r/OrganizeTucson

Tucson Sentinel article here.

. . . To an unhoused person urinating against a retaining wall at the Circle K Valencia and Nogales Hwy.

Saturday the 11th!!

Unhoused Neighbors will be out at our usual places, providing resources and access to the same basic needs of survival we should all have access to at all times.

We operate primarily on donations and each donation helps connect marginalized communities to the care they need.

Please help us by amplifying our posts, talking about mutual aid with your peers, volunteering, dønating, and generally elevating any mutual aid efforts you come across. We are in need of donations for this upcoming event.

We are running low on hygiene kits, men's clothes, backpacks, reusable water bottles, blankets, medical supplies, feminine hygiene supplies, and everything else in red.

We served 172 people at our last event and this is how we save each other because no one else is going to do it for us.

Housed or unhoused, we are community.

Please share as widely as possible, signal, FB, IG, etc. Make these calls yourself, and implore others to do the same. Time is of the essence.

If you ever wonder how you would have acted in WWII, use your response to this as a guide.

https://news.azpm.org/p/azpmnews/2026/6/29/230320-ice-detained-a-russian-man-in-tucson-his-wife-fears-hell-be-deported-and-drafted

Just as important as calling is sharing! Please share this as widely as you can!

Instagram bigpapahundo

Hi all - Ballots have been mailed and early voting has begun! If you want to do some homework before you fill out your ballot, here are a few guides:

• Blue Voter Guide (https://bluevoterguide.org) - lets you filter by which orgs and groups have endorsed each candidate. Good way to see who's backed by PACs versus grassroots and community orgs.
• Progressive Voters Guide (https://progressivevotersguide.com/arizona) - Endorsements and info from the awesome people over at Progress Arizona.
• Citizens Clean Elections Voter Education Guide (https://azcleanelections.gov/voter-education-guide) - the official state guide, has candidate statements direct from the candidates themselves. Good for cross-checking what they're claiming against what the other guides say about their record.
• Ballot Measures: https://azmirror.com/briefs/arizona-voters-will-decide-10-gop-backed-ballot-measures-in-november-on-schools-elections-taxes/
• Last link!! For general election info: https://azsos.gov/elections

Happy Voting!

Edit: ty for the award!

Edit 2: Adding more guides.

- LD 5/Encanto: https://evoterra.me/az-2026-primary-voting-guide

172 people were served today.

Another 172 and it felt heavier and there was more desperation in the air. People are struggling and trying to plan for a future that is uncertain, at best. The city isn't doing enough, and the people within it have the ability to save each other, and I am not talking about the ones that need help passing around the 5$ to each other.

Today, community came together with what we had and shared with those that did not.

This is human nature.

Thank you to our volunteers, our comrades in community, and the people who donate and help make this happen every other week.

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On January 21st 2026 the Tucson Pride Association announced that they were closing their doors and canceling the 50th annual Tucson Pride on February 21st 2026. This was a 50-year tradition in Tucson and the corporate board just put out an announcement saying pride is canceled.

Within 10 minutes big papa Hundo publicly issued the announcement that hot no you cannot cancel pride and that he was going to spend the next 30 days working around the clock to ensure that Tucson still had a free public Pride celebration so that the 50-year tradition in Tucson arizona, the third oldest Pride Association in the United states, and something that the queer community what's incredibly proud of would not be canceled. 

Hundo conducted a free event for February 21st 2026 and even though he is located in Humboldt county, he traveled by car all the way down to his birthplace of Tucson Arizona at his own personal expense and implemented and participated in the first annual Tucson pop-up Pride to be the 50th annual Tucson Pride.

Hundo had just finished his still alive in 25 tour where he regularly wore the Loft Cinema Pride themed shirt believing that the lock Cinema Tucson was an lgbtqia+ welcoming and inclusive establishment as they claimed to be. They published his videos on their website advertising their brand with no compensation.

 Loft Cinema Tucson did something totally shocking that hurt the queer community and the community deserves to know. 

Hundo reached out to The Loft theater in January of 2026, being a dues paying member and having done free promotional work for their brand across the United States specifically highlighting their lgbtq friendly marketing, told them about the pop-up pride and said he would be in town for an entire week and that he would volunteer to speak for free about the pop-up Pride, and that he would love it if they would consider screening Saint Misbehavin the Wavy Gravy movie. They didn't even answer him by phone or text they simply hung up on him when he identified himself when he called and blocked him on instagram and 30 days later on Facebook. He has been calling them and writing them ever since and they simply hang up the phone on him.

He is unable to use his membership and has been unable to since January though he's a dues paying member. They will not even discuss a refund they won't even have a conversation. They probably don't even know that Tucson pop up Pride happened on February 21st 2026 because they were so busy hiding behind their block buttons and doing exactly what they said they were not going to do. 

In 2025 The Loft Cinema Tucson issued an apology to the community saying that they had failed to listen to the voices of the community. 

In 2026 The Loft Cinema Tucson managed to not have to listen to the voices of their Community by simply blocking and ignoring their community. 

Boycott The Loft Cinema tucson. 

Now let me just tell you that we did have a screening of saint Misbehavin the Wavy Gravy movie at the Presidio theater in San Francisco and Wavy Gravy himself along with Michelle esrick the filmmaker were there. 

Saving a 50-year-old Pride tradition in Tucson Arizona and being heroes in the story by screening Saint Misbehavin likely would have seen the MC of Woodstock himself and the filmmaker herself attend in Tucson at The Loft Cinema, celebrating the community's resilience in not allowing the 50-year-old's pride tradition to die because of corporate nonsense, but you see their priorities were in a different place. 

The loft Cinema Tucson was busy doing fundraisers for their million dollar luxury patio with luxury loungers and they were so busy trying to get money for luxury loungers that they literally turned their back on their queer community. 

A simple yes or no would have been fine. But zero conversation, blocking a dues paying member on Instagram, refusing to have any conversation whatsoever for 30 days and then blocking that same dues paying member on Facebook is just corporate cowardice. 

All they needed to say was we know about it and we really don't care what happens to the queer Community or we know about it and we'll spread the message or we don't want to screen that film at this time or hey that's a great idea but literally just hiding behind a block button and hanging up the phone every time I identify myself is disgusting. 

When I wore your shirt at Madison Square Garden and all over my tour I never in a million years would have suspected that you were actually an organization that does not value your community and does not value communication. 

I call upon the people of Tucson Arizona to boycott The Loft Cinema, to demand a public mea culpa apology directly to Hundo, and to recognize that selling queer themed merchandise while your city's Pride literally has been canceled and you don't make any effort whatsoever to help your community is actually predatory sick wrong and we see it and we don't like it.

This Saturday the 27th!

We are hosting another Food > Fascism distro and we are still running super low on everything in red.

If you are interested in dønating or amplifying, it all helps. Please do.

We have an amazon page where you can send us needed items and we are also doing pick ups and drop offs for donations till the Friday before!

Mutual aid (M.A.) is an antidote to capitalism.

Mutual aid saves lives.

Mutual aid is some people's only way of surviving each day.

Mutual aid is human nature.

Here's our link:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2A7LZXR33NAX9?ref\_=list\_d\_wl\_lfu\_nav\_9