PRX - Pieces for Topic: Latino
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BLEEP loved the city of his birth, the pearl of the west, Guadalajara, second largest city in Mexico. He wandered its streets as a boy visited the...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 28:07
- Purchases: 1
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 02:59
At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
In car-choked LA, riding the bus is a sign that you can’t afford your own wheels. But Joshua Salazar's overnight routes are often full of people be...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:58
Every day, Teodoro Cuevas dresses in his black flared pants with silver buttons down the side. He sits against a tree across from the bustling sub...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 1
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 28:06
This is the story of a father-daughter research team who spent 10-years studying the Brazilian Women’s Movement of the 1980s.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
In Colombia, where evidence is marred by politics, emotion and time, conclusions are hard to come by.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: 10:56
- Purchases: 1
It's Hispanic Heritage Month, an excellent time to honor three of the most important Hispanic labor leaders in US history - Cesar Chavez, Dolores H...
- Added: Oct 01, 2010
- Length: 08:04
Summer's heat is posing serious dangers for the farmworkers who harvest most of our fruits and vegetables.
- Added: Jul 17, 2008
- Length: 03:19
It's been 15 years now since the death of farm union leader Cesar Chavez -- way past time to make his birthdate of March 31 a national holiday.
- Added: Mar 21, 2008
- Length: 03:22
A commentary noting that few women are more deserving of special attention during Women's History Month than farm worker leader Dolores Huerta.
Bought by KGLP and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 03, 2008
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 2
A commentary about the miserable pay and working and living conditions of tobacco harvesters.
- Added: Nov 01, 2007
- Length: 04:02
A strong movement is under way to win decent treatment for the miserably treated tomato pickers whose work is essential to the hugely profitable fa...
- Added: Apr 26, 2007
- Length: 03:24
- Added: Mar 23, 2007
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 1
Ernesto Galarza, now largely forgotten, played a key role in the rise of the farm labor movement led by Cesar Chavez.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Apr 28, 2006
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
A conversation with Sister Margaret Rose Smyth, advocate and activist on behalf of the immigrant worker
- Added: Apr 12, 2006
- Length: 33:04
Minute Men on Our US-Washington State & BC Border Interviews
- Added: Apr 10, 2006
- Length: 06:23
It's the 38th anniversary of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez's extraordinary 25-day fast.
- Added: Mar 09, 2006
- Length: 02:46
Celebrations are being held this year to mark the anniversary of the grape strike led by Cesar Chavez that won worldwide support for California's l...
- Added: Oct 22, 2005
- Length: 03:42
A commentary on the working and living conditions of sheepherders that are right out of the 19th century.
- Added: Jun 02, 2005
- Length: 03:13
