Saturday, August 31, 2024

How does a joint-exercise only leave US troops injured? And Gaza and the West Bank remain under attack

AP notes, "The United States military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants in the country's western desert that killed at least 15 people and saw seven American troops hurt, officials said Saturday."  , and CNN) add:


Five of the personnel were wounded during the operation, with one evacuated for further treatment. Two other US personnel were injured “from falls during the operation,” the officials said, with one having to be evacuated “out of theater for follow on care.”

All of the injured personnel are stable.

NBC News was first to report on the injured US troops.

The early morning raid came after months of intelligence-gathering, the Iraqi military said Saturday. It said that the ISIS militants were found in four locations in western Iraq and that following the raid, an airborne unit was dropped into the locations.     


A few things.  US troops withdrawing?  Dropping back to August 14th:


Over the weekend, APA noted, "The foreign minister of Iraq will travel to Washington next month to make a formal announcement about the withdrawal of American military forces from the Arab country, informed sources said, APA reports citing TASNIM."  Officially, 2,500 US troops remain in Iraq.  The number is actually much higher.  Last month, someone at the US Embassy in Baghdad shot a woman in an apartment across the way leaving her hospitalized which has increased the calls for US troops to leave Iraq.  As noted in this snapshot, the wife of Dr Abdul Amir al-Hazali was praying in her apartment when she was shot.   As we noted then, the shooting resulted in another push to expel US troops from Iraq: 


Abdul Amir Al-Ghazali spoke with ALSUMARIA and explained to them that the shooting took place on Friday while his wife was praying.  The Badr Organization accuses the US government of converting the US Embassy in Baghdad into a "military base," condemns the action citing the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961, and, citing the Iraqi Constitution (Articles 1, 15, 50 and 109) calls for Iraq's legislative and executive branches to expel the US military from Iraq.


The Badr Organization is part of the alliance that controls the Parliament.  Over the weekend, another group began echoing the call.  SABA reports, "State of Law Coalition member Ahmed Al-Sudani on Sunday said that Washington is procrastinating in determining the withdrawal paragraph from Iraq, stressing that the withdrawal of US forces is necessary to achieve national security.  State of Law is former prime minster and forever thug Nouri al-Maliki's coalition.  Arabic social media is showing some excitement about the upcoming September trip to DC with the hope that an announcement will be made that US troops are leaving.  

Love to see that happen but don't see it happening.  

And, as we noted in the August 16th snapshot,  CNN's longterm Iraq correspondent Mohammed Tawfeeq reported:


             Iraq has postponed announcing an end-date for the US-led military coalition’s presence in the country due to “recent developments,” raising questions about the future of US military presence in the Gulf state amid heightened tension in the region.

Iraq’s Higher Military Commission had aimed to propose an end date for Operation Inherent Resolve, the US military operation combatting terror group ISIS.

“We were very close to announcing this agreement, but due to recent developments, the announcement of the end of the international coalition’s military mission in Iraq was postponed,” a statement by Iraq’s foreign ministry said Thursday, without giving further details on what the “recent developments.”     


It's  not happening.  And one reason may be found in Friday's incident.  Where are the Iraqi casualties?  Even the Iraqi media isn't reporting any.  So a supposed joint-exercise carried out by Iraqi forces and US forces resulted in no Iraqi injuries?  But seven US troops were wounded.


Are you getting it because what it looks like is the US didn't provide 'support,' the US military carried out the action.  Maybe the Iraqis were part of it from a distance, maybe they weren't.  What appears obvious is that, 21 years after the start of the illegal war, US forces remain on the ground in Iraq to do the work that the Iraqi military still can't or won't.  


Is this still about 'training'?  US forces were clear when Bully Boy Bush occupied the White House that Iraqi troops were not showing up for training exercises.  By the time Barack Obama became president, it was left to the US State Dept's Brooke Darby to explain to Congress why the training facility that US taxpayers built in Iraq was not being used but was, instead, being boycotted by the Iraqi military. 


This has happened repeatedly over the years and we've documented it here repeatedly.  There's no reason for US forces to still be in Iraq.  And if the Iraqi military isn't up to defending Iraq, that's really their problem.  

From the December 1, 2011 snapshot:


"Number one, does the government of Iraq -- whose personnel we intend to train -- support the program?" asked US House Rep Gary Ackerman yesterday. "Interviews with senior Iraqi officials by the Special Inspector General show utter disdain for the program. When the Iraqis suggest that we take our money and do things instead that are good for the United States, I think that might be a clue."

That was Ackerman's important question yesterday afternoon at the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia hearing on Iraq.  US House Rep Steve Chabot is the Chair of the Subcommittee, US House Rep Gary Ackerman is the Ranking Member.  The first panel was the State Dept's Brooke Darby.  The second panel was the Inspector General for the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart W. Bowen and SIGIR's Assistant Inspector General for Iraq Glenn D. Furbish.  [. . .]

Ranking Member Gary Ackerman: When will they be willing to stand up without us?
Brooke Darby: I wish I could answer that question.
Ranking Member Gary Ackerman: Then why are we spending money if we don't have the answer?
[long pause]

Ranking Member Gary Ackerman: You know, this is turning into what happens after a bar mitzvah or a Jewish wedding. It's called "a Jewish goodbye."  Everybody keeps saying goodbye but nobody leaves.


Gary said that in a 2012 Congressional hearing.  And it's still true today.  


US forces need to leave Iraq.  US taxpayers need to stop footing the bill for wasted training of Iraqi forces.  


And it's really past time that supposed 'joint exercises' are leaving US troops injured but not Iraqi troops.  


Is there still no buy-in on the part of Iraqi forces into the future of their own country?  I have no idea.  If there isn't, one reason might by that US forces refuse to leave.  


But 21 years after the US invasion of Iraq, US forces do not belong on the ground in Iraq and they should have left long ago.  No, they should have never been sent there to begin with.  But I do remember a lot of Americans insisting US forces would leave Iraq -- a number of those Americans were in the US Congress and a few still are.


But they dropped the ball.  They got distracted.  They act as though the Iraq War never happened.


