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You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
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Women in Prison Women in Prison
Call Number: PM 210Format: Cass A & BCollection: Prisons - Women
Intervew of Women in Prison, Dublin, CA 1995. Political prisoners Dylcia Pagan, Linda Evans, Ida Robinson, and Marilyn Buck are asked to speak about themselves and why they are in prison. The women also discuss the GATT (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs), NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), the lack of wages and benefits for the poor and oppressed, and the wrongs of the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Ida Robinson speaks about families of ethnic minorities, and Marilyn Buck speaks about how political prisoners aren’t violent, they are just casualties during the conflict. The women discuss the state of the poor white woman, how is marginalized because no one is fighting for her and she has no representation.
Zapatista Support Rally Zapatista Support Rally
Date: 5/20/1994Call Number: CV 019Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
This rally in SF is part of a tour to support the EZLN approx. Five months after their Jan 1 uprising. Zapatista representatives Manuel Miron and Pedro Castillo give speeches and answer questions on the necessity of the Zapatistas' movement and their purpose, especially in response to structural violence against Chiapas, indigenous peoples and campesinos in the form of undemocratic rule since the 1910 revolution and neoliberal policies like NAFTA. Other poetry and music is also performed, including a statement issued by Leonard Peltier to the EZLN (05/09/94) in solidarity with their struggles.
Protest of Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Protest of Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Date: 9/30/1991Call Number: CV 129Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Demonstration against the announcement by rulers of the US, Mexico & Canada that they sought a "free trade agreement." Includes advocates for Mexican workers and other viewpoints.
Latinos and the Election Latinos and the Election
Date: 10/31/1992Call Number: CV 220AFormat: Cass AProgram: AhoraCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela facilitates a forum on the issues affecting Latinos in the upcoming 1992 general elections. The panel features Jose Padilla, the Executive Director of the California Rural Legal Assistance, Deborah Escobedo of Multicultural Education Training and Advocacy, and Bernardo Garcia-Pandavenes, Chairman of the Oakland Voter Registration and Citizenship Project. Jose Padilla talks about the Republican regulations limit services to poor people, including restrictions on the pursuit of voting and civil rights cases. Deborah Escobedo talks about the reactionary political movements against bilingual education and undocumented children. Garcia-Pandeves focuses on the impact that Latino voters could have on the election.
Women in Prison Women in Prison
Call Number: CD 719Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Intervew of Women in Prison, Dublin, CA 1995. Political prisoners Dylcia Pagan, Linda Evans, Ida Robinson, and Marilyn Buck are asked to speak about themselves and why they are in prison. The women also discuss the GATT (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs), NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), the lack of wages and benefits for the poor and oppressed, and the wrongs of the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Ida Robinson speaks about families of ethnic minorities, and Marilyn Buck speaks about how political prisoners aren’t violent, they are just casualties during the conflict. The women discuss the state of the poor white woman, how is marginalized because no one is fighting for her and she has no representation.
Dia de Los Muertos Dia de Los Muertos
Date: 11/2/1993Call Number: CV 253Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Poet, Piri Thomas, speaks about world unity. Dia de Los Muertos ceremony in SF, where Dolores Huerta, Native American elders, and others discuss death and ancestors. Includes discussion of NAFTA.
NACLA Report On The Americas NACLA Report On The Americas
Publisher: The North American Congress On Latin AmericaYear: 1996Volume Number: Vol. 30-3 November-DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: NACLA
On The Line: Latinos On Labor's Cutting Edge. Plus Puerto Rican Political Prisoners; Vilas on Debray on Che; Latin America Online