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Upcoming Democracy School, Santa Fe, NM

The Alliance for Real Democracy, ARD, is organizing and hosting the CELDF Daniel Pennock Democracy School in Santa Fe, New Mexico in April.

DATE: Friday evening, April 19th, 2013
Saturday, April 20th
Sunday, April 21st

PLACE: Santa Fe--location TBA

WHAT: Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, CELDF, will present the Democracy School and a strategy session on Sunday.

Find out how to join in with over 150 other communities to assert your rights to protect your community from corporate and state pre-emption and challenges to your community livelihood.

Please contact Kathleen Dudley for application forms at KathleenDudley@nmccr.org or call 575 666 2529.

ALERT!!!! Las Vegas, NM AND Royal Dutch Shell & Cannon Air Force Base

COMMUNITY RIGHTS with THOMAS LINZEY, CELDF in Las Vegas

WEALTH OF WATER: Short Term Gains VS. Long Term Opportunity presented by MIGUEL SANTISTEVAN

DATE: Monday, April 16th, 2012
TIME: 4:00 PM children presentation, 5:00 PM adult presentation, 6:30 PM showing of GASLAND documentary
WHERE: Tapetes de Lana, Mora, Mora County, NM
WHAT: Come listen to Miguel Santistevan, native of Taos NM, active acequia parciante and past Mayordomo, as well as board member for the Taos Valley Acequia Association.
Miguel will talk about the differences between wealth and riches. What is real wealth? The infinite possibility to have riches in the future with our water.
Free tamales and refreshments!

Mora Democracy School in Mora, NM

Democracy School will be presented online in Mora, NM this Saturday--Free event sponsored by the Mora Democracy School Committee--
DATE: Saturday, March 24th, 2012
TIME: 9:00 AM
WHERE: Tapetes de Lana, Mora, NM
WHAT: Join us for an online introduction to the Democracy School and the Community Rights movement. Learn how the rights protecting commerce and property, combined with the constitutional bestowal of the rights of personhood, have given corporations a controlling interest over our nation, our democracy, our people and the very land we walk on. We are occupied!
CALL MDSC at 575 666 2529 to participate
FREE catered lunch by Theresa's Tamales

IN SOLIDARITY--PLEASE ATTEND

DATE: Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
TIME: 6:00 PM
WHERE: City of Las Vegas Council chambers 1700 North Grand Avenue, Las Vegas, New Mexico
DIRECTIONS: Take Grand Avenue north, cross Mills Avenue and the next right (Rec Center across the street)

This Wednesday, March 21st, 2012, the City of Las Vegas, NM,. will vote to adopt the first community rights based ordinance to be brought to a vote in the Southwest.

Come join in solidarity at the meeting to show the residents of Las Vegas and the city council your support for taking a stand in protection of Nature and people over corporate rights. Please bring others with you. Our chance to open up New Mexico to citizen rights is here, this week in Las Vegas!!!

Santa Fe Community Rights Ordinance

 It is time for a change in order to address
environmental and public health impacts from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Santa Fe County needs a carefully written and agreed-upon community rights-based ordinance that asserts the powers it has to protect its water, air and land—our inalienable rights! There is no “no” in the regulatory system. It is only about how much harm and how much destruction will be regulated.  A gathering of interested people will be held:

Date:   Tuesday, February 21
Time:   5:30 to 7:30 pm
Where:  Santa Fe Main Library
What:   Develop community support for a Community      Bill of Rights for Santa Fe County.  Please join us!

"Protecting New Mexico: Elevating Community Rights Above Corporate Rights"

DATE: Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
TIME: 7:00 PM
PLACE: UNM Albuquerque, Education Lecture Hall Room #103 (250 feet directly north of the Student Union Building on UNM Campus. It is on the first floor (west side) of the Education Bldg which is located just past (and down the steps) from the white/blue water fountain)
WHAT: Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, CELDF, will speak on communities facing corporate challenges and will discuss how communities can exert their inalienable rights to protect their communities and develop their local sustainability.
For more information, email drillingmoracounty@gmail.com or call 575 666 2529

DEMOCRACY SCHOOL COMES TO ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO!

February 3-4th, Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel and Ben Price, projects director, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) will present the Democracy School to community leaders and elected community officials.

Whether you are facing large water extractions, hard rock mining, oil and gas drilling, factory farms, or any other corporate development that threatens your community's water, air, land, health and safety, the Democracy School addresses these issues and offers solutions for local communities.

For more information contact 575 666 2529 or email drillingmoracounty@gmail.com

UPCOMING EVENTS

DEMOCRACY SCHOOL

Drilling Mora County hosted the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF--www.celdf.org) August 2010 Democracy School in Wagon Mound. Our rights to local self-governance, clean air, water, ecosystem, and health are inalienable birth rights, andthey are not only our rights, but our responsibility to protect these rights as well as to give a voice to the Rights of Nature--to protect with our voice, our vote, our actions. When we, the citizens, do not stand up for our rights, we, in essence, give them up to corporate, state and federal interests.

