, before running off the road and into the curb. Several witnesses saw him climb out of the car and stagger briefly before collapsing. As they approached he asked them to help him, but he died before he could say anything more. A small puncture wound was found in his back; the weapon had punctured his lung and caused his death. A weapon was never found, though the wound was suggested to be from a stiletto. Keller, who was then five months pregnant, collapsed when she heard of her husband's deathThis episode is sponsored by PodDecks: Go to http://www.poddecks.com and use Promo Code Larry21 for 10% off your first purchase. Follow Us on Social MediaTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/truecrimensIG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimeneversleepspodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/truecrimeneversleepspodcastSupport The Show by Buying Us a Coffee:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tcnsJoin Our Patreon: https://patreon.com/truecrimeneversleeps

Patrick and Jill take a trip to old time-y Hollywood and fill you in on the unusual circumstances surrounding the unsolved murder of David Bacon. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rwms/support

What a very mysterious episode! Beth and Bettina dive down many rabbit holes and leave many loose ends in this week's episode. Beth begins the mystery with the unsolved case of David Bacon. Then Bettina shares the curiosities of the haunted Oman House on Cielo Drive. Enjoy this week's episode with an Agent Orange: 1 ounce vodka, 1/2 ounce triple sec or Cointreau, and 1/2 cup of orange juice; shaken with ice in a shaker, poured over ice... enjoy! Cheers! Find resources and photos from this episode on our website: www.killerhangoverpodcast.com Email us your responses and requests: killerhangoverpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to all of our Patrons!! Join us @ www.patreon.com/killerhangoverpodcast

    Today I'm talking with David Bacon – an experienced director, chief executive officer, and senior executive in both the private and public sectors. He is an expert communicator, stemming from his career in journalism and radio broadcasting. He shares a bit about the work he did as a spokesperson for British American Tobacco, […]

David Bacon is a photojournalist, author, political activist, and union organizer who has focused on labor issues, particularly those related to immigrant labor. Some of his popular books include, Illegal People, The Right to Stay home and In the fields of the North.Host Sylvia Richardson interviews David Bacon on historic Roots of Inequality, how Biden may differ from Trump on immigration and the necessary struggle ahead.How we need to come together as one community of workers.Support Latin Waves atwww.latinwavesmedia.com Books by David Bacon at tinyurl.com/5e6uf459  

Rosalinda Guillen, Edgar Franks, David Bacon, and Liz Darrow discuss the irreversible damage that the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which will be voted on in Congress this week, could do to farmworker communities. Also, there is a little bit of pop culture discussion. Because Edgar was on the show.Read David Bacon's Dignity or Exploitation paper hereOppose the Farm Workforce Modernization act herefor questions about the FWMA or other comments on the show email c2cmedia@foodjustice.orgSongs in this episode:Dark Eyes by Lila DownsThis is America by Childish GambinoSupport the show (https://foodjustice.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=2)

The current H-2A program in the U.S. is a mechanism where growers are allowed to import laborers from foreign countries to harvest crops. However, according to a new report by David Bacon, Oakland Institute, these workers are often exploited by the growers, who can set high production quotas, fire workers for little cause, and blacklist […] The post Who helps vulnerable farm workers? appeared first on WORT 89.9 FM.

David Bacon is a photojournalist, author, political activist, and union organizer who has focused on labor issues, particularly those related to immigrant labor. Some of his popular books include, Illegal People, The Right to Stay home and In the fields of the North.Host Sylvia Richardson speaks about how the community and Union organizers came together to get rights for farm workers during COVID, how surviving COVID has literally been an act of resistance. Removing Trump was a huge win but how do we move forward post Trump.  www.latinwavesmedia.com Support Independent Media Now Click Here 

Oakland Institute Senior Fellow, journalist and photographer David Bacon discusses the history of exploitation of the H-2A worker program and how it creates a race to the bottom for all farmworkers.  Will the Biden administration protect the profits of growers and expand the H-2A program or will it stand with farmworkers who labor in the fields to keep our country fed? Report: https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/biden-administration-end-slavery-conditions-h2a-guest-worker-program

The roundtable takes on the headlines as well, leading to thoughts on Microsoft, Snapchat, and China. Our experts in data science, software engineering, digital transformation, and experience design share perspectives on what will be required for this to work. We get to several places, including an outline of the ethics of data gathering. Join @Sue Hallen, @David Bacon, @Cristene Gonzalez-Wertz, and @William Thomas.

H2A visa workers, those who pick and harvest our food,  are some of the most abused and least protected of all labor categories. David Bacon, author of a new report on the subject joins to describe their plight and what measures the Biden Administration needs to adopt to halt this abuse. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member!What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast.  

H2A visa workers, those who pick and harvest our food,  are some of the most abused and least protected of all labor categories. David Bacon, author of a new report on the subject joins to describe their plight and what measures the Biden Administration needs to adopt to halt this abuse. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member!What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast.  

David Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people driving them to migrate. He also speaks about how immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why current immigration policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society.

David Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people driving them to migrate. He also speaks about how immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why current immigration policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society.

David Bacon is a photojournalist, author, political activist, and union organizer who has focused on labor issues, particularly those related to immigrant labor. He has written several books and numerous articles on the subject. His most recent book is In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte: , David Bacon documents the experiences of some of the hardest-working and most disenfranchised laborers in the country: the farm workers who are responsible for making California Americas breadbasket. Combining haunting photographs with the voices of migrant farm workers. Host Sylvia Richardson speaks to David about how US foreign policies combined with regressive trade agreements have been responsible for displacing millions of people from countries like El Salvador, Haiti and Mexico, and how Trump is adding insult to injury by repealing the TPS Status (Temporary Protected Status) from people who have been living and contributing to American society for many decades. And how as citizens we must stand together and protect those most vulnerable despite who the president is.

David Bacon is a photojournalist, author, political activist, and union organizer who has focused on labor issues, particularly those related to immigrant labor. He has written several books and numerous articles on the subject. His most recent book is In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte: , David Bacon documents the experiences of some of the hardest-working and most disenfranchised laborers in the country: the farm workers who are responsible for making California Americas breadbasket. Combining haunting photographs with the voices of migrant farm workers. Host Sylvia Richardson speaks to David about how US foreign policies combined with regressive trade agreements have been responsible for displacing millions of people from countries like El Salvador, Haiti and Mexico, and how Trump is adding insult to injury by repealing the TPS Status (Temporary Protected Status) from people who have been living and contributing to American society for many decades. And how as citizens we must stand together and protect those most vulnerable despite who the president is.

On this day in 1943, Hollywood actor David Bacon died of a mysterious stab wound while driving his car.

The roundtable takes on the headlines as well, leading to thoughts on Microsoft, Snapchat, and China. Our experts in data science, software engineering, digital transformation, and experience design share perspectives on what will be required for this to work. We get to several places, including an outline of the ethics of data gathering. Join Sue Hallen, David Bacon, Cristene Gonzalez-Wertz, and William Thomas.

0:08 – Over 340 people and staff at San Quentin Prison are now infected with the novel coronavirus. It's thought that California transferred prisoners from the California Institution for Men in Chino, CA without testing them — even though some of the men exhibited symptoms upon arrival. Assemblymember Marc Levine represents the 10th Assembly District, which includes much of the North Bay, and San Quentin. He talks about the series of decisions inside California prisons that led to the outbreak, as well as outcry from family members of those inside. 0:20 – David Bacon, independent journalist covering labor and immgiration, joins us to discuss President Trump's move to cancel guest worker visas — mostly for workers classified as “highly skilled,” as well as landscapers, and not including farmworkers. 0:34 – Writer and accomplished theater artist P. Carl talks about his memoir, Becoming A Man: The Story of a Transition. Photo by Annette Teng The post San Quentin Covid-19 outbreak grows to 342 cases; Trump halts visas for some workers; P. Carl on “Becoming a Man” appeared first on KPFA.

David Bacon, director of finance at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, gives a local perspective on Covid-19. He discusses the impact on community services across the county, as well as how finance teams are re-examining processes as the new business as usual model is developed.

Career Rocket is a joint collaboration between Empathetic Machines and DURMCTarget audience for this episode: digital analysts looking for career tips in various stages of career milestones ranging from just starting out through senior and director level positions.Today’s guest: David Bacon. Digital analytics and optimization leader with a really fun background. David was a military brat (the child of a serviceman) and moved around quite a bit. He attended 5 different 3rd grade schools in 4 states in one year! In addition to being a blackjack dealer and a nationally published cartoonist, he finally settled down and pursued Internet sales and marketing. He has worked most recently for Verizon Wireless leading all digital prepaid sales with record year over year results. He accepted a new opportunity to manage all digital testing and optimization for SunTrust Consumer Digital and is now leading the digital testing, optimization and personalization program for InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG). He has been married for over 20 years and has two teenage daughters.How many people have you managed (includes direct reports and their teams) over your career? 35In your opinion, what characteristics defined the exceptional players vs the not so exceptional? Leadership skills, specifically the ability to see the bigger picture and make decisions consistent with the overall goals not necessarily what benefits the group or the individual. Let’s break down your top advice by career stages:Entry level: 1-3 years (7:35). Consider this the on-the-job training part of your career. Mid career: 3-5 years (14:25). Start to evaluate job breadth (should I continue to acquire new skills to augment my existing job) and/or job depth (how can I apply these skills to reach the next stage of my career)Senior level: 6+ years (14:25). This is the time when you may have to make decisions not only about your career, but also about how you manage your priorities in life. Mgr/Directors: (22:30). Lead, don’t just manage. Get your hands dirty. Teach. Learn. Empower your people.What are habits you have built over the years that have contributed to your success? (29:35). Ask questions. Be bold.What does living abundantly mean to you? (34:26). Living abundantly is being rewarded professionally, personally and spiritually based on these values and how they have shaped my life.If there was one thing you would like to tell someone earlier on in their career that you wish someone had told you, what would it be? Differentiate between noise and what is truly important

