Is this our 1773 Boston Tea Party moment? On September 25, Donald Trump threw down the gauntlet with his NSPM 7 – Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence. Read this national security memo in its entirety here to learn what Trump and his handlers think about our popular protests, and what they’re planning to do. Trump characterizes our rallies as political violence.
Call Congress Now! January 30, 2024
Prepared by: Lora Lucero + Melinda Smith + Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh
The predictable consequences of Israel’s genocidal campaign waged on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over the past 4 months has killed nearly 30,000 and injured many more. It has also fractured the entire society and community by assassinating intellectuals, medical staff, and journalists, as well as attacking and destroying the majority of universities, hospitals, schools, hospitals, churches and mosques. An unknown number of victims are still under the rubble.
Humanitarian aid organizations warn that many more will die in the coming weeks from starvation, dehydration, disease. and lack of medical care. The world’s highest court (International Court of Justice) stated in its emergency ruling on January 26 that there is plausible evidence that Israel is committing acts of genocide. It ordered Israel to stop harming and killing people and to allow massive humanitarian aid in immediately.
Shockingly, the following day, the U.S. and several western countries suspended their financial support of UNRWA based on unsubstantiated claims that up to 12 UNRWA staff may have participated in the Oct. 7 attacks. UNRWA’s staff is composed of more than 13,000 people and is the primary UN agency that has built up an extensive network and structure to provide life sustaining services such as housing, education, food distribution, medical support and clean water to Palestinian refugees since 1948. It is especially critical in the Gaza Strip that has been under siege for 17 years and where 2/3 of the 2.2 million population are refugees. Without this network of expertise, distribution points, vehicles, and processes to procure humanitarian aid, thousands of lives will be lost. The US must reinstate the aid to UNRWA immediately and call for its allies to do the same.
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Please sign this Letter To The Leaders to show your support for having a New Mexico Green Amendment securing your RIGHT to clean water and air, healthy soils and native ecosystems, a safe climate, and healthy environment.The New Mexico Green Amendment has been pre-filed in the House and the Senate. The two pre-filed versions are slightly different. Each version reflects feedback received from New Mexico community members and government leaders. The goal of having two complimentary but slightly different versions is to see which version resonates best with New Mexicans. (You can find the pre-filed language below)
It is essential that New Mexico leaders know there is broad, strong and growing support for a New Mexico Green Amendment.
To show your support please sign and share this Letter to the Leaders.
The letter expresses the importance of having a New Mexico Green Amendment and takes on some of the misinformation the opposition has been circulating: ü Read the letter and add your name here.
Once you’ve signed please share the letter and link with others in your community.
Leader in an organization that wants to help collect signatures? If your organization, rather than sharing the link, would prefer to put a version of this letter on your own website to collect signatures from your community that can later be submitted as part of the effort, email maya@forthegenerations.org and we can get you the text and coordinate efforts.
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My name is Lora Lucero and I’m a member of the Progressive Democrats of America – Central New Mexico chapter. Yesterday we met to discuss PRC’s rehearing of this proposed merger. I’m speaking on behalf of PDA.
Regardless of what anyone thinks about the merits of this proposed merger, this second bite at the apple stinks. It’s no secret that Governor Lujan supports this merger and recently appointed new PRC members. The previous elected PRC members made a decision following an extensive public process in which all parties and the public participated. Anyone not satisfied with that decision-making process has a judicial process available to air any grievances. To short-circuit the judicial process and return to the PRC, where the only change that has occurred is a change in the membership of the PRC ….. STINKS and violates any basic notion of fairness, the rule of law and due process. The decision of the previous PRC members must be respected.
Whether or not any of you have expressed an opinion about this merger, the timing of this rehearing and reconsideration has the appearance of favoritism and taints the credibility of the PRC moving forward. We urge you to reject this proposal to place the proposed merger back in your laps.
Progressive Democrats of America Central New Mexico 