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...
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...
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...
By Emanuele Corso Joe Teacher’s editorial in the May 5-15 Santa Fe Reporter, “Evaluating The Evaluating” was a plea for reasonableness on the part of those who will be evaluating teachers in the coming school year. The evaluations will be in accordance with the requirements of Arne Duncan, President Obama’s hoops buddy cum Secretary...
Published on Monday, May 7, 2012 by TomDispatch.com by Ernest Callenbach To all brothers and sisters who hold the dream in their hearts of a future world in which humans and all other beings live in harmony and...
The Santa Fe City Council sent a message to the president and Congress last week, telling them to say “No” to any attack on Iran. Mayor David Coss introduced the resolution, along with councilors, Wurzburger, Calvert, Ives, Dimas and Rivera. It passed with overwhelming support. The resolution cites four reasons why...
Occupy Santa Fe is reporting that a vote this Wednesday will bring approval of a resolution supported by over 10 groups that have been lobbying the Santa Fe City Council to condemn a potential attack on Iran. WHAT: THE SANTA FE CITY COUNCIL is poised to pass a Resolution to “Petition the President and...
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