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largest U.S. food retailer, and i
they won’t sell GE sweet cornit’s likely that farmers won’t
plant it.
Please sign the
petition here. and
remember to
participate in the
individual actions
throughout the
week. Just go
bit.ly/nomonsanto and click on
Campaigns and Stop GE Sweet
Corn to find an action toolkit
For letters to Walmart manag
ers click here.
Say No to Monsanto’s
GE Sweet Corn!
Occupy LC is supporting
Food & Water Watch in an
effort to pressure Walmart
to reject Monsanto’s Genet-
ically Engineered (GE) sweet
corn.
We will be holding a protest
on Saturday 3/24 from 9 — 11
a.m. at the Walmart on Valley
Dr. All are welcome to join.
Monsanto’s new genetically
engineered sweet corn could
be planted this spring, but it
hasn’t been tested for human
safety, and it contains three
different genetically engi-neered traits that have never
been used in food eaten di-
rectly by people. Walmart
can refuse to
accept it,
protecting
consumers
from this
untested and
unlabeled product.
The GE sweet corn will not
be labeled, so you won’t
know what you’re buying.
Whether you shop at
Walmart or not, they are the
Occupy Las Cruces Demonstrations
Occupy Las Cruces Teach-in
of the Occupy Movement
are absolutely necessary and
vital for progress, but also
still too small, too incremen-
tal in their efforts, to achievewhat he feels is needed at this
juncture in U.S. and human
history.
He’ll argue that a mammoth
critical and creative discus-
sion on the very structures of
our government is needed,
and from that discussion we
should implement a historic
redesign of our government,
one for the 21st century, not
the 18th. He will outlay the
steps he believes that can and
must be taken to achievesuch a grand rethinking of our
government and societal
structures; most essential of
these he believes to be the
ratification of the very first
proposed constitutional
amendment, Article the 1st,
which even now hangs in a
sort of limbo, waiting for the
U.S. population to rediscover
it, and how germane it is to
ALL the issues we face within
our nation and the world.
As with most of Occupy edu-
cational events this lead dis-
cussion and teach-in will re-
main permeable to the
knowledge, observations, and
insights of all of those in at-
tendance. We aim to collec-
tively move to a truer vantage
point.
March 19, 2012 Volume 1, Issue 4
Occupy Las Cruces
Weekly NewsletterThis Weeks OLCEvents
Working GA – Tuesday3/20 4 p.m. Branigan
Library (Board Room)
Teach-in — Regaining
True RepresentationalDemocracy in the US -Thursday 3/22 5:20 — 6:30
p.m. Branigan Library
(Roadrunner room)
Protest-GE SweetCorn — Saturday 3/24
9-11 a.m. Walmart on
Valley Dr.
General Assembly Meet-ing — Sunday 3/25 at 2
p.m. Mountain ViewMarket
Michael A. “Sasha” Miller will be
leading a discussion and teach-in on
Regaining True Representational
Democracy in the US, in the
Roadrunner Room upstairs in the
Branigan Library, Thursday, the 22nd,
from 5:20 to 6:30. He will begin with
a discussion on the Occupy
Movement as a whole, from his
perspective, and argue that the aims
Regaining True Representational
Democracy in the US
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The resignation letter
heard round the world proves
what we already know: Wash-
ington would like to think it
can change the culture of Wall
Street —and it can’t.
OK, so who do we believe? In
a cover story in New York mag-
azine last month melodramati-
cally headlined “The Emascula-
tion of Wall Street,” journalist
Gabriel Sherman made the case
that the big financial firms were
engaged in “something that
might be called soul-searching”
about their many sins and their
wildly overcompensated con-
tribution to the U.S. economy.
Wall Street, under the whip of
the giant Dodd-Frank law, was
learning to behave. Reduced
compensation packages and
increased capital requirements
were going to tame or snuff
out some of the riskier and
most reckless practices that
brought the nation to the edge
of a second Great Depression,
Sherman wrote. Best of all, the
domestication of Wall Street
would redirect the best minds
in the nation back into useful
things like real engineering
rather than financial engineer-
ing. Cool!
Now comes Greg Smith, an
apparently conscience-stricken
renegade from Goldman Sachs,
who tells us that not only has
nothing changed in the firm’s
culture, but he “can honestly
say that the environment now
is as toxic and destructive as I
have ever seen it.” Can these
two things both be true? Actu-
ally, maybe yes. But the larger
point is: We need to pay a lot
more attention to Greg Smith
than to Gabriel Sherman.
There is, first of all, every rea-
son to think Smith was telling
the truth.
