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![Song for Cesar](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 565Format: DVDProducers: Andres AlegriaCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Features interviews with Dolores Huerta, Co-founder of the UFW; Arturo Rodriguez, UFW President; Cesar's brother, Richard Chavez; Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Program Director CECF and Paul Chavez, President of the National Farmworkers Service Center. Music recorded by The Prophets with Jorge Santana and Abel Sanchez.
![Nosotros Venceremos](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1971Call Number: V 564Format: DVDProducers: Jon LewisCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
From a 16mm film made in 1971 by Jon Lewis, set to his photographs of the Unied Farm Workers in Delano and other locations in the Central Valley of California. Features Cesar Chavez.
![Nosotros Venceremos](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1971Call Number: V 371Format: BetaProducers: Jon LewisCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
From a 16mm film made in 1971 by Jon Lewis, set to his photographs of the Unied Farm Workers in Delano and other locations in the Central Valley of California. Features Cesar Chavez.
![The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/1/1999Call Number: V 560Format: VHSProducers: Bob Hercules, Bruce OrensteinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Examines the life and legacy of the famous community organizer and his continuing modern-day influence.
![Factory Farms](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 718Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Factory Farms tells the unique story of California agriculture, a highly capitalized, sophisticated industry with substandard wage rates that keeps its workers in poverty and destitution. The film documents 1959 labor conditions for farm workers and reviews the history of union organizing in California agriculture.
![The Harvesters](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 719Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Harvesters documents late 1950's farm labor conditions in California's fields when 14- to 16-hour days paid workers at eighty-five cents to a dollar per hour. The film photographs people working many different crops. It also exposes how the bracero program imported Mexican nationals to work at wages lower than the sub-minimum rates available to American workers. The film was used by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) and the United Packinghouse Workers Union as an organizing film.
![Perch of the Devil](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 722Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Perch of the Devil is about the hard rock miners of Butte, Montana, and the strike of copper workers in 1960. The film reviews the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local Union No. 1 and the many, violent struggles that have rocked the mining camps of the Western Rockies. There are interviews with miners and with victims of silicosis, a fatal lung disease among miners. It also contains footage of mining operations a mile below the surface.
![Uno Veintecinco: The Lettuce Strike of 1962](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 723Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Uno Veintecinco documents the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), AFL-CIO, strike to get lettuce pickers in California $1.25/hour. The film interviews organizers and workers and reviews the 20th century history of labor organizing in California's fields. It contains footage of spontaneous strike actions in which farm workers are shown leaving the fields to join the strikers.
![The Land is Rich](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 734Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Land is Rich documents the United Farm Workers struggle to organize California farm workers in the early 1960's. It includes their march from Delano to Sacramento in the spring of 1966. The film contrasts the economic strength of California agribusiness with the migrant workers' poverty shown in bread lines, living conditions and the impact of extensive exposure to agricultural chemicals. This film was used by the United Farm Workers Union.
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