By Paula Díaz/El Inde En el segundo piso del consulado de México en Tucson hay varios cubículos, donde se encuentran los operadores del centro de llamadas que ofrece asistencia a los mexicanos. Estos tienden a ser migrantes que están en medio del desierto perdidos, familiares buscando a uno de sus seres queridos que cruzaron la…
By Vanessa Lucero/El Inde Before 1971, the area just south of downtown Tucson was a thriving Mexican American community. It has adobe homes and pocket parks; it was the place where Mexican Americans celebrated and preserved their culture. But then on March 1, 1966, the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project was approved, targeting 80 acres of…
By Julia Blumberg/El Inde The Migrant Quilt Project was started in 2007. Each quilt is meant to memorialize the people who lost their lives crossing the desert, the identified and the desconocidos. It now has a home at the Arizona History Museum. Julia Blumberg has this story. Music: Siddhartha Corsus, A Song for Peace https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Siddhartha/let-there-be-peace/a-song-for-peace…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — With legislators still undecided on how to spend the record $5.3 billion dollar budget surplus, the Arizona Education Association, the state’s largest teacher’s union, is demanding massive increases in education funding. Heather Ayers, president of the Isaac District Association and a teacher at Joseph Zito Elementary School…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — From a legal perspective, the implications of overturning abortion rights and the landmark Roe v. Wade decision are worrying, said Erin Maher. “The way constitutional law is built is like building blocks,” the recent law school graduate explained. Legal decisions are stacked on top of previous ones, and…
