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Photo essay: Silicon Valley janitors go on strike against Yahoo!, Cisco
Photos and text by David Bacon
Militants mark May Day in Timor Leste, Pakistan and Malaysia (video)
Timor Leste: Workers and students rally for May Day in Dili
By Mericio Akara
Indonesia: Call for Venezuela-style oil nationalisations; Papernas May Day statement
April 29, 2008 -- About
1000 workers, students and urban poor held a pre-May Day demonstration
outside GKBI Towers in Jakarta, a flashy skyscraper that is the
Indonesian headquarters of companies like ExxonMobil, ANZ Bank, Cable
& Wireless, Credit Lyonnais Capital, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical,
France Telecom, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, OCBC Bank and the Swiss Bank.
Photo essay: The men who live in the canyon
Photographs and captions by David Bacon
San Diego, California -- March 31, 2008 -- Isaias, Alvino and Porfirio, three Mixtec men from Etla, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico, live in the Los Peñasquitos canyon on the north edge of San Diego. They work as day labourers and farm workers -- wherever they can find work.
Isaias stands next to the place where he sleeps.
Photo essay: Black and brown together in Mississippi
By David Bacon
Laurel, Mississippi is a town where many Mexican immigrants have arrived to work in poultry plants over the last decade, developing relations with African Americans who also work in the plants. La Veracruzana market and restaurant is named after the home state of many immigrants. Nearby, the Michoacana market sells religious statues. At the Veracruzana, Frank Curiel, an organiser for the Laborers Union and the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, talks with owner Samuel Holguin. Down the street is.a motel where Mexican poultry workers live.