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A LETTER TO SYLVIA CAMPOY

Casa Maria February 11, 2015

2 min read February 10, 2015 Dear Sylvia, Thanks for coming to Casa Maria. I think we fundamentally disagree with you on some main themes, but talking with you and Terry Higuera really helped us think about desegregation and how we as parents and the larger community can move forward to advocate and organize for a more just TUSD. Ultimately it’s all about better educated kids. We understand that no matter what is just or unjust, right or wrong, there is a court order that exists. But it is only a court order, not a commandment that came down from heaven. We would

A Safe Place to Dream 24 hours a day

Casa Maria February 9, 2015

2 min readCasa Maria supports all people having a place to sleep at night. Casa Maria supports SAFEPARK which is located downtown in Pancho Villa Park. John McLane is a founder of SAFEPARK and a friend of Casa Maria. _______________________________ A Safe Place to Dream 24 hours a day By John McLane, Three years ago, a group of ‘homeless activists’ with the group Occupy Public Land set out to decriminalize homelessness in the City of Tucson and during that effort fill in the gaps in services for both the houseless population and those wishing to express their rights and redress their grievances.

Contrary to what you might read in the newspaper, IT’S A NEW DAY IN TUCSON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT-

Casa Maria February 5, 2015

< 1 min readBy Brian Flagg, There is now a new three person board majority that replaced Superintendant John Pedicone with a new Superintendent, H.T. Sanchez. H.T. has provided a new type of leadership. He has spearheaded a pay rise for teachers, reduced class size, aggressively defended the Culturally Relevant Curriculum from new attacks from the North, and refused to give up more legal fees for de-segregation lawyers who have milked the de-segregation lawsuit for 40 years. He and the Board are trying to use desegregation dollars to provide for increased academic achievement at magnet schools instead of only trying to integrate them,

WELCOME GILBERTO CONTRERAS

Casa Maria February 4, 2015

2 min readCasa Maria is excited to have hired Gilberto to be a community organizer with Casa Maria. He is a 2014 graduate of the University of Arizona with a B.A. in Mexican American Studies. ______________________ By Gilberto Contreras, This will be my first post on this blog, so I would like to introduce myself to you all. My name is Gilberto Contreras Morales and I am not a stranger to Casa Maria de Guadalupe. Before I speak about the work I have done with Casa Maria, I would like to give you all a little of my story. I am a

FOR JOHN C. SCOTT: on if I was King…

Casa Maria February 2, 2015

2 min readBy Brian Flagg, I read this great article in America magazine by the auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, Robert W. McElroy, entitled “Market Assumptions: Pope Francis’ challenge to income inequality” (Nov 3, 2014). This past April, Pope Francis told over 10 million online followers, in nine different languages, “Inequality is the root of social evil.” And what he tweeted in just seven words, he had elaborated on at length five months earlier in ‘The Joy of The Gospel’ (No.202): The need to resolve the structural causes of poverty cannot be delayed… As long as the problems of the poor are

THANKS TO SANTA CRUZ CATHOLIC SCHOOL

Casa Maria January 30, 2015

< 1 min readThanks to all the kids, parents and teachers at Santa Cruz Catholic School, the school of our parish, for honoring National Catholic Schools Week by making 1300 sandwiches for Casa Maria. It really helped because at the end of the month we are busier than ever. Special thanks to Principal Ellen Fisher and 5th grade teacher Rose Raderstorf for organizing this. We look forward to a repeat performance!

ERNESTO LUJAN, FOOD EXPERT NUMERO UNO OF CASA MARIA

Casa Maria January 28, 2015

2 min readby Brian Flagg, Pretty much everyone knows that Pancho Medina is Minister of Culture at Casa Maria, Katie Bolger, among others, has been the Minister of Agriculture, Nancy Myers has been the Director of Fun and Cesar Aguirre is the new Minister of Public Education. Ernie Lujan is without doubt the Food Expert Numero Uno. We’ve been working him to do a regular food column so to speak, for this blog. Hopefully he reads this and realizes that this is his calling, to write the food column! He and I even talked about him kicking it off with something along

MARIPOSA SIN FRONTERAS

Casa Maria January 26, 2015

4 min readCasa Maria made a donation to Mariposa Sin Fronteras to help people held in immigration detentions get out of jail. Here’s a letter from them with one of their stories. Mariposas Sin Fronteras Thank you to Casa Maria for your generous support of Mariposas Sin Fronteras, a Tucson-based group that supports LGBTQ people immigrants held in immigration detention. Your donation helped to pay the bond of a marvelous human being named Estrellita (letter from Estrellita enclosed). More than pay bonds, we fight for a world that does not use detention as a way of controlling people. The group has strong

WELCOME OCHOA ELEMENTARY’S NEW PRINCIPAL JULIO MORENO

Casa Maria January 20, 2015

< 1 min readThe South Tucson and Ochoa community have organized over the years to improve the the community and keep the schools in our barrio open. We continue to organize today to improve the quality of education for our barrio youth. Due to this work the parents have been successful in working with Tucson Unified School District to find the right leader to take Ochoa’s magnet program (Reggio Emilia) to the next level. Join us on Thursday, January 22nd, 2015 at 6pm at the John Valenzuela Youth Center, 1550 S. 6th Ave. to welcome our new principal, Julio Moreno, to the community.

MODERN DAY SAINT- MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Casa Maria January 19, 2015

< 1 min readby Brian Flagg, I agree with Eugene Robinsons’ brilliant column in Friday’s Daily Star “MLK’s call for economic justice rings true today as well.” Also today’s piece in the Star by Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez “All labor has dignity: Remembering icon’s vision of worth” is really right-on. By the time the brother was assassinated, he was onto seeing civil rights in the larger context of economic justice. And he didn’t just see. He preached, he proclaimed and he acted in solidarity with workers, he organized!!! and he came out against the Vietnam War. He was a true prophet

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