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Chance of a Lifetime: Carmelita Gutierrez

Chance of a Lifetime: Carmelita Gutierrez

Carmelita Lonjina Gutierrez was a 20-year-old Chicana student at Evergreen College when she joined the LRS. Raised by a single mother who taught her to see the inequality in society, Carmelita grew up in San Jose, Calif. She became a... Read More »
Chance of a Lifetime: Fay Wong

Chance of a Lifetime: Fay Wong

Fay Wong was born in Guangzhou, China in 1949. She emigrated to the U.S. in 1952 and settled in Oakland, California. She became politically conscious at U.C. Berkeley, participating in anti-war activities, the Third World Strike and attending the first... Read More »
Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87

Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87

A short film by Eddie Wong (1987) “¡Sí Se Puede!” is a chronicle of the Watsonsville Cannery Workers strike of 1985-87 produced for the Cannery Workers Support Committee (Cannery Workers Organizing Project).... Read More »
¡Adelante! (Spanish) 1986

¡Adelante! (Spanish) 1986

A slideshow history of the Chicano Nation – Aztlán; 1986 Adelante! is the story of the Chicano Nation … of a people who have shed their blood and buried their martyrs…. It is a story of a people fighting for... Read More »
Adelante! (English) 1986

Adelante! (English) 1986

A slideshow history of the Chicano Nation – Aztlán; 1986 Adelante! is the story of the Chicano Nation … of a people who have shed their blood and buried their martyrs…. It is a story of a people fighting for... Read More »