Today, as throughout history, it has been "the people" who have stood up, changed undemocratic and harmful existing laws. Stand up for your rights! And if not for yourself, for your children!

UPCOMING EVENTS-Drilling Mora County Educational Forum with Weston Wilson

Weston Wilson, EPA environmental Engineer, presented to Congress October 2004 that the EPA Allows Hazardous Fluids to be Injected into Ground Water in the hydraulic fracturing process.

Today Wes comes to Mora to talk about his findings, his ongoing research and testimony and what natural gas extraction and hydraulic fracturing could do to the water in Mora County.

Date: Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm
Where: VFW, Mora, New Mexico, Main Street

Come attend this informative and educational event!

CURRENT EVENTS

The Mora County Commission meeting will be Tuesday, May 11th. 2010:
What: Mora County Commission regular meeting
Date: Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Where: Mora High school administration building
Time: 10:00 a.m.

Action: The commission will give 10 minutes to the Concerned Citizens of Wagon Mound and Mora County (CCWMMC) and 10 minutes to the oil/gas industry to present on the issues of oil/gas development in Mora County during the meeting.

Please attend, call your neighbours, and SIGN IN on PUBLIC COMMENT to present your views on this important issue.

Royal Dutch Shell and their subsidiary representatives, SWEPI, stated during a public commission meeting July 2010, that they intend to begin their development in Mora County in 2010.

Come and let the commission and industry know how you feel about the use of hydraulic fracturing chemicals in your aquifers, air and land in Mora County.

EDUCATIONAL FORUM

CURRENT EVENTS

EDUCATIONAL FORUM with Dr. Andrew Feldman, geologist, professor, and Las Vegas City Councilman

Dr. Feldman will present on the "Geology of the Las Vegas Basin:Gas Drilling and Potential Impacts to the Environment"

Dr. Feldman will talk about:
•The Geology of Mora & San Miguel Counties- potential for gas drilling
•Where are Mora & San Miguel County’s aquifers and what might happen to them?
•What is Hydraulic Fracking and what are the potential impacts on regional water supplies

Join Drilling Mora County for an evening of important infomation:
Date: Thursday, January 14th 2010
Where: Tapetes de Lana, Mora
Time: 6:30 p.m.

What Is Hydraulic Fracturing?

•http://www.propublica.org/special/hydraulic-fracturing-national

Hydraulic fracturing is a process used in nine out of 10 natural gas wells in the United States, where millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart the rock and release the gas.

Scientists are worried that the chemicals used in fracturing may pose a threat either underground or when waste fluids are handled and sometimes spilled on the surface.

• Tutorial on Hydraulic Fracturing
http://www.journeyoftheforsaken.com/fracpage.htm

November 12th Educational Meeting, Tapetes de Lana

Mora County Comprehensive Land Use Plan comment period

The Mora County Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP)
is under revision. Written comments can be made to the county manager:
John Garcia
managermoramanager@
countyofmora.com
Verbal and written comments can be presented the day
of the Mora County Commission meeting
When: September 8th
Where: Mora high school administration building
Time: 10:00 a.m.
For an electronic copy for review and comment, email drillingmoracounty@
gmail.com
Your comments will shape the future of Mora County for
your children and their children.

Message from a Hopi Elder, Oraibi, Arizona, Summer Solstice, 1999

“You have been telling the people that this is the eleventh hour, now you must go back and tell the people, this is the hour and there are things to be considered….Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relationship? Where is your water? Know your garden.

It is time to speak your truth, to create your communities, to be good to each other and do not look outside yourself for a leader…”

Then he clasped his hands together, and said, “This could actually be a good time.

There is a river flowing now, very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and suffer greatly. Know that the river has its destination.

The elders say we must let go of the shore-push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open and our heads above water. See who is in there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves for the moment we do that our spiritual growth comes to a halt. The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves; banish the word ‘struggle’ from your attitude and vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred way and in celebration. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

Thursday, December 22, 2011

One Year Later: Stories from the Gulf on Planet Green

One year after the worst oil spill in U.S. history, a sorry legacy of enduring damage, a people wronged and a region scarred remains. Stories from the Gulf explores the impact of America's worst oil disaster on Gulf Coast residents, using stunning original photography, audio interviews and narration by Robert Redford.

Check out the half-hour documentary

Where: Discovery's Planet Green
Date: Saturday, April 23, at 2:30 p.m.
Trailer: http://www.nrdc.org/storycorps

Drilling Mora County

Upcoming Democracy School, Santa Fe, NM

ALERT!!!! Las Vegas, NM AND Royal Dutch Shell & Cannon Air Force Base

Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel, CELDF

COMMUNITY RIGHTS with THOMAS LINZEY, CELDF in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS Mayor & Democracy

In Solidarity--Stop Fracking

WORK SESSION WITH THOMAS LINZEY, CELDF--Mora County

Miguel Santistevan

WEALTH OF WATER: Short Term Gains VS. Long Term Opportunity presented by MIGUEL SANTISTEVAN