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César Chávez's Funeral - Part 4
Date: 4/29/1993Call Number: CV 240Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Cesar Chavez's funeral mass and a speech by Fernando Chavez.
César Chávez's Funeral - Part 5
Date: 4/29/1993Call Number: CV 241AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Dolores Huerta talks about Cesar Chavez's life and legacy after Chavez's funeral mass.
Jessica McLintock Protests
Date: 12/11/1994Call Number: V 429Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
60 Minutes segment on sweatshops in San Francisco. Focus on organizing of women sweatshop workers. Women Against Imperialism and the Garment Workers Union boycotting designer Jessica McLintock.
Cuauhtemoc Cardeñas speaks at UC Berkeley
Date: 11/16/1989Call Number: JG/ 139AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
The founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PDR) in Mexico speaks against US intervention in Central and Latin America. He addresses questions about the role of anti-imperialist actions in the US in support of Mexico, and discusses the creation of new, egalitarian trade relationships between North and South American economies.
UFW Rally
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.
Labor Party Advocates - Part 1
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.
UFW David Bacon, Bruce Janigian
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: CV 279Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
The third UFW boycott and the effects on buyers, growers, and workers. Both interviewees attack the boycott itself and defend farmers, growers, and labor contractors. They oppose UFW arguments and positions. Also discussed is the Agriculture Labor Relations Board and its regulation and oversight of workers rights.
Cesar Chavez at Seiu Hall (1988) "Grapes of Wrath"
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.
Cesar Chavez interview
Farm workers' leader, Cesar Chavez, interviewed by attorney Alex Hoffmann in Delano at the UFW office on progress of the union.
Prison Labor
Activists protest labor in prison, calling it slavery. Prisoners make far less than minimum wage and are subjected to hazardous work conditions. For example at the Folsom recycling plant, prisoners working there make very little money and are not even provided with gloves to protect their hands.
