Chican@/Xican@
The Chican@/Xican@ collection contains materials pertaining to the Chican@/Latin@ experience in the United States and Mexico. The majority of the sub-collections are derived from various Bay Area radio programs (In English and Spanish) focusing on everything from challenging the legitimacy of the border with Mexico and farm-worker rights to the struggles of the diaspora from Central and Latin America, poetry and music. There is also a collection on the Zapatistas and their struggle against NAFTA in Mexico.
Subcollections
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Chuy Varela Collection
This collection contains public affairs programs and materials produced by Jesse "Chuy" Varela, primarily his work on KFPA 94.1 in Berkeley. -
Comunicacion Aztlan Collective
The Comunicacion Aztlan Collective was active during the early 1970s and was centered at KPFA-FM in Berkeley. This collection is comprised of oral history, poetry, dramatic readings, and music. -
Crusade For Justice
The Crusade for Justice was part of the Chican@/Xican@ rights movement developing in Denver, CO during the 1960s. -
Chican@/Xican@ - General Resources
This sub-collection includes resources on leaders such as Cesar Chavez, Corky Gonzalez, and Ramsey Muniz as well as resources on La Raza Unida Party, the United Farmworkers Union, and the role of women in the movement. -
Mexico
This collection contains materials about Mexico, the legitimacy of the US-Mexican border, guerrilla movements in Mexico, NAFTA, the drug war and more. -
MLN-M
An anti-imperialist organization for the reunification of Chicanos & Mexicanos on both sides of the border within a socialist Mexico including lands stolen & occupied by the US during the Mexican-American War. -
Pajaro Latino: Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
This collection contains more than 20 years of Spanish language programs and interviews produced by Jorge Herrera on KPOO-89.5 FM in San Francisco. -
Zapatistas
On the same day NAFTA went into effect on Jan. 1, 1994, the Zapatistas declared war on the Mexican government, saying that NAFTA meant death to indigenous peoples. They took over five major towns and currently control about 1/3 of the territory in Chiapas
Documents
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20th Anniversary of the Takeover of Alcatraz [CD]
This is a recording from the 20th Anniversary of the Native American takeover of Alcatraz. Chuy Varela interviews various people at this event on their perspectives of this non-traditional Thanksgiving event and the continued Native American struggle. Also includes Native American prayers, chants and flute music.
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
Just before dawn on New Year's Day 1994, armed Mayan Indians declared war on the government. They immediately seized eight towns in Chiapas and set in motion events that ripped away a facade of prosperity and stability to reveal 'the other Mexico'. They demanded land, public services and Indian autonomy - the right to communally own and farm land. They called themselves the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). This documentary features in-depth interviews with people from the EZLN, among them Subcommandante Marcos, with Bishop Samuel Ruiz from San Cristobal de las Casas, who is an outspoken practitioner of liberation theology and human rights activist. And all other sorts of actors in the conflict: peasants on the estates they have occupied, angry ranchers forced from their land, church activists, conservative Catholics, government officials, and the notorious 'guardias blancas', the private army of the landowners. THE SIXTH SUN portrays an epic confrontation pitting impoverished peasants against large landowners and government forces in Mexico poorest state, Chiapas. The film raises important questions as to what is to be judged expendable in the rush to global economic integration - whether the destruction of whole peoples and cultures that have survived over centuries is simply to be accepted as the price of 'progress'.
Posters from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema
Publisher: The Galeria de la Raza / Studio 24Year: 1979Call Number: Format: PamphletCollection: Mexico
Exhibition pamphlet from exhibition at Galeria de la Raza. Includes the article THE MEXICAN MOVIE POSTER: Art, Myth, Illusion, Deception by Rupert Garcia.
Festival de Sexto Sol: Palace of the Fine Arts (video clip)
The Festival de Sexto Sol was an important series of events bringing together Chicano and Latino poets to create a new artistic aesthetic and consciousness; a link between creation, art, and tradition of the Aztec and Mayans. This event took place at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1974.
Live poetry reading, includes: Nina Serrano accompanied on guitar by Philip Serrano, Philip Serrano sings original Allende Song, Alejandro Murguia, reading from novel: “Summer of Vera Cruz” in 3 languages, Fernando Alegria accompanied by Alurista, Victor Hernandez Cruz reads a two-part poem. Second part is cut off. (CAA 018). Complete tape is same as CD 376 and part of it is repeated on this cd.
Cesar Chavez speech
Call Number: KP 041Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: KPFA general/La RazaCollection: Chican@/Xican@ - General Resources
Speech by Cesar Chavez in Richmond, California in support of grape farm workers and the Gallo boycott.
Note: Excerpt used on Roots of Resistance, volume 1.
Brief speech of Cesar Chavez on march
Date: 7/3/1973Call Number: KP 042Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: KPFA general/La RazaCollection: Chican@/Xican@ - General Resources
March with music and intro. Cesar Chavez speaks in both Spanish and English on United Farm Workers (UFW) campaign.
Before the International Tribunal on the Situation of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War Held in United States
Publisher: Committee to Free Alvaro hernandez & Alberto ArandaYear: 1990Format: FlyerCollection: Chican@/Xican@ - General Resources
Includes 12/7/1990 prisoner statements
Joan Baez at the funeral of Juan de la Cruz
Activist folksinger Joan Baez sings at the funeral of Juan de la Cruz, a farm worker active in the United Farm-worker's Union who was killed on a picket line by a strikebreaker's bullet.
Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta speaks on the connection between those who oppose farm-workers right and those in the military-industrial complex.
Cointelpro's Attacks Against The Chicano Movement
COINTELPRO may not be a well-understood acronym but its meaning and continuing impact are absolutely central to understanding the government’s wars and repression against progressive movements. COINTELPRO represents the state’s strategy to prevent movements and communities from overturning white supremacy and creating racial justice. COINTELPRO is both a formal program of the FBI and a term frequently used to describe a conspiracy among government agencies—local, state, and federal—to destroy movements for self-determination and liberation for Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous struggles, as well as mount an institutionalized attack against allies of these movements and other progressive organizations.