Category Archives: Information

Anniversary of a Genocide

October 7, 2024Events, Information, Opinionpdacnm

A year into witnessing, supporting and paying for Israel’s horrific genocidal barbarism in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria, Americans must ask if we have any power and agency to stop these atrocities. Wendell Berry writes: “We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.” We must not allow ourselves to be numbed by the daily killing of innocent men, women and children. This inhumanity must not be normalized nor forgotten.

Please watch ‘The Night Won’t End’: Biden’s War on Gaza (1 hr.18 min) From air strikes to field executions, Fault Lines investigates the killings of civilians by the Israeli military in Gaza and the role of the United States in the war.

You are invited to join us every Friday at 10:00 am MT when the American Friends Service Committee hosts an Action Hour for a Ceasefire Now. AFSC has been working with Palestinian refugees in Gaza and elsewhere since 1947. Whether you are Christian, Jewish, Muslim or atheist, this is the best way to learn and stand together with a community of people around the country who are dedicated to building a world beyond war. Registration link to future action hours is here. The agenda for the Oct. 4^th Action Hour follows.

AFSC’s main page on the Crisis in Gaza is here. The Action Hour Landing Page is here.

This Action Hour is modeled on Jewish Voice For Peace’s daily power hours.

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AMERICA’S MILITARY COLONY: A Wall of Defense Against Barbarism?

February 29, 2024Information, Opinionpdacnm

By Alan Wagman

Although it may seem puzzling why the United States supports and provides cover for Israel’s most outrageously authoritarian, lawless, and even brutal actions, the reason is hiding in plain sight. It is not, as many speculate, primarily because of AIPAC. It is because Israel is a military colony of the United States.

From its inception, Zionism viewed a Jewish state as the handmaiden of colonialism. The founder of the Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl, described his proposed Jewish state in his 1896 book, Der Judenstaat (“The Jewish State”) as “ a wall of defense for Europe in Asia, and outpost of civilization against barbarism.” (Astute readers will find echoes of this racism in Netanyahu’s recent justifications for Israel’s conduct in Gaza; one can decide for oneself if the echo is intentional.

Some argue that Zionism was not a colonial project because Jews had lived in Palestine for thousands of years. This ignores the fact that the Jews who had been living in Palestine for the nearly two thousand years prior to the European Zionist intrusion into Palestine often were at least as loyal to their Palestinian identity as to the incoming Zionist colonizers.

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New Mexico Green Amendments

January 17, 2024Action, Informationpdacnm

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.

Both individuals and organizations are invited to sign.

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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Do They Think We’re Fools?

September 28, 2023Events, Information, Opinionpdacnm

We’re living in an age of deep hypocrisy; the good news is that the youth recognize it, are calling it out and demanding accountability.

Witness the Energy Conference in Albuquerque on Sept. 14 where politicians and fossil fuel CEOs patted each other on the back while sanctimoniously discussing the “all-of-the-above-approach” to de-carbonization. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the fossil fuel industry embraces the “all-of-the-above-approach” because blue hydrogen production and wishful thinking about the future of CCS (carbon capture and sequestration) enables the industry to keep drilling and pumping. PDA-CNM joined the youth and indigenous groups protesting outside the conference hotel.