Arizona

What Fighting Back Actually Looks Like

August 24, 2026 Jim Pattiz, Resilience. Strategize! Arizona, Border Wall, Environment, Treesit

On the morning of July 27th, an excavator went to work on a stand of Fremont cottonwood trees rooted near the Arizona-Mexico line. The trees were somewhere between 200 and 250 years old, which means they were growing before there was a border here. It took less than four hours to destroy three of them. Their beautifully arced limbs and strong trunks ripped apart in a cloud of smoke and sawdust. People there watched as their remains were gathered up mechanically, put into a dump truck and hauled away. There were four of these beautiful old cottonwood trees. The fourth is still standing. The reason for that isn’t a change of heart in this administration; it’s because someone climbed it.

Phoenix Judge Knocks Anti-Union Referendum Off Arizona Ballots

August 22, 2026 People's World. Resist! Arizona, Legal System, Public Workers, Referendum, Unions

Phoenix, AZ—A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has knocked an anti-union referendum, which if passed would have virtually put public sector unions out of business, off Arizona ballots this fall. The measure, pushed by state Republican legislative leaders, was so broad that it violates the state constitutional requirement that a ballot initiative stick to one topic, Judge Gregory Como ruled. His decision cheered both the Arizona Education Association, which was the target of the Republicans and their referendum, HCR2040, and the state’s Fire Fighters union, whose members are known to be more pro-Republican.

Arizona Tree-Sit Protest Against Border Wall Branches Into Mexico

August 19, 2026 Henry Brean, Arizona Daily Star. Resist! Arizona, Border Wall, Mexico, Treesit

A tree-sitting protest on the Arizona border has become an international affair with the addition of an activist in a second tree on the Mexican side of the line. Federal contractors arrived at their border-wall work site in the San Rafael Valley, about 20 miles east of Nogales, on Tuesday to find someone camped out in the branches of another Fremont cottonwood in the path of construction. According to a news release from the protest’s organizers, the new demonstrator is a Mexican national who joined in hopes of halting the wall project and keeping the second giant tree from being knocked down.

SNAP Cuts Leave States And Counties Facing Spiraling Hunger Crisis

July 7, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. Educate! Arizona, Austerity, Food Insecurity, Hunger, SNAP Program, Trump Administration

One year after President Donald Trump signed legislation that slashed federal health care and food assistance to pay for tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy, officials on the front lines of the nation’s affordability crisis say the costs to state and local governments of filling holes left by Congress in the safety net are unsustainable. Demand for food assistance is rising as children and the elderly go hungry and millions struggle to afford the rising prices, leaving state and local governments in a tight fiscal squeeze.

Arizona State University Launches Program On Co-op Education

June 28, 2026 Miles Hadfield, Coop News. Create! Arizona, Cooperatives, Economics, Higher Education, New Economy

The US National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) has partnered with Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business to launch the Foundations of Cooperative Enterprise Series(CES), a professional development programme for co-operative employees, entrepreneurs and emerging leaders. NCBA says the programme combines its co-operative expertise with the “academic excellence” and workforce education capabilities of Arizona State University, “creating a flexible learning experience that helps participants build practical knowledge while balancing the demands of their day-to-day responsibilities”.

Want To Resist A Data Center? Organizers Share How They Did It

April 20, 2026 Derek Seidman, Truthout. Organize! Arizona, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Centers, Tennessee, Wisconsin

The prolific construction of massive data centers that house the physical computing power for artificial intelligence (AI) is galvanizing resistance in localities across the United States. Communities are fighting back against the billionaire tech and financial power behind these projects and their numerous harms, from their noise and pollution to their hyperconsumption of water and electricity. Truthout has been covering the corporate interests behind the data center boom and local resistance to data centers. In this roundtable, we brought together representatives from three campaigns across the U.S. to share their experiences

Solidarity Rally At Key Air Force Base In War On Venezuela

November 24, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Anti-war Movement, Arizona, Military Base, Tucson, Venezuela

Tucson, AZ – On November 22, The Tucson Anti War Committee (TAWC) and a host of organizations wanted to let the thousands of bicyclists in the annual El Tour de Tucson know that, as they passed the Air Force base, people with a conscience demand “Hands off Venezuela!” “With a race of nearly 10,000 and 40% registered from out of state, we saw this as a great opportunity to let as many people know this beautiful landscape is also the HQ for Trump’s war crimes in the Caribbean. People need to know that we can stand up to Trump and stand with Venezuela,” said TAWC organizer Maria Sohn Hasman, addressing the race onlookers.

San Carlos Apache Tribe Welcomes Federal Court Ruling On Oak Flat

June 10, 2025 San Carlos Apache, Popular Resistance. Resist! Arizona, Indigenous Activism, Legal System, Mining, Oak Flat, Sacred sites, Trump Administration

San Carlos Apache Reservation, Ariz. —The San Carlos Apache Tribe welcomes Friday’s federal court ruling preventing the Trump Administration from trading sacred Oak Flat to Chinese-backed Resolution Copper Mining no sooner than 60 days after the government releases an environmental report expected to be published later this month. The Trump Administration had indicated that it intended to trade 2,422 acres of Tonto National Forest 70 miles east of Phoenix that includes Oak Flat to Resolution Copper immediately upon publication of the mine’s updated environmental report.