And not just members of Congress but people who ran for president.  Jill Stein is on her third run.  On her previous two she couldn't (wouldn't) address the Iraq War.  But a lot of people think the useless fool is going to be there ticket to ending the assault on Gaza.  Some people are born stupid but, yes, some people have to work very hard to remain stupid.  All their life.


Speaking of useless trash.  NPR had an article on Gaza.  We're not noting it.  Jane Arraf was The Whore of Baghdad.  She never broke a story in her years in Iraq.  That's under Saddam, that's throughout.  A useless piece of garbage who refused to report because that might mean her getting kicked out of Iraq (see Eason Jordan's infamous 2003 NYT column "The News We Kept To Ourselves" which described the trade CNN made to stay on the ground in Iraq.  That's how Jane 'learned' reporting.  And when CNN dumped her (finally), it didn't matter where she ended up -- THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONISTOR, ALJAZEERA, NPR, THE NEW YORK TIMES, PBS' THE NEWSHOUR . . .


Since 1991, she's reported badly on Iraq.  We used to give her the benefit of the doubt.  Then Twitter came along.  And Jane, on Twitter, had actual news.  It never made it into her reports.  That included the Iraqi military attacking protesters.  Shooting them dead.  But that never made it into her reporting, did it.  And when they attacked protesters in Tahrir Square in Baghdad -- one of the most ghastly attacks, Jane could be found on air on NPR stating that it was just tear gas and blah blah blah.


Reality, they fired on the protesters with live ammunition.  Did they also use tear gas?  Yes, they did and they fired a tear gas cannister into an Iraqi protester's head.  That was all over Twitter but there was Jane Arraf on NPR insisting the response from the Iraqi military was careful and controlled.


The Whore of Baghdad.  


She earned the title.


She never reported anything bad until every other outlet was reporting it.  Why? That's what she learned at CNN (in fairness, some of her colleagues have told me that she did that at REUTERS as well before she joined CNN0.  


How do you cover Iraq for decades and never once lead on a story?  How do you never once have a scoop?  


You do it by being a suck up to the government in Iraq and being too cowardly to report news.


I'm sitting here and thinking of how long the Iraq War has been.  And there are some people in the US who can be forgiven because they were too young.  So let's note how ghastly the attack on Iraqi protesters was -- this is what Jane Arraf ignored in her supposed 'reporting' on it for NPR.  Dropping back to the October 25, 2018 snapshot:


In addition, Qassim Abdul-Zahra (AP) reports, "Iraqi police fired live shots into the air as well as rubber bullets and dozens of tear gas canisters on Friday to disperse thousands of protesters on the streets of Baghdad, sending young demonstrators running for cover and enveloping a main bridge in the capital with thick white smoke. One protester was killed and dozens were injured in the first hours of the protest, security officials said."



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The first one killed is said to have been hit with a tear canister.  The video above is supposed to be of that protester after he was hit.

 

So, no, we're not interested in Jane Arraf.  Her entire career is whitewashing -- it's one journalistic crime after another.  And when she does finally cover a story, you can be sure at least five other outlets have already covered it.


We'll instead note this from NPR's WEEKEND EDITION (Saturday):


SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Polio, which has been gone from the Gaza Strip for decades, is back as the war there continues. But there is the possibility of good news. Tomorrow, the United Nations will begin to vaccinate children in Gaza against that preventable and highly contagious virus. It'll be an enormous effort, one that NPR international correspondent Aya Batrawy will follow from her base in Dubai. And she joins us now. Aya, thanks for being with us.

AYA BATRAWY, BYLINE: Thank you, Scott.

SIMON: Tell us about how this vaccination campaign's being rolled out.

BATRAWY: Well, the U.N. has really big aims here. They want to reach more than 640,000 children across Gaza to give them two courses of the polio vaccine. It will be given orally in droplets, but it needs refrigeration at every step, and pretty much Gaza has no electricity. They're just running on generators and fuel that's in short supply. Another logistical challenge here is that the whole population is displaced, and so it's not easy for them to reach U.N.-run clinics. But the U.N. groups leading this vaccination effort, which is UNICEF and the World Health Organization, they say the most critical factor is a pause in airstrikes so that the vaccines can reach all these children. Now, Israel says it's agreed to short pauses. Basically, it won't attack for about eight hours a day in specific parts of Gaza for the few days that this campaign is being rolled out, and Hames says they'll also cooperate.

SIMON: How did the polio spread there in the first place?

BATRAWY: Doctors tell me this was a combination of factors. You know, you have children, Scott, that haven't had access to vaccines, but also most of Gaza's hospitals have been destroyed or closed. You also have wastewater treatment plants and desalination plants that have been bombed, so people have been drinking dirty water to survive. And we know from the Gaza Health Ministry that more than 40,000 people have been killed by Israeli fire in this war, but we don't have a tally for people who've died from illness. However, we know there's been a huge spike in kids with infections and diarrhea. Children are hungry. They are malnourished. They're living in these overcrowded shelters or in the open in tents and with weak immune systems.

SIMON: And do we know how widespread polio could now be in Gaza?

BATRAWY: Well, there's already been a case confirmed in a 10-month-old baby boy who was active and crawling, and he's now paralyzed in one leg after contracting polio. And he is the first case of polio in a quarter-century in Gaza. Now, it comes after the Gaza Health Ministry and the World Health Organization - they sounded the alarm on this in July when they announced that the polio virus had been found in sewage water flowing in the streets around the tents of displaced people. And there are now at least two other suspected cases as well. Now, the symptoms for polio show in one out of every 100 to 1,000 people. So the doctors I spoke with say this means thousands of people in Gaza likely already have contracted polio. It is spreading, and one doctor called it a powder keg.



