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Title: Vivian Rothstein Interview
Creator: Vivian Rothstein
Danielle Wilson
Date Created and/or Issued: April 29, 2016
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library
Collection: UNITE HERE Local 11 Oral History Project
Rights Information: Copyrighted
Copyright UC Regents and UNITE HERE Local 11. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Rights Holder and Contact: UC Regents, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment 10945 Le Conte Ave, Suite 2107 Los Angeles, CA 90095. UNITE HERE Local 11 464 South Lucas Avenue, Suite 201 Los Angeles, CA 90017
Description: Biography/History: Vivian Rothstein was born in New York City in 1945. Her parents fled Nazi Germany during the 1930s, and many of their relatives died in the Holocaust. In the early 1960s, Vivian moved to Southern California with her mother and attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she got involved in civil rights organizing. In 1965 she participated in Freedom Summer, registering African Americans to vote in Mississippi. She went on to do community organizing in Chicago and Los Angeles. She worked with HERE Local 11 in the mid-1990s during the Santa Monica Living Wage campaign and has since helped on many campaigns in Los Angeles and around the country.
Scope/Content: Interview Contents: Family experience during the Holocaust — Childhood in Los Angeles and early political activities — Attending college in the Bay Area and fighting employment discrimination with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) — First civil disobedience — Finding community in social justice organizing — Freedom Summer in Mississippi — Community organizing in Chicago — Peace delegation to North Vietnam in 1967 — Working for a homeless services organization in Los Angeles — Santa Monicans Allied for Responsible Tourism (SMART) — Local 11’s organizing campaign in Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Living Wage Campaign — Respect @ LAX campaign in 1997 — Century Boulevard campaign — UNITE HERE’s ten-city fight — Development of Local 11’s comprehensive campaign strategy — Involving community members in the union.
Type: moving image
Form/Genre: Oral histories
Extent: 1:03:42
Language: English
eng
Subject: Labor unions--California--Los Angeles
Labor union locals--California--Los Angeles
Vivian Rothstein
UNITE HERE (Organization)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Santa Monica (Calif.)

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