David Bacon on "Free Trade, Chained Workers, and the Right to Stay Home"

Green Sunday:
David Bacon on "Free Trade, Chained Workers, and the Right to Stay Home"

Tonight's presentation looks at the sources of migration to the U.S. and the displacement of communities by neoliberal economics and military intervention. Then it presents the criminalization of migrants in the U.S. as part of that same system, and asks who benefits from it. Finally, it talks about the resistance to immigration raids, the fight for the right to not migrate, and the alternatives to forced migration and criminalization.

DAVID BACON is a California-based writer and photographer. He was a factory worker and union organizer for two decades with the United Farm Workers, the United Electrical Workers and other unions, and has been documenting the lives of farm workers through photographs and journalism since 1988. His latest book is "In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte", copublished by the University of California Press (Berkeley) and the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana), which documents the lives of farm workers in photographs and narratives.

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