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Happy New Year in O’Gah Po’Geh, unceded Tewa territory. Let’s make a resolution for reconciliation around the Plaza obelisk’s removal.

That monument commemorated violence against Native peoples and forced displacement from their homelands during the Indian wars. White people in New Mexico benefit from this today. During an era when federal power depended on the removal and erasure of Native peoples, white men like Kit Carson did the job. This city is more and more gentrified, with parts unaffordable to people whose families have lived here for generations. The result: concentrated wealth, institutionalized poverty and systemic racism.

Anti-racist white people have power to help dismantle structures of racism and oppression.

When obelisks don’t block the view, there is a chance to see more perspectives. Let’s elevate the voices of Native peoples and hear their histories of resilience

after centuries of erasure. History benefits some and diminishes others. Time for a new narrative.

The Indigenous-led community action taking down the Plaza Obelisk was part of an international movement to remove racist and colonial monuments around the world.

It’s consistent with sentiments communicated by our city’s mayor. Let’s drop the charges against individual people and instead work for a process of reconciliation.

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Renters’ Burden New housing report shows Santa Fe renters pay more than they can afford

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he burden of Santa Fe’s housing shortage falls on the shoulders of its lowest wage earners, a new report from the Santa Fe Association of Realtors confirms. Renting families, whose incomes drag nearly 40% below that of homeowners, have it the hardest.

Santa Fe City and County haven’t seen a housing boom since before 2009.

While the city has done somewhat better than the county in adding new housing stock to the market in recent years due to a change in its rules that allowed developers to pay a fee in-lieu of building affordable housing on site, the imbalance between supply and demand has created an untenable situation for many in the region.

Rising home prices, luxury home sales and income trends are among the many topics covered by the report that the real estate groups aims to produce annually, but some of its most striking statistics show how these factors impact renters.

The data indicates most people own rather than rent in both the city and the county, yet just under half of renter households in Santa Fe were cost burdened before the pandemic, meaning that they paid more than 30% of their income towards housing costs.

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“We are in a difficult situation,” says contributor Daniel Werwath, executive director of New Mexico Interfaith Housing, who participated in a stakeholder team for the report. “There were already a lot of families living unaffordably before the pandemic, now, those numbers are likely a lot higher.”

The report uses a tool called the Housing Affordability Index to show that the median price to buy a house in Santa Fe is also much higher than what

someone making the area median income can afford.

Several trends in the data show how we got here.

First is the fact that very little housing of any kind got built in the city and county after the 2008 financial crisis.

Nearly 60% of housing stock in the county was built between 1980 and 2009, and less than 4% was built since 2010. Of the housing that has been built in the county over the last three years, most has been single-family homes.

Within the city, there’s been an increase in construction of multi-family units and apartment complexes in the last three years. Between 2017 and 2019, the city saw an 82% increase in construction of units due to these new projects.

Still, the Santa Fe metropolitan area currently has a shortage of 7,343 rental

Santa Fe County Housing Stock by Year Built SOURCE: AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY, SANTA FE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2019, ECONIMIC & PLANNING SYSTEMS, INC.

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units, the report estimates.

Many of the units that were available to renters ten years ago are no longer on the rental market because they’ve been sold to permanent home owners, and many of the rental units that were classified as affordable housing have since been converted to market rate housing because they reached the end of the 15year compliance period for Low Income Tax Credit projects, it says.

All of these things mean that the city and county are scrambling to play catch up.

Meanwhile, to add to the supply and demand problem, many people have moved to Santa Fe during that time frame who can afford to pay more to rent or purchase a home than locals.

Retirees, people purchasing luxury second homes, and people working remotely have all driven up the price of housing.

Werwath worries this trend will only be exacerbated by the pandemic as more and more people working remotely can choose to live somewhere different from where their job is located.

“We will likely see that people are relocating to Santa Fe at an unprecedented rate,” says Werwath. “When you have a supply and demand imbalance, prices will reset to the highest capacity to pay and the people who have the highest capacity to pay are not local workers.”

This trend was already apparent before the pandemic. While area median incomes stagnated over the last ten years, the price of housing has gone up. Rents increased 11.7% in Santa Fe County between 2017 and 2019 alone.

As dire as this might seem, says Werwath, it doesn’t have to be this way.

“This is a solvable problem,” he says, adding that policy solutions to invest more in affordable housing and make it easier to build in Santa Fe are critical.

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Residential composting service becomes an unexpected result of the pandemic

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The Case for Compost

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drive down any residential street on trash day in the week between Christmas and New Year’s can cause an uncomfortable pang of cognitive dissonance. Green and blue bins stuffed to the brim with heaps of wrapping paper and excess leftovers serve both as proof of how much we love each other and as a reminder of our disgraceful wastefulness.

Now that the holidays are over, ‘tis the season for setting new goals and intentions for the year ahead, including the beautifully simple resolution to produce less waste.

“Around 40% of household waste is compostable,” says composting business and farm Reunity Resources Program Director Juliana Ciano. “So if there is any one action you can take to reduce your trash output, composting is the most meaningful thing you can do.”

The small local business started a new residential doorstep composting program in April in an effort to survive the pandemic. Now, the program’s growing success has inspired the company to take even more steps to make composting easily accessible to Santa Fe residents.

In October, it tweaked the doorstep program to offer every-other-week as well as weekly pickup options. Last month, operators set up a new food scraps drop-off area outside of the main gate at San Ysidro Crossing that is accessible 24/7.

Before the pandemic, Reunity Resources processed around 100,000 pounds of food scraps a month. The vast majority came from its commercial pick-up service for schools and restaurants. The final product—compost—was one of the company’s primary sources of revenue and supported its Farm Food Donation Program that partnered with local organizations and food banks to get fresh produce onto the plates of hungry New Mexicans.

ABOVE: Food scraps freshly arrived from Santa Fe households. BELOW: Reunity Resources Operations Director Trevor Ortiz shows off compost.

As soon as the pandemic hit, says Ciano, she watched participation in the compost program drop by more than 80%.

“We immediately knew we had to start doing something new,” she says. “All of that food waste was still out there, just in different places.”

People had stopped eating out, but they hadn’t stopped eating food. The waste that previously went into the

Reunity Resources compost pile from restaurants and schools was going into residential trash cans instead, and so the company started to try to bring some of it back to the farm.

When done right, the composting process turns food scraps into nutrient rich soil without producing any harmful byproducts. Yet, most of our kitchen refuse ends up in landfills where instead it turns into rotting sludge and releases

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climate warming greenhouse gases such as methane.

Research by Project Drawdown, a nonprofit that works on climate solutions, puts reducing food waste close to the top of the list of urgent climate actions. Partly that’s because, according to the United Nations, food waste accounts for 8% of all greenhouse gas emissions globally. The issue is big enough that in 2020 UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed designated Sept. 29 as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste.

A lot of this waste happens in farmers fields, in food processing plants, in grocery stores, and at many other points along the way before it gets to your fridge.