As we do this session I am in lockdown with four three year olds and two four and a half year olds, so times are interesting. Dave Bacon is an amazing man and Dad. Dave’s thoughts about Being a Dad are remarkable and his own story is remarkable as well - for instance each his dad, himself and his son were all born in a different century. Dave and his wife Heather have 3 children who are 11 and 7 - he also has twins. Dave is the Founder & CEO of Better With Bacon, recognised as ‘Best Places to Work’, ‘Top 50 Colorado Companies to Watch’ and he has been on the Inc. 5000 fastest growing companies three times. He is an avid skier and very active and holds numerous board positions in altruistic and charity causes. Dave’s father, Ernst Bacon, was a famous composer who had 6 children, 11 grandchildren, 1 great grandchild. Dave was born in 1973. At that time his dad was 45 years his mom’s senior. He was born a great uncle because his sister was already a grandma and of course his niece was older than him. The session is really fun and beautiful. Dave opens up on his own upbringing and all the different perspectives and viewpoints he grew up with in such a unique family setting - think about a 85 trying to parent a ten year old. The overarching theme of his upbringing was always the arts and the beauty of all things. We cover the amazing gift Covid has given us - which is having more time together as families and we talk about how we each handle COVID as families. Dave shares some amazing tips on how he manages to improve his relationship with his children and I have to say he seems like an extraordinary human. For instance the one time his 8 year old had the idea of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro for a fundraiser for a local school, two years later they did just that - and raised USD 103.000. A simple idea became something amazing. Dave also shares how his kids and the family deal with death, how he tried to solidify his kids' impact on himself and how the arts and music impacts their lives on a daily basis. The most powerful takeaways for me as a dad where: Mandate your children to participate in the arts. Keep a field note for each child, don’t date the entries, give it to them later in life. This way they will know the impact they had on you and the world around them in a powerful way. Show your vulnerability to your kids. Make sure they understand you, too make mistakes, all the time. 1.000.000 seconds are 11 days, 1.000.000.000 are 31 years. Our children are multiple time billionaires which is a lovely concept! Kids must know that their ideas matter and also that their ideas are actionable. Allowing my kids ideas into my life is a great excuse to celebrate our relationship. Get everybody to write down three things they are grateful for and read it out over dinner. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dadicateddotcom/message

David Bacon is a photojournalist, author, political activist, and union organizer who has focused on labor issues, particularly those related to immigrant labor. He has written several books and numerous articles on the subject. His most recent book is In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte: , David Bacon documents the experiences of some of the hardest-working and most disenfranchised laborers in the country: the farm workers who are responsible for making California Americas breadbasket. Combining haunting photographs with the voices of migrant farm workers. Host Sylvia Richardson speaks to David about how US foreign policies combined with regressive trade agreements have been responsible for displacing millions of people from countries like El Salvador, Haiti and Mexico, and how Trump is adding insult to injury by repealing the TPS Status (Temporary Protected Status) from people who have been living and contributing to American society for many decades. And how as citizens we must stand together and protect those most vulnerable despite who the president is.

Today on Sojourner Truth: For the first time in U.S. history, farmworkers are now listed as essential workers. Are they being protected? Why is Donald Trump cutting their pay? Our guest is David Bacon, a California-based writer and photojournalist. He recently published an article for The American Prospect titled, "Americas Farmworkers: Now 'Essential,' but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits." COVID-19 and mass incarceration. Prisons are increasingly becoming hot spots for the deadly virus. What's going on? Our guests are Daryl Atkinson and Susan Burton. Daryl Atkinson is Co-Director of Forward Justice, a non-partisan law, policy and strategy center dedicated to advancing racial, social and economic justice in the U.S. South. Susan Burton is the founder of A New Way of Life and is also a steering committee member for the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement. For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Joseph Williams about the Los Angeles Unified School District's recent decision on grades for students amid the coronavirus crisis. Joseph is the Director of Operations and Campaigns at Students Deserve, an organization of students, teachers, and parents working for justice in and beyond schools.

Today on Sojourner Truth: For the first time in U.S. history, farmworkers are now listed as essential workers. Are they being protected? Why is Donald Trump cutting their pay? Our guest is David Bacon, a California-based writer and photojournalist. He recently published an article for The American Prospect titled, "Americas Farmworkers: Now 'Essential,' but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits." COVID-19 and mass incarceration. Prisons are increasingly becoming hot spots for the deadly virus. What's going on? Our guests are Daryl Atkinson and Susan Burton. Daryl Atkinson is Co-Director of Forward Justice, a non-partisan law, policy and strategy center dedicated to advancing racial, social and economic justice in the U.S. South. Susan Burton is the founder of A New Way of Life and is also a steering committee member for the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement. For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Joseph Williams about the Los Angeles Unified School District's recent decision on grades for students amid the coronavirus crisis. Joseph is the Director of Operations and Campaigns at Students Deserve, an organization of students, teachers, and parents working for justice in and beyond schools.

