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Occupy Las Cruces Weekly Newsletter
This Weeks OLC Events

Say No to Monsantos GE Sweet Corn! National Call to Action Individual actions all week Working GA Tuesday 3/13 4 p.m. Branigan Library (Boardroom) Save Our Homes Rally Thursday 3/15 at 12 noon OFA Office General Assembly MeetingSunday 3/18 2 p.m. Mountain View Market
March 12, 2012
Volume 1, Issue 3
Occupy Las Cruces Demonstrations

Save Our Homes Rally
and need immediate assistance. 60% of homeowners have their mortgages through govThats why on Thursday, ernment-controlled Fannie March 15, well head to Mae or Freddie Mac. But the Obama for America offices to agency that tell the presioversees these dent:: Were programs is run sinking in unby Bush apderwater pointed ED mortgagesThe 99% keeps winning! In DeMarco who throw the 99% the past two months, Presirefused to allow a lifeline to dent Obama was pushed to keep us in our launch a full investigation into underwater Fire DeMarco and appoint homes. the Wall Street Banks and got homeowners to someone who will work to adjust mortgages prevent home foreclosures! a promise from his adminSign the Petito reflect real istration to allow the Bushtion here. home values. President era tax cuts to expire. But Obama has the power to even with these huge make sure Fannie and wins, millions of homeowners are still underwa- Freddie change their policy to provide relief to the ter on their mortgages Occupy LC will join MoveOn, Caf, and others to hold a national initiative at the OFA Office in Las Cruces 151 S. Solano (Solano North of Lohman ) on Thursday, March 15th, at 12:00 noon. ten million Americans struggling with mortgage debt.
Inside this issue:
Inside Story Inside Story Inside Story Inside Story
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OLC Actions to Shut Down Monsanto (ALEC

This is the first GE Crop that Occupy Las Cruces is supMonsanto is marketing for porting Food & Water Watch direct human consumption. It will not be labeled and in an effort to pressure Walmart to reject Monsanhasnt been tested for human tos Genetically Engineered safety. The corn is genetically (GE) sweet corn. engineered to produce pesticides and resist herbicides. GE sweet corn crops will be
Member)
Say No to Monsan- planted in April for distribution at Walmart stores. tos GE Sweet Corn!
Individual Actions 1. 2. Print tool kit. Click here. Sign petition and deliver this list (scroll to bottom) to Walmart managers (Lohman store: Curtis Rosemond, Valley store: Anthony Martinez) Pass out flyers, tell your family & friends. Continued on page 2
Inside Story THE POWER OF ONE Inside Story Take the
lead and 5 participate in the Inside Story individual actins listed. 6 They can be performed throughout this week.
3.
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Immigrants For Sale

Immigrants are for sale in this country. Sold to private prison corporations who are locking them up for obscene profits! The players include ALEC member CCA (Corrections Corporations of America), Geo Group, and Management and Training corporations. These private prisons profit more than $5 billion a year. They have spent over $20 million lobbying state legislators to make sure they get state antiimmigrant laws approved and ensure access to more immigrant inmates. The private prisons dont care about who they lock up. At a rate of $200 per immigrant a night at Click here for more information their prisons, this is a money making Cuentame Site here. scheme that destroys families and lives. Their profit comes at the expense of their detainees providing abusive and subpar conditions in order to increase their profit margin and keep their costs low. It is a business after all. Immigrants For Sale YouTube video here
Adding It All Up:
ALEC Corrections Corporations + Lobbying for Tougher Laws = Profit at the expense of detainees and Tax payers
Legalization Debate Takes Off in Latin America The BLOG

Considering New Drug Policy Options
Something incredible is happening right now in Latin America. After decades of being brutalized by the U.S. governments failed prohibitionist drug policies, Latin American leaders, including not just distinguished former presidents but also current presidents are saying enough is enough. Theyre demanding that the range of policy options be expanded to include alternatives that help reduce the crime, violence and corruption in their own countries and insisting that decriminalization and legal regulation of currently illicit drug markets be considered. More here.
Latin American Leaders Calling for the Decriminalization or Legalization of Drugs

This debate now is no longer going to be suppressed, says Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. Democracy Now! Video here.
OLC Actions to Shut Down Monsanto

Continued from page 1 4. Write a letter to the Editor and send it to the Las Cruces Sun-News, The Albuquerque Journal or The Las Cruces Bulletin. Click here for guideline. Take a letter to Walmart. Go to either of the Walmarts in town on the 17th and either: a) Purchase something, go back and ask for the manager and let him know that you will be returning your purchase because you dont trust Walmart not to sell you genetically engineered food. Or, b) ask a sales associate/ manager if they can tell you if something has been genetically engineered, when they cant, let the manager know that you will not be purchasing something because of it.
END CORPORATE EXPLOITATION OF OUR FOOD SYSTEMS
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Join a protest at Walmart on Valley Dr. on Saturday March 24th from 911 am.
Americas Authoritarian turnAdbusters

