David Bacon

David Bacon is a California journalist and photographer, and the author of In the Fields of the North/En los Campos del Norte (University of California Press).

What It Will Take to Build a Broad-Based Movement for a Just Transition

Environmental and labor organizers reflect on hard-won lessons

By David Bacon August 31, 2022

In this story: environmental justice, climate change, labor

The Salton Sea Is Dying—We Can't Let That Happen

Millions of birds depend on a healthy Salton Sea—so do the area's kids

Text and photographs by David Bacon December 14, 2017

In this story: water, climate change

Without an adequate water supply, the receding Salton Sea leaves behind dead fish and toxic, asthma-inducing dust.

Code Blue for the Salton Sea

Youth activists living near the dying sea speak out

By David Bacon December 14, 2017

In this story: water

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What It Will Take to Build a Broad-Based Movement for a Just Transition

The Salton Sea Is Dying—We Can't Let That Happen

Code Blue for the Salton Sea

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