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'Ahora' on KPFA: PRT and the election
Date: 8/6/1988Call Number: CV 198BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaProgram: AhoraCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Edgar Sanchez and Rosario Ibarra from the Partido Revolucionario de Trabajadores (Revolutionary Party for Workers) speak about their socialist agenda and presidential campaign.
US/Mexican Free Trade
Date: 8/21/1992Call Number: CV 209Format: Cass A & BProgram: En Contacto DirectoCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Forum with professors Raul Hinojosa of UCLA and Andres Jimenez of UC Berkeley about a much debated free trade agreement between the United States and Mexico. Discussion includes migration of rural workers in Mexico, the ending of the communal farm system, job creation and job loss around the border, and the "integration" economies of Mexico and the US.
Juan de la Cruz Funeral
Date: 8/1/1973Call Number: RD 073Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Frances EmilyCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Report on funeral and death of Juan de la Cruz, a United Farm Worker (UFW) organizer.
Workers' Film & Video Forum
Date: 12/11/1992Call Number: V 340Format: VHSProducers: Workers' Film, Video ForumCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
"4 Dollars a Day? No Way!" on US corporations in Mexico following the signing of NAFTA, the conditions of workers at the Ford plant, where armed strikebreakers and rigged company elections were used to keep the workers repressed.
"The Last Pullman Car" follows the story of the Steelworkers Union members at Pullman-Standard who fought to keep their jobs despite the impending closure of the passenger car plant.
Viva La Causa: The Story of César Chávez and a Great Movement for Social Justice
Date: 1/1/2008Call Number: CD 633Format: DVDProducers: Bill BrummelCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Focuses on the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the workers who put food on our tables.
Workers' Film & Video Forum
Call Number: V 349Format: VHSProgram: Workers' Film & Video ForumCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Leaving Home - post NAFTA North America the struggle of workers in the new corporate factories of Mexico and comments by US and Canadian workers whose jobs have been out sourced to Mexico
Japan Railway's Mass Firings - the plight and mass firings of Japanese railway workers after the privatization of Japan Railways.
Labor Organizing and Latino Arts
Date: 9/1/1992Call Number: CV 224AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Jose Medina with el Instituto Laboral talks about the exploitation of mostly Latino minimum wage workers. Christine S. with the Day Labor Program describes how they help workers find jobs and protect themselves while at work.
Union Workers
Date: 1/29/1991Call Number: CV 225AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Alicia Sanchez, Director of the Sonoma County Industrial Union which protects mostly women workers in fishery and ornament making, talks about the union's role in ensuring worker rights as well as changing gender roles in families when women go out to work.
Labor Organizing and Latino Arts
Date: 9/1/1992Call Number: CV 224BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Rene Castro speaks about how the Mission Cultural Center has sustained itself on their 15th anniversary.
Health Care, Police Brutality, Karen Silkwood
Date: 5/5/1979Call Number: FI 107Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Picket line actuality of 1600 lowest-paid hospital workers on strike in East Bay with SEIU. Crisis in health care system in Detroit and New York City. Case of Terrence Johnson, Black youth who defended himself against two policemen who were beating him. Report on anti-nuclear protest and report on suit by Karen Silkwood's family.
