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TUCSON, Ariz. Frustrated with their two Democratic Senators’ refusal, so far, to abolish the Senate filibuster rule, Arizonans have been mobilizing in a campaign of pressure from below by the people who put them in office. Sens.
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Salt of the Earth Labor College spotlights border militarization and death March 12, 2021 9:25 AM CDT By Sarah Roberts And Joe Bernick
A Border Patrol agent polices the U.S. side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz. A project that maps the bodies of border crossers recovered from Arizona s inhospitable deserts, valleys, and mountains said that it documented 227 such deaths in 2020, the highest in a decade following the hottest, driest summer in state history. | Charlie Riedel / AP
Anita Torrez sits smiling in her sunlit Tucson living room. | Al Neal / PW
People’s World has learned of the passing of Anita Torrez. A fuller story is on the way from her comrades in Arizona but for now we reprint the following article in her memory.
This article won a first place award in the Best Profile Story category at the 2020 Labor Media Awards, presented by the International Labor Communications Association.
It’s a lonely two-lane stretch of Arizona desert highway from Phoenix to Tucson. To your left and to your right greenish-brown desert brush, solitary cacti, and tan, rocky valleys and hilltops seem to dance before your eyes. A mirage.