Still, Americans waste enough food at home that figuring out how to mitigate these impacts is worth it.

Pam Walker has been using Reunity Resources’ doorstep collection since the program started in April, and says the system “could not be easier.” She keeps the sealed collection container provided by the farm under her counter in the slot that used to be occupied by her trash can. Walker has reduced her trash output to the point that in an average week she can fit all her trash into a single blue New York Times newspaper bag.

Walker moved to Santa Fe from Texas four years ago, where she was an avid home composter and local food and farm advocate. In the arid high desert climate of Santa Fe, where it takes much longer for decaying matter to break down, she says her home composting efforts bore unsatisfactorily mixed results.

“If you’re a home composter, you very likely cannot compost the range of material that Reunity Resources does,” she says, “things like tea bags and coffee filters, avocados and citrus peels and animal bones. If you can’t heat your compost to the high temperatures and use the precision that a commercial composting operation does then there’s a lot of stuff that you can’t compost, so it still goes into the landfill.”

Ciano tells SFR that Reunity Resources can compost “almost anything that once was alive.” That includes untreated paper products, animal products and BPI certified compostable products.

Reunity asks those who would like to use the food-scrap dropoff service to sign up for a membership based on an annual sliding scale fee between $10 and $25 at reunityresources.com. The doorstep collection program costs $36 a month for weekly service or $20 a month for every other week and comes with a 4-gallon compost bucket and two bags of premium compost a year.

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Top 10 Stories Show Missing Patterns in Corporate News

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very year since 1976, Project Censored has sought to shed light on the most significant news that’s somehow not fit to print.

Censorship in an authoritarian society is obvious, from a distance, at least. There is a central agent or agency responsible for it and the lines are clearly drawn. That’s not the case in America, yet some stories rarely, if ever, see the light of day, such as stories about violence against Native American women and girls, even though four out of five of them experience violence at some point in their lives, overwhelmingly at the hands of non-Native perpetrators.

“I wouldn’t say that we’re more vulnerable,” Annita Lucchesi, a Southern Cheyenne descendant and executive director of the Sovereign Bodies Institute, told The Guardian. “I’d say that we’re targeted.

It’s not about us being vulnerable victims, it’s about the system being designed to target and marginalize our women.”

And, the media erasure of their stories is part of that same system of targeting and marginalization. While journalists everyday work hard to expose injustices, they work within a system where some injustices are so deeply baked in that stories exposing them are rarely told and even more rarely expanded upon to give them their proper due.

That’s where Project Censored comes in, with a “primary purpose to explore and publicize the extent of news censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for a variety of reasons,” wrote its founder Carl Jensen on its 20th anniversary.

Thus, the list of censored stories that’s the centerpiece of its annual book, State of the Free Press | 2021, doesn’t just help us to see individual stories we might otherwise have missed. It helps us see patterns—patterns of censorship, of stories suppressed and patterns of how those stories fit together in the context of neglect, climate change and other threads.

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls “In June 2019 the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its final report, which received widespread news coverage in the United States,” Project Censored notes. “US corporate news outlets have provided nearly nothing in the way of reporting on missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States.”

Four in five Native women experience violence at some time in their lives, according to a 2016 survey by the National Institute of Justice, cited in an August 2019 report by news website Think Progress.

“Although the number of Native Americans murdered or missing in 2016 exceeded 3,000—roughly the number of people who died during the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack—the Justice Department’s missing persons database logged only 116 cases that year,” Think Progress noted.

There are multiple complicating factors in reporting, tracking, investigating and prosecuting, which were explored in coverage by The Guardian and Yes! Magazine, as well as Ms. and Think Progress.

“Campaigners, including the Sovereign Bodies Institute, the Brave Heart Society, and the Urban Indian Health Institute, identify aspects of systemic racism—including the indelible legacies of settler colonialism, issues with law enforcement, a lack of reliable and comprehensive data, and flawed policymaking—as deep-rooted sources of the crisis,” Project Censored summed up. “As Yes! Magazine reported, tribal communities in the United States often lack jurisdiction to respond to crimes.”

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Against Women Act, known as VAWA, but “it left sex trafficking and other forms of sexual violence outside tribal jurisdiction,” Yes! Magazine reported.

Another facet of the problem explored

by Yes! is the connection between the extractive fossil fuel industry and violence against Native women. The Canadian report “showed a strong link between extraction zones on the missing and murdered women crisis in Canada,” Yes! noted.

“It specifically cited rotational shift work, sexual harassment in the workplace, substance abuse, economic insecurity, and a largely transient workforce as contributing to increased violence against Native women in communities near fossil fuel infrastructure.”

“It creates this culture of using and abuse,” said Annita Lucchesi, executive director of the Sovereign Bodies Institute.

“If you can use and abuse the water and land, you can use and abuse the people around you too.”

Monsanto “Intelligence Center” Targeted Journalists and Activists In its fight to avoid liability for causing cancer, the agricultural giant Monsanto (now owned by Bayer) cre­ated an “intelligence fusion center” to “monitor and discredit” journalists and activists, Sam Levin reported for The Guardian in August 2019.

“More than 18,000 people have filed suit against Monsanto, alleging that exposure to Roundup caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and that Monsanto covered up the risks by manipulating scientific data and silencing critics,” The Hill summarized. “The company has lost three high-profile cases in the past year, and Bayer is reportedly offering $8 billion to

settle all outstanding claims.”

“Monsanto adopted a multi-pronged strategy to target Carey Gillam, a Reuters journalist who investigated the company’s weedkiller,” The Guardian reported.

This took place while also targeting Neil Young (who released a 2015 record, The Monsanto Years), and creating a massive, multi-million dollar spying and disinformation campaign targeting journalists writing about it, as well as scientists and advocates exposing the risks its product posed. Creating a covert army of seemingly neutral allies to attack its critics was central to Monsanto’s strategy.

The Guardian’s report was based on internal documents (primarily from 2015 to 2017) released during trial. They showed that “Monsanto planned a series of ‘actions’ to attack a book authored by Gillam prior to its release, including writing ‘talking points’ for ‘third parties’ to criticize the book and directing ‘industry and farmer customers’ on how to post negative reviews.”

In addition, Monsanto paid Google to skew search results promoting criticism of Gilliam’s work on Monsanto, and they discussed strategies for pressuring Reuters with the goal of getting her reassigned.

The entire pool of journalists covering one trial was also targeted in a covert influence operation, Paul Thacker reported for The Huffington Post. A purported “freelancer for the BBC” schmoozed other reporters, trying to steer them toward writing stories critical of the plaintiffs suing Monsanto. Their curiosity aroused, they discovered that her LinkedIn account said she worked for FTI Consulting, a global business advisory firm hired by Monsanto and Bayer.

“Monsanto has also previously employed shadowy networks of consultants, PR firms, and front groups to spy on and influence reporters,” Thacker wrote. “And all of it appears to be part of a pattern at the company of using a variety of tactics to intimidate, mislead and discredit journalists and critics.”

