Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice 202 Harvard SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 505-268-9557   Updated: 25 October 2009 Newsletter November 2009
November 2009 Newsletter Contents Más Noticias Membership Application	Más Noticias Join the Caravan in Support of Big Mountain Resistance Communities of Black Mesa, AZ. November 21-28, 2009 Black Mesa Indigenous Support (BMIS) is a grassroots, all-volunteer organization dedicated to working with and supporting the indigenous peoples of Black Mesa in their truggle for life and land by resisting unjust, large-scale coal mining operations and forced relocation policies of the U.S. government. A caravan of work crews will once again be converging from across the country in support of residents of the Big Mountain region of Black Mesa. On behalf of their peoples, their sacred ancestral lands and future generations, these communities continue to carry out a staunch resistance to the efforts of the U.S. government, which is acting in the interests of the Peabody Coal Company to devastate whole communities and ecosystems and greatly de-stabilize our planet's climate for the profit of an elite few. Check out www.blackmesais.org . Please see Calendar of Events, November 14.
Cesar E. Chavez Fellow Si Se Puede! Learning Center Between 3-6pm, school is out, parents are working, and choices for quality freetime are limited to television or videogames. It's during these hours that young people begin to develop unhealthy and risky habits that follow them into adulthood. The Si Se Puede! Learning Center (SSPLC) is working to make sure this doesn't happen to elementary students in Old Town. SSPLC is an after-school program that provides fun and educational enrichment for students K-5 for three hours after school every day. It's located at the Plaza David Chavez affordable housing community owned by National Farm Workers Service Center. Run by an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer and a handful of UNM workstudy students, Si Se Puede! looks to provide quality opportunities for young people to learn to work together, listen to one another, and keep their hands to themselves! SSP! is looking for volunteers and donations (healthy snacks, educational/art materials, or household items for monthly yard sale fundraisers). To get involved call Anna Horner at 243-6289. This is Your Victory Against Air Pollution in Albuquerque In September, the NM Environment Department announced that it had signed 'an historic agreement' with Kirtland Air Force Base to stop open burning at the base. Many of you called the base commander asking that open burning be stopped. If you have time please make another call to Ron Curry, NMED secretary, and thank him for his efforts in our behalf: 505-827-2855, ron.curry@state.nm.us , or 1190 St. Francis Dr., Santa Fe, NM 87505. Congressman from Martin Heinrich's office, Antonio Sandoval, state representative Jerry Ortiz y Pino, and city counselors Ike Benton and Rey Garduño also stood with us on this issue. Open detonation, also a dirty operation, still goes on at Kirtland, so our work is not over, it also seems that a small amount of open burning might still be permitted. We will keep you informed. Thank you so much for your opposition to open burning at Kirtland. You turned the tide! - By Janet Greenwald, Co-coordinator, CARD
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