Chuy Varela Collection
This collection takes its name from Jesse “Chuy” Varela, a Bay Area radio host who frequently interviewed political, activist, and labor figures connected to issues affecting Latin and Central American communities. Topics includes immigration to the US, the 1994 NAFTA treaty, labor issues such as the activism of Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, and the UFW, and related political developments affecting the region (1994 Mexican election, CA Prop 187, Sandinistas, Zapatistas, (EZLN) etc.) and others.
Documents
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![California Bear Flag Revolt](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/19/1996Call Number: CV 045Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
A large protest against Governor Pete Wilson and the 150th commemoration of the California Bear Flag Revolt of 1846 - an uprising and occupation of Sonoma, then Mexican territory. Shouts from the protest: "Deport Wilson!" and "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us!"
![Carlos Muñoz Columbus Day "90"](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Carlos Muñoz about the 1990 Columbus Day celebrations. Muñoz reflects on the importance of Columbus Day for Chicanos and Latinos, and their systematic miseducation or "colonization of the mind" that alienates them from their indigeneity.
![Eduardo Galeano Reading](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/29/1988Call Number: CV 156Format: 1/4 1 7/8 ipsProducers: Chuy VarelaProgram: Noticiero AhoraCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Eduardo Galeano reads several stories from "El Siglo del Viento/Century of the Wind" to an audience at the Mission Cultural Center.
![Bilingual Experience/Experencia Bilingue](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/7/1990Call Number: CV 229Format: Cass A & BProducers: Ana Luisa SProgram: KPFACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Several bilingual speakers share their experiences learning, losing and relearning their native languages and English here in the US.
4 Documents Found