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Vicki Garvin interview by Lincoln Bergman
This is the first installment of an interview of labor organizer, Vicki Garvin, conducted by Lincoln Bergmen. In this volume Vickie speaks of growing up in Richmond, Virginia, her family’s exodus to Manhattan and the challenges of growing up black in New York during the depression. She describes here her beginnings in labor and union organizing and her opportunity to study economics at Smith College. She talks as well about working with Adam Clayton Powell on his campaign for state representative.
Vicki Garvin interview by Lincoln Bergman
same as KP 149.This is the first installment of an interview of labor organizer, Vickie Garvin, conducted by Lincoln Bergmen. In this volume Vickie speaks of growing up in Richmond, Virgina, her family’s exodus to Manhattan and the challenges of growing up black in New York during the depression. She describes here her beginnings in labor and union organizing and her opportunity to study economics at Smith College. She talks as well about working with Adam Clayton Powell on his campaign for state representative.
Jesse Jackson @ AFL-CIO
Jesse Jackson delivers a speech at an AFL-CIO meeting calling for a strong and independent labor movement to create a climate for leaders to enact change.
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.
NAFTA Debate
Raul Hinojosa, UCLA professor, and others discussing NAFTA and its impact.
Workers' Film & Video Forum
Call Number: V 349Format: VHSProgram: Workers' Film & Video ForumCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Leaving Home - post NAFTA North America the struggle of workers in the new corporate factories of Mexico and comments by US and Canadian workers whose jobs have been out sourced to Mexico
Japan Railway's Mass Firings - the plight and mass firings of Japanese railway workers after the privatization of Japan Railways.
Chile: The Seige of Santa Maria de Iquique - A People's Cantata
Date: 1/1/1970Call Number: Vin 012Format: VinylProducers: Paredon Records, Luis Advis, Quilapayun, Hector DuvauchelleCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Spoken word narration set to music that recounts the history of the 1907 massacre of Chilean nitrate miners. 18,000 workers and their families marched to the port of Santa Maria de Inquique demanding fair wages and working conditions. The Chilean government, which had strong stakes in the nitrate industry, ordered the Chilean army to attack the miners' nonviolent protest at the port. 2,000 people were killed and thousands were injured. The album serves to tell this silenced history, and demonstrates the determination and solidarity of the Chilean miner unions. Includes liner notes with history, photographs, and lyrics.
Working People Gonna Rise!
Date: 1/1/1975Call Number: Vin 016Format: VinylProducers: Paredon Records, The Human Condition, Beverly GrantCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Political ballads about the history of the American working class and the contemporary struggle for labor rights. The Human Condition were a songwriting collective of labor activists. Songs chronicle the everday experience of the working class. Includes liner notes with political statement and lyrics.
Break the Chains: Prairie Fire
Date: 1/1/1976Call Number: Vin 083Format: VinylProducers: One Spark MusicCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
For the US bicentennial Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore composed revolutionary songs for the working class. Songs like "Let's Get 'em off Our Backs (200 Years is Long Enough)" speak about the unfair and unjust ways the American labor forces is treated and paid. Themes include the fight for unions and the stark contrast between the upper class and the working class.
Fresno UFW Convention/Fresno
Side A: completely in Spanish
Side B: primarily in Spanish, speaker advocating people to vote and boycott Coca-Cola for not renewing contract with UFW
