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Mass Incarceration: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Mass incarceration and how money is being taken from education and put into expanding prisons. Also how prisons are being privatized and people are being exploited for labor.
Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: V 540Format: VHSProducers: National Labor CommitteeCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Reports on the use of cheap labor by the Walt Disney Company in its clothing factories in Haiti. Advocates that Disney clean up contractors' factories, guarantee workers' rights, pay a living wage, and open their plants to independent human rights organizations to monitor conditions.
¡Aumento Ya!/A Raise Now!
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: V 541Format: VHSProducers: PCUN, NuVistamedia, Western States CenterCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Illustrates the 1995 organizing campaign by an Oregon Latino farmworkers’ union, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) to win higher wages for Latino immigrant workers harvesting the Willamette Valley strawberry crop.
The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy
Date: 11/1/1999Call Number: V 560Format: VHSProducers: Bob Hercules, Bruce OrensteinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Examines the life and legacy of the famous community organizer and his continuing modern-day influence.
Two Trevors go to Washington
Date: 1/1/2000Call Number: V 561Format: VHSProducers: Ben CashdenCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Protests by over 30,000 against the World Bank are seen through the eyes of two South Africans. In the Bank, finance minister Trevor Manuel, champion of South Africa's conservative economic policy and chair of the IMF/World Bank board. On the streets, Soweto activist and African Ntaional Congress member, Trevor Ngwane, joins the protesters.
Bobby Kennedy (in Spanish) speaks to Farmworkers
Call Number: CE 416Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Bobby Kennedy speaks in Delano expressing his support for the labor union and human rights of the farmworkers. Some of it with humor: "Is that all right Cesar, am I destroying the language?" They sing Solidarity Forever at the end.
Dolores Huerta Interview
Huerta discusses the third grape protest and a new documentary. Also about pro’s and con’s of the new Immigration Bill, the status of women in the Labor Movement and the ongoing strike in Watsonville.
Role of mujeres in the Party - Ramsey Muniz
Date: 9/3/1972Call Number: CD 771Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
La Raza Unida national convention - about the role of women. The first time La Raza Unida as a political party has met on a national level.Women met to discuss their roles at a National level.
Ramsey Muniz, of Corpus Christi, the first Chicano to run for governor of Texas. He ran as the nominee of the Raza Unida party in 1972 at the age of 29. Ramsey Muniz speaks of the Raza Unida Platform and the importance of an independent Chicano Party, denounces the Democrats and Republicans for not helping Chicanos.
Naming Cesar Chavez Avenue in Berkeley
Latino students and workers march to change the name of University Avenue in Berkeley into Cesar Chavez Avenue in tribute to Cesar Chavez’s struggle for farm workers, minorities, and human rights.
Dolores Huerta 65th Birthday - Part 1
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.
