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![Racism in the SF Fire Department](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/19/1987Call Number: CV 034Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interview and call in show about racism in the San Francisco Fire Department in January 1987.
![Instituto Laboral #1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Annual awards ceremony of the Insituto Laboral de la Raza. Speeches and presentations by various San Francisco labor leaders. Award recipients include Gloria Betancourt and Curt Flood.
![Watsonville Decision Tape III](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Conference about re-districting in local elections in Watsonville, California to allow for Chicano representation in government. Speakers include civic officials from Santa Cruz and Santa Clara County, including incumbent mayor Betty Murphy.
![Watsonville Decision Tape I](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Conference about re-districting in local elections in Watsonville, California to allow for Chicano representation in government. Speakers include attorneys in the legal battle to end at-large elections.
![Instituto Laboral #1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Continuation of annual awards ceremony of the Insituto Laboral de la Raza. Speeches and presentations by various San Francisco labor leaders. Curt Flood gives speech and is presented with award in his name.
![Guatemala](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Journalists Victor Perera and Katharine Webster talk about the Guatemalan Civil War and the continued effects of the scorched earth tactics used by the military. Both journalists emphasize the formation of Civil Patrols and implementation of "model villages" as oppressive moves by the military and "civil" governments of Guatemala in the indigenous Maya Ixil Triangle. United States financial support and counter-insurgency training of Guatemalan military regimes is also highlighted.
![The Crisis In El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Jacqueline Bradley and Andre Herrera of the Central American Refugee Committee in Santa Cruz about the continued Civil War in El Salvador and the extreme poverty and unemployment as a result of the war. Increased protests for peace and jobs by Salvodoran workers, violently suppressed by the military.The catastrophic effect of deported refugees on the already starved economy where military jobs are the only ones available.
![Interview with Todd Gitlin](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/8/1987Call Number: KP 378Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFAProgram: KPFACollection: North American Anti-Imperialists
About his book "The Sixties- Years of Hope, Days of Rage" and his experiences during the 60s.
![Contragate: The Secret Team (part 2)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1987Call Number: KP 383Format: Cass A & BProducers: The Other American RadioCollection: Struggles in Latin America
Daniel Sheehan of the Christic Institute speaks about US covert operations in Latin America, especially the Contra War in Nicaragua and against Cuba.
![Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDHES)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/4/1987Call Number: CV 217BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Oscar Hernandez, from the CDHES, is about human rights abuses during the Salvadoran Civil War of the 1980's. He speaks about political persecution, death squads, torture, disappearances and assassination as well as US support of the Salvadoran military.