Photos: AOC, Sanders barnstorm in Tucson with anti-Trump 'Fighting Oligarchy' message:

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Thousands braving a hot sunny day at Catalina High this morning to see Sen. Sanders and AOC as part of “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.

Tucson city officials are clearing part of Hundred-Acre Wood, a stretch of park and desert landscape near D-M where dozens of homeless people have made camp.
City employees said they’ve been working for weeks to move people from the area before clearing the camp, removing trash and debris.

If you’re at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend, come see your favorite reporters, editors, and columnist with the Tucson Sentinel

More pictures from Monday:

Some of my favorite images from this year.

Here are photos from the second story, “No More Deaths volunteers evacuate migrants from 'dire' cold as Christmas nears in remote Az desert.”

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For the 2023 Arizona Press Club Awards, I revived 1st and 3rd place for Photojournalism News.

Here are some of the photos from one story:

Laiken makes a vital point. A story in photos: April 2019, the border along Organ Pipe was marked by “vehicle barriers” and screen panels at Monument hill close to Lukeville, Ariz.
Four years later, in Nov. 2023 nearly 750 asylum seekers huddled in the shadow of a 30-foot high wall after crossing.

Photos from 2018. The guy working the stables at the Nogales station was having a blast. Other guardsmen were running surveillance cameras, fixing BP trucks, and serving as the safety officer for the gun range.

On Thursday, several Tucson Unified Schools held a “walk-in” to celebrate Ruby Bridges. In 1960, Bridges attended a school in New Orleans, forcing its integration years after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education:
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