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.
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Dick Gregory @ KPFA
Date: 6/15/1985Call Number: CV 017Format: CassetteProducers: KPFAProgram: KPFACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Comedian and social activist Dick Gregory delivers a speech for KPFA Radio covering a range of topics from hunger and economic inequality to nutrition and organization.
"Turning Up the Heat": Moving the Social Justice Agenda in 1995
A panel of women discussing four key issues confronting the social justice agenda: 1) Prop 187 effects on the election 2) emerging campaign to prohibit voluntary affirmative action 3) gender equity in education settings and 4) short and long term impact of these issues and the resolutions on women political, economic and social equality. The presentations are followed by a discussion.
Save Our State Rally-San Rafael 1/11/94 (anti-immigrant)
Series of interviews with attendees of an anti-illegal immigration rally. Centered around a ballot initiative seeking to restrict access to education, health care, welfare and other social services to undocumented immigrants. Interviewees asked two questions; is there is any racist/nativist/anti-Hispanic sentiment in the proposition and protesters, and does the denial of social services constitute a human rights violation
Latino Summit Conclusion
From the 1990's, Juan Gutierrez of One Stop Immigration Center initial speaker. Primarily in Spanish
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