Yet, the campaign to monitor and discredit journal­ ists and other critics has received almost no corporate news coverage, with the rare exception of a June 2019, ABC News report which nonetheless “consistently emphasized the perspective of Monsanto and Bayer.”

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United states Military— A Massive, Hidden Contributor to Climate Crisis It’s said that an army travels on its stomach, but the Army itself has said, “Fuel is the ‘blood of the military,’” as quoted in a study, “Hidden carbon costs of the ‘everywhere war’” by Oliver Belcher, Patrick Bigger, Ben Neimark, and Cara Kennelly, who subsequently summarized their findings for The Conversation in June 2019.

The US military is “one of the largest polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more cli­matechanging gases than most medium-sized countries,” they wrote.

If it were a country, it would rank as “the 47th largest emitter of green­house gases in the world.”

Studies of greenhouse gas emissions usu­ally focus on civilian use, but the US military has a larger carbon footprint than any civilian corporation in the world.

“The US military’s climate policy remains fundamentally contradictory,” their study notes.

On the one hand, “the US military sees climate change as a ‘threat multiplier,’ or a condition that will exacerbate other threats, and is fast becoming one of the leading federal agencies in the United States to invest in research and adoption of renewable energy [but] it remains the largest single institutional consumer of hydrocarbons in the world [and] this dependence on fossil fuels is unlikely to change as the USA continues to pursue open-ended operations around the globe.”

Data for their study was difficult to get.

“A loophole in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol exempted the United States from reporting mil­itary emissions,” Project Censored explains. “Although the Paris Accord closed this loophole, Neimark, Belcher, and Bigger noted that, ‘with the Trump administration due to withdraw from the accord in 2020, this gap…will return.’” They only obtained fuel purchase data through multiple Freedom of Information Act requests.

Noting that “action on climate change demands shut­tering vast sections of the

military machine,” Neimark, Belcher, and Bigger recommended that “money spent procuring and distributing fuel across the US empire” be reinvested as “a peace dividend, helping to fund a Green New Deal in whatever form it might take.”

Congressional Investments and Conflicts of Interest Exposition, political corruption and conflicts of interest are age-old staples of journalism. So, it’s notable that two of the most glaring, far-reaching examples of congressional conflicts of interest in the Trump era have been virtually ignored by corporate media: Republican’s support for the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and bipartisan failure to act on catastrophic climate change.

“The cuts likely saved members of Congress hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes collectively, while the corporate tax cut hiked the value of their holdings,” Peter Cary of the Center for

Public Integrity reported for Vox in January 2020.

It was sold as a middle-class tax cut that would benefit everyone, yet “promises that the tax act would boost investment have not panned out,” he noted. “Corporate investment is now at lower levels than before the act passed, according to the Commerce Department.”

Most of the bill’s Republican supporters said “the cut would result in higher wages, factory expansions, and more jobs.

Instead, it was mainly exploited by corporations, which bought back stock and raised dividends,” Cary wrote.

The benefits to Congres­­­­­­­­sional Republicans were enormous.

“The 10 richest Republicans in Congress in 2017 who voted for the tax bill held more than $731 million in assets, almost two-thirds of which were in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other instruments,” which benefitted handsomely as a result of their votes that “doled out nearly $150 billion in corporate tax savings in 2018 alone,” Cary noted. “All but one of the 47 Republicans who sat on the three key committees overseeing the drafting of the tax bill own stocks and stock mutual funds.”

“Democrats also stood to gain from the tax bill, though not one voted for it,” he wrote. “All but 12 Republicans voted for the tax bill.”

Two special features deserve notice.

First is a newly created 20% deduction for income from “pass-through” businesses, or smaller, single-owner corporations.

“At least 22 of the 47 members of the House and Senate tax-writing committees have investments in pass-through businesses,” Project Censored noted.

Second was a provision allowing real estate companies with relatively few employees—like the Trump organization—to take a 20% deduction usually reserved for larger businesses with sizable payrolls.

As to the second major conflict, “Members of the US Senate are heavily invested in the fossil fuel companies that drive the current climate crisis, creating a conflict between those senators’ financial interests as investors and their responsibilities as elected representatives,” Project Censored wrote.

“Twenty-nine US senators and their spouses own between $3.5 million and $13.9 million worth of stock in companies that extract, transport, or burn fossil fuels, or provide services to fossil fuel companies,” Donald Shaw reported for journalism nonprofit Sludge in September 2019.

Again, the list is heavy on Republicans but also includes two key Democrats: Sen. Tom Carper, of Delaware and Sen. Joe Manchin, of West Virginia.

Manchin was the only Democrat to vote against an amendment to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling in 2017, and he was one of just three Democrats to vote against an amendment to phase out taxpayer subsidies for coal, oil, and gas producers in 2016. Manchin has also voted to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, expedite the approval process for natural gas pipelines, and override an Obama administration rule requiring coal companies to protect groundwater from toxic coal mining waste.

While there has been critical coverage of 2017 tax cuts, few reports have included coverage of lawmakers personal profiting, Project Censored noted.

Inequality Kills: Gap between Richest and Poorest Americans Largest in 50 Years “In public health, decades of research are coming to a consensus: Inequality kills,” DePaul University sociologist Fernando De Maio wrote for Truthout in December 2019.

Even before COVID-19, his research added fine-grained evidence of broad trends highlighted in three prominent governmental reports: The gap between rich and poor Americans had grown larger than ever in half a century, according to the US Census Bureau’s 2019 annual survey, with dramatic evidence of its lethal impact. People in the poorest quintile die at twice the rate as those in the richest quintile, according to a report by the Congressional General Accounting Office.

And, this is partly because job-related deaths are increasingly rooted in the physical and psychological toll of low-wage work, as opposed to on-the-job accidents, as documented by the United Nations’ International Labor Organization.

All these conditions were made worse

by COVID-19, but they could have been seen before the pandemic struck—if only the information hadn’t been censored by the corporate media.

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at those between 51 and 61 years old in 1992, and dividing them into five wealth quintiles. “[T]he GAO found that nearly half of those (48%) in the poorest quintile died before 2014, when they would have been between 73 and 83 years old. Of the wealthiest quintile, only a quarter (26%) died,” explained Patrick Martin, writing for the World Socialists Website.

Death rates increased for each quintile as the level of wealth declined.

It’s at the level of cities and communities “that the most striking links between inequality and health can be detected,” De Maio wrote. “At the city level, life expectancy varies from a low of 71.4 years in Gary, Indiana, to a high of 84.7 in Newton, Massachusetts—a gap of more than 13 years.”

And at the community level, “In Chicago, there is a nine-year gap between the life expectancy for Black and white people. This gap amounts to more than 3,000 ‘excess deaths’” among Black Chicagoans, due to “heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease. All of these are conditions that an equitable health care system would address,” he concluded.

Shadow Network of Conservative Outlets Emerges to Exploit Faith in Local News In late October 2019, Carol Thompson re-

ported in the Lansing State Journal that, “Dozens of websites branded as local news outlets launched throughout Michigan this fall…promising local news but also offering political messaging.”

