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Pajaro Latino
Date: 12/9/1993Call Number: JH 425AFormat: Cass AProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Tin-Tan NAFTA, Janitors con Antonio Abarca, jose Samperio del Comite de Trabajadores Generales, encuentro del Canto Popular
AFL-CIO Convention
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.
Elizabeth Martinez; Maquila Workers
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.
The Latin American left
Date: 10/25/1993Call Number: CV 090Format: CassetteProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interview with Jorge Castenada, analysis of Latin American left/populist movements, social conditions, nd negative impact of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
SF Rally for Peace, Jobs and Justice #2
Date: 8/28/1993Call Number: CV 143Format: CassetteProducers: Chuy VarelaProgram: KPFACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
SF Activists and the community rally to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the March on Washington and discuss current civil rights issues.
Fuerza Unida
Date: 11/3/1993Call Number: CV 151AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
An interview in spanish with co-coordinators of Fuerza Unida, Irene Riena and Petra Mata. Riena and Mata discuss the boycott of Levi's organized in response to the layoff of 1,150 workers from a factory in San Antonio, Texas. They discuss they're fight agaisnt Levi's in the context of labor rights struggles for Mexican immigrants, specifically women. They see their case as an example of what happens under free trade and what will worsen with NAFTA.
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.
Elizabeth Martinez; Maquila Workers
Date: 12/6/1993Call Number: CD 824Format: CDProducers: KPFAProgram: La onda BajitaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
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.
Elizabeth Martinez; Maquila Workers
Date: 12/6/1993Call Number: CD 825Format: CDProducers: KPFAProgram: La onda BajitaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
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.
10 Documents Found