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.
American writer Barbara Kingsolver is primarily known as a novelist, renowned for such socially conscious works as The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Pigs in Heaven and other titles. She has also written nonfiction books, including Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life; Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands; and Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983.
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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