The websites’ “About us” sections “say they are published by Metric Media LLC, a company that aims to fill the ‘growing void in local and community news after years of steady disinvestment in local reporting by legacy media.’” Thompson wrote, but it soon emerged that they weren’t filling that void with locally-generated news, and the 40 or so sites Thompson found in Michigan were just the tip of the iceberg.

A follow-up investigation by The Michigan Daily reported that “just this past week, additional statewide networks of these websites have sprung up in Montana and Iowa,” which was followed by a December 2019 report by the Columbia Journalism Review, revealing a network of 450 websites run by five corporate organizations in 12 states that “mimic the appearance and output of traditional news organizations” in order to “manipulate public opinion by exploiting faith in local media.”

All were associated with conservative businessman Brian Timpone.

“In 2012, Timpone’s company Journatic, an outlet known for its lowcost automated story generation, which became known as ‘pink slime journalism,’ attracted national attention and outrage for faking bylines and quotes, and for plagiarism,” CJR’s Priyanjana Bengani reported. Journatic was later rebranded as Locality Labs, whose content ran on the Metric Media websites.

Using a suite of investigative tools, CJR was able to identify at least 189 sites in 10 states run by Metric Media—all created in 2019—along with 179 run by Franklin Archer (with Timpone’s brother Michael as CEO).

“We tapped into the RSS feeds of these

189 Metric Media sites,” over a period of two weeks, Bengani wrote, “and found over 15,000 unique stories had been published (over 50,000 when aggregated across the sites), but only about a hundred titles had the bylines of human reporters.”

That’s well below 1% with a byline—much less being local. “The rest cited automated services or press releases.”

The sites “co-opt the language, design and structure of news organizations,” Bengani explained. Automation can make them seem far more prolific than they really are, and can help build credibility where very little is due.

the 2010 study between the reportage and the reality of missing Black children had increased substantially,” Project Censored noted: 35% of missing children cases vs. just 7% of media stories.

That discussion appeared in a paper that made two other pertinent points.

First, that Black criminal perpetrators are over-represented in the media, while Black victims are underrepresented, and second, that “because racial minorities are identified as criminals more often than not, non-minorities develop limited empathy toward racial minorities who are often perceived as offenders.”

Non-minorities in the media are obviously not exempt.

“Media coverage is often vital in missing person cases because it raises community awareness and can drive funding and search efforts that support finding those missing persons,” Project Censored noted.

Blacks are also over-represented as victims of sex trafficking, according to statistics from Human Trafficking Search: they account for more than 40% of confirmed victims compared to 13.1% of the population.

Underreporting of Missing and Victimized Black Women and Girls Black women and girls go missing in the United States at a higher rate than that of their white counter­parts. And, that very fact goes missing, too.

“A 2010 study about the media coverage of missing children in the United States discovered that only 20% of reported stories focused on missing Black children despite it corresponding to 33% of the overall missing children cases,” Carma Henry reported for the Westside Gazette in February 2019.

But it’s only getting worse.

“A 2015 study discussed in the William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice found that the disparity listed in

The Public Banking Revolution The year 2019 marked the 100th anniversary of the USA’s first publicly-owned state bank, the Bank of North Dakota (BND), and in October, California Gov. Gavin

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from doing business with fossil fuel-financing banks—Wells Fargo, in this case— governments have no such similar options to meet all their banking needs.

In short, “From efforts to divest public employee pension funds from the fossil fuel industry and private prisons, to funding the proposed Green New Deal, and counteracting the massive, rapid shutdown of the economy caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, public banking has never seemed more relevant,” Project Censored wrote.

Rising Risks of Nuclear Power Due to Climate Change As early as 2003, 30 nuclear units were either shut down or reduced power output during a deadly European summer heatwave. But almost two decades later, the corporate media has yet to grasp that “Nuclear power plants are unprepared for climate change,” as Project Censored notes.

“Rising sea levels and warmer waters will impact power plants’ infrastructure, posing increased risks of nuclear disasters, according to reports from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Truthout from September 2019,” they explain. Yet, “Tracking back to 2013, corporate news media have only sporadically addressed the potential for climate change to impact nuclear power plants.”

“Nuclear power is uniquely vulnerable

to increasing temperatures because of its reliance on cooling water to ensure operational safety within the core and spent fuel storage,” Christina Chen wrote for NRDC. In addition, Karen Charman, reporting for Truthout, noted that “nuclear reactors need an uninterrupted electricity supply to run the cooling systems that keep the reactors from melting down,” but this will be “increasingly difficult to guarantee in a world of climate-fueled megastorms and other disasters.”

Sea level rise—combined with storm surges—represents the most serious threat. That was the focus of a 2018 report

by John Vidal from Ensia, a solutions-focused media outlet, which found that “at least 100 US, European and Asian nuclear power stations built just a few meters above sea level could be threatened by serious flooding caused by accelerating sea-level rise and more frequent storm surges.”

There have been more than 20 incidents of flooding at US nuclear plants, according to David Lochbaum, a former nuclear engineer and director of the nuclear safety project at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Yet, in January 2019, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission decided to weaken staff recommendations to reassess the adequacy of hazard preparations.

“As of September 2019, 444 nuclear reactors are operating in the world, with 54 under construction, 111 planned and 330 more proposed,” Charman reported.

“Many of the world’s new nuclear plants are being built on the coasts of Asian countries, which face floods, sea-level rise and typhoons,” Vidal wrote. “At least 15 of China’s 39 reactors in operation, and many of the plants it has under construction, are on the coast.”

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Newsom signed the Public Banking Act, authorizing up to 10 similar such banks to be created by California’s city and county governments.

In response, the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles both announced plans to do so. It was the culmination of a decade-long effort that began in the wake of the Great Recession that’s also been taken up in nearly two dozen other states.

Yet, despite California’s agenda-setting reputation, Project Censored notes that, “No major corporate media outlets appear to have devoted recent coverage to this important and timely topic.”

“The Bank of North Dakota was founded in 1919 in response to a farmers’ revolt against out-of-state banks that were foreclosing unfairly on their farms,” Ellen Brown, founder of the Public Banking Institute wrote for Common Dreams.

“Since then it has evolved into a $7.4 billion bank that is reported to be even more profitable than JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, although its mandate is not actually to make a profit but simply to serve the interests of local North Dakota communities.”

“The state of North Dakota has six times as many financial institutions per capita as the rest of the country and it’s because they have the Bank of North Dakota,” Sushil Jacob, an attorney who works with the California Public Banking Alliance told The Guardian. “When the great recession hit, the Bank of North Dakota stepped in and provided loans and allowed local banks to thrive.”

As a result, “North Dakota was the only state that escaped the credit crisis,” Brown told Ananya Garg, reporting for Yes! “It never went in the red, [had] the lowest unemployment rate in the country, the lowest foreclosure rate at that time.”

