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Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny

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BY JEREMY BRECHER

The resistance to the MAGA juggernaut has already begun at community, city, and state levels. Some predict this resistance will fizzle. Others expect it to burgeon. Neither of these predictions can be counted on. What happens with the resistance to the MAGA juggernaut will depend on what people decide to do and whether they create means for action that can accomplish their ends. The purpose of this Prospectus is to contribute to the search for those means of action.

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Protecting New Mexico’s People, Water, and Future: A Call to Action

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Honorable Senators and Representatives,

We, the undersigned, come to you as protectors of New Mexico’s land, water, and public health.

We write from varied perspectives—as environmental advocates, health professionals, Indigenous communities, farmers, and everyday New Mexicans who rely on clean water and healthy lands for our survival and well-being. Together, we share a deep concern about the proposed Strategic Water Supply Act (SWS), which endangers our health, threatens our limited fresh water, and puts the financial security of our state at risk.

This proposal, framed as a response to water scarcity, is in reality a $75 million publicly funded subsidy for the oil and gas industry’s waste disposal problem. It proposes to incentivize a treatment and reuse industry for fracking waste—a radioactive hazardous waste byproduct of oil and gas extraction—despite the lack of scientific evidence proving its safety.

Produced water treatment and reuse is not cost effective. If produced water treatment was cost effective, the oil and gas industry would already be doing it.

Below, we outline three critical areas where the Strategic Water Supply poses significant risks:

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