Learning to Lobby, Winning a Battle

There’s been much talk about how the New Mexico State Legislature is truly an inaccessible place for many residents who don’t have the time, the money or the practical knowledge of how business is conducted in the Roundhouse.
I’ve written about how perplexed and cynical I was after my first up-close look at the session.
But I [...]

Putting the Brown Back in Green

What does this statement even mean?  Mainly it’s talking of how Hispanics, Native-Americans, and African-Americans across the country are getting reacquainted with their roots in the soil.
I’m sure that most people of color are aware of these roots, but they have other issues (getting a good education, finding a good job, surviving in this crazy [...]

Power Shifting on Home

Juan and I have just arrived back home from Power Shift 09, where over 12,000 young people took over Washington, D.C to make their voices heard on the issue of climate change. It was both inspiring and motivating to meet such a diverse group of young people who are working everyday to make change in [...]

An organizer’s update from Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference

Having attended both Good Jobs, Green Jobs conferences; one cannot help but to try and compare the two. I say this because the conference has grown in both size and diversity since it was held last year in Pittsburgh. Not only were there more young people and more people of diverse ethnic backgrounds, but I [...]

Man on a Mission: Local organizer profiled in The Nation

In case you didn’t know, our man Juan Reynosa has been on a mission. Turns out The Nation chose to document this mission.
Check it out: Juan Reynosa’s Environmental Mission.

“Community Organizer”

Arturo Uribe of Mesquite, N.M. didn’t just wake up one day and decide to be a community organizer.
But the man who thought of himself as “just a college student, father and husband” effectively became one after he began to suspect that emissions from the Helena Chemical Co. plant next to his family’s longtime home were [...]