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The leaders of this city should be ashamed that they have allowed the suffering of Tucson Bus Riders to go on for almost four weeks. The Tucson Bus Riders Union has had many community leaders look at the City’s contract with Professional Transit Management. They all have told us that it is blatantly obvious thatContinue reading “IT’S TIME FOR DIRECT ACTION”

Much thanks to all the bus riders and their supporters, Fr. David Guzman O.C.D. and the Guadalupanas from Santa Cruz Church, and Mi Familia Vota. The Rosary out in front of the Ronstadt Transit Center was beautiful. The sight of the City Hall first floor conference room filled to capacity with bus riders sharing theirContinue reading “ROSARY AND MARCH TO CITY HALL A LARGE SUCCESS”

Dear friends of Casa Maria, Please attend this event on Monday. We really need people to come and especially march to the meeting with the mayor and city manager. If anyone has any ideas on how to settle this strike, by all means call (520) 624-0312. The bus riding public is really suffering. -Brian Flagg

It 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 richContinue reading “THE STRIKE HAS TO END RIGHT NOW // LA HUELGA TIENE QUE TERMINAR AHORA”

by 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 RomeroContinue reading “AUGUST 11 HOT DOG FEAST TO END THE STRIKE A BIG SUCCESS // LA FIESTA DE HOT DOG EL 11 DE AGOSTO PARA TERMINAR LA HUELGA FUE UN GRAN EXITO”

by 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. StellerContinue reading “TEAMSTER PRESIDENT DENIES INSULTING CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE BUS RIDER UNION // EL PRESIDENTE DE LA UNION TEAMSTERS NO FUE UN TRAIDOR”

  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 theContinue reading “SUPPORT THE BUS DRIVERS AND MECHANICS END THE STRIKE NOW! // ¡APOYE A LOS MECÁNICOS Y CONDUCTORES DE CAMION PARA PONER FIN A LA HUELGA!”

from 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 humbleContinue reading “¡Viene Papa Francisco! The Pope is Coming!”

by 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.Continue reading “A Marshall Plan for Mexico”