I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
In the largest demonstration yet during the convention, over 3,000 war veterans and war protesters marched through the streets of Denver to hand deliver a message to Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama, according to the Rocky Mountain News. The message asked for "the immediate withdrawal of ‘all occupying forces’ from Iraq, among other points," according to the report.
Yesterday’s march took place after nearly 10,000 people attended a free Rage Against The Machine concert. The band urged concert goers to join the march and stressed a message of remaining peaceful at all times.
According to the report:
The group of mostly young people walked behind a banner that said: "Support GI Resistance."
Wearing T-shirts and stickers with slogans such as "Arrest Bush" and "Make Out Not War," they sang rolling chants, Marine- style. "Tell Me What We’re Marching For," sang one group. "Stop the torture, stop the war," answered another.
People lined the streets to watch, most approvingly.
As the marchers wound their way through the neighborhoods west of the coliseum, they found solidarity with a group of Latinos holding up an anti-war sign and cheering them on. "Si, se puede!" shouted some young marchers. "Yes, we can!"