Today on Sojourner Truth: For the first time in U.S. history, farmworkers are now listed as essential workers. Are they being protected? Why is Donald Trump cutting their pay? Our guest is David Bacon, a California-based writer and photojournalist. He recently published an article for The American Prospect titled, "Americas Farmworkers: Now 'Essential,' but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits." COVID-19 and mass incarceration. Prisons are increasingly becoming hot spots for the deadly virus. What's going on? Our guests are Daryl Atkinson and Susan Burton. Daryl Atkinson is Co-Director of Forward Justice, a non-partisan law, policy and strategy center dedicated to advancing racial, social and economic justice in the U.S. South. Susan Burton is the founder of A New Way of Life and is also a steering committee member for the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement. For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Joseph Williams about the Los Angeles Unified School District's recent decision on grades for students amid the coronavirus crisis. Joseph is the Director of Operations and Campaigns at Students Deserve, an organization of students, teachers, and parents working for justice in and beyond schools.

Today on Sojourner Truth: For the first time in U.S. history, farmworkers are now listed as essential workers. Are they being protected? Why is Donald Trump cutting their pay? Our guest is David Bacon, a California-based writer and photojournalist. He recently published an article for The American Prospect titled, "Americas Farmworkers: Now 'Essential,' but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits." COVID-19 and mass incarceration. Prisons are increasingly becoming hot spots for the deadly virus. What's going on? Our guests are Daryl Atkinson and Susan Burton. Daryl Atkinson is Co-Director of Forward Justice, a non-partisan law, policy and strategy center dedicated to advancing racial, social and economic justice in the U.S. South. Susan Burton is the founder of A New Way of Life and is also a steering committee member for the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement. For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Joseph Williams about the Los Angeles Unified School District's recent decision on grades for students amid the coronavirus crisis. Joseph is the Director of Operations and Campaigns at Students Deserve, an organization of students, teachers, and parents working for justice in and beyond schools.

Today on Sojourner Truth: For the first time in U.S. history, farmworkers are now listed as essential workers. Are they being protected? Why is Donald Trump cutting their pay? Our guest is David Bacon, a California-based writer and photojournalist. He recently published an article for The American Prospect titled, "Americas Farmworkers: Now 'Essential,' but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits." COVID-19 and mass incarceration. Prisons are increasingly becoming hot spots for the deadly virus. What's going on? Our guests are Daryl Atkinson and Susan Burton. Daryl Atkinson is Co-Director of Forward Justice, a non-partisan law, policy and strategy center dedicated to advancing racial, social and economic justice in the U.S. South. Susan Burton is the founder of A New Way of Life and is also a steering committee member for the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement. For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Joseph Williams about the Los Angeles Unified School District's recent decision on grades for students amid the coronavirus crisis. Joseph is the Director of Operations and Campaigns at Students Deserve, an organization of students, teachers, and parents working for justice in and beyond schools.

Cenk Uygur is running for California's 25th congressional district. Keith And The Girl celebrate their podcast's 15th anniversary. Timothy Ulrich from China Global Television Network reports from Beijing. The Reverend Barry W. Lynn donates to Bernie but ponders Bloomberg. Senator Susan Collins (Martha Previte) drops by. Dr. Jennifer Verdolin on animal romance. David "Citizen" Bacon talks with New Hampshire's Secretary of State Bill Gardner. And Liam and David answer listener mail. The creator of The Young Turks describes how he went from a Republican to a rabid Bernie supporter. Our reporter in Beijing says the Coronavirus is more a public relations disaster than a health crisis. Keith And The Girl reveal the secrets to a successful podcast. Why Mike Bloomberg is a disaster for Democrats, New York, and America. New Hampshire's Bill Gardner is America's longest serving Secretary of State. How animals romance each other. David celebrates Valentines Day by reminding listeners that it's called "courting" because eventually it ends up in court. Liam and David answer listener questions. If you’ve always wanted to tell me a joke, give me a piece of your mind, or confess your sins to my listeners, this is your chance. Leave me a voicemail at 202-670-2752 and maybe I’ll play it on the show. Maybe. Allow me to stress that. Time Code: Timothy Ulrich (0:41) Cenk Uygur (13:25) The Reverend Barry W. Lynn ( 54:34) Senator Susan Collins (Martha Previte) (2:21:45) Keith And The Girl (2:31:31) Dr. Jennifer Verdolin (3:39:49) David Bacon (4:19:23) Liam McEneaney (4:57:51) 

Farmworker justice groups are split in terms of supporting or opposing this new piece of legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for some undocumented workers, mandate farmers electronically verify worker legal status, and make changes to the H-2A guestworker program. In this episode, California writer and photojournalist David Bacon (author of In the Fields of the North) joins host Lisa Held to talk about his reporting on the proposed bill and how the history of farm workforce programs in the US provides insight into the future.Image courtesy of David Bacon.The Farm Report is powered by Simplecast.  

