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Photo Essay
Making a Life, but Not a Living in the Fields: Lucrecia Camacho’s Story
The work is hard, the wages are barely a living, but it is a life for many.
Historic 1911 Garment District Fire Is Invoked at Protest Over Deadly Blaze in Bangladesh Clothing Factory Linked to Walmart
#Blocktheboat brings thumbs up from truckers at Walmart/Bangladesh Fire protest.
American Gallery: There is No One Face of Hunger
The numbers of hungry Americans is striking; Bacon's photos give them a face.
Vanishing Glaciers, Then and Now
These pairs of images show the transformation of glaciers in Switzerland, Canada, Iceland and Greenland since 2006.
Demonstrators Confront Wells Fargo Shareholders
(Photos by David Bacon)On Tuesday, April 24 in San Francisco, thousands of angry homeowners, immigrants, union members, Occupiers and community groups converged on the annual shareholders meeting of Wells …
Photo Essay: Chicago Spring Takes the Streets
Chicago Spring, April 7, 2012. (Photo: sierraromeo [sarah-ji]) Though it's been a temperate winter, things are heating up in Chicago. With only weeks to go until May Day and …
Immigrant Steel Workers March Against Unjust Firings
Pacific Steel workers march through Berkeley. (Photo: David Bacon) Berkeley, California - Two hundred immigrant workers, their wives, husbands, children and hundreds of supporters marched through downtown …
Oaxaca’s “Occupier” Refugees Face Roadblocks on the Way Home
Indigenous Triqui children march through the streets of Oaxaca on December 19, 2011, to protest a wave of killings in their home community of San Juan Copala. (Photo: David …
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Revolution
(Photo: Lance Page / Truthout) 1. Entrance October 28 The man sitting behind the chain barrier between Portland, Oregon's Lownsdale Square and …
Unions and Immigrants Join Occupy Movements
Southern California janitors block the streets to protest the firing of immigrant workers. (Photo: David Bacon) Oakland, California - When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp "Planton …