Tucson's Salt of the Earth Labor College is celebrating its 30th anniversary amid growing working class militancy both nationally and locally. The school held its first class in September 1993 in a house left by Felix Padilla and Arvilla Jackson who wanted their home turned into a workers' school.
SOUTH TUCSON, Ariz. In a landslide victory, largely ignored by the corporate owned media, a slate of three community activists was elected to the city council in one of Arizona's most impoverished municipalities.
SOUTH TUCSON, Ariz. In a landslide victory, largely ignored by the corporate owned media, a slate of three community activists was elected to the city council in one of Arizona's most impoverished municipalities.
Tucson lost its favorite political activist when Jon Miles passed away on February 21st at age 81, after a long battle with cancer. For some 25 years everybody attending Tucson's Salt of the Earth Labor College was greeted at the door by Jon Miles' request they register for the class and fork over a.
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