Where Spirits Weep Beneath The Snow: The Cry Against Arizona Snowbowl

May 22, 2025 Natasha Cortinos, The Daily Wildcat. Educate! Arizona, Environment, Indigenous Rights, pollution, Sacred sites

On the western slope of Arizona’s highest landmark, Humphreys Peak, and approximately 4.8 miles from its 12,633-foot-tall summit, rests the skeleton of a 777-acre-wide ski resort. The Arizona Snowbowl, a piece of engineering made up of eight lifts that serve 61 runs, is beloved by some but resented by others. It’s been torn between these two sides since 1938, the year it first started serving skiers from Arizona and beyond on its groomed runs, tree-lined back bowls and terrain parks. Flagstaff meteorologist Mark Stubblefield has been riding the Snowbowl’s slopes almost every winter since 1987.

Federal Judge Temporarily Halts Land Swap At Oak Flat Copper Mine Site

May 11, 2025 Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic. Resist! Apache, Arizona, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Trump Administration

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving ahead with a plan that would allow Resolution Copper to take ownership of Oak Flat and begin extracting copper on land considered sacred to Apache and other Native peoples. Judge Steven P. Logan issued the order May 9, two days after hearing the case in U.S. District Court in Phoenix. He ruled that the government cannot publish a final environmental review of a land swap between Resolution and the U.S. Forest Service, which manages a campground at the site 60 miles east of Phoenix.

US Intends To Proceed With Arizona Copper Mine, Justices Told

April 24, 2025 Crystal Owens, Law 360. Educate! Arizona, Copper Mine, Indigenous Sovereignty, Oak Flat, Sacred sites, Supreme Court

The U.S. government says there has been no doubt that it intends to proceed with a land exchange in Arizona for a planned multibillion-dollar copper mine, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that its recent notice of publication of a final environmental impact statement for the project does not constitute urgent review. There is nothing about the 60-day notice, which was filed in an Arizona federal court and published in the Federal Register on April 17, that supports claims by the Apache Stronghold that there may have been some uncertainty about the federal government's intent to move forward with the land transfer, the government told the high court in a Monday letter.

Phoenix Is Launching A New Shade Plan

December 7, 2024 Maylin Tu, Next City. Create! Arizona, climate crisis, Global heating, Trees, Urban Design

This year, temperatures in Phoenix soared over 100 degrees for 113 consecutive days, a deadly streak for the hottest big city in America. In November, the city approved a new plan, Shade Phoenix, to add 27,000 trees and 550 shade structures over the next five years — a plan that could save lives and provide some relief, especially to the city’s most vulnerable residents. The city unveiled its last shade plan in 2010, but progress has been slow. David Hondula, director of heat response and mitigation, doesn’t dispute that the follow-through on the last shade plan was “incomplete or uncertain.”

Arizona Immigrants Fear Return To Mass Arrests

November 21, 2024 Maanvi Singh, Portside. Educate! Arizona, Arrests, Border Patrol, Deportations, Immigrants

The news that Arizona voters on 5 November had approved the so-called “secure our border” initiative hit Reyna Montoya like a gut punch. The measure – proposition 314 on the ballot – makes crossing the US-Mexico border without authorization a state crime, empowering local officials to arrest and deport border-crossers and enhancing criminal penalties for unauthorised immigrants who apply for public benefits. The initiative is modelled after a Texas law that is currently being challenged in court, and some of its key provisions will be blocked until the Texas law, or another similar law, is allowed to take effect.

Diverse Coalition Urges Supreme Court To Protect Oak Flat

October 17, 2024 Ryan Colby, Becket Law. Resist! Apache, Apache Stronghold, Arizona, Indigenous Rights, Mining, Oak Flat, Save Oak Flat, US Supreme Court

A coalition of tribal nations, Catholic bishops, states, legal scholars, and diverse religious organizations asked the Supreme Court yesterday to protect the Apache sacred site at Oak Flat from destruction by a multinational mining giant. In Apache Stronghold v. United States, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a foreign-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever

‘Students For Justice In Palestine’ Coalition Unites Arizona Campuses

August 18, 2024 Sophie Levitt, Mondoweiss. Resist! Arizona, Campus Movement, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Repression

On Friday, June 28, we formed a coalition of Students for Justice in Palestine chapters throughout Arizona in response to state-wide suppression of pro-Palestine activism. As leaders in Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, we faced little choice but to respond to the slew of bills targeting pro-Palestinian activism on Arizonas’ public campuses— as the threats to our activism grew, our strategy had to change with them. The only way to combat repressive laws and policies was to take a stand together, facing head-on a historically ruthless, right-wing legislature.

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