March Calls to Action
FEATURED EVENTS
SATURDAY MARCH 23
at Southside Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive, Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe Seed Library Kick-Off!
The Santa Fe Seed Library will provide open-pollinated seed to the Santa Fe community and will encourage the development of a community of seed savers and seed stewards. The Santa Fe Seed Library is a collaboration between the Santa Fe Public Library and the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners. In addition to providing access to open-pollinated seeds, the Seed Library will offer a number of free public programs to help facilitate the growth of a community of climate-savvy gardeners.
LEARN MORE & RSVP HERE
SATURDAY MARCH 23 & SUNDAY MARCH 24
8:00 AM-6:00 PM
1000 Indian School Rd NW, ABQ, NM
The Promise To Protect - Direct Action Training Tour - ABQ
Sign up for Saturday HERE
Sign up for Sunday HERE
Facebook event
WEDNESDAY MARCH 27
5:30 -7:30 PM
at 501 Airport Rd, Santa Fe, NM
5th Citizenship Forum/ 5to Foro de Ciudadanía
LEARN MORE & RSVP HERE
SATURDAY MARCH 30
10:00 AM
Starting at National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th Street SW, ABQ, NM
2019 Cesar Chavez Day Marcha y Fiesta - ABQ
LEARN MORE & RSVP HERE
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New Session of Poder Familiar - Febrero 2019
Poder Familiar February - Febrero 2019!
Inicia 1o de Febrero a las 6pm
En Zona del Sol (Jaguar y Country Club)
Earth Care & Green Fire Times Collaboration
January 2019 - Green Fire Times
Once again, we have partnered with the Green Fire Times to curate the January issue. This year it is themed around “Seizing This Moment.” After two issues on featuring stories of community resilience in the face of adversity, it is time to shift gears as we face a year of opportunity in New Mexico. Below is every op-ed featured in January.
SEIZING THIS MOMENT:
Our Hopes for New Mexico’s Promising Future
BY Miguel Angel Acosta, Bianca Sopoci-Belknap, Nicole Jaramillo
Co-directors, Earth Care, Santa Fe, New Mexico
It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”– Assata Shakur
To kick off the new year, Earth Care is excited to partner with Green Fire Times to bring you the third annual activism-focused edition. Two years ago, we proposed partnering with GFT to elevate voices of New Mexicans working in the trenches on diverse social and environmental issues so they could share their insights about how the changing political landscape threatened their work, created new needs and opportunities, and required new levels of action, solidarity and commitment to transformative change.
Once again, we’ve invited leaders of social and environmental justice movements in New Mexico to present their perspectives. This year, however, the tone has changed. Given the amazingly strong turnout in the 2018 midterm election and the historic engagement of our brothers and sisters across the state, New Mexico’s democracy has been re-enlivened. We have an incredible opportunity to seize the moment and make impactful strides to invest deeply in our children, youth, families and communities by rectifying chronic injustices in our education system, energy system, economy and environment. New Mexicans are ready for change!
From women’s reproductive health rights to climate legislation, to immigrant rights, to sane gun laws, we’ve tapped established and emerging movement leaders to discuss their work and the actions we can all take to get involved.
Our organization has shifted a great deal over these last two years to meet the needs of our community and rise to the challenges we face as a country. Our youth and parent leaders are more active than ever on issues of equitable community development and representation, education as a force for positive social change, and climate justice.
Translating our urgent concern for our future and dreams for a better world into institution- al change requires that we get active in public-policy-making during this year’s state legisla- tive session.
WE HOPE YOU’LL JOIN US.
2019: A Year of Opportunity
2019 New Mexico Legislative Session
January 15 - March 17
For those of you new to the legislative process in New Mexico, there are a few things you should know. Our legislature is the lawmaking branch of the NM state government. It is made up of two bodies: the House of Representatives and the Senate. You can find out who your legislators are on this website. You can also log into your voter profile on the NM Secretary of State website here.
The Legislature meets in a "long session" every odd-numbered year. A long session is 60 days. Since 2019 is an odd-numbered year, we will have a 60 day session from January 15 to March 16, 2019. On even-numbered years, we hold a short, 30 day session, which is limited to fiscal matters, items specified by the Governor and bills passed in the previous session that were vetoed by the governor. This year we are expecting thousands of bills to be introduced given we have a new governor and a slate of new representatives and senators. Every legislator needs to hear from their constituents, AKA ALL OF YOU, this session. We must hold our legislators to their word and ensure that they are committed to good policy for our state and its residents. Below are a list of legislative advocacy trainings that will give you the resources and tools to speak and advocate for the issues you care about in the realm of social and environmental justice. 2019 will be a HUGE year to step up and speak out to enact change in our state.
There are a number of very important bills that have already been pre-filed at the NM State Legislature. Some include bills like the House Joint Resolution 1 would draw money at the rate of 1 percent per year from the state’s Land Grant Permanent Fund to support early childhood education programs & House Bill 84 which would ensure automatic registration of voters when they apply for a driver’s license or license renewal at the Motor Vehicle Department. Check out the rest in this recent article from the Santa Fe New Mexican! You can see all pre-filed bills here.
LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY TRAININGS FOR NEW MEXICANS
January 8-17
Sierra Club - Rio Grande Chapter Legislative Advocacy/lobbying training events
Gallup: January 8, 6-8pm, Work In Beauty House, 113 East Logan
Santa Fe: January 9, 6-8pm, Jaguar Road Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive
Silver City: January 9, 6:30-8:30 pm, WNMU Student Memorial Center, 3rd floor seminar room
Las Cruces: January 9, 6-8pm, SWEC, 275 North Downtown Mall
Aztec: Thursday, January 10, 6-8 pM The Step Back Inn, 123 W Aztec Blvd
Albuquerque: January 17, 6-8pm, St. Mark’s Episcopal, 431 Richmond Pl NE
Taos – Date and location TBA
Training description: The urgency couldn’t be greater. A deeply committed alliance of environmental, heath, community, and social justice organizations has come together in the effort to pass game-changing legislation for the health of our planet, now! Your advocacy during and leading up to the 2019 NM legislative session can make the difference between a genuinely progressive and effective environmental platform or more of the same. This is our chance to enact state-level protections that counteract those being stripped by the Trump administration.
Our alliance is developing advocacy teams to empower members and give our bold agenda the best chance of success. We will help you every step of the way so you are empowered, informed, and prepared to play a key role in championing climate, water, wildlife and land protection legislation.
The events are co-hosted by the following groups: 350 New Mexico, Adelante Progressive Caucus, Amigos Bravos, Climate Defenders New Mexico, Conservation Voters New Mexico, Defenders of Wildlife, Earth Care, Environment New Mexico, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Justice Team of Unitarian Universalist Church of Santa Fe, Gila Conservation Coalition, Gila Resources Information Project, Indivisible Nob Hill, New Energy Economy, New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light, New Mexico Wild, NM Solar Energy Association, Sierra Club, SunPower by Positive Energy Solar, Union of Concerned Scientists, Vote Solar, Western Environmental Law Center, WildEarth Guardians
For more information and to RSVP click HERE
MONDAY JANUARY 21
Earth Care is hosting: MLK Day Gathering - Setting Our Policy Agenda - Let's do this!
Monday, January 21, 9:00-2:30 PM
New Mexico State Legislature, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Training description: TWe'll dig in to opportunities for public policy wins in the 2019 legislative session around our issue areas of:
1) Education Transformation
2) Climate Justice
3) Social Justice
4) Equitable Community Development
We'll also join the NAACP for their annual MLK Day commemoration event from 12-1 down in the rotunda. Though this meeting is designed for our Earth Care leadership - our youth and parent leaders, staff, and board - partners and allies are welcome and encouraged to attend.
For more information and to RSVP click HERE
THURSDAY JANUARY 3
Retake Our Democracy Legislative Advocacy
Thursday, January 3, 6:00-8:00pm
Center for Progress & Justice, 1420 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, NM
Description: A crucial meeting in readying for the Roundhouse session that begins Jan 15.
Retake Our Democracy also has regular meetings on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month from 4:30-6:30pm at New Energy Economy Offices, 343 E Alameda. Subscribe to email updates for notification of the next Legislative Advocacy Meeting.
Retake's Personal Action Tool Kit is available HERE.
THURSDAY JANUARY 10
Educators’ Legislative Preview
Thursday, January 10, 4:30 PM
ATF - Albuquerque Teachers Federation, 530 Jefferson St NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87108
Description: This year’s session which begins January 15th offers lots of opportunities for progress in creating safer schools for LGBTQ students and creating an educational system that better serves all students. EQNM and ATF will let us know what’s in the works and how we can support these initiatives.
For more information and to RSVP click HERE
FRIDAY JANUARY 11
Policy Analysis Meeting - Fight For Our Lives ABQ
Friday, January 11, 4:30 - 6:00 PM
First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque, 3701 Carlisle Blvd NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110
Description: At our last meeting we went through all the bills relating to gun control and behavioral health services currently being proposed by the New Mexico state legislature and strategically narrowed them down to six individual bills that we would like to prioritize this legislative session. At this meeting we will do an in-depth analysis of each bill we chose to prioritize in order to better prepare ourselves for lobbying to lawmakers. Open to all community members, food provided.
For more information and to RSVP click HERE
SATURDAY JANUARY 12
2019 NM Legislative Action Expo
Saturday, January 12, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union 412, 510 San Pedro Dr SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87108
Description: At our last meeting we went through all the bills relating to gun control and behavioral health services currently being proposed by the New Mexico state legislature and strategically narrowed them down to six individual bills that we would like to prioritize this legislative session. At this meeting we will do an in-depth analysis of each bill we chose to prioritize in order to better prepare ourselves for lobbying to lawmakers. Open to all community members, food provided.
