Surviving Poisoned Water - Mural Unveiling
Saturday, December 13, 2025, 2-5pm at Mission Manor Park (6100 S 12th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85706)
Murals are pretty, yes… and they serve a larger cultural purpose - to remind us of where we’ve been; to see clearly where we are now.
A new memorial and mural will be unveiled in December to acknowledge the effects of careless and sneaky water contamination. For some, this may be a faraway issue… and for others, it’s a part of their daily lives. Art helps us integrate multiple experiences and acknowledge who is fighting to survive.
Saturday, December 13, 2025, 2-5pm
Mission Manor Park (6100 S 12th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85706)
Throughout the year, Alex! Jimenez hosted workshops to create the tiles for this mosaic…
We held 7 Community Workshops to create tiles for a mural in honor of people impacted by or lost to TCE contamination with artist Alex! Jimenez
From Los Descendientes de Tucson trichloroethylene (TCE) groundwater contamination page:
Survival and Resistance
Remembering the Southside’s Environmental Justice Movement is a yearlong commemoration that honors the work of Tucson’s south side community, which beginning in the 1980s, organized a historic fight against trichloroethylene (TCE) groundwater contamination and environmental racism. Through free community programming across Pima County, Survival and Resistance will celebrate the undertold story of residents that fought for decades for the health of their community and their drinking water. Working in partnership with those directly impacted, this project celebrates south side resistance, survival, and healing.
While many people in Tucson have heard the story of historic groundwater contamination on the south side of Tucson in the 1980s, far fewer know that a movement formed in the impacted community, which would become one of the earliest and most successful environmental justice movements in the United States. Survival and Resistance is a yearlong, community-engaged commemoration of this history, as there is an urgent need to honor and learn from the aging Mexican American elders who led this vital part of the south side’s story.