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![Oscar Mondragon - Frank Curil Interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/6/1988Call Number: CV 263Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Oscar Mondragon and Frank Curil discuss the UFW's third major grape boycott. Curil explains the union's stance on workers' rights, the new method of boycotting and the health risk of pesticides.
![UFW Rally](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/19/1988Call Number: CV 274Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Protesting the failure of the grand jury to investigate Dolores Huerta’s case against the police. Also discusses the second UFW grape boycott and nonviolent methods referencing Cesar Chavez’s 36-day hunger strike. Unions of agricultural workers outside of the US like the Jamaican Sugar Cane Workers are also discussed.
![Cesar Chavez at Seiu Hall (1988) "Grapes of Wrath"](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: CV 281Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Carol Ruth Silver a civil rights veteran and member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors speaks at a national gathering of Labor Councils. Cesar Chavez speaks detailing the “Grapes of Wrath” grape boycott that the United Farm Workers are organizing demanding that agricultural growers stop using 5 pesticides, and also demanding free elections - free of intervention and harassment. An initial pesticide ban sponsored by the growers in 1975, was reversed when Gov. George Deukmejian stopped enforcing it and opposed the expense of placing signs in the fields warning workers of active pesticide use.
![Dolores Huerta](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/22/1995Call Number: CV 285BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Dolores Huerta speaks about the history of the Bracero Program. She explains how the government brought in thousands of agricultural workers, the terrible working conditions, preventing them from seeing their families and leaving the worker camps. UFW opposition led by her and Cesar Chavez forced the program to end in 1964.
![Dolores Huerta 65th Birthday - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/29/1995Call Number: CV 298Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy ValeraCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
65th birthday celebration for Dolores Huerta. She looks back on her work in the UFW since she co-founded it with Cesar Chavez. Her supporters pay tribute to her resoluteness and all her dedicated work with the United Farm Workers. Also UFW’s president Arturo Rodriguez.
![The immigration wars (Prop 187)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Introduction to the debate about Proposition 187, also known by the political right as the “Save our State” initiative, which mainly prohibits “illegal immigrants” from using health care, public education, and social services in California.
Interview of the music band “Puro Bandido” from the Mission District, SF, whose inspiration comes from Carlos Santana.
Interviews about Cesar Chavez and the UFW to commemorate his birthday.
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