A new surge of interest in public banking came out of the Standing Rock movement’s Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

While individuals could easily withdraw

Revive Journalism with a Stimulus Package and Public Option In late March, Congress passed and President Trump signed a $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package, including direct payments of $1,200 per adult and

more than $500 billion for large corporations. Before passage, Craig Aaron, the president of Free Press, argued that a stimulus package for journalism was also urgently needed. “In the face of this pan­demic, the public needs good, economically secure journalists more than ever,” separating fact from fiction, and holding politicians and powerful institutions accountable,” Aaron wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review.

Aaron’s organization, Free Press, placed journalism’s needs at $5 billion in immediate emergency funds, “less than half of one percent of a trillion-dollar recovery package” and asked that “Congress put a foundation in place to help sustain journalism over the long term.”

Aaron presented a three-pronged plan: First, “Doubling federal funds for public media…earmarked specifically for emergency support, education, and especially local journalism;” second, “Direct support for daily and weekly newsrooms,” which have lost tens of thousands of jobs over the past three decades; third, “New investments in the news we need…for a major investment in services that provide community information [and] to support new positions, outlets, and approaches to newsgathering, [which could] prioritize places and populations that the mainstream outlets have never served well.”

In an article in Jacobin, media scholar Victor Pickard advanced a more robust proposal, for $30 billion annually (less than 1.4% of the coronavirus stimulus package, Project Censored noted).

“On the question of cost, we must first remind ourselves that a viable press system isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity,” he wrote. “Similar to a classic ‘merit good,’ journalism isn’t a ‘want,’ but a ‘need’…

Democratic nations around the globe heavily subsidize the media while enjoying democratic benefits that put the US to shame.”

Writing for The Guardian, just after the McClatchy newspaper chain bankruptcy was announced, Pickard noted “all foundational democratic theories—including the first amendment itself—assume a functional press system.

The fourth estate’s current collapse is a profound social problem.”

Paul Rosenberg is an activist turned journalist who has written for the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, Denver Post, Al Jazeera English, Salon.com, and numerous other periodicals. He has worked as an editor at Random Lengths News since 2002.

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If you’ve got a longing for the ‘ol folk rock days, it might knock your socks off to know celebrat­ ed and bonafide folk legend Joan Baez has a virtual art show (you read that right—an art show) going down through the auspices of AMP Concerts. A follow-up to her solo visual arts debut, ­Mischief Makers 2 includes a guided tour, a sweet interview with Baez herself and a prom­ ise of various surprises, which we’ll assume means something joyous. It’s not a concert, mind you, but it’s still Joan Baez, and we like seeing Joan Baez no matter what Joan Baez is doing. (RG) Joan Baez Virtual Reception: 6:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 9. $15-$20. ampconcerts.org

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ONLINE EVENT MON/11 GET AROUND, ‘ROUND If Trump did nothing else for this country, he got a whole lot of people who spent years saying “I don’t really pay attention to politics,” to engage.

Sure, it was out of fear, but people seem to want more information than ever—or at least more access to their representatives. Know what would be good for that? The upcoming 2021 Virtual Roundhouse, an event from the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce and the New Mexico Hospitality Association. You’ll be able to get in on one-on-one convos with your elected officials ahead of the session beginning Jan. 19, visit virtual booths, learn what’s what when it comes to state legislation and generally just become a political mastermind…or something like it.

(Alex De Vore) 2021 Virtual Roundhouse: 10 am-5 pm Monday, Jan. 11. Free. santafechamber.com

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ABOUT FACE Add another one to your docket of upcoming virtual events, this time for author Marcia Meier.

Her memoir, Face, explores her struggles of physical trauma and emotional rejection follow­ ing a major car accident when she was a kid.

Meier still endures her fair share of struggles, and her reading will delve into those experienc­ es as well as the deeper spiritual revelations emerging as her journey for love and acceptance continues. Collected Works keeps bringing the most thought-provoking authors to town, whether in person or in these Zoom-y times, don’t you think? (RG) Marcia Meier: Face: A Memoir Virtual Reading: 6 pm Tuesday, Jan. 12. Free. collectedworksbookstore.com

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Little Glimpse Beyond the Horizon “We’re well past the time when we can safely ignore events happening on the other side of the world.”

The Santa Fe Council on Inter­ national Relations is where foreign pol­ icy geeks go to be blissful. Its lectures are highly informative, especially for the less-informed folks, so the upcoming Ethiopia at a Crossroads talk is another wonderful addition to the ongoing lec­ ture series.

Ephraim Isaac, a noted Harvard scholar whose peacemaking efforts in Europe, Africa and the Middle East have brought him international renown, takes center stage with retired Ambassador Vicki Huddleston. Both come together to discuss the big questions and to dive into the African nation’s current crisis and the geopolitical future.

So why should Santa Feans be inter­ ested it what’s happening in East Africa?

“We believe in the incredible impor­ tance of educating people as global cit­ izens, and central to global citizenry is a rich understanding of events in other countries. In this time of globalization, our lives are all intently interwoven,” says Sandy Campbell, executive director of the Santa Fe Council on International Relations. “Further, in Santa Fe we’re

blessed with an amazingly global com­ munity and robust set of global connec­ tions. In possessing deeper, more refined information about the current context in Ethiopia, as elsewhere, we can take more informed actions—for instance, by using our consumer power to support or boycott products, or by demanding the US government take a different or more enlightened approach to the region.”

SFCIR’s past events (including with former CIA Director Michael Morrell and UN Ambassador Susan Rice) have been huge sellers with commendable impact on the community’s knowledge of the world around them.

“We’re well past the time when we can safely ignore events happening on the other side of the world,” Campbell adds. “In 2021, our highly connected world demands we know what is hap­ pening so that we can promote and sup­ port an agenda of human rights for all.”

(Riley Gardner) ETHIOPIA AT A CROSSROADS: AFRICA’S OLDEST COUNTRY CONFRONTS AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS: 10 am Thursday, Jan. 7. $10. sfcir.com

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New year, new exhibits— holy shit, art is the best!

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e’re now officially in 2021—is the world arbitrarily fixed yet? If not, we’re just gonna go right back to leaning on the arts for comfort in a more serious way than we usually do (which is already pretty serious).

If there’s one thing to glean from the following words, it’s that a virus can’t keep a good gallery down. Postponements? No problem. The art workers are working it out, and you’re reaping all the benefits.

Find here our top recommendations for shows running (or already open) this month.

Holly Grimm: Art & Machine Learning @Facebook Live 4 pm Thursday Feb. 7 (facebook.com/currentsnewmedia)

Michael Scott: Fire and Ice ­­ @Evoke Contemporary Through Feb. 20 (evokecontemporary.com) This one opened the day after Christmas so all is forgiven if you missed it—just know painter Scott’s tribute to the duality of fire and ice is another home run for Evoke, a gallery that already shows the likes of Patrick McGrath Muñiz and Soey Milk. In Fire and Ice, Scott bisects the Railyard space with contrasting oil works based in the show’s title. From there, he deconstructs notions of how an artist must work. Representational?

