Author: gpabqmetro

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.

On March 26, 1999, the first shipment of transuranic waste arrived at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in southeastern New Mexico. Note the word, pilot, in the name. After 25 years, there was supposed to be a gradual closure of the plant. Instead, there has been an effort to expand nuclear waste storage capacity in the area. These efforts appear stalled for the moment because of protective environmental legislation passed in New Mexico in 2023.

Get the history and the latest from these groups:

Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Los Alamos Study Group, Stop Forever WIPP.

António Guterres, the UN secretary general, who visited Egypt’s border with Gaza on Saturday, said it was time to “truly flood Gaza with lifesaving aid” and called the starvation inside the territory a “moral outrage”. (Reported in multiple European and Middle Eastern news outlets.) The Israeli government continues to deny the atrocities they commit. Disagree in person:

Demonstration, Presentation, March on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at the Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Road NW.  The demonstration will be at the SW corner of 19th & Mountain from 1:30 p. m. to just before 2:00 when the presentation for the opening of the exhibit “Nuclear Communities of New Mexico” will include representatives from the Tularosa Basin Downwinders. The presentation will be followed by a march around Old Town Plaza

See Jill Stein and Jasmine Sherman, candidates for the Green Party nomination for POTUS, in the Free & Equal Independent Presidential Candidate Debate, Thursday, February 29, 6:00 p. m. MST. Live-stream is on Rumble and Pacifica Network.

Saturday, March 23, 5:15 pm MDT, Taj Mahal restaurant, 1430 Carlisle NE, Albuquerque. Delegate selection to GPNM Annual Mtg/Conv, election of officers, candidates for public office.