Grassroots Press

Waste Not, Want Not. Smart Energy Pricing is Key

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:53:25 +0000

By Steve Fischmann Adding new electric generating capacity is expensive. Data from New Mexico’s largest electric utility, PNM, shows that it costs $150 per megawatt hour to add new natural gas power generating capacity, $140 to add coal power, $130 for nuclear, and $85 for wind. New generation is so costly that whenever new capacity [...]

Of journeys and ecocide

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:46:41 +0000

By Steve Klinger We logged over 6,000 miles this summer, most of it on the road, but also 2,000 nautical miles, sailing from Seattle to Glacier Bay and back again on an Inside Passage cruise. For me it was a trip both forward and backward in time, seeing people and places entirely new to me, [...]

Weaving Webs of Resistance in Chiapas

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:42:05 +0000

Members of Tsobol Antzetik (Women United), a cooperative of Mayan weavers working to support their families by selling their products in the U.S. for fair trade prices. Photo by Rebecca Wiggins By Crystal Massey and Rebecca Wiggins In June of 2010, Sophia’s Circle/Las Cruces Chiapas Connection sent a delegation of four people to the highlands [...]

Peace Movement Adopts New Comprehensive Strategy

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:27:32 +0000

By David Swanson http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/54305 Last week 700 leading peace activists from around the United States met and strategized in Albany, N.Y. ( http://nationalpeaceconference.org ). They discussed, debated, and voted for a comprehensive new plan for the coming months. The plan includes a new focus and some promising proposals for building a coalition that includes the [...]

Bring America to Task for War Crimes

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:14:35 +0000

As members of the Khmere Rouge are sentenced for war crimes committed 30 years ago like prison chief Kaing Guck Eav a figure from a regime that butchered 1.7 million Cambodians in the 1970′s Remember that the American military killed three million Indochinese and demolished Vietnam’s infrastructure while destroying its terrain with agent orange and [...]

SWEC News: Governor Richardson Stands Up For Mexican Wolves

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:23:19 +0000

Richardson’s Executive Order Bans Two Inhumane Traps In a bold move to protect endangered Mexican wolves, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson today issued an executive order that prohibits leghold and body-crushing traps within the Mexican wolf recovery area in New Mexico. The order bans commercial and recreational trapping in this area by private persons for [...]

August-September Progressive/Sustainable Events

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:12:44 +0000

ANNOUNCMENTS. (To get your announcement in our events calendar, e-mail information by the 15th of the month before publication to grassrootspress@gmail.com Priority will be given to events with a progressive or social justice theme or arts, music and cultural happenings that resonate with a sustainable lifestyle.) Unitarian Universalist Church, 2000 S. Solano, Roundtable Schedule for [...]

MoveOn plans Mesilla rally against DC corruption Aug. 10

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:55:47 +0000

There will be a Fight Washington Corruption Rally August 10th, 7 pm at Mesilla Plaza. This is a national campaign to show support for overturning “Citizens United,” Fair Elections Campaign Financing, and Lobbyists reform. These changes are needed to protect the interests of 98% of us who are at the mercy of the interests and [...]

Dengue on the Loose in Mexico

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:56:23 +0000

Troubling trends in dengue fever outbreaks are worrying health authorities and elected officials in Mexico. In 2010, deaths from the illness are running ahead of last year’s fatalities. Dengue-transmitting mosquitoes are turning up in unexpected areas, and the pests are showing resistance to previously-applied insecticides. The federal Secretariat of Health has called on officials to [...]

2010 KIDS COUNT Report: NM Back in Bottom Five States in Child Well-Being

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:44:43 +0000

Persistent child poverty, high teen birth rate keep NM in bottom ten ALBUQUERQUE—New Mexico’s national ranking slid to 46th in this year’s KIDS COUNT Data Book; down from last year’s 43rd. The report, released annually by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, ranks the states on ten indicators of child well-being, ranging from the prevalence of [...]