"Connecting Community and Academic Activism Workshop Series"

Local Projects Underway
These projects and issues may serve as elements for curricula and sites where university researchers might find partnerships and collaborations. Please submit any projects or information that you would like included here to danika@u.arizona.edu.

• Pan-Left Projects
• American Friends Service Committee initiatives
• Workers Rights Board
• Day Labor Organizing
• Immigrant Rights Organizing
• ProNeighborhoods Projects
• Salt of the Earth Labor College
• Anti-Sweatshop Activism
• Queer Issues
• The Tucson Peace Center
• Homeless Advocacy
• Tucson Health Care Issues
• Tucson's Green Party Initiatives
• Arizona Citizen's Action Initiatives
• Incarceration Issues/Prison Initiatives
• Local Labor--Mining Issues
• Border Issues
• Place-Based Projects

• University of Arizona's Southwest Project
• Resources on the 1917 Bisbee Deportation of IWW labor organizers
• Arizona Mining and Labor History from Arizona State's Chicano Resources
• Arizona AgNic: Managing Rangelands
• Heritage of Saint Mary's Hospital (history and contemporary issues in Tucson Health Care)
• Arizona Green Party News and Events
• Instant Runoff Voting Information from the Center for Voting and Democracy
• Low Y Cool Documentary film on "being Chicano, Mexicano, and .... French in Tucson"
• Arizona Neighborhoods Web Ring
• Pima County Geographical Information Systems Education Initiative (a project to make local and regional data available in formats usable to various interest groups)
• Rio Nuevo Project (Project to develop a Rio Nuevo preserve and multifacilities district)
• Arizona Based Atlas: As explained by Louise Greenfield: "The Library is exploring the possibility of creating a web-based Arizona Electronic Atlas. We envision that the Arizona Electronic Atlas will provide web access to Arizona data with a geographic component where users of all skill levels can create, manipulate and download maps and data. This project is a direct response to you and your student's curricular and research needs." Contact the library (greenfieldl@u.library.arizona.edu) for further information or to contribute to this project.