Down With Tyranny's Howie Klein turns against Elizabeth Warren; Senator Susan Collins (Martha Previte) is drunk; Yuk Yuk's Mark Breslin talks Prince Harry, Meg and The Oscars; Jacobin's Professor Ben Burgis; Deina Abdelkader Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell explains Iran; Comedian Laura House; Peabody and Emmy Award Winning Jim Earl; David "Citizen" Bacon. Time Code: Professor Deina Abdelkader (0:49) Howie Klein (33:58) Senator Susan Collins (1:06:01) Mark Breslin (1:23:12) Professor Ben Burgis (2:08:54) Laura House (2:59:53) Jim Earl (3:22:41) David Bacon (3:52:33)

Professor Simon F. Haeder offers a primer on Medicare For All; Congressman Alan Grayson author of “High Crimes: The Impeachment of Donald Trump;” Congressman Ted Lieu's Chief-of-Staff Marc Cevasco; David "Citizen" Bacon talks to Tulsi, Klobuchar and gets into it with Joe Walsh; The Rev. Barry W. Lynn warns Pelosi not to trust the senate; Dr. Jennifer Verdolin on how animals self medicate; Comedian Kevin Bartini;  Liam McEneaney insults our listeners.  Citizen Bacon captures Tulsi Gabbard dropping the F Bomb. Congressman Alan Grayson explains Iran. Professor Simon F. Haeder explains the healthcare debate. Marc Cevasco brings us up to date on impeachment and Nancy Pelosi's resolution to stop war in Iran. Dr. Jennifer Verdolin explains why we kiss. Kevin Bartini explains the three stages of being a Floridian. Liam and David answer listener questions. Time Code: Professor Simon F. Haeder (0:40) Congressman Alan Grayson (35:36) Marc Cevasco (1:23:07) David Bacon (2:06:48) The Rev. Barry W. Lynn (3:02:18) Dr. Jennifer Verdolin (3:50:50) Kevin Bartini (4:38:30) Liam McEneaney (5:12:59) 

Is it World War Three? We talk with Prof. Klaus W. Larres, Ph.D., who is the Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC.; Senator Susan Collins (Martha Previte) stops by; Comedian Laura House talks about going to a strip club with her boss; Professor Ben Burgis from Jacobin and author of "Give Them An Argument: Logic For The Left"; Citizen Bacon on the ground covering the New Hampshire presidential primaries; Marc Breslin the founder and president of Yuk Yuk's talks about the early days of Canadian comedy; Emmy and Peabody Award Winning Comedy Writer Jim Earl. Time Code: Prof. Klaus W. Larres (0:41) Marc Breslin (40:31) Senator Susan Collins (1:21:47) Professor Ben Burgis (1:31:40) Laura House (2:17:11) Jim Earl (3:30:21) David Bacon (4:02:46)

Washington Post's Helaine Olen; Animal Behaviorist Dr. Jennifer Verdolin; The Rev. Barry W. Lynn; Comic Liam McEneaney and Listener of The Month Lane Thomas Hewitt. Billionaires play the victim card. How animals care for other animals with a cold. Liam and David answer listener questions. Our Listener of the month Lane Thomas Hewitt. David Bacon attends an Amy Klobuchar press gaggle. Time Code: Helaine Olen (0:40) Dr. Jennifer Verdolin (22:49) The Rev. Barry W. Lynn (1:16:24) David "Citizen" Bacon (2:23:21) Liam McEneaney (3:49:28) Lane Thomas Hewitt (4:30:01)

Congressman Alan Grayson's latest book is "HIGH CRIMES: The Impeachment of Donald Trump;" Professor Harvey J. Kaye, his latest book is "Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again;" Down With Tyranny's Howie Klein; Citizen Journalist David Bacon; Comedy Writer Dave Sirus. Purchase Congressman Grayson's book over at Congressman Alan Grayson on the history of impeachment. Professor Harvey J. Kaye talks Brexit. Howie Klein gives us the headcount for Wednesday's impeachment. David Bacon talks to Secretary of State John Kerry. Dave Sirus relates the precise moment David was no longer his hero. Time Code: David "Citizen" Bacon (:40) Howie Klein (28:23) David Bacon Part Two (1:07:03) Congressman Alan Grayson (1:36:29) Professor Harvey J. Kaye (2:22:29) Dave Sirus (3:14:31) 

Professor Corey Brettschneider author of "The Oath And The Office: A Guide To The Constitution For Future Presidents"; David "Citizen" Bacon reports from New Hampshire; Dr. Jennifer Verdolin author of "Raised By Animals" and "Wild Connection"; Comedian Liam McEneaney whose latest comedy CD is "Working Class Fancy." David "Citizen" Bacon talks to Andrew Yang, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Tulsi, Mayor Pete and Michael Bennet. Professor Corey Brettschneider explains the two articles of impeachment, and suggests a third. Dr. Jennifer Verdolin talks killer whales, fruit flies, and what it means when your cat makes a chirping sound. David and Liam answer listener mail. Time Code: Professor Corey Brettschneider (0:05) David Bacon (38:36) Dr. Jennifer Verdolin (1:40:33) Liam McEneaney (2:39:21)

