The photographs hang on the Mexican side, next to the lanes where traffic lines up, waiting to cross into the U.S. On February 2, the Center for Cultural Investigation of the Autonomous University of Baja California mounted an exhibition of 18 large phot

A fortune is being plowed into the dirt of Sioux County, where well-heeled farmers and wealthy investors compete fiercely for some of the most fertile land in the Corn Belt. While farmland prices across Iowa have been among the heartland’s fastest growin

January 25, 2012 The high cost of migration. By David Bacon By arrangement with BeaconBroadside.com. Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Just before Christmas, the women and children who’d spent 17 months living on the sidewalk outside the governor’s pal

Today's post is from David Bacon, a former union organizer and a fellow at the Oakland Institute. Bacon is the author of Illegal People and the forthcoming The Right to Not Migrate. OAXACA, MEXICO -- Just before Christmas, the women and children who'd sp

Editor's Note: This is the third and final installment of a three-part series on migrant rights by journalist and immigration activist David Bacon. This article is taken from the report 'Displaced, Unequal and Criminalized - Fighting for the Rights of Mi

Editor's Note: This is the second installment of a three-part series on migrant rights by journalist and immigration activist David Bacon. This article is taken from the report 'Displaced, Unequal and Criminalized - Fighting for the Rights of Migrants in