The Common Ills: 2025-08-24

IN CAMPS, UNDER TREES AND EVICTED

Farmworkers and people living close to the line in Northern California

An exhibition of photographs by David Bacon

September 13 - December 1
Reception: Saturday, September 13, 2025
6 - 7:30 p.m.

Peter J. Shields Library, UC Davis
First Floor
100 North West Quad, Davis, CA 95616

Shield Library Parking: UCD Parking Lot 10

EN CAMPAMENTOS, BAJO LOS ÁRBOLES Y DESALOJADOS

Trabajadores agrícolas y personas que viven cerca de la línea en el norte de California

Una exposición de fotografías de David Bacon

13 de septiembre - 1 de diciembre
Recepción: sábado 13 de septiembre de 2025
6 - 7:30 pm

Biblioteca Peter J. Shields, UC Davis
Primer piso
100 North West Quad, Davis, CA 95616

Estacionamiento de la Biblioteca Shield: Estacionamiento UCD Lote 10

Saturday, September 13, 2025

6 - 7:30 p.m. (in-person session)

First Floor, Peter J. Shields Library, UC Davis

100 North West Quad, Davis, CA 95616

(see location on Google Maps or UC Davis campus map)

Shield Library Parking: UCD Parking Lot 10

(see location on UC Davis campus map)

Join us for the opening reception for In Camps, Under Trees and Evicted: Farmworkers and People Living Close to the Line in Northern California, an exhibition of photography by acclaimed photojournalist David Bacon. Over 35 years, Bacon has captured the often-invisible lives of farmworkers and working-class communities, showcasing their resilience, struggles, and movements for justice. This powerful collection offers a window into their fight for decent living conditions, fair wages, and legal immigration status. The evening will include a Q&A session with David Bacon, providing an opportunity to hear firsthand about his experiences documenting these stories and his hopes for inspiring a new generation of documentary artists and activists. Don't miss this chance to engage with this powerful artwork and the artist behind it.

Please contact Joseph de Groot with any questions.

Follow UC Davis School of Law online!

UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW

400 Mrak Hall Drive | Davis, CA 95616

law.ucdavis.edu

"The Military Response to Sanctuary Cities and Immigrants' Right to Work
Letters and Politics: Mitch Jeserich interviews David Bacon:
KPFA, June 10, 2025
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-10-2025/

Immigrant Workers and the Recent History of Immigration Raids
A presentation by David Bacon at the UCLA Latin American Institute, with photographs and transcript.
3/11/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FlsyWTBWso

David Bacon @photos4justice on the daily lives and ongoing struggles (both personal and political) of farmworkers -
interview -Against the Grain with C.S. Soong

https://x.com/radioagainst/status/1848820503898710137

Pushing Forward: Organizing in a Post Trump Reelection US
November 22, 2024 by A Public Affair
https://www.wortfm.org/pushing-forward-organizing-in-a-post-trump-reelection-us/
On today’s two part show, Esty Dinur speaks with photojournalist David Bacon who has a long history of documenting and fighting for immigrant rights.

BOOKS - LIBROS

More Than a Wall / Mas que un muro
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
https://david-bacon-photography.square.site/product/more-than-a-wall-mas-que-un-muro/1?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false

In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte
University of California Press / Colegio de la Frontera Norte
ucpress.edu/9780520296077
En Mexico: https://www.colef.mx

The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration (Beacon Press, 2013)
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2328

El Derecho a Quedarse en Casa (Critica - Planeta de Libros)
http://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/el-derecho-a-quedarse-en-casa-libro-205607.html

Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008)
Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008
http://www.beacon.org/Illegal-People-P780.aspx

Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801473074/communities-without-borders/#bookTabs=1

The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520244726/the-children-of-nafta

Hijos de Libre Comercio (El Viejo Topo)
http://www.tienda.elviejotopo.com/prestashop/capitalismo/1080-hijos-del-libre-comercio-deslocalizaciones-y-precariedad-9788496356368.html

WORK AND SOCIAL JUSTICE:
The David Bacon Archive exhibition at Stanford Libraries
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/bacon/browse
For a catalog: (https://web.stanford.edu/dept/spec_coll/NonVendorPubOrderform2017.pdf)

THE REALITY CHECK - David Bacon blog
http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com

For more articles and images, see http://dbacon.igc.org and
https://www.flickr.com/photos/56646659@N05/albums

BROOKE ANDERSON PODCAST #8

That's How the Light Gets In

LISTEN: https://linktr.ee/thatshowthelightgetsinpodcast (or anywhere you get your podcasts)

MAS QUE UN MURO
Cinco Entrivistas sobre la exposicion en el Museo Nacional de las Culturas del Mundo, CDMX:

Part 1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eix0HEStpc
Part 2:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO4IIBPs06U
Part 3:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtY-fgtsjs
Part 4:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm_MNrEX2Mw
Part 5:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpwSuBbgAQs

Pacific Media Workers Guild, CWA Local 39521, adopted a resolution supporting the Labor Call for a Ceasefire in Gaza: https://mediaworkers.org/guild-joins-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza/

WHEN WE SPOKE OUT AGAINST WAR
Unearthing the history of protest against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Photographs © by David Bacon
https://www.flickr.com/photos/56646659@N05/52759801492/in/album-72177720306862427/