David Bacon Talk January 27, 2009

David Bacon will talk about his new book Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. In it Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin America and Asia driving them to migrate. At the same time, US immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society.

David Bacon is a writer and photojournalist based in Oakland and Berkeley, CA. He is an associate editor at Pacific News Service and writes for a number of publications. He has been a reporter and documentary photographer for 18 years. For 20 years, Bacon was a labor organizer for unions in which immigrant workers made up a large percentage of the membership. He 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 has received numerous awards for both his writing and photography.

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