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Journey Santa Fe honors Sherry Tippett, hosts 350.org field organizer at Travel Bug

May 20, 2012

May 20, Sunday, 11 am  at The Travel Bug sponsored by journeysantafe, www.journeysantafe.com Field Organizer Deirdre Smith from the 350.org International Environmental Organization, Headed by Author Bill McKibben, Presents Overveiw of  350.org 350.org  is an international environmental organization headed by author Bill McKibben with the goal of building a global grassroots movement to raise...

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We Are People Here offers different town hall plus book event

May 19, 2012

TWO (2) WAPH! events this week! 1. Tues. May 22nd 6:30 -8:30pm WAPH! TOWNHALL MEETING DIFFERENT by HEART & SOUL Group invites you “CONVERSATION, SETTING THE STAGE FOR METAMORPHOSIS”, an experience you will not want to miss!  the Peace Song Band will provide music. at Unitarian Universalist Church 107 West Barcelona Road, Santa Fe. Please...

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Activist attorney Sherry Tippett found dead in home

May 18, 2012

Editor’s note: New Mexico’s progressive community suffered a severe blow with the loss this week of activist attorney Sherry Tippett. Tippett was a crusading force for social justice in areas ranging from gun control to education, local water rights and much more. The following account is from the Santa Fe New Mexican, www.santafenewmexican.com:  ...

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Judge Blocks Controversial NDAA Section 1021

May 17, 2012

By ADAM KLASFELD      http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/05/16/46550.htm MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism. Signed by President Barack Obama on New Year’s Eve, the 565-page...

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Climate havoc crosses borders

May 16, 2012

For the second year in a row, residents of New Mexico and neighboring Chihuahua, Mexico, find themselves in the throes of severe drought. On May 15, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez issued an emergency drought declaration, citing in part a forecast from the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center that warned of persistent or...

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Corporations Are Not People—May 23rd Collected Works Bookstore

May 16, 2012

Here’s your invitation to celebrate the publication of Corporations Are Not People:, A Discussion with Author Jeffrey D. Clements Wednesday, May 23, 5:30p-7:30p  Collected Works Bookstore  (Back where we started from. . .Arrive early!) 202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 The event is hosted by Connected Works Bookstore and the discussion will be...

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The New Mexico scandal gets bigger

May 16, 2012

Frontera NorteSur A state audit of the municipal government of Sunland Park, New Mexico, has uncovered not only sloppy accounting practices but widespread violations of New Mexico state law and city spending regulations. While some former officials implicated in wrongdoing have already been charged in related criminal cases, the audit casts a larger net...

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Report: NM Job Growth Last in West, Trending Downward

May 15, 2012

Neighboring states add jobs at 4x, 5x NM rate Albuquerque - For the second straight month, job growth in New Mexico came in a full point behind the national average and is now the lowest in the West, according to statistics compiled by the federal Department of Labor Statistics and published by the Martinez administration. The...

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Newly Discovered Homeland Security Files Show Feds Central to Occupy Crackdown

May 15, 2012

White House & Dems Back Banks Over Protests By Dave Lindorff A new trove of heavily redacted documents provided by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) on behalf of filmmaker Michael Moore and the...

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Colonized by Corporations

May 15, 2012
Colonized by Corporations

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/colonized_by_corporations_20120514/ Posted on May 14, 2012 By Chris Hedges In Robert E. Gamer’s book “The Developing Nations” is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.” In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, someone who masks colonial...

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City: Drought Necessitates Fire Ban this Summer

May 14, 2012

Santa Fe, NM – May 14, 2012 — Due to severe drought conditions and progressively worsening wildland fire conditions, the Santa Fe Fire Department has the authority to impose additional fire restrictions as per the International Fire Code® (IFC) as adopted by § 12-2.1 of the Santa Fe City Code (SFCC). In order to...

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