Friday, July 20 at 7:00 PM Film Showing: Arna’s Children Opened by Saliba Khamis, the Freedom Theatre Project was opened as an alternative education system for children on the West Bank, whose regular lives were disrupted by the Israeli occupation. The theatre group engaged children from Jenin, helping them to express their everyday frustrations,...
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...
Community Members to File Formal Racial Profiling Complaints Against City, County and Federal Agencies FARMINGTON–In the wake of the Supreme Court Decision on Arizona, residents of San Juan County and members of Somos Un Pueblo Unido (Somos) will hold a press conference to announce the filing of several racial profiling complaints against local and federal law enforcement agencies and to...
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...
Dear Editor: The healthcare debate is focused on health insurance and its availability. Despite the availability of health insurance (along with the availability of government health insurance programs such as Medicare and Medicaid) and despite our advanced medical system, chronic diseases afflict tens of millions of people. These chronic diseases are at epidemic levels....
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...
July 8, Sunday, 11 am at Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse:Off Road Encounters In Spain – Slowing It All Down – with Photographers Tania Vassalo and Ben Mittleman. Ben Mittleman & Tania Vasallo are a husband & wife team living and working in Santa Fe, running SkyBat Studio. They will be presenting their Photo book:...
I know it’s late on a Friday. But this is important. I couldn’t believe it. Americans everywhere took to the streets this week to celebrate our country’s independence. In amazing showings of patriotism, friends and neighbors came together to celebrate our freedom and diversity in floats parading down Main Streets across America. But, among...
Books/Talks/Lectures Sunday July 15 11 am at Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo Street 505-988-4226 Local author, radio broadcaster, mediator, playwright, attorney and good friend Craig Barnes discusses his citizen’s action group WEAREPEOPLEHERE upcoming conference calling all people to come together to revive Democracy and transform the current social and economic condition to...
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...
http://www.nationofchange.org By Robert Reich In the last two weeks, the Supreme Court has allowed police in Arizona to demand proof of citizenship from people they stop on other grounds (while throwing out the rest of Arizona’s immigration law), and has allowed the federal government to require everyone buy health insurance — even younger and...
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