Borderline impressionist? Even tiptoeing up to Ukiyo-e? It’s all in here in works like “Old Faithful at Night,” “Fire Hole,” “Ridge Fire” and “Beaver Lodge, Dusk,”

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Everybody’s favorite new media folks from Currents welcome former Denverite and Diné artist Grimm to her new hometown of Santa Fe with a talk on how she uses AI and machine learning in her

practice. This will be a kind of introductory thing, so no need to be a computer scientist before signing up. In a nutshell, Grimm does everything from plein aire sketches, color study informed by Navajo tradition and the aforementioned computer stuff. The way we hear it, she’s even written her own neural net based in things like composition, texture, contrast and color. The future is now and sounds super-sweet.

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5 Artstuffs to Watch Out For This Month Cesar Santos’ “Valentina” from 5.

Gallery’s most recent show, one that’s extended through the end of the month.

among many others. Award extra points to Scott for finding the serene in something as terrifying as a forest fire, or the imposing in something as empirically calming as a flowing river. You can even tour the show virtually on the website.

Everything is Illuminated/Michael Anthony Hurd: Beyond the Rainbow @Keep Contemporary Through Jan. 17 (keepcontemporary.com) Time’s running out to see this pair of shows at downtown Santa Fe’s home to highbrow, lowbrow, contempo-weird and all points in between. On the Everything is Illuminated side, find more than 40 artists at the annual event. What’s it for?

Celebrating the gallery’s 4th anniversary, of course. We’re partial to a subtly dark portrait-meets-tattoo piece by Chile’s Huge Cisterna and the Tarot-like spirituality of Fran de Anda’s “Magician of the Flowers,” but Anthony Hurd’s strange and nightmarish rainbowscapes in the concurrent show drew us in and kept us there. Hurd’s a local, we hear, and we hope this kicks off years of exhibits to come. Frankly, it’s just satisfying to see such bold and imaginative use of color.

Make an appointment to visit ASAP (the gallery takes distancing and masks very seriously).

Friendship and what we find in the commonality of our differences @5.Gallery; Through Jan. 31 (5pointgallery.com)

Find “Queer Messiah” by Anthony Hurd at KEEP Contemporary this month.

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5. Gallery proprietor Max Baseman extends his current group show—which tragically opened during that two weeks

when we all thought things were getting back to normal—through the end of the month. A small but powerful assortment featuring Marc Baseman, Wes Mills, Cesar Santos and Turner Vinson, find painting, illustration, textured excellence and some of the most striking portraits we’ve seen since the portrait we mentioned up above. Don’t forget to support the indies, especially when they’re operating outside the downtown system.

Family Room @form & concept Jan. 29-May 15 (formandconcept.center) An exhibit dedicated to recreating and celebrating the idea of queer familial spaces—both blood and chosen family—comes to form & concept after the pandemic made it a non-starter in June. According to Gallery Director Jordan Eddy, the concept is about giving local queer artists a chance to collaboratively design a living space. Quelle surprise—they’re actual human beings! Find works from champs like Niomi Fawn (whose Wild Home show at Eddy’s side project artspace No Land a couple years back inspired Family Room), Anastasio Wrobel, C. Marquez and a gaggle of others. Note that the show is interactive, so appointments and masks are a must (Eddy says the show will be deep cleaned between appointments). Did we mention Albuquerque drag cadre Saints Ball is part of the show? Assuming all goes well, more performance pieces might find their way into the exhibit later this year, and we even hear publications (like zines!) are onhand to up immersion at the touchable and nigh-livable show.

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oughly two weeks ago, chef Fernando Ruiz opened his newest enterprise, Palace Prime Steakhouse (palaceprimesf.com) in the former Palace Saloon location at—get this—142 W Palace Ave. You might know Ruiz as a bit of a celebrity following appearances on the Food Network. We caught up with the guy to get a broader picture of what’s going on, including answers to why someone would open a restaurant during COVID-19.

SFR: Let’s get the big question out of the way—why open a restaurant in the middle of a pandemic?

Fernando Ruiz: Why not? I’ve done crazier stuff growing up, and this is probably one of the least crazy things I’ve ever done—so, why not? In my opinion and my partners’ opinion, we think the restaurants that come alive or do survive are going to do really well [after the pandemic]. This project has been in the works for at least over a year, too. And it’s The Palace. Everybody’s got a story about the place. We were gonna do it no matter what. We did a total renovation inside. When you walk in, it really doesn’t resemble The Palace it was before.

A lot of people are asking me, how do you describe the restaurant? I’m telling people, if you get a NYC restaurant and a Santa Fe restaurant and you mated them and had a baby restaurant, that’s what it would be.

Tell me about the development of your menu. It seems minimalist, but also ­focused in its offerings.

The menu you see now is probably half of

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what I came up with to begin with. We shortened it because we have a smaller space where we can seat since we’re not open inside yet. It’s really emphasizing the steaks and fresh seafood. I’ll also have an oyster bar and we’re incorporating ceviche and sashimi…that’s not open right now because we only have the patio, but once we’re allowed 25% at least indoors, I’ll start adding the other items to the menu and we can keep expanding the menu.

Once we can do 50% inside, we’ll go bigger.

I know locally sourced is important to you. Is your meat all local?

I wouldn’t call it local, I’m calling it regional, which is New Mexico, West Texas, Arizona and Colorado. I’ve managed to meet a lot of small regional beef farmers, and I’ve been working with them, and I’m getting the opportunity where I can get that product.

Not a lot of people in New Mexico have access to that product. Same thing with the seafood. I’m working with four or five seafood companies from back east, Hawaii, Mexico, and I can get limited fish for a limited time that not a lot of people in Santa Fe will have on their menus.

How have the first weeks of business been going? We hear a lot of talk about supporting local restaurants right now.

Is that happening for you?

We just hit our two-week mark on Sunday, and we’ve been pretty much booked every day. It’s been going great. I kind of like the way we did the opening—25% on the patio. The reason I say I like doing this the way we’re doing it is because it kind of

gives the kitchen a way to get settled in. It would have been 100 times harder if we did a grand opening with indoor dining, I don’t think it would have gone as smoothly as it’s gone. I’m really excited about doing it this way because it gives us a chance in the front of the house and the back of the house to get comfortable.

It’s a troubling time, but it’s a time we can all evolve with and roll with the punches. There’s really not a whole lot the industry can do but evolve.

-Chef Fernando Ruiz

Your personal story involves stints in jail when you were younger, which you credit as ultimately leading to your work as a chef. Can you speak to how you came to that realization?

Basically I was in and out of jail in Maricopa County in Arizona, living in a tent city and walking around all disoriented because it’s 122 degrees out. I was [cooking] in the jails. I always knew how to cook, I grew up slaughtering and cooking as a

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kid, but I kind of got the knack for it when I was in jail working in the kitchens. 85-90% of people who are in jail have worked in a restaurant, so everybody who was in there cooking already had some background in kitchens. We would have to make our own food for us and the inmates with what we had. You’d have to get creative. I remember receiving 900 pounds of beef liver, and that’s all we served—beef liver steaks, beef liver stew...I can’t eat beef liver now.

