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Tag: Tucson

🦄 Protest & Direct Action

Vandals Attack Caterpillar Building in Tucson on Nakba Day

May 15, 2024May 15, 2024

Late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, anonymous vandals smashed out at least five windows of the Caterpillar headquarters in Tucson, Arizona in solidarity with those observing Nakba Day.

🦄 Protest & Direct Action

Wells Fargo and PNC Bank Windows Smashed in ‘Stop Cop City’ Demo

February 26, 2024February 26, 2024

Tucson, AZ — A Sunday night march through downtown Tucson in solidarity with the Stop Cop City movement ended with windows smashed at two downtown banks — a Wells Fargo and a PNC Bank. The proposed paramilitary police urban warfare school in Atlanta has drawn…

🦄 Borders & Migration

Thousands of Asylum Seekers Stranded Along Border Wall Near Sasabe, Arizona

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024

Aid workers say Border Patrol is intentionally neglecting its humanitarian duties to asylum seekers arriving in the harsh Arizona desert.

🦄 Police, Prison

Questions Surround FBI Informant Charged With Stabbing Convicted Cop Derek Chauvin

December 6, 2023December 6, 2023

Tucson, AZ — Federal inmate and former FBI informant, John Turscak, was charged last week with attempted murder by federal prosecutors for the Black Friday stabbing incident of fellow prisoner Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted for the 2020 murder of…

🦄 Borders & Migration, Protest & Direct Action

Blockade Protest Disrupts Raytheon at University of Arizona Tech Park

December 5, 2023December 5, 2023

Activists in Tucson blockaded a facility where Raytheon designs munitions with the help of the University of Arizona.

🦄 Global, Protest & Direct Action

Die-In at Raytheon Compound in Tucson Calls Out Complicity in Gaza

November 5, 2023September 30, 2024

Tucson, AZ — Raytheon employees on their way to work Thursday morning were confronted with an unusual spectacle — about 120 people, dressed in all black, lying in the road covered in white sheets, blocking one of the entrances to U.S. Air Force Plant 44,…

🦄 Police

Marches and Vigils Across the US Respond to the Police Killing of Forest Defender Tort

January 22, 2023February 24, 2023

In the days following the police killing of Manuel Terán (Tort/Tortuguita) in the Atlanta Forest, solidarity actions occurred in cities throughout the country. Tort was shot and killed on Wednesday, Jan. 18 during a large police operation to evict activists camped in the forest (forest…

🦄 Police, Prison

‘You’re Important to Us!’: Tucson Rings in the New Year with Raucous Jail Protest

January 2, 2023September 18, 2023

Tucson, AZ – Dwarfed by a four-story edifice of concrete and concertina wire, two boys passed a bullhorn back and forth between them, egging each other on and giggling at their game.

“Your lives matter!” one of them yelled at the rows of narrow windows…

🦄 Community, Social Control

Self-Managed Abortion Workshops Build Reproductive Autonomy

August 11, 2022October 24, 2022

Tucson, Arizona – In the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision ending federal protection for abortion access, some people across the country are scrambling to find solutions to the crisis of forced pregnancy and the end of nationwide legal reproductive freedom. This crisis…

🦄 Police, Prison

Families Gather to Demand Justice for Those Killed in Tucson’s Jail

May 10, 2022May 12, 2022

Tucson, AZ – A crowd of about 60 people slowly converged on the empty plaza and parking lots of Pima County Jail Friday night. Bathed in the yellow glow of the streetlights, some gathered in groups and chatted while others hurriedly constructed frames for their…

🦄 Prison

The Death of Justin Crook, aka J-Mac Tha Coldest, in the Pima County Jail

December 23, 2021January 21, 2022

Tucson, AZ – In the early hours of May 30, 2021, Justin Crook had a seizure on his way home from work. It was after midnight, and Crook had called a Lyft to drive him home following his closing shift at a downtown Tucson restaurant.…

🦄 COVID-19, Investigative, Racism & Far-Right

School Board Disruptions Escalate, Funded By Conservative Dark Money

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021

An escalating series of demonstrations focusing on COVID-19 restrictions in public schools have created dangerous and chaotic conditions for school boards across the country in recent months. Egged on by a cadre of right-wing influencers, concerned parents from across the right-wing spectrum have flocked to…


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