Click here to find out why.
to office? Skandera, nonethe-
less, remains the Secretary-
designate and has the power to
pursue her relentless ALEC
agenda to destroy public edu-
cation with the ambitious gov-
ernor’s full support. The Legis-
lature has, it believes, made
itself blameless in not taking up
the appointment, but in reality
they have enabled the gover-
nor’s war against the legislators
themselves, teachers, students
and public education. That is
what I call the Pontius Pilate
The latest example of disre-
spect for the legislative process
and public education to drop
from the governor’s office was
the announcement that a
teacher evaluation process
would be implemented in the
face of legislative disapproval.
Let’s face it, the secretary-
designated and the governor
have nothing to lose and noth-
ing to fear. So what if the Leg-
islature fails to take up the
unqualified Secretary of Educa-
tion candidate’s appointment
delusion-my hands are clean!
Oh yeah…
In a seemingly unrelated but
not necessarily so revelation,Independent Source PAC has
published news about an appli-
cation by the so-called Rio
Grande Foundation, a far right-
wing front organization funded
by, among others, Wal-Mart,
to establish and run charter
schools in New Mexico. T
See more here.
Why Greg Smith Is ‘Dead Right’ About Goldman Sachs— Atlantic
Fundamental Disrespect — Grassroots Press
Court Denies Attempt to Stall Pollution Controls for New Mexico Coal-Burning Plant
tion Station near Farmington,
New Mexico.
New Mexico Governor Susana
Martinez and PNM had peti-
tioned the court to delay the
Environmental Protection
Agency’s pollution-control
requirement from taking effectwhile they challenge the deci-
sion in court. The decision by
the 10th Circuit Court of Ap-
peals denies the Martinez-PNM
delay, at the same time sending
a positive signal that EPA’s
decision stands on solid legal
ground.
“Now it’s really time for PNM
and Governor Martinez to stop
standing against the health of
our communities who breathethe coal plant’s pollution day in
and day out,”
See more here.
Earth Justice
A federal court ruled that New
Mexico power company PNM
must comply with a decision
last fall requiring the utility to
install pollution controls to
significantly cut the 16,000 tons
a year of harmful haze, ozone,and fine particle-producing
nitrogen pollution that pours
from the smokestacks each
year at the San Juan Genera-
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Occupy Las Cruces
Wall Street’s Latest
Campus
Recruiting Crisis “College students who
were once attracted to
prestigious banks like
moths to bonires are
increasingly turning to
other industries in search
of success…. Adding to the
chorus of dissent, students
now face criticism on their
own campuses.”
Kevin Roose
See more here.
NM Public Schools run
by ALEC Corporations!
Connecons Academy,
Wal-Mart & others.
-Remember ALEC Corp’s
own the prisons. Yikes!!
PNM’s San Juan power plant is one of the
country’s largest single sources of harmful
air pollutants. (Courtesy of EcoFlight)
San Juan Generating Station
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Volume 1, Issue 4
Jason Burke
Phone: 575-915-2766
Facebook:
Occupy Las Cruces (Official)
Website:
Occupylascruces.wordpress.com
Mission Statement
Occupy Las Cruces
We are the 99%, a coalition of concerned citizens advocating for legal, economic,
political, and environmental justice and social equality. We strive for the 100% to
enjoy abundance, fair representation, harmony, and well being.
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Free Energy — Luminaries ft. Aishah [ELEVATE]
Awesome! Smart lyrics too. We need more of these awakened artists.
http://youtu.be/O2l5Z9T_x8A
“Free Energy” is the first release of ELEVATE’s Solution Series, featuring the Luminaries.
The series is intended to bring awareness to globally significant issues and their solutions.
Click here to see the lyrics. New Mexico is mentioned!
Contact Information
cant problems of our region.
The objectives of the 2012
Symposium are:
1. To establish a broadly
shared understanding of
what “quality of life”
means in southern NM in
both statistical and per-
sonal terms;
2. To intensify information
sharing among those whocontrol community re-
sources, and between
these groups or individu-
als and the people they
serve-in terms of a com-
prehensive view of
“quality of life”; and
3. To explore alternative
approaches to accessing
J. Paul Taylor
Symposium
Sunday, 3/25 from 12:30 — 4:45
at the Court Youth Center,
and Monday 3/26 from 9-5:30
at the Corbett Center (3rd
floor) on the NMSU campus.
Please register by the beginning
of this week. Fill out the form
here. Website (ipts.nmsu.edu)
Each spring the College of Artsand Sciences at NMSU spon-
sors the J. Paul Taylor Symposi-
um that focus on issues of
social justice and challenges for
our region by trying to build
partnerships between the uni-
versity and the greater commu-
nity to first understand, and
then address the most signifi-
services and resources sothat all residents of Dona
Ana County have equal
opportunity to achieve the
“quality of life” to which
they aspire. The Sympo-
sium is free. Bring your
ideas and enthusiasm.
Community Outreach Event-Building Relationships
Look For Us!
Occupy Las
Cruces
Quality of Life for All