Professor Harvey J. Kaye, Howie Klein, Jim Earl, Aaron Berg, Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, Martha Previte does Susan Collins, and David "Citizen Journalist" Bacon. Senator Susan Collins phones in The latest polls show Bernie's up, way up Why are more African Americans supporting Trump? What does it mean to be a radical? Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling with 30 of the funniest jokes you'll ever hear Aaron Berg still hates his wife Adolf sits in with Jim, and they disagree over Mayor Pete David Bacon talks to young voters Time Code: Senator Susan Collins (0:42) Howie Klein (9:53.7) Professor Harvey J. Kaye (57:30) Jim Earl (2:11:51) Aaron Berg (3:54:30) David Bacon (4:24:32) Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling (4:54:34)

Washington Post's Helaine Olen; Teacher, Civil Rights Lawyer and 2018 Democratic nominee for #TX10 running again for 2020 Mike Siegel; Citizen Journalist David Bacon; Professor Ben Burgis; Dr. Jennifer Verdolin; Comic Liam McEneaney. Governor Deval Patrick's private equity problem. Senator Elizabeth Warren an elitist? Mike Siegel almost went to Congress in 2018, he's winning in 2020. We're stalking presidential candidates in New Hampshire. Professor Ben Burgis pokes holes in Michael Bloomberg. How do dolphins sleep? Liam and David answer listener mail. Time Code: Helaine Olen (0:41.1) Mike Siegel (41:54.8) David Bacon (1:17:07) Professor Ben Burgis (1:48:01) Dr. Jennifer Verdolin (2:26:16) Liam McEneaney (3:02:16)

Michael Brooks, Professor Harvey J. Kaye, Howie Klein, Joe DeVito, Mark Breslin and Laura House. Plus our new New Hampshire roving reporter David Bacon. Lula is out of prison. Evo Morales is out of office. Is American democracy on the brink? The world's oldest married couple. The virtue of cowardice. Time Code: Howie Klein (0:41.1) Professor Harvey J. Kaye (49:24.1) Michael Brooks (1:47:42) Joe DeVito (2:33:06) Mark Breslin (3:39:21) Laura House (4:11:22) David Bacon (5:44:59)

A life of privilege wasn’t enough to keep David Bacon aka The Masked Marvel from being killed. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drunkgossip/support

David Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people driving them to migrate. He also speaks about how immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why current immigration policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society.

How does Germany remember and honor those who fought fascism, and where does the U.S. stand in comparison? David Bacon reports on the monuments he visited and the courageous and often radical people they commemorate. Bacon also traveled to the once-majestic Salton Sea in California, where dust pollution from the receding shoreline is making farmworkers and their children sick. The Reality Check: Stories and Photographs by David Bacon David Bacon, In the Fields of the North / En Los Campos del Norte University of California Press, 2017 The post Remembering Anti-Fascists; The Salton Sea appeared first on KPFA.

Actor David Bacon was driving erratically down the road looking for help, a knife was plunged into his back and pierced his lung. He didn’t have long. He crashes into the curb and climbs out of the car as onlookers approach. Before he is able to tell them what happened… he dies. Subscribe now to our new podcast HOSTAGE, featuring the riveting story of Patty Hearst's abduction by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Sponsors! Amazon Prime - Season 1 is available now. Watch the New Season of Lore October 19, only on Prime Video. Caffé Monster - Available in Vanilla, Mocha, and Salted Caramel. Chill it down, Shake it up, Enjoy! FabFitFun - Go to FabFitFun.com and use code UNSOLVED to get $10 off your first FabFitFun box! Living Proof - Visit LivingProof.com/UNSOLVED and use promo code UNSOLVED to get a free sample of their award-winning dry shampoo with your purchase. Third Love - Go to ThirdLove.com/UNSOLVED now to find your perfect-fitting bra and get 15% off your first purchase!

The career story of a real professional who worked his way through the radio industry, expanded his horizons via a role in tobacco before returning home to the Central Coast where he has done great things for a number of community organisations

