Author: gpabqmetro

The UNM student encampment reports that the Pres wants to remove them by 5 PM today (May 14, 2024) and that they need everybody out there to support them. It would be really helpful if you could go to the duck pond ASAP!

Tom Wakely, Green Party candidate for U. S. Senate, stopped by the UNM encampment to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza, support those demanding an end to genocide, reminisce about his days of active protest against South African apartheid, and let people know that he is trying to get on the ballot. Your help is needed! If you are a registered voter in New Mexico, please sign his electronic petition. Select position: United States Senate, party: Green, or candidate: Thomas John Wakely. Please share the link as widely as possible. THANK YOU.

Join Veterans for Peace (VFP) in a program that will include music, discussion, and one-on-one conversations with

• Mahmoud Muna, author and cultural analyst, known by many as the bookseller of Jerusalem
• Issa Boulos, a Palestinian-American ‘ud player, composer, and ethnomusicologist, whose many endeavors include music workshops in Gaza
• Nili Belkind, ethnomusicologist from Jaffa, Israel, author of Music in Conflict, winner of the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM) 2022 Best Book Prize.

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On Earth Day 2024, students committed to stopping the genocide in Gaza and keeping a planet to inhabit encamped near the duck pond on UNM’s Main Campus. Generations of activists were present, including those who could speak to campus protests against the wars in Viet Nam and destructive capabilities of the war machine on populations and the earth itself. UNM students join other students on campuses across the country in calling for universities to divest from companies profiting from weapons sales to Israel. GPAMA represented and reminded attendees of the National Guard attacks on peaceful protesters in 1970 at UNM. Fifty-four years later, we are on the cusp of another defining moment for a generation of young people. May the powers that be choose peace and humanity over profits and political power. CEASEFIRE NOW!

GPAMA will walk in solidarity.

Tom Wakely is running for U. S. Senate for the Green Party. Please sign and distribute the electronic petition. Any registered voter in New Mexico can sign if you have not already signed a petition for a candidate for the same office, i. e., Domenici, Heinrich, M. Gonzales, or Roberts. Drop-down menu by position–United States Senate, party–Green, or name–Thomas John Wakely. It will be a tall task to get enough signatures to get him on the ballot. Please let us know if you can collect wet signatures (ink on paper). Many thanks. Good luck, Tom!

VFP-ABQ co-hosts a celebration of the Beyond Vietnam speech delivered on April 4, 1967, and a commemoration of the assassination of Reverend King on April 4, 1968. The event is Thursday, April 4, beginning at 5:30 p. m. at the African American Performing Arts Center, 310 San Pedro Drive NE.

There will be a commemoration of Land Day on Saturday, March 30, 4:00 p. m., at the UNM Bookstore. Join others in commemorating the deaths of unarmed Palestinians at the hands of Israeli forces in 1976. Speak against illegal land confiscation and genocide.