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Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

People walk the streets in Phoenix during the Women's March at the State Capitol Sunday, Jan. 21 2018.

Once reluctant, women begin to run for office

Lauren Whetzel April 11, 2018

  Women make up roughly 50 percent of the United States. Yet they are only represented by 20 percent of Congress — 22 percent in the Senate and 19 percent in the House of Representatives....

Erik Schoenecker and Dan Duffey arrive at the Pima County Republican Party headquaters. Duffey, state data director for the Arizona GOP, worked on President Donald Trump’s campaign in Philadelphia. (Photo by: David J. Del Grande / The Tombstone Epitaph)

Dems, GOP craft 2nd District voter turnout strategies

David Del Grande February 14, 2018

With Democratic enthusiasm surging, record-breaking turnout might come to Arizona’s Second Congressional District midterm election, said Ron Barber, a former holder of the seat.  “If that...

Hannah Throssell, Miss Native American UA First Attendant, holds a women’s march sign in the UA Women's Plaza of Honor. Throssell has also participated in other social justice marches on behalf of indigenous issues, such as one march about the controversy of Columbus Day. (Photo by: Jessica Suriano/ Arizona Sonora News Service)

Students and activists fight for no more stolen sisters

Jessica Suriano February 14, 2018

While many people first heard about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement at this year’s women’s marches, Eve Reyes-Aguirre was exposed to it years ago. Reyes-Aguirre, an Izkaloteka...

Las mujeres nativo-americanas tienen algo que decir

Las mujeres nativo-americanas tienen algo que decir

Mar Ruiz April 4, 2017

Caminando por las calles del centro durante La Marcha de Mujeres de Tucson, un grupo organizado de 200 personas sostenían carteles hechos a mano y gritaban, “¡Aún seguimos aquí”!  El...

Will the Women's March on Washington become the next women's movement?

Will the Women’s March on Washington become the next women’s movement?

Meredith Morrissey February 23, 2017

  The day after his inauguration, women across the globe had a message for President Donald Trump: we will not be silent. The Women’s March on Washington moved millions of women into the...

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