[CPEO-MEF] "exhibit spotlights South Tucson’s [AZ] long fight for clean water"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

MOCA exhibit spotlights South Tucson’s long fight for clean water
A new MOCA exhibition, “Living with Injury,” honors the south side residents who have spent decades battling TCE contamination and highlights how the environmental crisis continues to affect the community today.

By Topacio "Topaz" Servellon 
Tucson Spotlight (AZ)
November 18, 2025

A new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art is putting South Tucson’s environmental justice movement at the forefront, honoring the residents who have spent decades fighting for clean water and documenting how the contamination that began generations ago continues to shape life on the city’s south side.

“Living with Injury” features work by artists, journalists and researchers and draws inspiration from archival research and local oral history on the impacts of trichloroethylene, or TCE, groundwater contamination.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of environmental journalist JaneKay’s reporting that revealed the extent of the TCE contamination of south side Tucson by Hughes Aircraft Systems, now known as Raytheon.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Hughes Aircraft Company contaminated the groundwater of Tucson’s south side, affecting the health of tens of thousands of residents and resulting in long-term illness and, in severe cases, death. It is one of the nation’s most significant TCE contamination sites.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.tucsonspotlight.org/moca-exhibit-spotlights-south-tucsons-long-fight-for-clean-water/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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