What do you want to get out of your internship? We look at setting goals, getting feedback and navigating office politics. Are you business mature? Do you need a mentor to figure that out? What do employers want out of you, we have a list of seven things.Hosts, Buffy Gorrilla and Ben Pawson, talk to interns about their goals for their internship and what they want to get out of it. Plus what do they tell their supervisor they want to achieve - it might be different things… We help you navigate all the different office personalities and revel how often they think about you! We debunk imposter syndrome and explore ways of asking for things, one of the secrets of getting the most out of your internship.And if you have any stories about office politics or business maturity to share send them to: starting-somewhere@unimelb.com.au We would love to hear from you. Some of the companies and websites we mentioned in this episode:BMW Asia https://www.bmw-asia.com/en/all-models Keep Left PRhttps://keepleft.com.auAmericorpshttps://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps LinkedIn Australiahttps://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin/life/ STAKE - Fintec company allowing Aus investor to buy USA shares.https://stake.com.auUniversity of Melbourne Masters of Entrepreneurshiphttp://study.mbs.unimelb.edu.au/study/degrees/master-of-entrepreneurship/overview The 7 work skills that can make you more marketable to employers in 2018https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/work-skills-2018-1217 MOOCS - A directory of australian MOOCShttps://www.mooc-list.com/tags/business NAB, and their several channels of internships.https://www.nab.com.au/about-us/careersCareer Trackershttp://www.careertrackers.org.au/ Contributors: This episodes features contributions from the following people and organizations. Hayley Smedding and Rebecca Ashton of Tandem Partners HRhttps://www.tandempartners.com.au/meet-the-team Julia Jansen, Senior Finance Manager at HitFox Group, Berlinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/juliakjansen/ University of Melbourne Counselling and Psychological serviceshttps://services.unimelb.edu.au/counsel/resources Mary Trumble, Client Solutions Manager, LinkedIn Australiahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/marytrumble/ Dan Silver, COO Stake, Fintech startuphttps://stake.com.au/ Professor Colin McLeod https://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person82179 Rem Tzambasis of NAB, manager, Strategic Partners and Programshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rem-tzambazis-86b47930/Michelle Lau, Intern at Keep Left PR, Melbourne.https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-lau-95884b124/ Hamish Taylor, reporter at the Herald Sun. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrhamishtaylor/ Linda Edvardsdottirhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-edvardsdottir-68b531117/ David Bacon, UX Designer, Telstra Healthhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/david-bacon-82a7532b Professor Glyn Davis AC, Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne https://about.unimelb.edu.au/leadership/vice-chancellor/prof-glyn-davis Alexandra Alvaro, Student reporter at Student Youth Network (SYN)https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-alvaro-050064108/ Credits: Starting Somewhere is produced by the University of Melbourne Producers: Buffy Gorilla, Ben Pawson, Supervising Producer and original concept: Dr Andi Horvath,Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne. Following a successful internship, Buffy is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also the producer for the Masterclass podcast from the University of Melbourne Centre for Advancing Journalism.Ben Pawson is a communications professional that helps organisations and leaders connect to their stories. With experience across the education, arts, disability, science communication and technology sectors he did an internship in fundraising in Scotland after an MBA in France before that worked on blue chip design and marketing projects before changing careers.

David Bacon is an Award-winning photojournalist, author, and immigrant rights activist he has spent over twenty years as a labor organizer. For the past two decades he has been a reporter and documentary photographer, shooting for many national publications and independent projects, and exhibiting his work internationally. Bacon’s books include The Children of NAFTA, Communities without Borders, Illegal People (Beacon, 2008), and The Right to Stay Home (Beacon, 2013) Sylvia interviews David on this newest book “The Right to Stay Home, How Us Policy Drives Mexican Migration” journalist David Bacon tells the story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities. Bacon shows how immigrant communities are fighting back—envisioning a world in which migration isn’t forced by poverty or environmental destruction and people are guaranteed the “right to stay home.” This richly detailed and comprehensive portrait of immigration reveals how the interconnected web of labor, migration, and the global economy unites farmers, migrant workers, and union organizers across borders.

David Bacon is an Award-winning photojournalist, author, and immigrant rights activist he has spent over twenty years as a labor organizer. For the past two decades he has been a reporter and documentary photographer, shooting for many national publications and independent projects, and exhibiting his work internationally. Bacon’s books include The Children of NAFTA, Communities without Borders, Illegal People (Beacon, 2008), and The Right to Stay Home (Beacon, 2013) Sylvia interviews David on this newest book “The Right to Stay Home, How Us Policy Drives Mexican Migration” journalist David Bacon tells the story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities. Bacon shows how immigrant communities are fighting back—envisioning a world in which migration isn’t forced by poverty or environmental destruction and people are guaranteed the “right to stay home.” This richly detailed and comprehensive portrait of immigration reveals how the interconnected web of labor, migration, and the global economy unites farmers, migrant workers, and union organizers across borders.

How does Germany remember and honor those who fought fascism, and where does the U.S. stand in comparison? David Bacon reports on the monuments he visited and the courageous and often radical people they commemorate. Bacon also traveled to the once-majestic Salton Sea in California, where dust pollution from the receding shoreline is making farmworkers and their children sick. The Reality Check: Stories and Photographs by David Bacon David Bacon, In the Fields of the North / En Los Campos del Norte University of California Press, 2017 The post Remembering Anti-Fascists; The Salton Sea appeared first on KPFA.

