Chuy Varela Collection
This collection takes its name from Jesse “Chuy” Varela, a Bay Area radio host who frequently interviewed political, activist, and labor figures connected to issues affecting Latin and Central American communities. Topics includes immigration to the US, the 1994 NAFTA treaty, labor issues such as the activism of Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, and the UFW, and related political developments affecting the region (1994 Mexican election, CA Prop 187, Sandinistas, Zapatistas, (EZLN) etc.) and others.
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!["Turning Up the Heat": Moving the Social Justice Agenda in 1995](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
A panel of women discussing four key issues confronting the social justice agenda: 1) Prop 187 effects on the election 2) emerging campaign to prohibit voluntary affirmative action 3) gender equity in education settings and 4) short and long term impact of these issues and the resolutions on women political, economic and social equality. The presentations are followed by a discussion.
![Immigration Prop 187 Passage Press Conference 11-9-94 SF](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Press conference given the day after the passage of Prop 187. Organizers of the anti-Prop
187 movement speak to the press about their disappointment with California’s decision and their
next steps which include class action lawsuits against numerous California politicians. Key points of
opposition include challenging the educational provisions, overriding health care entitlements, and
challenging the structure of Prop 187. Q and A with the press follows the statements by lawyers and
community activists.
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