By Tracy Dingmann “Expel” isn’t a word we hear often in these United States. It’s a harsh, ugly word that literally means “to force out.” For people like me who love words and appreciate their every connotation, “expel” brings to mind vermin or trash – something so vile that it must be hurled violently away. [...]
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By Tracy Dingmann We like this post from blogger Matt Reichbach, who blogs at NMFBIHOP.com and writes occasionally at the New Mexico Independent. In the post from NMFBIHOP last night, Reichbach linked to an interesting post from the SEIU blog. The SEIU post that noted that, under the drive currently being pushed by some U.S. [...]
By Tracy Dingmann Albuquerque City Councilor Rey Garduño remembers what happened last May when he and fellow councilor Ken Sanchez introduced a measure calling for Albuquerque to stop doing business with Arizona over its controversial immigration law. His city email and phone were besieged with calls from people telling the Albuquerque native to “Go back [...]
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By Tracy Dingmann It’s been a week since the Environmental Improvement Board held a hearing in Mesquite, N.M. on Helena Chemical’s request to waive an air quality permit for its fertilizer-blending operations there. I was only there for a short time, but I gathered enough information while there to fuel a week’s worth of writing. [...]
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By Tracy Dingmann As I mentioned in my last post, I gained a new appreciation for a lot of things when I visited Mesquite, N.M. on Wednesday for a hearing on Helena Chemical Company’s request to avoid having to seek an air quality permit for its operations in the town. Before I even got out [...]
By Tracy Dingmann I traveled to Mesquite, N.M. yesterday to attend the Environmental Improvement Board’s hearing on Helena Chemical Company’s request that they be allowed to operate their fertilizer blending plant without an air quality permit. I didn’t get to write about the hearing the way I wanted to – with tweets and frequent posts [...]
By Tracy Dingmann An interactive, multi-media forum on immigration devoted a healthy chunk of time to an immensely complicated and explosive issue – and for that, KUNM-FM, KNME-TV and the New Mexico Independent deserve kudos. The July 14 panel discussion at the KNME studios featured Rep. Dennis Kintigh, R-Roswell, a former FBI special agent; Marcela [...]
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By Tracy Dingmann Just because a group calls itself FAIR doesn’t mean it is. Take the Federation for American Immigration Reform – FAIR – the group behind Arizona’s odious new immigration law (scroll to the end for the part where the group takes credit for helping craft it). Not content with passage of the law, [...]
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By Tracy Dingmann Anchor baby. It’s a hateful term used to describe a child of undocumented immigrants who is born in the U.S. and thus an American citizen. And it’s being used a lot right now by folks in Arizona who are working on a bill to deny U.S. citizenship to children born here – [...]
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Welcome, El Grito!
By Tracy Dingmann On Aug. 4, our friends at the SouthWest Organizing Project launched “El Grito: News and Views from New Mexico’s Grassroots.” The exciting new website aims to use digital media to evoke the deep cultural traditions of New Mexico communities as well as the rich legacy of struggle through alternative media for justice, [...]
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