David Bacon Stories & Photographs

Immigrants

Stories

2010

EVEN WITHOUT ARIZONA'S LAW, IMMIGRANT WORKERS FACE FIRINGS AND WORSE

WE NEED A BETTER ALTERNATIVE

2009

SHOULD WE DEFEND UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS?

MASS FIRINGS -- THE NEW FACE OF IMMIGRATION RAIDS

"WE MADE THEM MILLIONS AND THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT INSURANCE"

"ILLEGALS" OF THE WORLD UNITE?

IMMIGRATION REFORM: WHAT'S LABOR UP TO?

CRIMINALS BECAUSE WE WORKED

RIGHTS, NOT RAIDS

WHY WORKERS WILL FILL THE STREETS THIS MAY DAY

2008

CHANGE IMMIGRANTS AND LABOR CAN BELIEVE IN

RAILROADING IMMIGRANTS

HOW DO YOU SAY JUSTICE IN MIXTECO?

THE RIGHT TO STAY HOME

"WE ARE WORKERS, NOT CRIMINALS"

MISSISSIPPI WORKERS FIGHT RACIAL DIVISIONS AFTER COUNTRY'S LARGEST IMMIGRATION RAID

BLACK AND BROWN TOGETHER

2007

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MIGRATION

NO JUSTICE WITH NO-MATCH RULE

BUSH'S IMMIGRATION CLAMPDOWN

TIME TO BUILD A STRONGER, MORE RADICAL MOVEMENT

WHO KILLED THE IMMIGRATION BILL, AND WHO WANTS IT TO COME BACK?

TRADING ON MIGRANT LABOR

THE REAL POLITICAL PURPOSE OF THE ICE RAIDS

GUEST WORKERS FIRED AFTER PROTESTING SLAVELIKE CONDITIONS

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

WORKERS, NOT GUESTS

CHRISTMAS AT WOODFIN SUITES - WHEN WORKING BECAME A CRIME

PROPOSED CONCEPTS FOR IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION - 110TH CONGRESS

2006

JUSTICE DEPORTED

NO FRUITS FOR THEIR LABOR

NO BILL IS BETTER

THE VOICES OF IMMIGRANTS MUST BE HEARD

CONGRESS MUST FACE REALITY – IMMIGRANTS WANT EQUALITY

EQUALITY, OR NOT

DIVIDED WE FALL

2005

THE BORDER IS A COMMON GROUND BETWEEN US

TIME TO SAY NO

CITIZENS OF THE WORLD

AND THE WINNER IS...

UNITING AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND IMMIGRANTS

TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES REDEFINE CITIZENSHIP
FOR A GLOBALIZED WORLD

2004

HOW US CORPORATIONS WON THE DEBATE OVER IMMIGRATION

BE OUR GUESTS

COLLISION OVER FARM WORKER LEGALIZATION

BRITAIN’S WAR OVER MANAGED MIGRATION

2003

SCREENED OUT

pre-2003

After 9/11, Immigrant Workers In the Crosshairs (12/15/02)

For Justice, They Need Us: the story of an immigrant organizer (9/11/02)

Fast Track To The Past: Is A New Bracero Program In Our Future? (and what was life like under the old one?) (8/8/02)

 Who Will Do The Work? (5/10/02)

Braceros Or Amnesty? (7/22/01)

Fourteen Dead on the Border - For What? (6/5/01)

The Story of a Bracero (4/18/01)

Bondage Or Freedom? The Debate Over Immigration Between Labor and the Republican Right (2/5/01)

El Valiente Chicano (1/19/01)

Workers Need Immigration Amnesty, Not Contract Labor
(10/27/00)

Why Labor Needs to Organize and Defend the Rights of Immigrant Workers (9/1/00)

Los Angeles Turns Out for Amnesty (6/12/00)

The Story of a Garment Worker (6/12/00)

What Does LION Stand For?

On Immigration, The AFL-CIO Gets It Right

 Immigrant Workers Ask Labor - "Which Side Are You On?" (11/18/99)

The Law That Keeps Workers Chained (10/2/99)

 Ethnic Cleansing in Nebraska (7/19/99)

Asthmatown (1/31/99)

Immigration Law - Bringing Back Sweatshop Conditions (11/10/98)

Paolo Friere Hits LA's Mean Streets (10/5/98)

Electricity Deregulation - The Myth of the Free Market (7/1/98)

An Immigration Policy Based on Human Rights (2/2/98)

Silicon Sludge (10/29/97)

Recycling - Not So Green to Its Neighbors (9/10/97)

 It Can't Happen Here? (4/9/97)

The Escape of a Domestic Worker (10/22/96)

Are Undocumented Workers Being Thrown to the Wolves? (4/11/96)

Immigrant Workers Fight to Run Local 399 (9/16/95)

Gone Fishin' -- plantin' those grass roots in the water... (6/10/95)

The Mountain of Concrete (12/28/94)

The Clinton Immigration Reforms - Bending Before the Anti-Immigrant Wind (2/27/94)

From Ilopango to Pomona (8/25/93)

Photographs

A New Indigenous Community in Taft

Mixtec Farm Workers of Lamont and Taft

Triqui Dancers and Musicians

Hollister Labor Camps

Los Angeles Day Labor Centers

Triqui Farm Workers at Work

Triqui Farm Workers at Home

Santa Maria Mixtecos at Home

Santa Maria Mixtecos & Zapotecos at Work

Mixtec Migrants in Los Peñasquitos Canyon

Living Under the Trees in San Diego and Sonoma

A Mixtec Family Near Fresno - Picking Bell Peppers

A Mixtec Family Near Fresno - At Home

Sacramento Valley's Indigenous Olive Pickers and Labor Camps

Picking Raisins and Asian Vegetables in Fresno

Indigenous Migrants in Fresno, Selma and Raisin City

Mixtec Migrants in Fresno Celebrate San Miguel

Indigenous Dancers at the Guelagetza

Triqui Workers Pick Squash and Cherry Tomatoes in Fairfield

Salnias Valley - Cutting Broccoli and Separating Watermelon Flowers

Salnias Valley -
Triquis and Mixtecos

Santa Rosa Camp and Fiesta

Limoneros Purepechas and Nahuatls

Santa Paula Lemon Groves

Oaxacan Fiesta in Santa Maria

Indigenous Onion Workers in Arvin

Coachella Grape Pickers

Oxnard Strawberry Workers

Freseros y Floreros

Del Mar Camp

Coachella Labor Camps

Protesting Arizona's Racist Law

May Day Marches - 2008

Woodfin Workers No-Match Protests

May Day Marches - 2007

East Bay Immigrant Workers Fight for their Rights

Labor Day March for Amnesty

May Day March - LA

March for Amnesty and Equality

Immigrant Rights Vigil and March

Airport Workers Food Distribution

Guadalupana Procession in New York City

Immigrant Laundry Workers

Immigrants Gallery, Part 1

Immigrants Gallery, Part 2

 

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