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![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.
![US/Mexican Free Trade](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/21/1992Call Number: CV 209Format: Cass A & BProgram: En Contacto DirectoCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Forum with professors Raul Hinojosa of UCLA and Andres Jimenez of UC Berkeley about a much debated free trade agreement between the United States and Mexico. Discussion includes migration of rural workers in Mexico, the ending of the communal farm system, job creation and job loss around the border, and the "integration" economies of Mexico and the US.
![United Farm Workers - SF Protest](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/13/1992Call Number: CV 259AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interviews with UFW demonstrators who are protesting pesticide use on grapes. Grape growers are selling their produce overseas since sales are down in the US. Cesar Chavez discuss his efforts to raise awareness about pesticides and their health effects among Hong Kong consumers. He also talks about how NAFTA may influence union organizing.
![Labor Party Advocates - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/14/1995Call Number: CV 278AFormat: Cass AProducers: Labor Party AdvocatesCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Forum with the heads of different Unions and Labor organizations about the war on the poor led by a Republican majority congress. Former Governor Jerry Brown proposes solutions to the unemployment rate, calling for an expansion of the Works Progress Administration and public works programs. He also states interest rates of 3% a year will counter the increase in the federal minimum wage proposed by the GOP. Also discussed at the forum - NAFTA and the loss of 2.9 million jobs, as well as the growth of the prison system.
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