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David Bacon is a journalist and photographer based in the Bay Area. He has documented child labor along the U.S./Mexican border and in the Philippines for The Nation and the San Francisco Chronicle, the hardships of field workers in California for the L.A. Weekly, strikes among industrial workers in Los Angeles for Pacific News Service, and the political movements in immigrant communities for many other publications. He travels frequently to Mexico, Europe and the Phililppines. His work has been published widely in the labor movement by America @ Work, Solidarity, California Teacher and the Dispatcher, among other publications.
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David Bacon is a photojournalist based in Berkeley, California. He is the author of The Children of NAFTA. Carlos Muñoz Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Chicano Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Douglas Harper, founding editor of the journal Visual Sociology, has published several visual ethnographies, most recently Changing Works: VIsions of a Lost Agriculture.
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The son of a Massachusetts lieutenant governor, handsome David Bacon had entered show business with the University Players of West Falmouth, MA, a group that at one time or another ... numbered Henry Fonda and James Stewart. He did the obligatory rounds of off-Broadway theater before landing a contract with millionaire turned movie mogul Howard Hughes, who brought him to Hollywood to test for the role of Billy the Kid in The Outlaw. Perhaps too clean-cut to play the notorious outlaw (a part that eventually would go the equally unsuited Jack Buetel), Bacon instead portrayed All-American boys in typical wartime fare, most notably Someone to Remember (1943). He married Austrian émigré chanteuse Greta Keller (who later would perform "Married" in the 1972 screen version of Cabaret) and was hired by Republic Pictures to play one of the young agents in the adventure serial The Masked Marvel. Two weeks after the serial wrapped, Bacon was dead, stabbed in the back while driving with an unidentified young man near Venice, CA. The vicious crime, which came to be known as the "Masked Marvel Murder Case," was never solved but rumors of a homosexual liaison gone wrong persisted. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
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Truthout’s David Bacon writes: “Everywhere in this country, immigrant communities are growing, defying the raids intended to terrorize them – organizing and speaking out. This movement is a powerful response to Congress’s inability to pass a pro-immigrant reform bill. It can and will resist and stop the raids, but its potential power is far greater. Like the civil rights movement four decades ago, the political upsurge in immigrant communities makes a profound demand – not simply for visas, but for freedom and equality.”
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David Bacon's compelling photographs examine the impact of the global economy on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. As NAFTA and other anti-worker policies put downward pressure on the standard of living in both countries, workers rise up to demand economic justice. Bacon, labor's foremost photojournalist, documents the conditions workers face every day and their resistance to corporate exploitation.
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BACON, David, missionary was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, in 1771. He died in Hartford, Connecticut, on August 27, 1817. He was primarily a missionary serving the Ojibbewa Native Americans in the territory of Michigan. He later found the Christian town at Tallmadge, Ohio. His biography was published in the "Sketch of the Rev. David Bacon," by Rev. Leonard Bacon. His son Leonard was ... a clergyman, born in Detroit, Mich., 19 February 1802; died in New Haven, Connecticut, 24 December 1881.
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