⚡”Join Us or Face Consequences”: How Tucson’s Organizers Turned a Pima County Board Meeting Into an Accountability Trial

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Over 300 Tucson residents packed the Pima County Board of Supervisors meeting on October 21st, transforming what should have been routine municipal business into a six-hour demonstration of grassroots power 💪🏽.

The overwhelming focus: stopping Project Blue, the Amazon Web Services data center that refuses to die despite Tucson City Council’s unanimous August rejection 🚫.

Forty-five speakers got just two minutes each to demand accountability, connecting dots between corporate water theft 💧, refugee families losing food benefits under Trump’s HR1 legislation 🛑, and a proposed copper mine that would consume five times more water than the controversial data center ⛏️…

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