Yolande Knell (BBC NEWS) notes,  "To be effective, the World Health Organization (WHO) says at least 90% of children under 10 must be immunised in a short time frame.  It follows the discovery of the first confirmed case of polio in 25 years in Gaza, with a UN expert saying more children are likely to be infected and that there could be a wider regional outbreak if the virus is not dealt with."  Amr Mostafa (THE NATIONAL) reports, "Teams will be based at the health centres affiliated with the ministry and international organisations, including the UNRWA, in addition to mobile teams that will tour the enclave including the camps of the displaced people, Mr Dahir said. Another round will start on September 17 and will revisit the same areas. Yousef Abu Al Reesh, Gaza's deputy minister of health, said vaccination teams would try to get to as many areas as possible to ensure wide coverage but he said only a comprehensive ceasefire could guarantee enough children are reached."  The roll out depends on a level of safety and it's a level that the Israeli government is unwilling to ensure.  ALJAZEERA notes that a few children got the vaccine today and that, "On Saturday, the Palestinian Civil Defence agency in Gaza said at least three people were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli attack in the vicinity of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital (Baptist Hospital)."


In other news, Lawahez Jabari, Rebecca Cohen, Hayley Walker and Sarah Dean (NBC NEWS) report:


Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli American taken hostage in the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks, is among six hostages whose bodies were recovered Saturday.

"With broken hearts, the Goldberg-Polin family is devastated to announce the death of their beloved son and brother, Hersh. The family thanks you all for your love and support and asks for privacy at this time," a family representative said.

President Joe Biden said the bodies of Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages held by Hamas were recovered in a tunnel under Rafah.


The other five discovered today are Carmel Gat, Alexander Lobanov, Eden Yerushalmi, Oren Danino and Almog Sarusi.  Would the six be dead if War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu had worked on an actual cease-fire instead of prolonging the assault on Gaza?  It's a question more and more Israelis are asking themselves.  , and  (CNN) report:


A group representing the families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza has called for the public to mobilize after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported finding “a number of bodies” in the war-torn territory.

The demands by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum came as thousands rallied across Israel on Saturday demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sign a ceasefire-for-hostages deal.

The IDF said in a statement Saturday that it had “located a number of bodies during combat in the Gaza Strip,” but it has not confirmed whether any of the bodies are those of hostages and asked the public to “refrain from spreading rumors.”

However, many Israelis have taken the statement to mean that more Israeli hostages have been found dead and it has amplified calls for the government to secure a ceasefire-for-hostages deal.     

THE NATIONAL notes:


The Hostages Families Forum, which has confirmed their deaths, has organised nationwide rallies and hit out at Prime Minister Netanyahu for failing to secure a ceasefire deal.

"Today, the entire nation will stand alongside the hostages' families to protest the cabinet's ongoing neglect if the hostages," it said, calling on the public to join a demonstration "demanding a complete halt of the country and the immediate implementation of a deal to release the hostages."

"If it weren’t for the saboteurs, the excuses, and the spin, the hostages whose deaths we learned of this morning would probably be alive,” the forum said on X.


Gaza remains under assault. Day 327 of  the assault in the wave that began in October.  Binoy Kampmark (DISSIDENT VOICE) points out, "Bloodletting as form; murder as fashion.  The ongoing campaign in Gaza by Israel’s Defence Forces continues without stalling and restriction.  But the burgeoning number of corpses is starting to become a challenge for the propaganda outlets:  How to justify it?  Fortunately for Israel, the United States, its unqualified defender, is happy to provide cover for murder covered in the sheath of self-defence."   CNN has explained, "The Gaza Strip is 'the most dangerous place' in the world to be a child, according to the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund."  ABC NEWS quotes UNICEF's December 9th statement, ""The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. Scores of children are reportedly being killed and injured on a daily basis. Entire neighborhoods, where children used to play and go to school have been turned into stacks of rubble, with no life in them."  NBC NEWS notes, "Strong majorities of all voters in the U.S. disapprove of President Joe Biden’s handling of foreign policy and the Israel-Hamas war, according to the latest national NBC News poll. The erosion is most pronounced among Democrats, a majority of whom believe Israel has gone too far in its military action in Gaza."  The slaughter continues.  It has displaced over 1 million people per the US Congressional Research Service.  THE NATIONAL notes, "At least 40,691 Palestinian have been killed and 94,060 injured in Israel's war on Gaza since October 7, the enclave's Health Ministry said on Saturday.  The latest toll includes 89 people killed and 205 injured in the past 48 hours, the ministry added in a statement."   Early on, Jessica Corbett (COMMON DREAMS) pointed out, "Academics and legal experts around the world, including Holocaust scholars, have condemned the six-week Israeli assault of Gaza as genocide."    Months ago, United Nations Women noted, "More than 1.9 million people -- 85 per cent of the total population of Gaza -- have been displaced, including what UN Women estimates to be nearly 1 million women and girls. The entire population of Gaza -- roughly 2.2 million people -- are in crisis levels of of acute food insecurity or worse."   Months ago,  AP  noted, "About 4,000 people are reported missing."  February 7th, Jeremy Scahill explained on DEMOCRACY NOW! that "there’s an estimated 7,000 or 8,000 Palestinians missing, many of them in graves that are the rubble of their former home."  February 5th, the United Nations' Phillipe Lazzarini Tweeted:

 


April 11th, Sharon Zhang (TRUTHOUT) reported, "In addition to the over 34,000 Palestinians who have been counted as killed in Israel’s genocidal assault so far, there are 13,000 Palestinians in Gaza who are missing, a humanitarian aid group has estimated, either buried in rubble or mass graves or disappeared into Israeli prisons.  In a report released Thursday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that the estimate is based on initial reports and that the actual number of people missing is likely even higher."


The Israeli government's assault on Gaza continues and they've also upped the assault on the West Bank.  No, they aren't the same (as we noted earlier this week).  ALJAZEERA explains:

The occupied West Bank is part of historical Palestine on the west bank of the Jordan River.

It measures 5,650sq km (2,180sq miles) of landlocked territory surrounded by Israel, Jordan and the Dead Sea.

Approximately 3 million Palestinians live there, alongside an increasing number of Israelis who built illegal settlements and outposts on land taken by force from Palestinian families.

The West Bank has some 871,000 registered refugees, a quarter of whom live in 19 refugee camps, descendants of the Palestinians ethnically cleansed from their homes and lands to make way for the creation of Israel in the Nakba of 1948.

You can read more here.


