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This week’s program features host Dr Kim McCreery, regional director and staff scientist of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, with her guest Walter “Ski” Szymanski, a former labor organizer and local community activist with a range of interests.
They discuss the resurrected Sagebrush Rebellion – a political movement to peel away federal public lands for exploitation by extractive industries at the state level. ALEC – The American Legislative Exchange Council is a major player in this new effort to privatize and exploit our national forests.
Elected state legislators and some of the most powerful corporations are working together behind closed doors to draft legislation introduced in state houses all over country. They discuss current efforts In New Mexico to demand state control of public lands, the implications of such transfers, and who’s behind this attempted land grab as well as other anti-environmental legislation promoted by ALEC – one of America’s “most influential corporate-funded political forces.”
They also discuss current efforts to end the barbaric practice of trapping wild animals for fur and profit at the state level in the current legislative session. Szymanski has succeeded in his efforts to bring an ordinance before the Town of Silver City banning trapping within the city limits that has since become a model which several more New Mexico cities and towns have adopted.
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Earth Matters / Ski Szymanski on Public Lands
Tuesday 5 March 2013 Municipal Election Polls open 7am - 7pm Tai Chi: Moving for Better Balance Noon / Silver City Recreation Center - 1016 N Silver Street / Based on traditional Tai Chi, this program works for all people including those with diminished balance or strength / First class Free / Liz at 313.6833 or emikols@Q.com Vespers in the Celtic Tradition 5:30pm / Good Shepherd Episcopal Church - Texas & 7th Streets - entrance off 6th Street parking lot […]