You mentioned slaughtering and cooking as a kid. Were your folks ranchers?

Mom and dad were both from Mexico, I was raised in Phoenix. My parents migrated from Mexico in their late 20s and ended up in Arizona, and what they would do, me being little, as soon as I’d get out of school, they’d drop me off on [my grandfather’s] ranch in Guaymas, Sonora in Mexico, and I’d be there all summer long from age 7 to 13. They ran cows and goats, made cheeses, sold the milk, slaughtered; we’d go hunting, we’d play rodeo with the calves, me and my cousins. I loved it. I looked forward to it all year.

Having that experience when you were young, is finding your creative voice through food something you want to pass on to others, perhaps young people?

I have little ones here, older ones in Arizona. A couple of my little ones here are into it, but I don’t want them to think they have to do what I do. I also don’t want them to think it’s OK to get in trouble as a young person and be OK later on in life—because it’s not supposed to turn out this way. But in my kitchen and in my previous kitchens, I’ve always hired people with a criminal background.

I’ve hired ex-MS13 gang members, and they’re some of the best workers I’ve ever had, the best people I’ve mentored, and they’re still with me wherever I go. It’s all knowledge.

I teach all my cooks everything I know. It makes my life a lot easier, their lives a lot easier. Knowledge is free.

Given the shape of the world right now, what would you want people to know about working in the food world?

Of course the restaurants are taking the biggest hit—we all know that, but we’re not the only ones. Small retail, small mom and pop shops, whether it’s an art gallery or clothing store or shoe store, everybody’s feeling it. But we’re doing great on the takeout. It’s a troubling time, but it’s a time we can all evolve with and roll with the punches. There’s really not a whole lot the industry can do but evolve.

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Your Name Engraved Herein Review: Great direction and swoonworthy cinematography provide a flawed but sweet tale of first love in post-martial law Taiwan.

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Seems like queer East Asian filmmakers might see Taiwan as a beacon in their region. The country’s far from perfect, but as the only one in the whole region to permit same-sex marriage and other civil rights, filmmakers there are on a mission to capture the queer experience in case it falls victim to stereotypes or bizarre audience expectations. So comes Your Name Engraved Herein, just reaching American audiences on streaming services after garnering a whopping $100 million in Taiwan this past fall.

Director Kuang-Hui Liu’s second feature opens as Taiwan’s decades-long martial law ends circa 1987. A new freedom dawns and the students at an all-male Catholic school find themselves in the midst of a cultural euphoria. Reserved Jiahan (Edward Chen) is smitten by the mercurial, wild-spirited Birdy (Tseng Jing-Hua), but despite the hopes of a new enlightenment, the patriarchal sway of the old ways still holds firm in the mind of Taiwan’s citizens.

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For the better part of a year, movie studios have implored us to hold out for their projects.

“They deserve to be seen on the big screen,” they seem to say, yet this has birthed a conundrum for the cinephiles: We’re asked to pay more for worse quality while studios hound us about the sanctity of cinema. Come on.

Following up on Patty Jenkin’s 2017 milestone Wonder Woman is Wonder Woman 1984. Fast & Furious alum Gal Gadot returns as the iconic Diana Prince, fighting against a magic rock that grants wishes (okay, sure—I mean, Avengers has a magic glove). Faux tycoon Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal, giving a bit more than anyone asked for) is a wannabe oil baron, and he pairs with Diana’s friend-turnedfoe Barbara Minerva (Kritsen Wiig) to bring the world to the edge of disaster via the aforementioned magic rock. Jesus Christ.

WW84 isn’t so bad it’s good—it’s just bad.

It’s bizarre. The logic is haphazard. Its portrayal of Arabic peoples alone is so inaccurate and stereotypical, it’s downright offensive. There are AI machines and bots that scan bad screenplays from Lifetime to build their own, and even those scripts would still give you a more enjoyable experience than WW84. It’s so hard, in fact, to call it a film when it’s really just a collection of unrelated scenes stitched together with forgettable performances from literally ev20

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Herein’s path forward is familiar, but expressed in such a literary quality that its tropes feel fresher.

Cinematographer Hung-i Yao steals the show (his work here won him the Golden Horse, Taiwan’s highest film award, for Best Cinematography) with frames that ooze copper-tinted nostalgia. Skillful blocking from Liu builds quiet scenes wherein Birdy and Jia-han mull their attraction—these are some of the best moments in recent international cinema. Liu brings such a wonderful naturalism to his project, in fact, that you’ll want to see more young lovers steal movie posters as a way to bond.

The youthful optimism reaches its inevitable halt, however, demonstrated by a sequence which finds the students participating in competitive military drills. Birdy leads what becomes an impromptu musical march that faces harsh rejection from the powers that be. When our leads realize “new” is still tantamount to “dangerous,” Herein’s strengths begin to falter. It descends into repeti-

eryone and repeated instances of Gadot of saving enough children to fill an orphanage. Don’t worry, action fans— the kids are alright.

Even among a bloated field of similar comic book outings, WW84 doesn’t even try for quality. It’s a pickpocket at a carnival trying and mostly succeeding to get into your wallet; Tom Hooper’s Cats was at least fun-bad—this is almost criminal.

Mainly it’s like a reminder that superhero films feel really dated of late. The sad part is, they don’t have to be. They could be so much better, but so fragile is their makers’ desire to appeal to the broadest possible audiences that fans have to drag the genre kicking and screaming for the most minor forms of representation.

It took over a decade to get a single line from a gay character in the Marvel universe, and don’t forget that 2017’s first Wonder Woman outing remains the first-ever woman-led superhero movie in history. That’s only three years ago.

Yikes.

We’re left to assume studios have such little faith in us, aren’t we? Such films seem to chant “You are a moron, but we have your money— what’re you gonna do about it?”

Of course, the century-long history of blockbusters hasn’t exactly been highbrow. But it feels like the studios at least used to have the courtesy to pretend audiences were at least a little sophisticated. So if there’s any truth in the forecasts that everything will move to streaming (a massive slate of Warner Brothers’ upcoming movies will find their way to HBO Max), let’s hope corporate crafted calamities

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tive, soapy melodrama, and while boys screaming and crying about love can be a lot of queer fun, you can’t help but wish it would speed up. Given its strong start, this is a sad stumble. Thankfully a wonderful finale keeps Liu’s film afloat, even if Herein sails into port weighted down.

Thus, it isn’t a knockout, but folks who like sentimental storytelling (yours truly) will fall hard; audiences unfamiliar with Taiwan’s cinematic style and output not so much. Still, Liu’s directorial future is bright and hopefully his subsequent works can find a better balance within the melodrama while holding tight to the naturalism at which he excels.

like WW84 might become of the past. Because we need theatrical cinema. Is it too much to ask for the films to be decent? (RG) HBO Max, PG-13, 151 min.

