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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"Talkback" - Graffiti
Date: 2/18/1997Call Number: CV 038Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Discussion and call-in show about graffiti. Topics include: Who is doing graffiti?, legality, differences between gang tags and graffiti, responsibility for your art and forms of expression. Speakers include Brooke Levin from the City of Oakland, Police Officer Oceno from Oakland, Michael Walsh, Artist/Author of the book "Graffito", and the Artist "Manifesto".
Latino Anti-War Movement During Persian Gulf War
Date: 1/10/1997Call Number: CV 097AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaProgram: Noticiero AhoraCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Carlos Muños Jr., a Professor in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, talks about the Chicano anti-war movement of the 1970s and the Latino anti-war movement during the Persian Gulf War.
Latino USA
Date: 12/29/1997Call Number: CV 121AFormat: Cass AProgram: Latino USACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Maria Hinojosa interviews a woman who works with Latino children's books.
Chuy Varela looks at Latino music and its influences on US American music in 1996.
A 13 year-old student from Youth Radio shares her poetry about witnessing violence in her community.
The Ballad of El Nino
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: CV 130AFormat: Cass AProducers: Jack KlineCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Music performance
Oye Latino!
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: CV 282Format: Cass A & BProducers: MNF 88.5 FMCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Wrangler Jeans upsets many Puerto Ricans when they refer to the island as Indians and Creoles. The Broadway show the Cape Man focused on the life of Salvador Argon, a 16 year old Puerto Rican youth who became the youngest person sentenced death. The show had a musical score that included Ruben Blades and Marc Anthony. The history of the musicians Arsenio Rodriguez, and Javier Solis. The visit of Pope John Paul to Cuba, and the Pope’s denunciation of the US embargo on the nation. Dr. Kenya Jimenez of UC Berkley, discusses the book The Buried Mirror by Carlos Fuentes, and details the life of Juana Ibanez de la Cruz. The music of Cuban musician Ernesto Lecuona.
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