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![Inside the CIA, On Company Business, Part 2-Assassination](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1987Call Number: V 085Format: VHSProducers: Howard Dratch, Allan FrancovichCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Testimony of former agents, archival footage, first-hand accounts of victims of CIA-backed torture, and other interviews reveal CIA’s mode of operation as well as its goals in Latin America. Goes into depth on subversion of labor movements. Also intervention in Brazil in particular as well as Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Mentions Chile and others targets of CIA.
![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.
![1991 CWA Convention](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Labor convention to inform members about passing legislation in Congress in support of workers' right to strike.
![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.
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