Charlie Kimber (UK SOCIALIST WORKER) notes,:


Israel has launched the largest scale assault of the occupied West Bank for more than 20 years. 

Some ministers are demanding that Israel spreads the same tactics it used in Gaza in the West Bank assaults. This includes forcing people out of their homes to clear certain areas.

Israel began its fourth day of assaults in the West Bank on Saturday. Troops fired live bullets and tear gas and rampaged through parts of the territory backed by helicopters and drones.

Bulldozers followed, destroying homes and roads. Israeli forces have killed at least 22 Palestinians. Called “Operation Summer Camps,” the Israeli army has deployed three separate brigades to invade the northern West Bank cities of Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas.


And the same publication's Arthur Townend observes:


Israel has injured thousands of people, and now they want more revenge on the civilian societies in the West Bank.

The Israeli government decided to annex the West Bank. It wants to go on taking over our land, so they sectioned 60 percent of the West Bank right away and put it under their direct control. And they continue to attack other areas with complete silence from the Palestinian Authority.

Now they are focusing on the refugee camps—their existence means Palestinian people still have an opportunity to return.

Israel is preparing to delete a generation’s memory of the Nakba. By destroying and evacuating the refugee camps, they destroy the symbol of the people, of their right to return back.


Site note, I don't usually delete what goes up here.  An hour or so ago, "Diana Ross - Say We Can Live @ Workin' Overtime Tour [1989]" went up.  When it did, the video was visible.  The 'owner' (ha ha, l  they don't own s**t, they pirated the video from TV but want to pretend like it's their video) restricted it ten minutes later.  While working on this entry, I put up "Diana Ross - Say We Can Live @ Workin' Overtime Tour [1989]" and we'll leave that up.  "Say We Can" is from Diana's WORKIN' OVERTIME album and was written by Nile Rogers and Cathy Block.  



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    Editorial: The endless joke that is Jill Stein

    Repost of a 2015 editorial we did at THIRD:


    Sunday, July 05, 2015

    Editorial: The endless joke that is Jill Stein

    Oh, look, she suffers from Hillary Clinton's ever changing hair disease as well:






  • Had great chat about evils of testing with the great in the green room today.



  • She looks frightening in the photo but how telling that her 'big' issue is standardized testing.


    You do realize, don't you, that standardized testing has resulted in the deaths of thousands in Yemen and Libya and . . .

    Oh, wait, we were thinking of drones.


    So the failed and embarrassing 2012 Green Party presidential candidate is trying to get the nomination for 2016.

    She accomplished nothing in 2012, you may remember.


    In their now infamous 2012 essay "Let The Fun Begin," Ava and C.I. observed:


    Supposedly the Green Party is opposed to war.

    So when Tim Arango reported the White House was negotiating with Nouri to send more troops back into Iraq, Jill Stein should have led on that.

    But she's a politician which is just a whore without the desire to please a customer.

    So Jill ignored it.

    She ignored a lot.

    Six weeks ago, in fact, after Barack cratered in the first debate, she and her campaign began going after Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.

    Huh?

    You're a Green.  You're on the left.  The high profile left vote getter just imploded on national TV.  It's the perfect time for you to pick up some of his voters.

    But you refuse to try.  You rush to go after Romney and Ryan instead.

    Why is that?

    Because you are not a real party.

    Because you will forever be the little sister of the Democratic Party.

    Because every four years, you start off with promise and end up revealing just how craven and disgusting you are.

    If we are offering commentary four years from now, please note, being a Green will not save you.  Being third party will not save you.

    We will call you out in real time.




    And, in fact, all of us at Third will call you out.



    The do nothing Jill thinks she deserves the nomination.


    Why?


    Apparently because she's White.


    That's why you're supposed to overlook her failures and get on board with her -- the way Medea I Need Attention Benjamin already has.



    But we read her long and ridiculous announcement speech.


    Our first question?


    Does Jill believe vaccines cause autism because she flirts with that in her remarks and if others are going to be nailed to the cross for that belief, she needs to be as well.


    In over 1400 words, Jill never mentions Iraq.

    What is about this uptight fool and her refusal -- in 2012 and now this year -- to ever mention Iraq?

    The Green Party is supposed to be for peace but Jill can't champion peace.

    Last week, Jim Webb declared his intention to seek the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. In his speech, he noted:


    Let me assure you, as President I would not have urged an invasion of Iraq, nor as a Senator would I have voted to authorize it. I warned in writing five months before that invasion that we do not belong as an occupying power in that part of the world, and that this invasion would be a strategic blunder of historic proportions, empowering Iran and in the long run China, unleashing sectarian violence inside Iraq and turning our troops into terrorist targets.
    I would not have been the President who used military force in Libya during the Arab Spring. I warned repeatedly that this use of our military did not meet the test of a grave national security interest, that it would have negative implications for the entire region, and that no such action should take place without the approval of the Congress. The leadership in the Congress at that time not only failed to give us a vote; they did not even allow a formal debate, and the President acted unilaterally. The attack in Benghazi was inevitable in some form or another, as was the continuing chaos and the dissemination of large numbers of weapons from Qaddafi’s armories to terrorist units throughout the region.


    In his announcement that he was seeking the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, Lincoln Chafee noted:


    I’d like to talk about how we found ourselves in the destructive and expensive chaos in the Middle East and North Africa and then offer my views on seeking a peaceful resolution.
    There were twenty-three Senators who voted against the Iraq war in October 2002. Eighteen of us are still alive and I’m sure everyone of us had their own reasons for voting “NO”. I’d like to share my primary three.
    The first reason is that the long painful chapter of the Viet Nam era was finally ending. This is my generation and the very last thing I wanted was any return to the horrific bungling of events into which we put our brave fighting men and women.
    In fact we had a precious moment in time where a lasting peace was in our grasp. Too many senators forgot too quickly about the tragedy of Viet Nam.
    A second reason was that I had learned in the nine months of the Bush/Cheney administration prior to September 11th, not to trust them at their word. As a candidate, Governor Bush had said many things that were for the campaign only- governing would be a lot different. For example a campaign staple was, “I am a uniter, not a divider”. He said very clearly that his foreign policy would be humble, not arrogant. And he promised to regulate carbon dioxide, a climate change pollutant. These promises were all broken in the very first days of his presidency.
    Sadly, the lies never stopped. This was an administration not to be trusted.
    My third reason for voting against the war was based on a similar revulsion to mendacity. Many of the cheerleaders for the Iraq war in the Bush administration had been writing about regime change in Iraq and American unilateralism for years.
    They wrote about it in the 1992 Defense Planning Guide, in the 1996 Report to Prime Minister Netanyahu, in the 1997 Project for a New American Century and in the 1998 letter to President Clinton.

