5 min readIt is an attack on poor people, people of color and the entire bus riding public. People are losing their jobs because they can’t get to work. If something like this affected the foothills like this strike affects the Southside, something would have been done about it.  If this strike affected the lives of rich people the way it affects the lives of poor people, a solution would have already been found. We urge the Teamsters to continue to offer new plans and new concessions so as to settle this strike right now. But the Teamsters are not the real

4 min readby Cesar Aguirre The hot dogs were delicious, the turn-out was great, the music was loud and the line was long. Everyone was waiting in the heat to join the Tucson Bus Riders Union and the Teamsters, enduring the humidity left behind by the morning’s drizzles, intensified by the scorching desert sun. Councilwoman Regina Romero was there to support. My girls were excited to participate . We walked the picket on Friday afternoon and were able to have a great conversation about the strike and why we support the strikers. On our way to the picket line on Friday my

2 min readby Brian Flagg Tim Stellers’ column in Sunday’s Daily Star (http://tucson.com/news/local/columnists/steller/steller-council-could-have-helped-avert-bus-strike/article_cf85fb57-8986-5dae-839e-a913ebba70e4.html) was an attack on the Bus Riders Union and the majority of the City Council who have, for the most part, supported the transit system, bus riders and poor people. His column was a crude attempt to pit working people against poor people. Steller claims that if the council would have previously raised fares and cut many more routes they would now have the money to pay more to bus drivers and mechanics and thus avoid the current strike. The quotes attribute to Teamster President Andy Marshall in the

< 1 min read  Tuesday, Aug. 11 @ 4:30 pm at Ronstadt Sun Tran, the City, and the Powers That Be can find $200 million for the useless trolley but can find nothing for the bus drivers and mechanics? They need to find the money NOW so as to end the strike and stop the suffering of the bus riding public. Come and dine on HOT DOGS and join the picket line in solidarity with the members of Teamsters Local 104. Sponsored by the Tucson Bus Riders Union. More info at: (520) 626-0312 ¡APOYE A LOS MECÁNICOS Y CONDUCTORES DE CAMION PARA PONER

< 1 min readfrom National Catholic Reporter, July 31-Aug13, 2015 And we beg you to read the front page story from the same issue at: http://ncronline.org/news/global/will-pope-francis-strong-message-meet-resistance-us  We at the Casa Maria Catholic Worker feel that this story is an affirmation of our ministry from a most humble and holy man. We also take it as  a challenge to humble ourselves, deepen our faith in Jesus, and walk with Him further and more fearlessly to the margins of this beautiful hell-forsaken world. Animo! ______________________________________________________________ Casa Maria quiere que todos lean esta historia de la National Catholic Reporter at: http://ncronline.org/news/global/will-pope-francis-strong-message-meet-resistance-us El Titulo es ¿La mensaje muy fuerte del

3 min readby Brian Flagg The syndicated national columnist Esther Cepeda wrote an editorial in Saturday’s Daily Star entitled “On immigration, most people can’t handle the truth.” She gives it up to Angela Merkel, the President of Germany, for being so honest in saying that all of the world’s immigrants cant come to Germany (or the U.S. for that matter). The question should not be how many immigrants can come to Germany (or the U.S). The real question is how come the U.S. and Germany don’t use all of their power and might to make it so that poor people now forced

6 min readby Anita Timpani Since March 2013 when Pope Francis was elected we have consistently seen/heard his name throughout the media… Jo Piazza, in her book, I​f Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission,​writes about ten nuns, most of which names you have never heard in the media. She profiles these nuns who have dedicated their lives to following in the footsteps of Christ. One of the goals of the author is to show nuns as people as opposed to stereotypes (20); she believes they each should individually be featured on their own magazine cover (7). I highly recommend

2 min readby Brian Flagg I feel bad because I was stupid enough to allow a reporter to take my words out of context and misrepresent me (“Early Reactions to Ronstadt Plan Positive” Arizona Daily Star, 7/27/2015, http://tucson.com/news/blogs/road_runner/early-reactions-to-ronstadt-plan-positive/article_bd1028a0-55ff-5c75-828e-9ed345103ec4.html) I should have known better. I should have been more disciplined. He quoted me to the effect that both plans were fine with me. What I told him was that I would be most happy if both plans disappeared from the face of this earth because ultimately they both mean more gentrification (the process by which those with capital invest in lower income places, gradually

4 min readby Barbie Urias My Comrade Brian Flagg sent me on the second week of July 2015 to an eight day retreat in Los Altos Hills, California, a Jesuit Retreat Center. The retreat was based on spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. The exercises are for prayer, reflection, and spiritual direction. I was able to attend this retreat after I became jealous when Brian went for the third time to this Jesuit retreat center. I had wanted to attend a good retreat myself. So Brian said I could attend the next year. And I did. The Jesuit retreat center was a