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Week # 22-99, Air Date 5/30/1999 - 6/5/1999

 File — Box: 34, Item: 319

Scope and Contents

Segment #1: "FARMWORKER ORGANIZING" (5:06)Leda Hartman reports on the efforts of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee to organize migrant farmworkers and a boycott against the largest pickle producer in the South.

Subject Types: Other - Labor

Locations: U.S. Regions - Southeast

Segment #2: "FISHING IN HONDURAS" (6:09) Latino USA's Ingrid Lobet reports on how the wreck Hurricane Mitch left behind on the Central American coast has adversely affected the fishing industry in Honduras.

Subject Types: Economics

Locations: Non-U.S. Regions - Central America; Central American Countries - Honduras

Segment #3: "LATINOS IN FILM" (4:43) Jon Beaupre reports on the findings of a new study by the Screen Actors Guild that asserts the lack of Latino faces on the big screen.

Subject Types: Arts - visual

Segment #4: "ANITA Y LA VACA" (2:50) Writer and artist Luis Guerra shares a story about his grandmother.

Subject Types: Arts - Literature

Dates

  • Creation: Air Date 5/30/1999 - 6/5/1999

Repository Details

Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository

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