Sierra Club Endorses Candidates Across New México
The Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club recently announced the endorsement of candidates in the upcoming Albuquerque municipal election, as well as endorsements in the Albuquerque Public School…
Murky Immigration Reform, At a Crossroads
Maribel Hastings and David Torres The proposal to grant only work permits and protection from deportation to some seven to eight million undocumented immigrants is the most recent…
Border Militarization Separates Families and Erodes Civil Liberties
María Coronado More than 25 years ago I made the difficult decision to cross the border and emigrate to this great country. It’s been one of the best…
It’s Time to Protect All of Colorado’s Dreamers
Duvia Ortega When you move past the rhetoric, the debate over immigration reform is complex, and it requires careful nuance that accounts for the myriad of experiences that…
Advocates Say Initiative 303 Will Not Resolve Homelessness
By Eric Galatas A growing number of tents popping up in neighborhoods across Denver have made it harder to ignore a chronic and expanding housing crisis in Colorado…
Sofia Molina, The Soul of The Jaguar
Fabián Capecchi The most wonderful ideas often come from are where you least expect it. At just 7 years old, with long braided black hair and a persistent…
This Isn’t a Labor Shortage—It’s a Strike by Workers
Robert Reich The U.S. added just 194,000 jobs in September, down from the 366,000 added in August and far below the million-plus in July (before the Delta variant…
Immigration Cruelty Goes Beyond the Border
Josue de Luna Navarro Images of Border Patrol officers on horseback whipping Black migrants shocked many Americans. President Biden called them “outrageous” and “wrong” and promised an investigation….
Indigenous Peoples Like Mine Are Fighting for Our Homelands
Miriam Miranda On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I want to tell you about my people, the Garifuna. We’re an Afro-Indigenous people, descended from Arawaks and Africans. Our ancestral territory…
‘Without Media, You Cannot Have a Strong Democracy’
Kathy Kiely Thirty-two years ago next month, I was in Germany reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event then heralded as a triumph of Western…