“And never mind the thousands of the NYC first defenders as well as US veterans who’ve been denied adequate health care and disability benefits.”
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PDACNM Newsletter September 5, 2018
Please join the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter for the premier showing of ‘Sacred Land, Sacred Water: Confluences in the Rio Grande Valley’ at our upcoming Sierra Club & Root Beer event.
When: 6:15 – 8 p.m. Friday, September 7
Where: Albuquerque Center for Peace & Justice, 202 Harvard Drive SE
Facebook event: here
The documentary is produced by filmmakers Lewis Jacobs and Craig Barth with geologist Don Phillips, telling the story of the imminent threat by the New Mexico oil and gas industry to influence the passage of an oil and gas friendly ordinance in Sandoval County.
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HISTORIC DECISION!
DNC Votes to Bar Superdelegates From Convention’s First Presidential Ballot
“DNC Chairman Tom Perez spoke directly to the party’s grass-roots activists in hailing the new rules, saying, ‘We want you to have a seat at the table.”
by Reid J. Epstein, Wall Street Journal
AND PDA AND THE NM ADELANTE PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS WERE THERE FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE AND ELECTION FAIRNESS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. NOTE THE PDA LOGO AND THE RISING SUN OF THE NM PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ON THE BANNER THAT NORM SOLOMON IS HOLDING!!
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IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS STORY IN THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL, THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE GUN CONTROL BILLS THAT WILL BE INTRODUCED IN THE 2019 LEGISLATIVE SESSION. WE NEED TO SWARM THE ROUNDHOUSE WHEN THESE BILLS COME UP.
It’s time for common sense gun measures
JOURNAL EDITORIAL
Students across the state are returning to school this week with the new school supplies, energy and readiness – or not – for a new year of learning.
With that – for students, parents and teachers – also comes the renewed fear over the possibility of some deranged soul or lost youth entering their school with a firearm and leaving behind a trail of despair.
It’s a fear that increases each year as the body count at our schools – and other public places – continues to rise: Two students shot to death at Aztec High School. Seventeen staff and students shot and killed at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Two people shot and killed at a library in Clovis. Fifty-eight people murdered with semi-automatic rifles while attending a country music festival in Las Vegas, Nev.
The list of fatal shootings goes on and on and on and on, and yet the leaders of our nation – and our state – have been unable, or unwilling, to push through sensible gun laws. There was a sense after the Stoneman Douglas shooting last February that the powerful gun lobby had finally met its match in the survivors of that Florida school shooting who called them out and demanded action from lawmakers. Whether that movement will move the needle on gun legislation nationally remains to be seen, but several Democratic lawmakers in our state say they plan to pursue a number of new laws in the next legislative session, which begins in January.
Summary of PDA Meeting – 8/8/2018
Much gratitude to Sue Queen for coalescing us around a focused topic for SGW (Stop Global Warming) to host the August monthly meeting. Sue and Scott Lake’s research and action handout are great! Christina provided 2 handouts to focus people’s actions on the farm bill and regenerative agriculture.
Sue Queen kicked us off with her presentation on the 2017 increase in investment in fossil fuels and concrete ways we can all divest. Delese Dellios from 350NM provided a strong Power Point presentation (click here to view) to help us think broadly across the state and about rural electric issues.
Learning about the NM PRC and the 2 progressive candidates got rave reviews from many people. Thanks to Commissioner Cynthia Hall and candidates Steve Fischmann and Kevin Sanders. And Ted Cloak topped off the evening sharing his lived-experience of urban solar living and electric driving!
Karen Bentrup (Leader Stop Global Warming Action Team)
For more information see an expanded article on Divestiture and the program handout.
ABQ Peace Week
PDACNM Newsletter August 3, 2018 – What You Can Do About Climate Change
NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
Rep. Maxine Waters has been accused by Mr. Trump and even members of her own party of using language that could be construed to incite violence. Martin Luther King was also at one time accused of inciting violence, Ms. Waters, like Dr. King, insists that she supports nonviolent protests but she encourages Americans to stand up to tyranny by bold acts of peaceful resistance and by speaking truth to power. This kind of resistance has been an American tradition with the likes of young black people sitting down at a lunch counter and refusing to leave until people of color were allowed to be served; hundreds of thousands of anti-Vietnam War protestors taking to the streets, willing to be arrested and imprisoned to stop that unjust and cruel war; hundreds of people willing to be arrested at sit-ins in government offices and institutions around the country to protest Trump’s vicious practice of separating children from their parents; indigenous people putting their freedom on the line to try to stop an oil pipeline that threatens their lands and the planet; environmental activists who relentlessly fight to protect our air and water by physically endangering themselves; young high school survivors of gun violence boldly confronting their elected officials; athletes defying their teams’ owners and jeopardizing their careers to bring attention to police brutality against black people. And yes a restaurant owner, a person of color, who had the courage to refuse to serve a representative of an oppressive government that is deliberately targeting people of color with its vicious and dangerous racist policies. These behaviors might not be polite and these people may not be behaving the way their parents brought them up; but silence, politeness and passivity are no longer options. Martin Luther King said, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
However, those who decry the words of Rep. Waters should pay attention to the real promotion of violence in this country and that is the support for a military budget that is draining precious resources, inflicting chaos and death around the world and destroying our planet while our government seems incapable of providing adequate education, housing and food for American families. When a member of Congress votes to expand our already bloated military without asking where the money will come from and almost in the same breath proclaiming that we, the richest country in the world, cannot afford to provide health care for all its people, that member is indirectly committing not one but two acts of violence.
Dr. Martin Luther King in his speech protesting the Vietnam war said, “The United States is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Nothing has changed.
Not one member of the US Congress or Senate has signed the PDA Peace Pledge, which you can find on our website. However Deb Haaland, who is almost certain to represent NM in the first congressional district, was one of the first to sign. Thank you, Deb.
Laura Stokes