Speaking Truth to Power Becomes a Crime
Ever since the rise of Occupy, corporatist authorities have been trying to figure how to squash our emerging social movement. First they tried a media blackout, but when over 700 nonviolent meme warriors were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge our Gandhian ferocity catalyzed a thousand encampments and the 1% could ignore us no more. Next elites tried the Bloomberg model of midnight paramilitary raids backed up by excessive force and sometimes lethal munitions. That worked well to evict encampments in New York City, Oakland and nationwide but it backfired when occupiers became diffuse, appearing at scripted events and interrupting the spectacle of corporatefunded politics with mic checks of truth. Now they are trying the new tactic of lawfare using draconian laws to squash free speech in a last ditch effort to put an end to people power. A week before the G8 Backdown, the US House of Representatives voted in near unanimous consensus in favor of an authoritarian law, H.R. 347, that makes it a federal crime to disrupt Government business or official functions or to enter any building where a person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting. In other words, to mic check Obama is now a federal crime punishable by a year in prison. And so too is the banner drop if it takes place in any building that a protected person might be visiting in the future, even if jammers dont know it. More here. Sign petition here.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Jew.
Tell Eric Holder: Release secret memos authorizing assassination of Americans without judicial review
Not even the Bush Administration had the audacity to publicly and explicitly assert the right to execute Americans citizens without judicial review. But in a speech at Northwestern University this week, Attorney General Eric Holder offered a detailed defense of the Obama Administrations unprecedented step of authorizing targeted executions of American citizens through a secretive CIA assassination program. It is unacceptable and unconstitutional for the executive branch of the U.S. government to secretly kill American citizens abroad without due process that includes impartial judicial review. More here. Democracy Now!
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
Due process and judicial process are not one and the same.
Martin Niemller
Community Outreach Events-Building Relationships
The True Cost of the Border Wall

The Southwest Environmental Center is hosting a free talk entitled The True Cost of the Border Wall on Tuesday, March 13 at 6 p.m. at SWEC, 275 North Downtown Mall. More than 600 miles of security fencing have been built at a great expense to taxpayers
along the U.S./ Mexico border, with frequent calls by politicians to construct more. Much of this fencing has been built through remote areas that are important wildlife habitats. SWEC Executive Director Kevin Bixby will discuss the history, cost, ecological impacts and further of security fencing along the U.S. southern border. The talk is part of the Southwest Environmental Centers
monthly lecture series looking at conservation issues in the southwest. For more information call 575-522-5552 or visit www.wildmesquite.org.
The following is a list of Back by Noon outings for Spring, 2012.

More details can be found on the flyer here.
The fence along the U.S.Mexico border is mostly finished.
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Mission Statement We are the 99%, a coalition of concerned citizens advocating for legal, eco-
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nomic, political, and environmental justice and social equality. We strive for the 100% to enjoy abundance, fair representation, harmony, and well being.
Contact Information
Jason Burke Phone: 575-915-2766 E-mail [email protected] Facebook: Occupy Las Cruces (Official) Website Occupylascruces.wordpress.com
Look For Us!
Community Outreach -Building Relationships

The Young Activists
Occupy Las Cruces would like to express their admiration for some young activists of Las Cruces Academy Inc. They made a noble effort to save the Chinese Pistache tree that was at the south end of Downtown Main Street. Unfortunately, their activism and its energy and courage it often takes extraordinary courage for anyone, yet alone young people, to enter the realm of public discourse-did not arrive at its aim. It is the hope of Occupy Las Cruces that Nefertari, and the other students who tried to save this tree, remember that far more important than success is the willingness to try. This is particularly true of both individual and group efforts striving toward what they believe to be the greater good, be that greater good the prevention of war or preserving the charm and beauty of a downtown tree; for a person and humanity are not defined by what they succeed at, but what they try to succeed at. All these students can take pride in their efforts, as we of OLC take pride in such youth being part of our community. Always, the members of OLC look at the young with the greatest hope, and here, in this case, our hopes were fully met. Written by Michael Sasha Miller, on behalf of the members of OLC
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Occupy Las Cruces Weekly Newsletter

This Weeks OLC Events

March 12, 2012

Occupy Las Cruces Demonstrations

Inside this issue:

Inside Story Inside Story Inside Story Inside Story

OLC Actions to Shut Down Monsanto (ALEC

Inside Story THE POWER OF ONE Inside Story Take the

Occupy Las Cruces

Immigrants For Sale

Adding It All Up:

Legalization Debate Takes Off in Latin America The BLOG

Latin American Leaders Calling for the Decriminalization or Legalization of Drugs

OLC Actions to Shut Down Monsanto

END CORPORATE EXPLOITATION OF OUR FOOD SYSTEMS

Americas Authoritarian turnAdbusters

Community Outreach Events-Building Relationships

The True Cost of the Border Wall

The following is a list of Back by Noon outings for Spring, 2012.

The fence along the U.S.Mexico border is mostly finished.

Occupy Las Cruces

Look For Us!

Community Outreach -Building Relationships

Pistache tree Downtown

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