    A little over a month before the vote on the war I read an article in the Guardian by Brian Whitaker. Listen to this:
    QUOTE:
    “In a televised speech last week, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt predicted devastating consequences for the Middle East if Iraq is attacked.
    “We fear a state of disorder and chaos may prevail in the region”, he said. Mr. Mubarak is an old-fashioned kind of Arab leader and, in the brave new post-September-11 world, he doesn’t quite get the point.
    What on earth did he expect the Pentagon’s hawks to do when they heard his words of warning? Throw up their hands in dismay? – “Gee, thanks, Hosni. We never thought of that. Better call the whole thing off right away.”
    They are probably still splitting their sides with laughter in the Pentagon. But Mr. Mubarak and the hawks do agree on one thing: War with Iraq could spell disaster for several regimes in the Middle East.
    Mr. Mubarak believes that would be bad. The hawks, though, believe it would be good.

    For the hawks, disorder and chaos sweeping through the region would not be an unfortunate side-effect of war with Iraq, but a sign that everything is going according to plan.”
    END QUOTE.
    It’s bad enough that the so-called neocons, most of whom had never experienced the horror of war, were so gung ho. But worse yet, was that they didn’t have the guts to argue their points straight up to the American people. They knew there were no weapons of mass destruction but wanted their war badly enough to purposely deceive us.
    After reading the Guardian article, I asked for a briefing from the CIA. I said, “I have to vote on this war resolution in a few weeks, show me everything you have on Weapons of Mass Destruction”. The answer, after an hour-long presentation out at CIA headquarters in Langley was: not much. “Flawed intelligence” is completely inaccurate. There was NO intelligence. Believe me I saw “everything they had”.

    It’s heartbreaking that more of my colleagues failed to do their homework. And incredibly, the neocon proponents of the war who sold us on the false premise of weapons of mass destruction are still key advisors to a number of presidential candidates today.



    We could go on and on.

    But instead of noting and quoting all the candidates who are talking Iraq, let's point out that Jill Stein's silence puts her side-by-side with the only other candidate avoiding Iraq: Hillary Clinton.


    The press really need to explore Dr. Jill Stein's stance on the cause of autism  since she raised it in her announcement speech.


    More to the point, everyone needs to be asking why someone wanting the presidential nomination of the Green Party can't even address the topic of Iraq?


    Jill Stein's a fake and she was ridiculous in 2012.


    She'll be ridiculous in 2016 as well, if given the chance.

    The only 'change' she has to offer is a new hair do.












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    WEALTHY WINERIES ROUTINELY ENDANGER WORKERS
    By David Bacon ,
    Truthout, August 27, 2024
    https://truthout.org/articles/californias-wealthy-wine-industry-routinely-endangers-health-of-its-workers/
    https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2024/08/wealthy-wineries-routinely-endanger.html

    Between wildfires and immigration status, California vineyard workers contend with a host of hurdles to their health.



    Farmworkers and their supporters occupy a highway bridge during their march demanding pay for working during wildfires. David Bacon


    From mid-August through mid-November, the grape harvest in California's North Bay wine country coincides with the state's wildfire season. Every night at midnight during those 12 weeks, workers in bandanas and face masks walk quickly into the vineyards. For the next eight or 10 hours, as the darkness slowly becomes dawn, they practically run down the rows. Their curved knives cut grape bunches from the vines, dropping them into the pails held by harnesses to their chests. When the pails are full, the workers rush to the gondolas behind the slow-moving tractors, dump in the grapes, and hurry back to fill them again.

    The air fills with dust from feet and machines. But often a wildfire, grown huge at the end of a dry summer, casts a pall of smoke that can extend for dozens of miles. When it reaches the vineyards in Sonoma and Napa Counties, smoke combines with dust and it's hard to breathe. "Even my saliva turns black," says Maria Salinas, who has picked wine grapes for 20 years in Sonoma County.

    The danger of wildfire smoke comes from its fine particles, which lodge themselves so deeply in the lungs that the body can't easily expel them, causing shortness of breath, asthma, heart disease, and other illnesses. A study published in June 2024 has documented 2,305 premature deaths from wildfire smoke in Sonoma County, and 693 in Napa County, between 2008 and 2018.

    For the farmworkers in the vineyards, however, the smoke and dust compound existing endemic health problems. The social determinants of their health - the way that their well-being is impacted by the economic and social forces acting on them - include the conditions at work, like the wildfire smoke they inhale. Poverty can also have a tremendous impact. The Rural Health Information Hub lists many potential complications from the living and working conditions of farmworkers, including heat-related illness, pesticide exposure, job injuries, urinary tract infections because of the lack of toilet facilities, high disease rates from tuberculosis and COVID caused by crowded living conditions, and depression due to poverty and stress.

    Maria Salinas's experience shows the way these conditions pile up. She arrived in the U.S. in 2002 from her Chatino-speaking hometown in Oaxaca, Santos Reyes Nopala. "When I started work in the grapes, there was a lot of injustice," she remembers. "It's been 20 years of humiliation. We didn't have water or bathrooms. When I had to urinate, I had to go at the edge of the field. My father worked in the fields for 14 years, and died of cancer of the stomach."

    California state law has mandated employers provide bathrooms and water in the field for years, but Salinas says that it took worker pressure on the county to get enforcement. "It's gotten better, but now the smoke is on top of all of this. My allergies have turned into asthma and I have to use an inhaler. I've had to go to the emergency room because I couldn't breathe. I'm afraid that if I keep working in these conditions, I'll have permanent damage. But I have a family to support."

