David Bacon is a writer and photojournalist specializing in issues of labor, immigration and international politics. His books include The Children of NAFTA, and a photodocumentary project, Communities Without Borders,. A new book on the link between trade and migration, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, will be published by Beacon Press in Fall 2008. In his latest project, Living Under the Trees, sponsored by the California Council for the Humanities and California Rural Legal Assistance, Bacon photographed and interviewed indigenous Mexican migrants working in California’s fields. For twenty years, Bacon was a labor organizer for unions in which immigrant workers made up a large percentage of the membership. Those include the United Farm Workers, the United Electrical Workers, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers, the Molders Union and others. Those experiences gave him an insight into changing conditions in the workforce, the impact of the global economy and migration, and how these factors influence the struggle for workers rights. In addition to his books, Bacon is an associate editor at Pacific News Service, and writes for TruthOut, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Progressive, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. He has been a reporter and documentary photographer for 18 years, shooting for many national publications. He hosts a half-hour weekly radio show on labor, immigration and the global economy on KPFA-FM, and is a frequent guest on KQED-TV’s This Week in Northern California. He has exhibited his work nationally, and in Mexico, the UK and Germany. He is currently documenting popular resistance to war and attacks on immigrant labor and civil rights.