Arizona

Inmate Kitchen Workers Forced To Serve Expired Meat In Prison

November 19, 2020 Jimmy Jenkins, KJZZ. Educate! Arizona, Food and Agriculture, health, Prisoner rights

Arizona - Incarcerated people who work in the kitchens at the Eyman, Lewis and Yuma state prisons claim they were forced to serve expired meat to their fellow inmates, resulting in foodborne illnesses. Several inmates report being diagnosed with H. pylori infections, which they attribute to the food and unsanitary conditions in the kitchens. The inmates say they were subsequently put on antibiotics in recent days and weeks to treat the infections. KJZZ is not naming the inmates because they fear retaliation for speaking out about the prison conditions.

Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women And Girls Committee Releases Final Report

November 3, 2020 Arizona Legislature Indigenous Peoples Caucus, Indian Country Today. Create! Arizona, Indigenous Peoples, Missing and Murdered Women, Police

Arizona's Study Committee on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has posted its final report, including dozens of specific legislative, law enforcement and other policy recommendations to address the ongoing crisis. After nearly a year of in-depth research, which was slowed by COVID-19 and some enforcement agencies choosing not to participate, Arizona got its clearest picture to date of the increasing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. "Our work will not end with this report; this is only the beginning," said Chairwoman Rep. Jennifer Jermaine, D-Chandler.

Native Americans Tear Gassed, Arrested On Indigenous Peoples’ Day

October 13, 2020 Kenny Stancil, Commondreams. Resist! Arizona, Border Wall, Indigenous Rights, Sacred sites

Twelve people, including at least eight Native Americans, were arrested near an immigration checkpoint in Southern Arizona on Indigenous Peoples' Day after United States Border Patrol agents and Arizona law enforcement officials violently repressed a peaceful action held Monday morning by roughly 30 land and water protectors. The O'odham Anti Border Collective—a group of Akimel O'odham, Tohono O'odham, and Hia Ced O'odham tribal members that seeks to promote the cultural practices and protect the homelands of all O'odham nations "through the dismantling of colonial borders"...

Protesters Block Highway Near Border Wall Construction

October 7, 2020 Rafael Carranza, AZ Central. Resist! Arizona, Border Wall, Indigenous Rights, Water

Tucson - Activists and allies of two O'odham groups protesting the construction of a border wall along ancestral tribal lands in southern Arizona temporarily blocked the highway leading to construction sites in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Members of the two groups, the O'odham Anti Border Collective and Defend O'odham Jewed, and non-Indigenous allies set up early Monday morning what they described as a "soft blockade" of State Route 85, using caution tape and canopy tents to stop traffic, some of which also was headed to the Lukeville border crossing with Mexico.

How Residents Rallied To Get Their Post Office Back

October 3, 2020 Jessica Kutz, North Country News. Resist! Arizona, Austerity, US Postal Service

On an otherwise typical summer day, rumors started spreading in the small rural mountain community of Munds Park in northern Arizona: The local post office had been shuttered. As the chatter and gossip grew on social media, Allison Tiffany, a seasonal resident, drove down to check. She found a suspension notice taped to the building’s glass door. “It was so shocking that you had to find out for yourself,” she said. “Sure enough, the doors were locked.” The closure was “extraordinarily disruptive,” said Tiffany, who became the de facto organizer of the community’s response.

And Now The Really Big Coal Plants Begin To Close

September 3, 2019 By Benjamin Storrow, Eenews.net Educate! Arizona, Coal

Old, small plants were the early retirees, but several of the biggest U.S. coal burners—and CO2emitters—will be shuttered by year’s end. When the Navajo Generating Station in Arizona shuts down later this year, it will be one of the largest carbon emitters to ever close in American history. The giant coal plant on Arizona’s high desert emitted almost 135 million metric tons of carbon dioxide between 2010 and 2017, according to an E&E News review of federal figures. Its average annual emissions over that period are roughly equivalent to what 3.3 million passenger cars would pump into the atmosphere in a single year.

Koch-Funded Group Helped Develop Plan To Kill Future Of Phoenix Light Rail

August 8, 2019 Steven Hsieh, Phoenixnewtimes.com Educate! Arizona, Phoeninx, Transportation

Much of the plot to kill the future of light rail in Phoenix was hatched in a window-tinting shop on South Central Avenue. At first, the plot was narrow. Celia Contreras, owner of Tony’s Window Tinting, sought only to halt or alter Valley Metro Rail’s plan to build a six-mile track connecting south Phoenix to its 26-mile rail system. Opponents of the rail extension held meetings in Contreras' shop — a nondescript garage bounded by a Mexican restaurant and a dollar store — where they worked on raising awareness for their cause.

Arizona Students Marched For Classmate Thomas Torres-Maytorena, Who’s Facing Deportation Court On Graduation Day

May 12, 2019 By Lucy Diavolo, Teenvogue.com Resist! Arizona, Deportation, Immigration, Protests, Students, Undocumented

Students from Arizona’s Desert View High School marched miles from their campus to a local sheriff's office in a show of support for Thomas Torres-Maytorena, an 18-year-old senior and football player facing possible deportation just weeks ahead of when he was scheduled to graduate, NBC News and the Associated Press reported. That’s because Customs and Border Protection (CBP, which oversees Border Patrol) is holding Thomas on immigration charges following a traffic stop by local law enforcement.

