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.
An e-mail campaign is circulating in New Mexico and elsewhere from Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, which is collecting signatures in an attempt to get the ABC network to air an ad that takes on the oil and coal industries.
They’re hoping to get 100,000 petitions by tonight’s airing of “20/20,” which is where ABC has allegedly refused to run the spot.
The Business and Media Institute says it received an e-mail from Cathy Zoi, CEO of the Aliance’s “We Campaign:”
CEO Cathy Zoi … complained that ABC, CBS and CNN aired TV spots for the oil and coal industry during the Oct. 7 presidential debate, but ABC was refusing to air theirs.
“Did you notice the ads after last night’s presidential debate?” Zoi wrote. “ABC had Chevron. CBS had Exxon. CNN had the coal lobby. But you know what happened last week? ABC refused to run our Repower America ad –- the ad that takes on this same oil and coal lobby.”
Here’s the text of the ad, which can be viewed here:
The solution to our climate crisis seems simple.
Repower America with wind and solar.
End our dependence on foreign oil. A stronger economy.
So why are we still stuck with dirty and expensive energy?
Because big oil spends hundreds of millions of dollars to block clean energy.
Lobbyists, ads, even scandals.
All to increase their profits, while America suffers.
Breaking big oil’s lock on our government …
Now that’s change.
We’re the American people and we approve this message.
