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Q Uptown security officials delivered a letter on Friday morning, 7/13/12 for the organizers of the Bastille Day demonstration on the Apple Store scheduled for Saturday, 7/14/12 at 9am. The letter threatened arrest and prosecution of all participants of the demonstration. It also threatened to ban all participants from the ABQ Uptown shopping center....

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In a speech earlier this week praising Nissan’s decision to open a second plant in Aguascalientes, Mexican President Felipe Calderon responded to critics who’ve flailed away at the soon-to-be ex-chief executive for falling far short of being the “jobs president” he promised to be during the 2006 election campaign. Saying that two million formal...

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Occupy Santa Fe reports that on Monday July 16th, the 67th anniversary of the first atomic explosion, carried out at the Trinity site in southern New Mexico, Alaric Balibrera and others will begin a Hunger Strike with the intent of creating a more peaceful world. The strike will last until at least August 6th...

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A little more than a week after Mexicans went to the polls, conflict and controversy swirl around the July 1 elections. Almost everywhere-in the halls of Congress, on the Sunday talk shows, in bars and cafes and on the streets-the results are the hot topic of conversation. And claiming fraud, a growing citizen’s movement...

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Dean Baker http://www.aljazeera.com The whole planet contributes to global warming, but the world’s poor are facing the consequences. Millions of people across the US East Coast are sweltering in near record temperatures. In the Washington area, tens of thousands have been dealing with the heat without air conditioning or power due to a storm...

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New Mexico Progressives send almost 5,000 emails to Las Cruces officials and El Paso Electric to ensure Tea Party’s message of hate is never allowed in future 4th of July celebrations ALBUQUERQUE — In response to a Tea Party float that included a Confederate flag in the Las Cruces Electric Light Parade and was awarded...

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Bruce M. Berlin America’s democracy is under siege once again.  Across the country unscrupulous Republicans are purging voters’ rolls and reducing people’s access to the voting booth. They claim they are protecting our “sacred” right to vote from fraud. During the last two years, claims of voter fraud have been used by Republican legislatures...

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Editor’s Note: The following story was made possible in part by a grant from the McCune Charitable Foundation for Frontera NorteSur’s special coverage of southern New Mexico. July 7, 2012 Environment News New Mexico Flood Monitoring Installed With New Mexico’s massive Whitewater-Baldy forest fire now mainly contained, official attention is turning to the dangers...

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Dozens Protest Stolen Wages & Firings at Car Wash SANTA FE–Today, workers from the Squeaky Clean Car Wash held a demonstration in front of the business on Cerrillos Road and filed a formal complaint with the National Labor Relations Board claiming that they were suspended in retaliation for filing wage claims with the state...

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