    A few years ago, Salinas went to a meeting to hear a professor from Berkeley explain the dangers of the smoke, where she met Max Bell Alper, the executive director of North Bay Jobs with Justice (JwJ). "We had intense fires in 2017," Alper said, "and fires every year until 2020, when it was really bad. We started training farmworkers to survey their communities, to get people's experiences and find out what they wanted to do about it."




    Max Bell Alper, executive director of North Bay Jobs with Justice, speaks at a rally in Healdsburg, California, on July 28, 2024.David Bacon


    Alper and JwJ trained an equipo, or team, of farmworker organizers, and began holding broader meetings, which organized workers based on their employers, as well as their family and hometown networks. Maria Salinas became one of those equipo organizers. Because most farmworkers in the North Bay come from Indigenous Mexican communities, the surveys and work that came out of them had to be done in their original languages.

    The broader meetings of workers decided on five basic demands to make of the area's wineries and grape growers: provide clean bathrooms and water; hazard pay; disaster insurance to ensure income if workers were sent home; community safety observers to monitor conditions in the fields; and communication in the workers' own languages. These demands were based on the fact that growers are sending workers into the vineyards even during wildfires, although evacuation orders mandate that people leave because of the danger.

    In 2022, the workers, along with Jobs with Justice, took those demands to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. They asked the county to make their demands requirements for growers who ask permission to send workers to harvest in wildfire evacuation zones.

    Many of the wineries, however, balked at the demands. To them, the effort would mean not only an increase in their costs, but also signaled the potential danger of organized workers advocating for change. In response, they brought in a notorious union-buster, Raul Calvo. As The Guardian reported in 2022, Calvo played a key role in bringing pro-company workers to testify to the county against the proposal, wearing t-shirts saying "NB [North Bay] JwJ does NOT Speak for Me."

    Alper charges that many of the workers brought by Calvo were working on H-2A visas. The H-2A program allows growers to recruit workers in Mexico, bring them to the U.S. under contracts which last just for a season, and then send them back. H-2A visa holders must apply to come back every year. They can be legally fired and blacklisted if they don't work fast enough or incur the displeasure of the grower for any reason.

    Alper says the U.S. Department of Labor, which administers the program, later told growers they could no longer bring H-2A workers to testify in government meetings. Nevertheless, he charges, Calvo continues to conduct captive audience meetings at local vineyards. Workers are required to attend, and to listen to harangues about the dangers of unions and worker organizing. (Calvo did not respond to Truthout's multiple requests for comment.)

    Despite the growers' opposition, however, the United Farm Workers has negotiated hazard pay into labor contracts with Gallo of Sonoma, Boeschen Vineyards and Robert Mondavi Winery, and disaster insurance to compensate workers for wages lost due to fires.

    This year, workers have focused their demands on the basic economics of the vineyard labor system, the source of the poverty among farmworker families. Each year, before picking starts, growers tell their crews the price they intend to pay for each ton of grapes, and the basic hourly rate that is the guaranteed minimum compensation. The price varies by company and the variety of grapes, but Salinas says that last year it went from about $150 to $200 per ton.

    "This year they're offering a 10 percent increase, which is not enough," she says. "Sonoma County is very expensive and gas and groceries are going up all the time." To reinforce the workers' demands, at the end of July, North Bay Jobs with Justice organized a march in Healdsburg, the heart of the Sonoma County wine country. The demonstration demanded a "Sueldo Digno," or decent wage, of $250/ton with a guarantee of $25 per hour.




    Marchers demand a sueldo digno, or decent wage, for the farmworkers who pick wine grapes in Sonoma and Napa Counties.David Bacon




    March banners demand a sueldo digno (a decent wage) and pago por disastre (extra pay) for working during wildfires or losing work when the grape picking stops because of the danger, in Healdsburg, California, on July 28, 2024.David Bacon


    In 2022, the price growers received for a ton of grapes in Napa County ranged from $2,815 for pinot noir to $8,813 for cabernet sauvignon, for an average of $5,814. Sonoma County prices were somewhat less. At an average picking price of $150 a ton, workers were making 2.5 percent of what growers were getting. Last year, California Sen. Alex Padilla and Sonoma County Congressman Mike Thompson introduced a bill to compensate growers for smoke damage from wildfires to the grapes, but the bill contained nothing to compensate workers for their lost wages or health impacts.

    The lack of acknowledgment in protections around wildfires mirrors what workers went through during the height of the pandemic. "They called us essential workers, and wanted us to work in the smoke, and every day we were in danger of getting sick from the COVID," Salinas recalls. People went to work because they couldn't afford not to go - just one day without pay could be difficult, and a week ruinous. Often that meant traveling in a packed car or labor contractor bus, and returning home to a crowded house shared by more than one family. Not only was isolation impossible, but the cost of acknowledging an infection could potentially cut others off from their jobs and source of income.

    "Undocumented farmworkers with mild cases of COVID-19 were also reluctant to self-isolate, because they were ineligible for both unemployment insurance and CARES Act-funded pandemic assistance," health researcher Ed Kissam told Truthout. "In addition, people worried about the government using personal information for immigration enforcement."




    Wine grape workers march demanding a sueldo digno, or decent wage, in Healdsburg, California, on July 28, 2024.David Bacon




    Farmworker supporter Larry Bogad performs as a dueno, or vineyard owner, in a teatro during a march demanding disaster and hazard pay for working during wildfires.David Bacon


    As a result, Alicia Riley, a health sociologist at the University of California in Santa Cruz, reported that COVID deaths of people employed in agriculture were about 1.6 times the national average in 2020. According to a report by the California Institute for Rural Studies, between March and June of 2020, agricultural workers in Monterey County contracted COVID-19 at three times the rate of workers in other industries. Some 583 people died in Sonoma County from the virus, and 174 in Napa County.

    Arcenio Lopez, director of the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project, explains, "People come to the U.S. and work for years and still can't access health care. What determines whether they can get it are the priorities of the family. The first priority is to pay the rent, then to buy food and clothes. Health is not a priority because their economy doesn't permit it."

