MT. VERNON, WA - 5/1/22 - Hundreds of farmworkers and their supporters marched through the streets of Mt. Vernon, the ag capital of Skagit County in northwest Washington State. They celebrated the recent victory of tulip workers who won recognition for their union committee and better wages and conditions in a lightning strike at the start of the tulip harvest, and the beginning of contract negotiations at Sakuma Brothers Farms with their union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia.
The march, organized by Community2Community, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, and a coalition of Philippine solidarity organizations celebrated May Day, the international workers' day. Prominent among the colorful signs and banners was one that reminded marchers "Un otro mundo es posible!" - "Another world is possible!"
IT'S COMING!
MORE THAN A WALL / MAS QUE UN MURO
- a book of photographs by David Bacon and oral histories created during 30 years of covering the people and social movements of the Mexico/U.S. border - a complex, richly textured documentation of a world in newspaper headlines daily, but whose reality, as it's lived by border residents, is virtually invisible. - 440 pages - 354 duotone black-and-white photographs - a dozen oral histories - incisive journalism and analysis by David Bacon, Don Bartletti, Luis Escala, Guillermo Alonso and Alberto del Castillo. - completely bilingual in English and Spanish - published by El Colegio de la Frontera Norte with support from the UCLA Institute for Labor Research and Education and the Center for Mexican Studies, the Werner Kohlstamm Family Fund, and the Green Library at Stanford University
Publication date - May 1, 2022 (May Day, of course)
Price: $35 plus postage and handling Pre-publication discount for orders before May 1, use coupon "prepublication" To order, click here:
Signing events coming in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Joaquin Valley and elsewhere.
"The "border" is just a line. It's the people who matter - their relationships with or without or across that line. The book helps us feel the impact of the border on people living there, and helps us figure out how we talk to each other about it. The germ of the discussion are these wonderful and eye-opening pictures, and the voices that help us understand what these pictures mean." - JoAnn Intili, director, The Werner-Kohnstamm Family Fund MORE THAN A WALL/MAS QUE UN MURO
Border Communities and their Social Justice Movements Photographs by David Bacon
78 Photographs, 6 Text Panels All captions and text in the show are bilingual English/Spanish
San Francisco Public Library, Jewett Gallery Main Library, 100 Larkin St., Civic Center February 12 to May 22, 2022
IN THE FIELDS OF THE NORTH/EN LOS CAMPOS DEL NORTE
Photographs by David Bacon
Chandler Museum 300 S. Chandler Village Drive Chandler, AZ 85226 June 12, 2022 – August 28, 2022
La Quinta Museum 77885 Avenida Montezuma La Quinta, CA 92253 January 8, 2023 – April 16, 2023
PHOTOESSAY ON POVERTY IN TULARE COUNTY WINS SF PRESS CLUB AWARD
This series, and two additional ones, also swept the first place awards for photography from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Online Interviews and Presentations
Exploitation or Dignity - What Future for Farmworkers UCLA Latin American Institute Based on a new report by the Oakland Institute, journalist and photographer David Bacon documents the systematic abuse of workers in the H-2A program and its impact on the resident farmworker communities, confronted with a race to the bottom in wages and working conditions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXKa2lHJXMs
There's More Work to be Done Housing Assistance Council and National Endowment for the Arts This exhibition documents the work and impact of the struggle for equitable and affordable housing in rural America, inspired by the work of George “Elfie” Ballis. https://www.thereismoreworktobedone.com/david-bacon
Exhibited throughout the pandemic in the Cecil H. Green Library at Stanford. The online exhibition (https://exhibits.stanford.edu/bacon), which includes additional content not included in the physical show, is accessible to everyone, and is part of an accessible digital spotlight collection that includes significant images from this body of work. For a catalog: (https://web.stanford.edu/dept/spec_coll/NonVendorPubOrderform2017.pdf)
IN THE FIELDS OF THE NORTH / EN LOS CAMPOS DEL NORTE
Photographs and text by David Bacon University of California Press / Colegio de la Frontera Norte 302 photographs, 450pp, 9”x9” paperback, $34.95 (in the U.S.)
order the book on the UC Press website: ucpress.edu/9780520296077 use source code 16M4197 at checkout, receive a 30% discount
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
