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![Jesse Jackson @ AFL-CIO](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Jesse Jackson delivers a speech at an AFL-CIO meeting calling for a strong and independent labor movement to create a climate for leaders to enact change.
![The Braceros: A U.S. Mexico Saga](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: CV 035Format: Cass A & BProducers: KUMNCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
A mini documentry about migrant farm workers from Mexico and the cotton industry in the southwest.
![AFL-CIO Convention](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Speeches and interviews recorded at an AFL-CIO convention in San Francisco, California on October 6, 1993. Interviews in Spanish with Yolanda Navarro from Watsonville, CA, and Linda Chavez-Thompson from San Antonio, TX about NAFTA, plant closures, need for more democratic and stronger unions, labor violence in Mexican maquiladoras. Intermittent speeches in English about NAFTA, followed by speech and interview with Janet Reno discussing education, labor and community relations, child care, and immigration.
![Facing Free Trade Together at UC Berkeley](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/2/1992Call Number: CV 056Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Event to organize against free trade, and promote fair trade.
![Fuerza Unida Boycotts Levis](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Workers demand Levis to stop sending jobs overseas, monetary compensation from Levis for loss of jobs, and to meet Levis' Chief Executive director Bob Haus.
![Mexico Clerical Workers](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/20/1992Call Number: CV 064BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews Vicente Villamar Calderon about the international relationship between North American and Mexican banks, their clerical workers, and their unions. Calderon is visiting San Francisco for a conference on international banking as Secretary of International Relations for the National Federation of Banking Syndicates (FENASIB).
![Elizabeth Martinez; Maquila Workers](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/6/1993Call Number: CV 066Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFAProgram: La Honda BajitaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interview by Chuy Varela with Elizabeth Martinez in 1993 about her book "500 Years of Chicano History In Pictures." They discuss
Latino and Chicano identity and politics. Varela goes on to interview workers from maquilas in Tijuana, Mexico about their struggles to unionize, and the working conditions in the factories.
![Margarita Martinez - Watsonville Canning Strike](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Chuy Varela interviews striking frozen food cannery worker Margarita Martinez 11 months into Watsonville Canning Strike (probably in 1986). They discuss the difficulty of supporting a family while on strike, the success of the strike's solidarity, and future plans of the workers.
![Watsonville Cannery Interviews](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Interiews by Chuy Varela about the decertification election for the Watsonville Canning Strike in 1986. Varela interviews strike leader Gloria Betancourt and Teamsters Local 912 Secretary Treasurer Sergio Lopez about the importance of the election, the support for the strike, and the participation of the Teamsters International in the boycott of the plant's products.
![One Year Commemoration of the Watsonville Strike](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Ending of retrospective on Lydia Mendoza leads into radio program about the Watsonville Canning Strike and the role of Chicana workers in the success and solidarity of the strike. Program includes interviews of workers, Secretary Treasurer of Teamsters Local 912 Sergio Lopez, strike leader Gloria Betancourt. Includes speeches by Gloria Betancourt at Mecha in Berkeley, and Jesse Jackson in Watsonville.