    "Most farmworkers are long-term settled immigrants in low-income households that include undocumented immigrants," Kissam added. "Their eligibility is compromised for a broad range of social programs because they're conditioned on immigration status." Despite the state's extension of Medicaid coverage to undocumented people last year, about half of all farmworkers in California, and 62 percent of undocumented farmworkers, still have no medical insurance, a far greater percentage than in the general population.

    Lack of immigration status is one of the most important social determinants of farmworker health. The Sonoma and Napa County wine industry, like the rest of California agriculture, has always depended on immigrant labor. Ninety percent of California's farmworkers are immigrants, and more than half are undocumented.

    It's for this reason that farmworkers are organizing around immigration, too. Maria Salinas and Max Bell Alper were among several hundred activists who gathered last August in Petaluma's Walnut Park, in Sonoma County's wine country. After listening to a few speeches and cheering on a local troupe of Aztec dancers, they set off on a three-day march to the San Francisco Federal Building. Their goal was to win support for a bill that could make a profound difference in the life of North Bay farmworkers.

    Currently, anyone who entered the U.S. without a visa before January 1, 1972, can apply for legal permanent residence status, known as a green card. After five years as a legal resident, they can then apply for U.S. citizenship. Unfortunately, for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., only a tiny handful qualify under that registry date. "Ninety percent of currently undocumented people is probably an underestimate," says Renee Saucedo, who helped organize the Northern California Coalition for Just Immigration Reform, and annual marches to support changing the registry date.

    HR 1511, "Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929," known as the Registry Bill, would allow anyone in the country for seven years to apply for a green card. Many grassroots activists believe that fighting for the registry bill is also a way to mobilize communities in their own defense, over an issue that has a dramatic impact on community health.

    "I was really proud to be part of that march," Salinas remembers. "I was very angry, and it gave me a way of fighting for my children, so they don't have to endure what I did, and for a world that will respect their rights."




    A mom and her kids march for farmworker justice, in Healdsburg, California, on July 28, 2024.David Bacon

     

    WORKING COACHELLA

    INTERVIEW WITH DAVID BACON AT THE WORKING COACHELLA EXHIBITION IN RIVERSIDE
    Click here:  https://www.instagram.com/p/C2yAtHDPc5Q/

    David Bacon's Working Coachella - Labor Heritage Power Hour with Chris Garlock
    https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/labor-heritage/david-bacons-working-coachella-FGTeo-nqcuX/
     

    Presentation by David Bacon and Ann Lewis about the politics of the "immigration crisis"

    Http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/4thmonda-immigration-bacon-lewis.mp4
     
     
    BROOKE ANDERSON PODCAST #8
    One of my most significant mentors and photographic collaborators, my dear friend and comrade David Bacon, joins me in conversations this week.

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

    David came up as a union organizer with the United Farm Workers and United Electrical Workers, then spent decades as a photographer, photojournalist, labor reporter, and radio host covering labor, migration, and global economy. In this week’s episode, we talk David’s journey from organizer to photojournalist, his early influences, the role of movement photographers, the importance of media workers taking collective action to support their labor rights, journalists speaking out to support a ceasefire in Gaza, and advice for new photographers developing their photographic practice.

     

    MAS QUE UN MURO
    Las comunidades fronterizas y sus movimientos de justica social
    Fotografias de David Bacon

    Fototeca de Zacatecas Pedro Valtierra
    Fernando Millapando 406, Centro Historico, Zacatecas
    Marzo - Mayo, 2024

    Cinco Entrivistas sobre esta 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

    La imagen de una cruz en el cementerio de Holtville, en California, Estados Unidos, con la leyenda “No olvidados”, con la que activistas religiosos reconocen a los migrantes muertos sin identidad, recibe al público de la exposición Más que un muro, de David Bacon.
     
    Durante la inauguración, la directora del MNCM, Alejandra Gómez Colorado, manifestó que, desde hace años, este recinto complementa su discurso histórico y etnográfico con reflexiones que vienen desde la fotografía y el arte contemporáneo. Una línea acorde con el trabajo de Bacon, “una expresion dura y cruda de la vida que transcurre de uno y otro lado de la frontera México-Estados Unidos”.
     
    Esta obra fotográfica dijo por su parte la jefa de la Unidad de Política Migratoria, Registro e Identidad de Personas, de la Segob, Rocío González Higuera, permiten acercarse a las historias, retos, éxitos y fracasos de cada persona que migra, desde dos puntos:
     
    “El primero, la protección de la memoria contra el paso del tiempo, es decir, colocar la lente y los sentimiento sobre objetos y personas que nos permiten evocar que la frontera es un cúmulo de historias en desarrollo; el segundo, es la expresión de posturas frente a los procesos de movilidad, particularmente la migración irregular”.
     
    Bacon, fotógrafo, escritor y activista social, comenzó a documentar las vidas y los movimientos sociales de migrantes, trabajadores agrícolas y comunidades afectadas por la globalización, hace casi cuatro décadas.  El fotógrafo detalló que su aproximación a estas realidades inició en 1986, siendo trabajador de una fábrica y sindicalista con United Farm Workers. A lo largo de este tiempo, indicó, ha podido registrar cómo la política migratoria implementada por su país devino en una “política de muerte”, al orillar a quienes buscan el sueño americano a transitar por sitios peligrosos como el desierto de Sonora-Arizona.
     
    En la línea fronteriza que atraviesa el desierto cual se ubican con exactitud 4,000 etiquetas forenses de restos recuperados de personas identificadas, y casi 2,000 de personas sin identificar. El visitante debe llenar estas fichas, acto que conmemora por unos instantes esas vidas perdidas No obstante, anotó David Bacon, la frontera es también tierra de vivos: “Los otrora pequeños pueblos de Ciudad Juárez y Tijuana son ciudades de millones. La frontera es el escenario de algunas de las luchas sociales más agudas de México. Los trabajadores de las fábricas organizan sindicatos independientes, mientras que los agrícolas se declaran en huelga en los campos de Baja California”.
     
