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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.
Rigoberta Menchu at Riverside Church
Rigoberta Menchu delivers a speech in which she asserts that her receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize gives recognition to all indigenous people and contends that solving concrete problems are integral to human rights.
Rigoberta Menchu Press Conference at the UN
Rigoberta Menchu delivers a speech and answers questions at a press conference on the U.N. declaration of 1993. She also speaks about the year of indigenous people, human rights and the peace process in Guatemala.
Rigoberta Menchu at U.C. Berkeley
Rigoberta Menchu speaks about the Vincente Menchu Foundation and the importance of indigenous culture and struggle.
Rigoberta Menchu's Speech in Mexico about
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: CV 032Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy ValeraCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Rigoberta Menchu speaks in Mexico in 1992 about her first novel, "I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala". She refers to it as an instrument of peace and justice for those who suffer inequality socially, economically, culturally and politically in the world and a portal the denounce the human rights violations that had been going on in Guatemala and the world. Among other things she talks about the contributions the Mayan Civilization, the significance of respecting the earth, the need for peace, the need for discourse between different global communities and the dire situation facing indigenous communities (especially women) in Guatemala. Her speech is followed by music.
For the Children of Palestine
Event held for the children of Palestine - poets and writers express support for Palestine. Topics include child abuse, corrupt political power, self censorship, children in wartime, the masculine ideal, hunger, lost freedoms, displacement, and military brutalization. Issues are addressed through spoken word, poetry, stories, and songs.
Facing Free Trade Together at UC Berkeley
Date: 2/2/1992Call Number: CV 056Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Event to organize against free trade, and promote fair trade.
Rigoberta Menchu Speaks
Rigoberta Menchu addresses the United Nations and calls for increased awareness and action on behalf of human and indigenous rights.
Mexico Clerical Workers
Date: 3/20/1992Call Number: CV 064BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews Vicente Villamar Calderon about the international relationship between North American and Mexican banks, their clerical workers, and their unions. Calderon is visiting San Francisco for a conference on international banking as Secretary of International Relations for the National Federation of Banking Syndicates (FENASIB).
Border-X-Frontera
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: CV 098Format: Cass A & BProducers: Toucan ProductionsCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Guillermo Gomez-Pena and David Schein perform in this radio theatre piece that explores xenophobia and Chicano identity that strattles two nations, languages, realities, sensibilities and forms of consciousness.
