3 min read by Brian Flagg In case you missed it, the Daily Star had a story entitled ‘Seattle Backs Tax on Companies to Help Homeless’ (Tuesday, May 15, 2018). City Council Members look on as members of the public speak at a Seattle City Council meeting where the council was expected to vote on a “Head Tax” Monday, May 14, 2018 in Seattle. the council is to vote on a proposal to tax large businesses such as Amazon and Starbucks to fight homelessness. The plan would tax large businesses about $500 a year per worker to raise about $75 million a year for homeless services

3 min read by Brian Flagg Long time Casa Maria worker Chad Owens died in his sleep on Sunday, October 1, here in his bedroom at Casa Maria.   He was 69 years old. He had returned 5 days earlier from the hospital where he had a tumor removed from near his spine. He was scheduled to begin chemo for lung cancer. So he was in pain, not happy about it and had readily expressed his desire to move on. Chad was known for being a very hard working hombre. Everyday, 7 days a week, he got to the soup kitchen at 4

< 1 min read Un gran hombre, un gran sacerdote, un humilde servidor de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo. Después de servir un tiempo en la parroquia El Sagrado Corazón lo cambiaron a Douglas, AZ. Los lunes en la mañana ha celebrado misa aquí por años, ademas cuando es tiempo de luchar el ha estado con nosotros en la calle o en las juntas del consejo de la ciudad para hacer justicia. ¡Lo vamos a extrañar!  FATHER JIM HOBERT… A great man, a great priest, a humble servant of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He is being transferred from Sacred Heart Parish to Douglas, AZ. He has

2 min read por Alicia Nuñez O.C.D.S. El 16 de julio es la Fiesta de Nuestra Señora del Monte Carmelo. Este año queremos empezar a tener mas eventos Carmelitas en español para que nuestra comunidad pueda participar. La celebración empezó el día 7 con platicas relacionadas a Nuestra Señora del Monte Carmelo y la Orden Carmelita. Es una bendición que la Orden Carmelita Seglar pudimos participar con platicas e información a nuestra comunidad, así como también tuvimos la oportunidad de escuchar las platicas de P. Jose Luis y su sabiduría en ingles y español. El 15 de julio tuvimos la procesión como otros

< 1 min read by Cesar Aguirre Across the country gentrification has been affecting inner-city communities. From Brooklyn to San Francisco inner-city communities have been taken over by moneyed interests. Some claim that it is development and improvement of poor, blighted communities with high crime rates and homelessness. But for those of us who live here it pushes us out further on the fringes of society, while erasing the culture and history of our community and the people that have lived here for generations. And now it’s happening in South Tucson. As an artist and rapper I feel that art, music and culture is

< 1 min read If you live in the City of Tucson you have until May 10th to drop your ballot in the mail. Check out Brian’s op-ed in the Daily Star (click here)

3 min read by Brian Flagg Today, May 1, the feast day of St. Joseph the Worker and International Workers Day, is the 84 year anniversary of the start of the Catholic Worker movement! On this day in 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin and others went to the May Day celebration at Union Square in New York City, to hand out the first edition of the Catholic Worker newspaper. The rest is history! And I consider myself blessed to have been a Catholic Worker for the majority of my adult life, the first 2 years in