There have been countless acts of courage by minority women who refused to suffer indignities. The border is full of [...]

Today, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments for the United States Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Arizona’s SB 1070.  There was a call for statewide action and resistance against this racist law. Here is what happened in Tucson at…

Press conference calling on Senator Dennis DeConcini to resign from CCA Board of Directors
FUERZA! COALITION HOLDS PRISON INDUSTRY, SENATOR DECONCINI RESPONSIBLE FOR SB 1070, LEGISLATIVE ATTACKS ON MIGRANTSAs the nation’s largest private prison compa…

For the last couple of weeks, I have been revisiting pieces that I’d written in the past. They express concerns [...]

Because of requests for another article dealing with history, I am reprinting a piece that I wrote in 1989 dealing [...]

Aside from the injustices in Arizona, i.e., the scraping of a highly successful education program, the evident war against Mexicans, [...]

FULL SET OF PICTURES: http://chrissummitt.com/blog/protestaz/boardmtg_4_10_12/
How it went down:
The board meeting tonight was epic.  On the agenda was the vote on whether or not to renew Sean Arce’s (director of the Mexican American studies …

“More than any other time I implore every former student of mine to show your respect for the best leader [...]

Estimadas/os: The silencing of Mexicans continues in Tucson. Not only are the MAS teachers and its Director being silenced, so [...]

Burrito-Traficantes to descend upon Tucson First the Librotraficantes came to town to deliver us banned books. Now, inspired by Comedy [...]

From “Deliverance” to “The Godfather” “Be Careful What You Wish for ’cause It Might Come True” By Rodolfo F. Acuña [...]

The Cesar Chavez March started at St. John’s Catholic Church this year.  For the past decade it had started at Pueblo High School.  This year, (the year that ethnic studies courses were banned), the Tucson Unified School District decided to p…