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February 21, 2018

SEATTLE Missing and Murdered Native Women Panel Discussion, March 3, 2018

February 20, 2018

ALBUQUERQUE UNM 'The Last Oil' Feb. 21 -- 23, 2018

Program

Wednesday, February 21Location: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm at Keller Hall, Center for the Arts, UNM Main Campus (Building #62 on UNM Campus Map)

5:00 pm: Keller Hall—door opens

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Welcome & Introduction
Opening Prayer and Welcome to Our Homeland—Petuuche Gilbert, Acoma
Introduction – Subhankar Banerjee, convener

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm:     Multispecies Solidarity
Maria Williams
                              David Solomon
                              Allison Akootchook Warden
         Moderator: Kymberly Pinder, Dean, College of Fine Arts, UNM                                (Note: An evening with history, music, performance)

Thursday, February 22Location: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm at the Student Union Building (SUB) Ballroom C (Building #60 on UNM Campus Map)
5:30 pm – 7:45 pm at Keller Hall, Center for the Arts

8:30 am: SUB Ballroom C—door opens

9:00 am – 10:15 am:   Climate Breakdown? Ken Tape
David Gutzler
         Moderator: William Pockman, Professor and Chair, Department of Biology, UNM
  (Note: Impacts of climate change in Alaska & the Southwest)

10:30 am – 12 noon: Protecting the Sacred Place Where Life Begins Sarah James
Ken Whitten
Vicki Clarke
Moderator: Michael Dax, Defenders of Wildlife, New Mexico
(Note: On the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)

12:15 pm – 1:45 pm: Lunch

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm:   Rights of Nature
Nicole Whittington-Evans
Debbie Miller
Jeff Fair
         Moderator:      Mary Tsiongas, Associate Dean of Faculty, College of Fine Arts, UNM
     (Note: On environmental conservation, justice, law, and ethics)

3:45 pm – 5:00 pm:     Alaska and Beyond
Stephen Brown
Finis Dunaway
           Moderator:        Joseph Cook, Professor, Department of Biology, UNM
     (Note: On transnational ecology and grassroots activism)

5:30 pm: Keller Hall, Center for the Arts—door opens

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Next North
Julie Decker
Brian Adams
Marek Ranis
Moderator: Arif Khan, Director, UNM Art Museum
(Note: On art, the North, and climate change)

Friday, February 23Location: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm at the Student Union Building (SUB) Ballroom C —
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Woodward Lecture Hall (Building #82 on UNM Campus Map)

8:30 am: SUB Ballroom C—door opens

9:00 am – 10:45 am:   Protecting Our Seas and Coastal Communities
  Melanie Smith
  Rick Steiner
  Rosemary Ahtuangaruak
           Moderator:        Samuel Truett, Associate Professor, Department of History, UNM
     (Note: On marine ecology, environmental justice and indigenous rights—Bering, Beaufort, and the           Chukchi Seas, and the federal proposed 5-yr offshore drilling plan and its impacts)

11:00 am – 12:45 pm:   Truth to Power Joel Clement
Pamela Miller
Robert Thompson
           Moderator:        Traci Quinn, Curator of Education and Public Programs, UNM Art Museum
     (Note: On suppression of science, and intimidation, lies, myths, deception and broken promises)

1:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Act Now! Led by: Bernadette Demientieff
Monica Scherer
(Note: If you ever asked the question, “What can I do to help?”—register for this workshop on writing and organizing toward becoming an activist; lunch will be provided for all; registration is required for this session.

—REGISTER BY FEB 16 to guarantee your lunch. To register, please email Traci Quinn at tmquinn@unm.edu)

5:30 pm: Woodward Lecture Hall—door opens

6:00 – 8:00 pm:   Rise of The Red Nation
  Melanie Yazzie
  Nick Estes
  Cheyenne Antonio
  Jennifer Marley
           Moderator:        Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Associate Professor, American Studies, UNM
(Note: Diné-Pueblo solidarity to protect the Greater Chaco Canyon and Mni Wiconi: Water is Life)

No More Deaths Volunteer Indicted on Additional Felony Charge, Faces up to 20-Year Prison Sentence

Humanitarian Aid Worker Scott Warren indicted on additional felony charge, facing up to 20 year sentence

By No More Deaths

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A grand jury has indicted Scott Daniel Warren, a volunteer with the organization No More Deaths/No Más Muertes, with three felony charges: two counts of felony harboring and one charge of felony conspiracy. The maximum sentence for these charges is 20 years in prison.

The new conspiracy charge is notable, as conspiracy charges have been used by the government to scare and suppress social justice movements and target political dissidents. This case holds critical weight as the Trump administration targets immigrant rights leaders and those who stand with them nationwide.

No More Deaths is committed to resisting this troubling trend in enforcement and continue our work of ending death and suffering in the borderlands.
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Scott Warren's arrest came after No More Deaths released a second report exposing U.S. Border Patrol agents destroying life saving water and blankets for migrants in the desert, on the Arizona border

Watch Video of US Border Patrol Agent Destroying Life Saving Water for Migrants on Arizona Border -- Call U.S. Border Patrol with Complaints

https://www.facebook.com/nomoredeaths/videos/898620533634651/

"This video evidence of US Border Patrol agents participating in the destruction and confiscation of aid supplies takes place over a seven year period, from 2010-2017. They include destruction of water, and confiscation of blankets. This demonstrates a routine practice of destruction of aid supplies. No More Deaths demands an immediate end to the destruction and confiscation of humanitarian aid supplies. No known disciplinary action has been taken against any agents. We demand that the Border Patrol institute a formal policy prohibiting the destruction of humanitarian aid supplies, and make this act a fireable offense. Call the Tucson Sector Border Patrol at 520-748-3000 and ask to leave a message for Deputy Chief Raleigh Leonard or Division Chief Tom Martin." -- No More Deaths