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Paul Gibson and his wife, Roxanne Barber came to Santa Fe in 2012. Since arriving in Santa Fe they have been involved in the development of the Academy of Sustainability Education at Santa Fe High, as volunteers with Master Gardeners, New Energy Economy, and other local efforts. Most recently they coordinated the SantaFe4Bernie campaign, an effort that took advice from Bernie and focused locally, morphing into Retake the Roundhouse. Retake the Roundhouse worked with other advocacy groups around the state to support nine important races, winning seven of them and contributing to NM being the only state legislature in the country that turned blue in the last election. They now are exiting from partisan election processes and have created Retake Our Democracy, a 501-c-4 non-profit organization that tried to make daily activism easier by providing a wide range of resources, information and tools that empower and activate supporters.
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3 Critical Energy Bills in Sen. Conservation TODAY at 9, plus a Guest Post on Gas & Oil
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How We Fuel a NM Recovery: Evidence from 80 Years of US Economic Policy, a Revealing Picture in Just Two Charts
After our regular Legislative Update, we provide two charts from a NY Times piece that triggers an analysis of how economic policies advanced by Democrats and the GOP have elicited stunningly different results, and how this should offer NM a… Read More ›
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HB 207: A Transformational Approach to Addressing Hunger in NM by Building Local Farm & Food Systems; Plus a Look Back at Last Week
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The Stone Age Didn’t End for Lack of Stones. Do We Wait Til We Run Out of Oil to Regulate it? It’s Time to Send a Message to Gas & Oil.
We begin with a legislative update, followed by a feature piece on how our legislators are getting weak-kneed in the face of gas and oil lobbyists descrying that this is not the time to “send a message to G&O.” At… Read More ›
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It’s Time To End Private Prisons & Mass Incarceration: A Moving Plea
Today’s feature piece is on prison life, life that is bad in government-owned prisons, but far worse in private prisons. We cite Just Mercy: A Story of Justice & Redemption and offer a moving video from women “Lifers” in Munch… Read More ›
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Looking Back on a Week Without Deep Anxiety, Forward to Committee Hearings This Week, and an Inspiring Video from Winona LaDuke
As we do every Monday, we post links and summaries of posts from last week. In addition, we provide an update on what is coming this week in the legislature and a guest post from Eduardo Krasilovsky, who offers commentary… Read More ›