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
7 Documents Found
![Mexico 1910-1920: Chronicles of a Revolution](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: CV 082Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lucero Cabral, Steven A. ScottCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
The period of Mexican revolution, civil war, and American invasion, between 1910 to 1920. Program narrated in English features contemporary and historically relevant musical recordings in Spanish.
![La Migra](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/25/1986Call Number: CV 187Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaProgram: KPFA radioCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Francisco Garcia Rodriguez, from the Mexican America Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), and Raquel Riviera, from the National Moratorium on Prison Construction, speak about immigration issues. They also discuss the Simpson Rodino Act, temporary workers programs, amnesty.
![Immigration- Centro Legal and the Immigration Clinic](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: CV 190AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
The volunteer attorneys at the La Raza Centro Legal and the Immigration Clinic in SF speak after the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) and Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments (IMFA) passed.
![Corazon Aquino at Moscone](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: CV 286Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Corazon Aquino, president of the Philippines, speaks to a large Filipino-American audience at Moscone Center asking for support to overcome the high poverty rate after the 14-year dictatorship of the Marcos Regime.
![Corazon Aquino Press Conference](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: CV 287AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Corazon Aquino gives answers questions at press conference after her speech at the Moscone center in San Francisco in 1986.
![Corazon Aquino](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: CV 288AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Philippine president Corazon Aquino speaks to the Asian Foundation.
![Dolores Huerta Interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Huerta discusses the third grape protest and a new documentary. Also about pro’s and con’s of the new Immigration Bill, the status of women in the Labor Movement and the ongoing strike in Watsonville.
7 Documents Found