TWO (2) WAPH! events this week! 1. Tues. May 22nd 6:30 -8:30pm WAPH! TOWNHALL MEETING DIFFERENT by HEART & SOUL Group invites you “CONVERSATION, SETTING THE STAGE FOR METAMORPHOSIS”, an experience you will not want to miss! the Peace Song Band will provide music. at Unitarian Universalist Church 107 West Barcelona Road, Santa Fe. Please...
Editor’s note: New Mexico’s progressive community suffered a severe blow with the loss this week of activist attorney Sherry Tippett. Tippett was a crusading force for social justice in areas ranging from gun control to education, local water rights and much more. The following account is from the Santa Fe New Mexican, www.santafenewmexican.com: ...
By ADAM KLASFELD http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/05/16/46550.htm MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism. Signed by President Barack Obama on New Year’s Eve, the 565-page...
For the second year in a row, residents of New Mexico and neighboring Chihuahua, Mexico, find themselves in the throes of severe drought. On May 15, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez issued an emergency drought declaration, citing in part a forecast from the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center that warned of persistent or...
Here’s your invitation to celebrate the publication of Corporations Are Not People:, A Discussion with Author Jeffrey D. Clements Wednesday, May 23, 5:30p-7:30p Collected Works Bookstore (Back where we started from. . .Arrive early!) 202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 The event is hosted by Connected Works Bookstore and the discussion will be...
Frontera NorteSur A state audit of the municipal government of Sunland Park, New Mexico, has uncovered not only sloppy accounting practices but widespread violations of New Mexico state law and city spending regulations. While some former officials implicated in wrongdoing have already been charged in related criminal cases, the audit casts a larger net...
Neighboring states add jobs at 4x, 5x NM rate Albuquerque - For the second straight month, job growth in New Mexico came in a full point behind the national average and is now the lowest in the West, according to statistics compiled by the federal Department of Labor Statistics and published by the Martinez administration. The...
White House & Dems Back Banks Over Protests By Dave Lindorff A new trove of heavily redacted documents provided by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) on behalf of filmmaker Michael Moore and the...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/colonized_by_corporations_20120514/ Posted on May 14, 2012 By Chris Hedges In Robert E. Gamer’s book “The Developing Nations” is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.” In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, someone who masks colonial...
Santa Fe, NM – May 14, 2012 — Due to severe drought conditions and progressively worsening wildland fire conditions, the Santa Fe Fire Department has the authority to impose additional fire restrictions as per the International Fire Code® (IFC) as adopted by § 12-2.1 of the Santa Fe City Code (SFCC). In order to...
The Mora County Commission continues to look at what regulation (permitting) of oil and gas offers Mora County and its citizens. This week they will hold a work session and we will listen to how regulating, land use, and zoning allows corporations to be permitted to drill by the State of New Mexico. DATE:...
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