September 12, 1943. Los Angeles, California. David Bacon, a 29-year old actor who has just played the title character in the serial drama “The Masked Marvel”, tells his wife he is planning to go swimming and leaves their home. Later that afternoon, Bacon’s car is seen driving erratically before it jumps a curb and crashes into a bean field. After Bacon stumbles out of the car and dies, a fatal knife wound is discovered in his back. The investigation would uncover numerous clues to suggest Bacon was leading a secret double life, such as a coded diary, a rented apartment and unexplained trips to Venice Beach. However, there would be no answers about who actually murdered him. For our special one-year anniversary show of “The Trail Went Cold”, we shall be examining one of Hollywood`s most baffling unsolved mysteries. A special thanks to one of our listeners, Esther Gamez, for providing the cover art for this episode. Be sure to check out Esther's Facebook and Tumblr pages to see more of her artwork. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bacon_(actor) https://ladailymirror.com/2013/10/02/the-masked-marvel-murder-part-1/ https://ladailymirror.com/2013/11/06/the-masked-marvel-murder-part-11/ https://ladailymirror.com/2013/11/07/the-masked-marvel-murder-part-12/ http://www.tomchristopher.com/miscellaneous2/who-killed-the-masked-marvel/ Click here to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Click here to listen to the podcast on Stitcher. Click here to subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Music. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

This podcast was recorded in late November 2015 at Cynthia Jurs' "kiva" in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Originally meant to be a recorded discussion between Charles and David Abram (philosopher/author of The Spell of the Sensuous andBecoming Animal), what arose was a round-table discussion with all of the participants (listed below). We divided the conversation into two, one-hour segments: Part I touches on many different topics including: urgency and scarcity; biological determinism; eros, compassion, and beauty; intellectual and academic silos; our cultural legacy for future generations; complexity and simplicity; human-generated meaning vs. received meaning, and the importance of reclaiming language. Part II is a multi-faceted discussion on the topic of indigineity, the imposition of the written word on oral culture, as well as a discussion on the metaphysics of separation. Participants include (other than Charles): Cynthia Jurs, David Abram, Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining), Lyla June Johnson, David Bacon, Elizabeth Christine, Michelle Victoria, Joanna Harcourt Smith, Jose Luis Gomez Solar, and Hugh Wheir You can join our community or subscribe to the podcast on NewandAncientStory.net.

This podcast was recorded in late November 2015 at Cynthia Jurs' "kiva" in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Originally meant to be a recorded discussion between Charles and David Abram (philosopher/author of The Spell of the Sensuous andBecoming Animal), what arose was a round-table discussion with all of the participants (listed below). We divided the conversation into two, one-hour segments: Part I touches on many different topics including: urgency and scarcity; biological determinism; eros, compassion, and beauty; intellectual and academic silos; our cultural legacy for future generations; complexity and simplicity; human-generated meaning vs. received meaning, and the importance of reclaiming language. Part II is a multi-faceted discussion on the topic of indigineity, the imposition of the written word on oral culture, as well as a discussion on the metaphysics of separation. Participants include (other than Charles): Cynthia Jurs, David Abram, Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining), Lyla June Johnson, David Bacon, Elizabeth Christine, Michelle Victoria, Joanna Harcourt Smith, Jose Luis Gomez Solar, and Hugh Wheir You can join our community or subscribe to the podcast on NewandAncientStory.net.

David Bacon explains that what the US government and the governments of other rich industrialized countries do through their actions and policies towards poorer and developing countries is, in fact, designed to benefit the economies and large corporations of those “developed” countries and that these actions and policies often lead to what he refers to as “forced migration”. The policies of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) are terrible for working people of poor countries. In fact, the workers in both North and South America lost out with NAFTA. Workers in the U.S. lost when 800 jobs went to Mexico and Mexico lost a million jobs. Another way in which NAFTA creates poverty, for example, is that it allows U.S. corporations such as the huge food corporation of Archer Daniel Midlands to dump its products on the Mexican market at a very low price thus undercutting the price of local corn that has been grown by s¬¬mall farmers for centuries. As a result the local corn farmers have to go elsewhere to get money to feed their families. They often migrate to cities, to the U.S. and to the maquilladores --factories along the U.S.-Mexican border, which pay little and often mistreat workers. From 1994 when NAFTA went into effect until now about six million people have come to the U.S. from Mexico because there was no other way for their families to survive. Corporations want this flow of “cheap labor” because they profit from it but they want it in a certain controlled way in which people leave if they aren’t working and have no rights while they do work in the U.S. Twelve million people are now in the U.S. without visas and therefore have no political or labor rights. “Illegal” means you’re without rights and can be controlled. The same was true for the Chinese, Japanese and Filipino immigrants of the past. Notice as well the inherent racism, the stereotypes of “illegal” people are overwhelmingly people of color. The Real ID Act and the Patriot Act make working outside of federal recruitment plans mean one will go to prison, as thousands of people do. There is a court in Tucson, Arizona where so-called “illegals” are brought in wearing chains, and then approximately seventy people a day from this group go to federal prison, thus making an example of them for the others. Local police and immigrations authorities work together—e.g., police set up roadblocks looking for driver’s licenses in the attempt to identify and arrest immigrants.To contact David Bacon: dbacon@igc.orgRecorded in February 2009

David Bacon, author of Illegal People, and Michelle Wucker, author of Lockout (and director of WPI) on immigration; Sara Roy on the horrors of Gaza.   The post Behind the News with Doug Henwood – January 10, 2009 at 10:00am appeared first on KPFA.