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The Onda Latina Collection consists of 206 digitally preserved audio programs including interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns from the radio series "The Mexican American Experience", which was part of the Longhorn Radio Network, 1976-1982.
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- Texas Farm Workers—The Right to Organize
- Guest Jesus Moya, an organizer for the Texas Farm Worker Union, discusses the history of the union and its efforts to repeal Right to Work Laws. Moya explains that the TFWU formed in 1960, with the assistance of the United Farm Workers. They split from the UFW after the leadership decided it would focus solely on California. They then formed an independent union that struggles for better working conditions and wages for Texas farm workers. The union is also working on a campaign to repeal section 14b of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits...More