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David Bacon
San Quentin Death Sentence
29 Jul 2020
Prisoners’ supporters and loved ones demanded release of half the population and no transfers between prisons or to ICE.
David Bacon
NAFTA, The Cross-Border Disaster
29 Nov 2017
“NAFTA strengthened the ability of U.S. employers to force workers to accept lower wages and benefits.”
David Bacon
Lead in Flint Water, Mold in Detroit Schools: An Anatomy of a Free Market Disaster 
09 Mar 2016
by David Bacon Detroit’s schools have been laid waste, and democracy in every majority Black city has been destroyed, as have the brain cells of children in Flint. “Michigan cities have been used as…
David Bacon
Rocketship to Profits: The Super-Rich Shape Education in Their Own Image
08 Oct 2014
/*-->*/ by David Bacon The mega-profiteers of Silicon Valley market a privatized brand of education that “is predicated on paying minimal attention to anything but math and literacy, and even those…
David Bacon
Detroit Residents Respond to Bankruptcy: “We Have No Democracy!”
20 Aug 2013
by David Bacon Detroit’s saga is a tale of U.S. industrial decline and the rapidly fading vision of urban Black political power. “More than half of Michigan's 1.4 million Black residents now live…
David Bacon
Does Signing a Petition Give Parents a Voice in Schools?
05 Oct 2011
by David Bacon The so-called “parent trigger” appears designed to achieve one result: increase the spread of charter schools under the guise of parental empowerment. Charter boosters may use the…