Upcoming Events

Walking Each Other Home: Cultural Practices at End of Life
An exhibit at the Arizona State Museum
September 10, 2022 - February 25, 2023
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am-4pm
We are so excited to share with you the beautiful and moving exhibit we have put together (with your contributions!) at the Arizona State Museum. “Walking Each Other Home: Cultural Practices at End of Life” shares stories and traditions documented as part of our End of Life: Continuum project supported by the Arizona End of Life Care Partnership with funds from the David and Lura Lovell Foundation. It celebrates both private and public practices and traditions of caregiving, grieving, memorializing, and preparing and planning for end of life. Videos, images, stories, installations and interactions invites viewers to contemplate their own relationship with and communal practices around death and dying.

More information about the exhibit is here.  There is no opening event, but please save the date, November 19, for a public event celebrating the exhibit. We’ll send more details on that when we have them!

Southside Worker Center Quinceanera
​November 19 2022

e have a special opportunity for YOU to join our community in advancing the fight for justice by sponsoring or attending our Quinceañera!
About this event: The SWC was established in 2006. This year, we are hosting a (one-year delayed) Quinceañera fundraiser! SWC is a community service program of the Southside Presbyterian Church. Our members tout the center as a place all can come and be welcome. They are proud of what they’ve accomplished, including establishing an expectation with day laborer employers that SWC members must earn at least $20/hour, increasing to $25/hour by December.
Join us for a night of dancing, laughing, and honoring the foundation of our city, its workers. Tickets are based on a sliding scale. Please purchase a ticket at the level you can comfortably afford. General Admission tickets range from $25-$100.

What to expect:The night will go just like any other Quinceañera. If you have not been to one YET, learn more about the tradition on this web page.We will have beer and wine* available for sale and serve traditional quinceañera fare**.Childcare will be provided with the purchase of a child(ages 1-12) ticket.*All sponsor packages include drink tickets, additional drinks may be purchased with cash or card the night of the event.
**Dinner is included in the price of admission.

The 10th of each month at 7:00 PM
Vigil to remember Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez,
the 16 year old killed October 10, 2012 by Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz, shot in the back while walking down the street in Nogales, Sonora. 
The vigils will be at the site where he was killed, on the Sonora side, in solidarity with Jose Antonio's family. 
If you are interested in the Zoom link, contact
​info@tucsonsamaritans.org
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Oct 8 & 9 Border Convening: Rally, March, Vigil for Jose Antonio and other victims ​On the 10th anniversary of his death, please join the family of Jose Antonio and family members of many other victims of brutality in the borderlands.  
Saturday, October 8, we will gather in Nogales, AZ at the Americana Hotel for presentations and a rally.  
Sunday, October 9 we will gather for a mass, march, and vigil to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the murder of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez and to continue the struggle for justice for all the families who have lost loved ones to the violence of the Border Patrol.

Go to https://soaw.org/home for details. 

    Keep Tucson Together LEGAL CLINIC AT PUEBLO HIGH SCHOOL
                    RESUMES EVERY THURSDAY EVENING
     Keep Tucson Together has for years hosted a legal clinic at Pueblo High School every Thursday evening from 5:30 to 7:00pm. That became impossible during the Covid pandemic due to public health regulations.            The KTT Legal Clinic on Thursday evenings has now reopened! The clinic is an amazing gathering of community members seeking legal support, volunteers from the community, KTT staff, and pro bono lawyers. The community-based work continues!
     Keep Tucson Together is a community-based pro bono legal clinic created in 2010 to provide legal representation for persons in deportation proceedings, who rarely can afford to retain counsel. KTT also processes applications for DACA, naturalization, and other forms of administrative relief.

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