For more information and to RSVP click HERE
JANUARY 14-16
Early Childhood Public Policy Institute
Description: Parents, Early Childhood Professionals & Advocates- Join us for the 9th Annual Early Childhood Public Policy Institute at the Sage Inn in Santa Fe from January 14-16, 2019. REGISTRATION IS FREE AND REQUIRED AND are due by Friday, January 11, 2019. Link below in Tickets. We are OFFERING SCHOLARSHIPS to cover lodging, travel, food and substitute reimbursements. APPLICATIONS are due by Thursday, January 3, 2019. For more information or if you have any questions, please contact Baji Rankin at (505) 243-5437 or baji@nmaeyc.org.
For more information and to RSVP click HERE
THURSDAY JANUARY 17
Asian American Day at The Legislature
Thursday, January 17, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
New Mexico State Legislature, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Description:Join us for Asian American Day on January 17 at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe. This event is held every two years during the long session of the Legislature. Thanks to Senator Mimi Stewart for sponsoring the Memorial. We'll have speakers and performing groups to commemorate the day.
For more information and to RSVP click HERE
ACLU Legislative Advocacy Workshops on Immigration, Reproductive Rights and Criminal Justice Reform
We are holding seven trainings across the state to give you the tools to have powerful and productive conversations with legislators. ACLU of New Mexico trainers will highlight some of the most pressing issues facing our state, and equip you with the tools you need to join the fight to reform our criminal justice system, expand reproductive choice, and ensure all people have a place in our state.
For more information and to RSVP click HERE
MONDAY JANUARY 28
JUST TRANSITION CONVERGENCE & CLEAN ENERGY CONFERENCE
Santa Fe: January 28, 9:30AM-2:00PM
9:30AM-2:00PM Unitarian Universalist Church,
3:00-9:00 PM Temple Beth Shalom, 205 E Barcelona Rd, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
Conference Description: The New Mexico Clean Energy Conference is the day before Clean Energy Day at the Roundhouse, with the goal of helping participants meaningfully engage with legislation that will help us curb the climate crisis in New Mexico. The event features two speakers: Goldman Environmental Prize winner Destiny Watford, who in High School successfully lead a movement stop a trash burning incinerator in her Baltimore, MD neighborhood, as well as Laura Paskus, an award-winning environmental journalist for the NM Political Report and correspondent for New Mexico In Focus.
For more information and to RSVP click HERE
SPECIAL DAYS AT THE LEGISLATURE
View full list of special dates at the Legislature HERE. Below are days that we would like to highlight and share with all of you. During the session,
TUESDAY JANUARY 15, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM
Children and Youth Day 2019
New Mexico State Legislature, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Witness for the People hosted by Interfaith Power and Light
New Mexico State Legislature, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22, ALL DAY
Deconstructing Racism New Mexico Day
State Capitol/Rotunda, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
THURSDAY JANUARY 24, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
NM Food & Farms Day and School Nutrition Day at the Legislature
State Capitol/Rotunda, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
MONDAY JANUARY 28,
Immigrant Rights Day of Action
New Mexico State Legislature, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
TUESDAY JANUARY 29, 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Clean Energy Day at the Roundhouse
New Mexico State Legislature, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Atrisco Land Rights Council, Pueblitos Flood Recovery
Rotunda/State Capitol, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5, 10:30 AM- 12:00 PM
One Thousand Kid March
Rotunda/State Capitol, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5, 9:00 AM- 1:00 PM
Acequia Day
Rotunda/State Capitol, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5, 8:00 AM- 12:00 PM
New Mexico GRADS, NM GRADS Day
State Capitol, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Central NM College Day
State Capitol, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8, 8:00am - Noon
New Mexico Library Association Legislative Day
State Capitol/Rotunda, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8, 9:00 AM
2019 African-American Day at the Legislature
State Capitol/Rotunda, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Lands, Water, and Wildlife Day at the Roundhouse
State Capitol/Rotunda, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Respect NM Women Advocacy Day
State Capitol/Rotunda, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
NM Alliance of Health Councils, Public Health Day at the Legislature - 100th Anniversary of NMDOH
State Capitol/Rotunda, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19, 10:00AM-3:00PM
End Mass Incarceration Day of Action
State Capitol/Rotunda, 490 Old Santa Fe Trl, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Email for more info: Osmani Alcaraz-Ochoa, rochoa@aclu-nm.org
Santa Fe Youth Holiday Passport
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November: Eat at Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen, Support Earth Care!
Support Earth Care by Dining at Sweetwater!
This November, when you dine and pay CASH at Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen, Sweetwater will donate 2% of ALL cash sales to support Earth Care!
This is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy some incredibly delicious and wholesome food AND support our work!
You will be supporting Earth Care in our youth & parent leadership, organizing and sustainability education in our public schools.
Earth Care depends on our community to support our young people and our work. Dine at Sweetwater, bring a friend and tell your network.
You can donate at any time on our website HERE.
Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen Hours:
MONDAY 8AM–3PM
TUESDAY–FRIDAY 8AM–9PM
SATURDAY 9AM–9PM
SUNDAY BRUNCH 9AM–2:30PM
Share our Facebook event with your friends and family HERE!
See you at Sweetwater!