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![Cesar Chavez and Poem to Spring](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/24/1993Call Number: FI 235Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano Echeverria, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Tribute produced the day after the death of Cesar Chavez, with musical selections from and about the struggle of farmworkers to unionize. Extended poem by Lincpln Bergman, "Spring Done Sprung" which summarizes news in US and internationally. Program also pays tribute to Oliver Tambo, Dizzy Gillespie, and others.
![AFL-CIO Convention](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Speeches and interviews recorded at an AFL-CIO convention in San Francisco, California on October 6, 1993. Interviews in Spanish with Yolanda Navarro from Watsonville, CA, and Linda Chavez-Thompson from San Antonio, TX about NAFTA, plant closures, need for more democratic and stronger unions, labor violence in Mexican maquiladoras. Intermittent speeches in English about NAFTA, followed by speech and interview with Janet Reno discussing education, labor and community relations, child care, and immigration.
![Elizabeth Martinez; Maquila Workers](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/6/1993Call Number: CV 066Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFAProgram: La Honda BajitaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interview by Chuy Varela with Elizabeth Martinez in 1993 about her book "500 Years of Chicano History In Pictures." They discuss
Latino and Chicano identity and politics. Varela goes on to interview workers from maquilas in Tijuana, Mexico about their struggles to unionize, and the working conditions in the factories.
![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.
![Fuerza Unida](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/3/1993Call Number: CV 151AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
An interview in spanish with co-coordinators of Fuerza Unida, Irene Riena and Petra Mata. Riena and Mata discuss the boycott of Levi's organized in response to the layoff of 1,150 workers from a factory in San Antonio, Texas. They discuss they're fight agaisnt Levi's in the context of labor rights struggles for Mexican immigrants, specifically women. They see their case as an example of what happens under free trade and what will worsen with NAFTA.
![César Chávez's Funeral - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/29/1993Call Number: CV 237AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Jesse Jackson praises Chavez's civil rights and labor legacy.
![César Chávez's Funeral - Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/29/1993Call Number: CV 238Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Joe Kennedy, Ron Dellums, Micky Kantor, Willie Brown, Edward James Olmos, and Paul Rodriguez praise Chavez's civil rights and labor legacy.
![César Chávez's Funeral - Part 3](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/29/1993Call Number: CV 239Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Jose Montoya, Art Torres, and Reis Lopez Tijerna praise Chavez's civil rights and labor legacy.
Chavez's funeral mass.
![César Chávez's Funeral - Part 4](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/29/1993Call Number: CV 240Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Cesar Chavez's funeral mass and a speech by Fernando Chavez.
![César Chávez's Funeral - Part 5](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/29/1993Call Number: CV 241AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Dolores Huerta talks about Cesar Chavez's life and legacy after Chavez's funeral mass.