OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN In a week in which City Councilmember Shirley Scott proposed a two million dollar cutback to Tucson public transit, she and others who are tempted to start dismantling our already inadequate public transit system would do well to remember the April 2nd “Community Vision for the Ronstadt Transit Center” event at The …
Read moreRemembering the Community Vision for the Ronstadt Center
OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN Brian Flagg has been an activist with Catholic Charities in Sacramento and Tucson, and with Casa Maria for upwards of thirty years. For the last year and a half he has been working with a mainly poor group of residents, the bus riders in Tucson and Pima County, to form a union …
Read moreActivist Alert Interview with Brian Flagg of Casa Maria and the Bus Rider’s Union
OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN As I first approached City Hall to cover the February 5th City Council study session about what to do about the Ronstadt Transit Center, it seemed as if the issue had finally gotten its day in the media—all the local news stations had trucks parked in front of City Hall and KOLD’s …