In two demonstrations last week people in the Bay Area stood up to defend immigrant members of our community.
In Berkeley on October 14, Mayor Jesse Arreguin and other community leaders announced that the City of Berkeley was passing a resolution calling on Congress to act to presesrve Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for refugees and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, for young people brought to the U.S. without papers as children. If action is not taken, over a million people will lose work authorization and the legal ability to remain in this country.
May people spoke out at the rally across the street from Berkeley's old City Hall. They included young people like Crista Ramos and Kruz Morales. Other immigrants like Cristina Morales and Rose Carranza represented the TPS Committee for Permanent Residency Now! and East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, and were supported by Pierre Labossiere of the Haiti Action Committee and Ramon Cardona of Centro Latino Cuscatlan. Berkeley's poet laurate Rafael Jesus Gonzalez read poetry.
On Friday, October 11, the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity organized a vigil in front of the ICE office in San Francisco, calling on Governor Gavin Newsom to pardon to men so that they will not be deported, and can remain with their families in the U.S.
Charles Joseph is facing transfer to ICE custody upon release from prison. When he was younger, Charles Joseph's father was incarcerated and deported. Joseph is a member of musician Lew Fratis' musical development and performance program at the California State Prison, Solano. His mother, Alumita Siva, and his lawyer, Francisco Ugarte, spoke to the rally.
Saman Pho, a 43-year-old father of four from Oakland, a construction worker and Teamster Union member, was taken into custody when he reported to U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement on Sansome Street. His sister Monica Sok spoke out for him.
On the sidewalk people dug into their pockets and raised the bail money needed for a young person who was being freed from custody, but then being turned over to immigration authorities for deportation.
Exhibition Schedule
Exhibitions of photographs are scheduled for the following venues and dates:
In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte Scheduled exhibitions:
September 1, 2019 - December 22, 2019
Hi-Desert Nature Museum, Yucca Valley January 5, 2020 - March 1, 2020
Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County, Yuba City March 15, 2020 - June 21, 2020
Los Altos History Museum, Los Altos March 21, 2021 - May 23, 2021
Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock
In Washington’s Fields Scheduled exhibition:
February 5, 2020 - July 15, 2020
Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA
More Than a Wall - The Social Movements of the Border Scheduled exhibition:
August 29,, 2020 - November 29,, 2020
San Francisco Public Library
Deportations Scheduled exhibition:
April 10, 2020 - May 1, 2020
Uri-Eichen Gallery, Chicago IL
In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte Photographs and text by David Bacon
University of California Press / Colegio de la Frontera Norte 302 photographs, 450pp, 9”x9”
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"Documenting the Farm Worker Rebellion"
"The Radical Resistance to Immigration Enforcement"
Havens Center lectures, University of Wisconsin, click here
San Francisco Commonweallth Club presentation by David Bacon and Jose Padilla, click here
Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008)
Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008 http://www.beacon.org/Illegal-People-P780.aspx