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![Watsonville Cannery Interviews](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Interiews by Chuy Varela about the decertification election for the Watsonville Canning Strike in 1986. Varela interviews strike leader Gloria Betancourt and Teamsters Local 912 Secretary Treasurer Sergio Lopez about the importance of the election, the support for the strike, and the participation of the Teamsters International in the boycott of the plant's products.
![One Year Commemoration of the Watsonville Strike](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Ending of retrospective on Lydia Mendoza leads into radio program about the Watsonville Canning Strike and the role of Chicana workers in the success and solidarity of the strike. Program includes interviews of workers, Secretary Treasurer of Teamsters Local 912 Sergio Lopez, strike leader Gloria Betancourt. Includes speeches by Gloria Betancourt at Mecha in Berkeley, and Jesse Jackson in Watsonville.
![Radio Havana Cuba](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/11/1973Call Number: KP 325Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Radio Havana CubaCollection: Cuba
Series of inserts from Radio Havana Cuba English language broadcast, start with marking of Haymarket martyrs anniversary, then report on Chilean resistance and Latin American news, then reports on the 13th national congress of the Cuban Workers Congress (CTC). ending with news from Vietnam and all of Indochina.
![Green Giant Layoff Marcha](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Interviews and speeches recorded at a march in Watsonville, CA in support of laid-off workers from the Green Giant frozen foods packing plant. Interviews in English and Spanish, speeches in Spanish with translation.
![Red Star Singers](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Five less well known songs by The Red Star Singers: Kaiser, Prices Gotta Come Down, Amnesty, Rape Song, and Won't Cross That Line. Recorded in 1974.
![Watsonville Green Giant Layoffs and the Earthquake One Year Later](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Collection of interviews by Chuy Varela about the Green Giant lay offs as well as the progress and recovery of Watsonville from the 1989 earthquake. Interviewees include laid-off workers, Teamsters Local 912 Sec. Treas. Sergio Lopez, FEMA employees, families living in trailer parks, and other community members. Tape ends with the radio program about free trade agreements and the Watsonville plant closing.
![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 Green Giant Layoffs](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Rally for laid-off Green Giant employees announcing boycott efforts against Green Giant and Grand Metropolitan foods. Workers Yolanda Navarro, Carmen Ruiz, and Lauro Navarro, as well as local members of the clergy speak on behalf of the workers, listing their demands against the company.
![NAFTA Debate](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Raul Hinojosa, UCLA professor, and others discussing NAFTA and its impact.
![Colombian Flower Workers](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/15/1993Call Number: CV 095AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaProgram: Noticiero LatinoCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Silbina Torres, a Colombian flower worker, talks about the unsafe working conditions and poverty-level income in the flower industry.