    En ese sentido, finalizó, las cerca de 30 fotografías que integran Más que un muro, “nos permiten ver a la gente, sus luchas por los derechos y la igualdad, combatiendo la histeria antiinmigrante y antimexicana”.

     

    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/
     

    BOOKS - LIBROS
     

    MORE THAN A WALL / MAS QUE UN MURO



    More Than a Wall / Mas que Un Muro explores the many aspects of the border region through photographs taken by David Bacon over a period of 30 years. These photographs trace the changes in the border wall itself, and the social movements in border communities, factories and fields. This bilingual book provides a reality check, to allow us to see the border region as its people, with their own history of movements for rights and equality, and develop an alternative vision in which the border can be a region where people can live and work in solidarity with each other. - Gaspar Rivera-Salgado

    David Bacon has given us, through his beautiful portraits, the plight of the American migrant worker, and the fierce spirit of those who provide and bring to us comfort and sustenance. -- Lila Downs


    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

    Price:  $35 plus postage and handling
    To order, click here:  

    https://david-bacon-photography.square.site/product/more-than-a-wall-mas-que-un-muro/1?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false

    "The "border" is just a line. It's the people who matter." - JoAnn Intili, director, The Werner-Kohnstamm Family Fund


     
    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 checkoutreceive a 30% discount

    En Mexico se puede pedir el libro en el sitio de COLEF:

    https://www.colef.mx

    Los Angeles Times reviews In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte - click here
     



    WORK AND SOCIAL JUSTICE:
    The David Bacon Archive exhibition at Stanford Libraries

    https://exhibits.stanford.edu/bacon/browse

    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)

     
    Online Interviews and Presentations

    Red Lens Episode 6: David Bacon on US-Mexico border photography
    Brad Segal: 
    On episode 6 of Red Lens, I talk with David Bacon.

    David Bacon is a California-based writer and documentary photographer. A former union organizer, today he documents labor, the global economy, war and migration, and the struggle for human rights.  We talk about David's new book, 'More than a Wall / Mas que un muro' which includes 30 years of his photography and oral histories from communities & struggles in the U.S.-Mexico border region.
    https://www.patreon.com/posts/71834023?fbclid=IwAR0BRhHYbrYU3BoeoAMFKU_zdHs5Xirmmt1LzQtfwf1yD8p9EYLXKhzzbDE

    Letters and Politics - Three Decades of Photographing The Border & Border Communities
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvs6SyXsM-4
    Host Mitch Jeserich interviews David Bacon, a photojournalist, author, broadcaster and former labor organizer. He has reported on immigrant and labor issues for decades. His latest book, More Than A Wall, is a collection of his photographs of the border and border communities spanning three decades.

    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

    David Bacon on union solidarity with Iraqi oil worker unions
    Free City Radio - CKUT 27/10/2021 -

    https://soundcloud.com/freecityradio/oct-27-2021-ckut-27102021-david-bacon-on-union-solidarity-with-iraqi-oil-worker-unions
     
    Organizing during COVID, the intrinsic value of the people who grow our food
    Sylvia Richardson - Latin Waves Media
    How community and union organizers came together to get rights for farm workers during COVID, and how surviving COVID has literally been an act of resistance.

    https://latinwavesmedia.com/wordpress/organizing-during-covid-the-intrinsic-value-of-the-people-who-grow-our-food/
     
    Report Details Slavery-Like Conditions For Immigrant Guest Workers
    Rising Up With Sonali Kohatkar

    https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/report-details-slavery-conditions-immigrant-guest-workers

    The Right to Remain
    http://www.franknews.us/interviews/415/the-right-to-remain

    Beware of Pity
    http://www.franknews.us/interviews/525/beware-of-pity


    En Español
     
    Ruben Luengas - #EnContacto
    Hablamos con David Bacon de los migrantes y la situación de México frente a los Estados Unidos por ser el principal país de llegada a la frontera de ese país.

    https://rubenluengas.com/2021/03/video-mexico-estados-unidos-migracion-y-suenos-rotos-encontacto/

    Jornaleros agrícolas en EEUU en condiciones más graves por Covid-19: David Bacon
    SomosMas99 con Agustin Galo Samario

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWQSvM9s1lw

    "Los fotógrafos tomamos partido"
    Entrevista por Melina Balcázar Moreno - Milenio.com Laberinto

    http://www.milenio.com/cultura/laberinto/david_baconm-fotografia-melina_balcazar-laberinto-milenio_0_959904035.html

    David Bacon comparte su mirada del trabajo agrícola de migrantes mexicanos en el Museo Archivo de la Fotografia
    http://www.cultura.cdmx.gob.mx/comunicacion/nota/0038-18

     

    Online Photography Exhibitions
     
    Documentary Matters -  View from the US 
    Social Documentary Network
    Four SDN photographers explore themes of racial justice, migration, and #MeToo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWl-uENA7SQ&t=1641s
     
    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
     
    Dark Eyes
    A beautiful song by Lila Downs honoring essential workers, accompanied by photographs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdC2gE3SNWw


    A video about the Social Justice Photography of David Bacon:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/14TvAj5nS08ENzWhw3Oxra4LMNKJCLF4z/view

    In the FIelds of the North
    Online Exhibit
    Los Altos History Museum

    https://www.losaltoshistory.org/exhibits/in-the-fields-of-the-north/


    Virtual Tour - In the Fields of the North
    History Museum of Tijuana
    Recorrido Virtual de la Exposicion - En los campos del norte
    Museo de Historia de Tijuana

    https://www.facebook.com/542258639265202/videos/659536991515786
     

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


    Other Books by David Bacon - Otros Libros

    The Right to Stay Home:  How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration  (Beacon Press, 2013)

    http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2328

    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

    En Español:  

    EL DERECHO A QUEDARSE EN CASA  (Critica - Planeta de Libros)

    http://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/el-derecho-a-quedarse-en-casa-libro-205607.html

    HIJOS DE LIBRE COMERCIA (El Viejo Topo)
    http://www.tienda.elviejotopo.com/prestashop/capitalismo/1080-hijos-del-libre-comercio-deslocalizaciones-y-precariedad-9788496356368.html

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

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