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Xavier Viramontes: A Life in Print
Date: 1/1/2008Call Number: V 661Format: DVDProducers: Michel FraserCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A profile of Xavier Viramontes, one of the most influential Hispanic artists of our time. His iconoclast silk screen poster, BOYCOTT GRAPES, for the United Farmworkers, awakened a nation and rallied the Chicano movement in art.
Press Conference on the murder of Ricardo Falcon of the Crusade for Justice in New Mexico
Date: 8/31/1972Call Number: CD 873Format: CDProducers: Chicano Archives Collection U TexasCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Falcon Press conference with Priscilla Falcon (widow) and Francisco “Kiko” Martinez (lawyer)
Anti Prop. 187 march
Chuy Varela takes to the streets of the Fruitvale district in Oakland Ca, during a demonstration against proposition 187. he interviews various local community members and activists who will be effected by the proposition. Proposition 187 proposed state wide citizen screening checks that would prevent undocumented people access to social services such as health care and education.
Cesar Chavez and Poem to Spring
Date: 4/24/1993Call Number: FI 235Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano Echeverria, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Tribute produced the day after the death of Cesar Chavez, with musical selections from and about the struggle of farmworkers to unionize. Extended poem by Lincpln Bergman, "Spring Done Sprung" which summarizes news in US and internationally. Program also pays tribute to Oliver Tambo, Dizzy Gillespie, and others.
Ruben Blades y Seis del Solar
Date: 1/1/1985Call Number: Vin 097Format: VinylProducers: Ruben BladesCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This album is categorized in the salsa genre. Ruben also features artist Joe Jackson and Linda Ronstadt.
FMC IV Congreso
Date: 1/1/1985Call Number: Vin 098Format: VinylCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Silvio and Pablo came together with their orchestras to pay homage to the FMC. FMC stands for El Federation de Mujeres Cubanas, The Cuban Women's Federation. This albums is a celebration of the organizations existence and longevity.
Dolores Huerta Morning Show
Date: 9/2/1988Call Number: CV 322Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Dolores Huerta on a morning show. Topics discussed: UFW boycott of grapes, basic, quick history of UFW, use and dangers of pesticides, Teamsters' Union, AFL-CIO, and immigration issues related to farm workers. Discusses amnesty and access to social services, opposition of immigration services and growers companies to amnesty/social services, corporate policies of mass immigration through Mexican border and how they result in mass unemployment/lack of food and shelter for immigrants
Chicano Moritorium #2
Date: 8/29/1989Call Number: CV 323BFormat: Cass BProgram: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
In both English and Spanish, primarily music. Speech in English by singer; focuses on struggle of Latino/Chicano/Indigenous peoples and their children, along with condemning war in El Salvador
Tribute to Dolores Huerta #2
Collection of speeches given in aftermath of Dolores Huerta's beating by SF police. Ongoing grape boycott mentioned, police brutality as well. Speakers include Emilio Huerta (son), Art Agnos (then-mayor of SF), Howard Wallace. Side 2 has Chris Hartmire listing chain of hunger strike, passing from person to person
Farmworker 3/14/1995
Date: 3/14/1995Call Number: CV 325Format: Cass A & BProgram: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Side A: completely in Spanish
Side B: brief clip of discussion on police brutality, specifically Dolores Huerta's attacker