Arizona Volunteers Form ‘Underground’ Network To House Migrants Released By ICE

April 8, 2019 Jude Joffe-Block, Pri.org Resist! Arizona, ICE, Immigration, Undocumented

By Marta Vázquez’s count, since Christmas she’s welcomed 306 newly arrived Central American parents and their children to spend the night at her house in Glendale, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. The families had all spent days in federal custody after presenting themselves at the southern border, and had nowhere to spend the night after immigration officials released them in Phoenix. They did not have bus tickets, money or functioning phones. Over the last three months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released a reported 107,000 parents and children in Texas, Arizona and California.

Nogales City Council Calls On Feds To Remove All Border Razor Wire In The Arizona City

February 8, 2019 Staff, Tucson.com Resist! Arizona, Border, Militarization

NOGALES, Ariz. — Officials in this Arizona border city passed a resolution Wednesday night condemning the installation of new razor wire that now covers the entirety of a tall border wall through downtown. The City Council in Nogales, which sits on the border with Nogales, Mexico, wants the federal government to remove all concertina wire installed within the city limits. Otherwise, Nogales Mayor Arturo Garino said the city will sue. City officials say Army troops installed more horizontal layers of the wire along the border wall last weekend.

Tucson Demonstrators Wheatpaste In Intersection After Second Border Patrol Agent Not Guilty Verdict

November 27, 2018 Tucson Anarchists, Itsgoingdown.org Resist! Arizona, Border, Border Patrol, State Violence

On Wednesday, November 21st, a jury in Tucson, Arizona found Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz not guilty of involuntary manslaughter for his 2012 shooting of 16 year old José Antonio Elena Rodríguez. Though Lonnie Swartz’s killing of José Antonio is only one among many murders committed by Border Patrol, the particularly egregious nature of the shooting made it the first time in history that a BP agent has faced criminal charges after killing someone. Swartz shot through the border wall from Nogales, Arizona into Nogales, Sonora, hitting the unarmed teenager ten times in the back and killing him instantly. A previous trial had already found Swartz not guilty for second-degree murder, but could not come to a decision on manslaughter charges...

Arizona Supreme Court Hears Hopi Tribe’s Case Against Snowmaking

September 7, 2018 Scott Buffon, Azdailysun.com Educate! Arizona, Indigenous Peoples, Supreme Court

Oral arguments in the Hopi Tribe’s lawsuit against Arizona Snowbowl’s snowmaking practices were heard by the Arizona Supreme Court’s panel of seven justices on Tuesday, Sept. 4. In February, the Arizona Court of Appeals revived the question of whether Snowbowl's snowmaking with reclaimed wastewater causes “special injury” to Hopi religious and cultural sites. The case was originally filed in the Coconino County Superior Court for the issue rooted on the San Francisco Peaks just outside of Flagstaff’s city limits. This is the third case the Hopi Tribe has brought against the ski resort. In his opening statement, John Egbert, counsel for Snowbowl, alleged that the appellate court mischaracterized the issue in its ruling and ended up creating a new category for special injury.

Tucson Draws The Line On Prison Privatization

May 23, 2018 By Joe Watson, Truthout.org Create! Arizona, Prison Industrial Complex, Privatization

One more time, with emphasis: A city near the Mexican border in a state that's home to some of the country's harshest sentencing guidelines and the fourth-highest rate of incarceration in the US -- with privately-run prisons and immigrant detention centers from one corner of the state to the other -- is telling companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic that they're not welcome around here. "Profit should never be motivation for our justice system," said Tucson City Councilmember Regina Romero, who spearheaded passage of the resolution. Our little corner of Arizona has been so traumatized by mass incarceration -- with per capita jail admissions almost 50 percent higher than our neighbors in Phoenix -- that the Tucson City Council isn't the first municipal body in these parts to pass such a resolution.

Arizona Teachers Oppose Union Sellout And Call For Nationwide Strike

May 7, 2018 Will Marrow, Wsws.org Resist! Arizona, Strikes, Teachers, Unions

Schools reopened across Arizona on Friday, as teachers returned to work following the betrayal of their courageous week-long strike by the unions, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, and the nominally “independent” union front group, Arizona Educators United The deal is virtually identical to the proposal of Republican governor Doug Ducey that teachers rejected before the strike began, and meets none of the main demands of teachers or support staff. The unions’ sellout is the latest in a series of betrayals of strikes by teachers, including in West Virginia and Oklahoma. They have worked to isolate the expanding strike wave on a state-by-state basis. The unions were all the more determined to end the Arizona strike yesterday, with teachers in Pueblo, in neighboring Colorado, set to walk out on Monday. On May 16, teachers will shut down schools across North Carolina, after thousands of teachers have already called off work.

The Outcome In Arizona

May 6, 2018 Eric Blanc, Jacobin Magazine. Resist! Arizona, Education, Labor Union, Teachers

After an all-night encampment of striking educators, the Arizona state government passed a budget bill early this morning. To assess the strike and the settlement, Jacobin’s Eric Blanc spoke with Rebecca Garelli, Noah Karvelis, and Dylan Wegela. All three are teachers and leaders of Arizona Educators United, the rank-and-file organization responsible for initiating and leading the state’s Red for Ed movement. - The main positive is that eight weeks ago we weren’t going to get this much in funding from the state. In these eight weeks we’ve moved the needle on a government that didn’t want to give us anything. We’ve increased the added education revenue from $65 million to more than $400 million.

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