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Bill Tamayo Asian Law Caucus
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: CV 270AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Discusses Proposition 187, the growing white supremacy in the US, and scapegoating of immigrants. How the downturns in the economy (during the 1980’s) influence anti-immigrant attitudes during the 1990’s, and who really makes up the undocumented population. Most ethnic groups (Asian, African American, and Latino) voted against proposition 187 while the majority of the white California population voted for it.
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.
Riverside Immigration Conference
Date: 1/14/1995Call Number: CV 275Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Jose de Pass of the California Immigrant Worker Association discusses the fight against Proposition 187. He puts little faith in Chicano or Chicana politicians. Reies Tijerina, an early leader of the Chicano movement gives a history of the struggle for land grants to the descendants of the original Mexican owners.
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.
Immigrant Rights: A Civil Rights Issue For the 90's - Part 3
Date: 8/27/1990Call Number: CV 280Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Khader Hamide, of the Los Angeles 8, speaks about his arrest and detainment with 6 other Middle Eastern immigrants and one from Kenya. Their rights were violated when, after being secretly watched by the FBI for months, they were arrested for passing Palestinian literature. One government document exposed a government plan to relocate Arab and Palestinians in the US to camps in Oakdale, Louisiana and later deport them. The forum also discusses domestic violence and rights violations of undocumented women including their ejection from homeless shelters.
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.
United Farm Workers at UC Berkeley
Date: 9/2/1988Call Number: CV 284Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
UFW rally held at UC Berkeley to boycott grapes. Keynote speakers include Ron Dellums and Martin Sheen. A march from the campus goes to a Safeway store to protest their selling of grapes.
Arturo Rodriguez
Date: 8/22/1995Call Number: CV 285AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Arturo Rodriguez about UFW gains securing union contracts for farm workers. Also about many problems still facing agricultural workers including child labor and sexual exploitation.
Dolores Huerta
Date: 8/22/1995Call Number: CV 285BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Dolores Huerta speaks about the history of the Bracero Program. She explains how the government brought in thousands of agricultural workers, the terrible working conditions, preventing them from seeing their families and leaving the worker camps. UFW opposition led by her and Cesar Chavez forced the program to end in 1964.
Immigrant Rights: A Civil Rights Issue for the 90's (Volume 1)
National Network For Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: CV 291Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Civil and immigrant rights leaders meet to discuss the vetoing of the Civil Rights Bill by George H.W. Bush. Howard Johnson stresses unity between different ‘minority’ communities, emphasizing that the1980s civil rights movement also includes Latino and Asian people. He also discusses hate crimes in New York and the failure of politicians to reach out to immigrants.
