David Bacon, the noted photographer, journalist, and author, will appear in the 2007-2008 UFPPC Speaker Series at 7:00 p.m. on Mon., Mar. 10, at King’s Books in Tacoma. -- Bacon is the author of The Children of NAFTA and Communities without Borders. -- His new book, Illegal — How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, will be published by Beacon Press in the fall of 2008. -- More information about David Bacon below.[1] -- This talk is free and open to the public....
1. WHAT: "How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants"
WHO: David Bacon
WHEN: Monday, March 10, 2008
WHERE: King's Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, WA 98403 Writer and photojournalist David Bacon will speak at King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Avenue, Tacoma at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, March 10. Based in Oakland and Berkeley, California, Bacon is an associate editor at Pacific News Service and writes for TruthOut, the Nation, the American Prospect, the Progressive, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. He has been a reporter and documentary photographer for eighteen years, shooting for many national publications. He has exhibited his work nationally, as well as in Mexico, the U.K., and Germany. Bacon covers issues of labor, immigration, and international politics. He travels frequently to Mexico, the Philippines, Europe, and Iraq. He hosts a half-hour weekly radio show on labor, immigration, and the global economy on KPFA-FM, and is a frequent guest on KQED-TV’s “This Week in Northern California.” For twenty years, Bacon was a labor organizer for unions in which immigrant workers made up a large percentage of the membership. These include the United Farm Workers, the United Electrical Workers, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers, the Molders Union and others. Those experiences gave him a unique insight into changing conditions in the workforce, the impact of the global economy and migration, and how these factors influence the struggle for workers rights. Bacon was chair of the board of the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights and helped organize the Labor Immigrant Organizers Network and the Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health. He served on the board of the Media Alliance and belongs to the Northern California Media Workers Guild. His book, The Children of NAFTA, was published by the University of California Press in March 2004, and a photodocumentary project sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, Communities without Borders, was published by the ILR/Cornell University Press in October 2006. A new book on the link between trade and migration will be published by Beacon Press in the fall of 2008, titled Illegal — How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. In his latest project, Living Under the Trees, sponsored by the California Council for the Humanities and California Rural Legal Assistance, Bacon is photographing and interviewing indigenous Mexican migrants working in California’s fields. He is currently also documenting popular resistance to war and attacks on immigrant labor and civil rights. He has received numerous awards both for his writing and photography.
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