The High Costs of the Cloud
Data centers make “the cloud” tangible. The supposed benefits—such as jobs—might not be.
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Poverty and Deportees on the Streets in Tijuana
Photos by David Bacon and an Interview with Laura Velasco
Why Is the World Bank Attacking Land Reform in the Philippines?
The proposed market-oriented SPLIT reforms, which the bank supports, would undermine the country’s coops.
Domestic Workers: A New Face of Solidarity
In the United States, Canada, and Mexico domestic workers have similar problems, but have taken different directions in trying to force a change.
What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Immigrants
Still relevant from 2017: Understanding how the economic system Trump and his appointees will operate in constrains immigration policy.
How Filipino Migrants Gave the Grape Strike Its Radical Politics
Honoring Larry Itliong and a generation of radicals whose political ideas are as relevant to workers now as they were in 1965.
Migration, Labor, and U.S. Policy
One winter morning in Los Angeles, a group of health care activists set up a street-corner clinic for day
What Trump Can and Can't Do to Immigrants
People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under
The People in the Tents Say "Yes"
Fernando Mendez has been a leader of the encampment from the beginning. When Ruben Beas says he's been