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Animation giant Pixar brings its newest outing to the Disney+ streaming service in our new sans-theater world, and while Soul does find a so-so level of originality, it ultimately lands squarely where most Pixar films have since 2010—namely, big ideas are explored through safe and standard storytelling executions.

Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) is a middle school band teacher by day and a wannabe jazz pianist by night. On the day his dream gig finally arrives, Joe dies in a tragic manhole accident (since manholes are fatal in animation) and finds himself in a dimension where not-yet-born souls are designed for passions, loves and hatreds—in other words, humanity.

22 (Tina Fey) is one of these little ghostly souls waiting to discover its purpose. When the two are paired together, they embark on an unexpected journey through New York City.

22 searches for purpose and Joe searches for a way to get back to living.

Soul explores the big questions like how it’s almost impossible to believe we’re merely accidents of millions of interacting atoms over

YOUR NAME ENGRAVED HEREIN Directed by Kuang-Hui Liu With Chen and Tseng Netflix, NR, 118 min.

trillions of years, or that being “meant” for something might just be a concept we invented to make sense of existence. For Joe, the purpose is jazz, and one has to give Pixar at least some credit for pursuing their deepest subject yet, even if it doesn’t have all the answers.

Pixar’s first Black lead (in effing 2020, no less) is also an achievement worth noting, and highlighting various skin tones with precision animation lighting techniques to showcase diversity is a very good move from Pixar, especially since animated lighting has to be created from scratch here. In fact, Soul is the best-looking work from Pixar thus far. A jazzy, early autumn NYC filled with existentialism? Oh, yes—the environment looks and feels great.

Pixar scholars will no doubt note the studio’s consistent pattern: Another buddy-cop journey in some existential bureaucracy where our protagonists are hunted by someone (or something) for some simple misunderstanding (see Inside Out, Coco, Onward). Tropes and familiarity aren’t a crime and can be used well, but Soul tends to feel stilted by antics that fill the already short running time and also somehow make the story drag.

But it’s a wholesome experience, and Pixar still makes better projects than our teamwork-allergic society deserves, which continually makes the studio the envy of its competitors. Soul is the best film Pixar’s put out in years, even if it doesn’t reach the halcyon days between Toy Story and Up. (RG) Disney+, PG, 102 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The pandemic has made it challenging to nurture our communities. In order to make new connections and keep our existing connections vibrant, we’ve had to be extra resourceful. I hope you will make this work one of your holy quests in 2021, Aries. In my astrological opinion, you should be ingenious and tireless as you nurture your web of allies. Your assignment during our ongoing crisis is to lead the way as you show us all how to ply the art of high-minded networking.

teachers who gave us the Tree did not regard beauty as merely a luxury to be sought only when all practical business is taken care of. Nor is it a peripheral concern for those who pursue a spiritual path. Rather, beauty is essential for our health and intelligence. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to take a cue from the Tree of Life. During the next 12 months, give special attention to people and things and experiences and thoughts and feelings that are beautiful to you. Meditate on how to nurture them and learn from them and draw inspiration from them.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus actor George Clooney is worth $500 million. Yet his dazzling opulence is puny compared to that of Taurus entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg, whose fortune exceeds $100 billion.

It’s my duty to inform you that you will probably never achieve either man’s levels of wealth. Yet I do hold out hope that in the next 12 months you will launch plans that ultimately enable you to have all the money you need. 2021 will be a favorable time to formulate and set in motion a dynamic master plan for financial stability.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): One of your main themes for the next 12 months comes from Leonardo da Vinci.

He wrote, “To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Learn how to see.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.” If you use da Vinci’s instructions as a seed for your meditations, you’ll stir up further inspirations about how to make 2021 a history-making epoch in the evolution of your education. I hope you will treasure the value of “learning how to see” and “realizing how everything connects to everything else.” They should be at the root of your intention to learn as much as you can.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to motivational speaker Les Brown, the problem for many people is not that “they aim too high and miss,” but that “they aim too low and hit.” I’m conveying this to you just in time for the Reach Higher Phase of your long-term astrological cycle. According to my analysis, you’ll generate good fortune for yourself if you refine and expand your personal goals. Here’s a key detail: Don’t borrow anyone else’s standards of success. Home in on your own unique soul’s code, and give it fuller, deeper, wilder expression.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One of my primary pleasures in reading books is to discover thoughts and feelings I have never before encountered. That’s exciting! But it’s hard to force myself to keep plowing through an author’s prose if it’s full of stuff that I already know about from my own life or from books, movies, and other art. Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels fit the latter description. I realize that many people love his fiction, but for me it is monumentally obvious and boring. What about you, Sagittarius? Where do you go to be exposed to thrilling CANCER (June 21-July 22): An extensive study by new ways of looking at the world? Judging from the psychiatric researchers suggests that well more than astrological omens, I conclude that this quest will be half of us experienced a potentially disabling trauma in especially fun and crucial for you in the coming months. childhood. You’re in the minority if you didn’t! That’s CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I only want people the bad news. The good news is that 2021 will be a time when you Cancerians will have more power than around me who can do the impossible,” said Capricorn businesswoman Elizabeth Arden. In that ever before to heal at least some of the wounds from spirit, and in accordance with your astrological potenyour old traumas. You will also attract extra luck and tials, I hereby authorize you to pursue two “impossihelp to accomplish these subtle miracles. To get the ble” goals in 2021. The first comes to you courtesy of process started, make a list of three practical actions fashion writer Diana Vreeland, who wrote, “There’s you can take to instigate your vigorous healing. only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo author Isabel Allende says, of inspiration.” Your second “impossible” goal is “We are in the world to search for love, find it and lose from actor Juliette Binoche, who said, “My only it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, ambition is to be true every moment I am living.” and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your past is becoming am covered with proud scars.” I appreciate Allende’s increasingly irrelevant, while your future is still a bit point of view, and understand that it’s useful, even amorphous. To help clarify the possibilities that you inspirational, for many people. But my path has been could harvest in 2021, I suggest you suspend your thedifferent. As a young man, I enjoyed my endless quest ories bout what your life is about. Empty yourself out for sex and romance. It was thrilling to keep leaping from affair to affair. But as I eventually discovered, that as much as you can. Pledge to re-evaluate everything habit made me stupid and superficial about love. It pre- you think you know about your purpose. Once you’ve accomplished that, meditate on the following quesvented me from having to do the hard psychological tions: 1. What experiences do you truly need and paswork necessary to continually reinvent intimacy—and become eligible for deeper, more interesting versions of sionately long for—not the experiences you needed and longed for in the past, but rather those that are love. I bring this to your attention, Leo, because I think most vivid and moving right now. 2. What are the dif2021 could be your time for a personal rebirth that will ferences between your fearful fantasies and your accube made possible by deep, interesting versions of love. rate intuitions? How can you cultivate the latter and VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Occultist Israel Regardie downplay the former? 3. What are your nightly dreams (1907–1985) was an accomplished author and influand semi-conscious fantasies telling you about how to encer. To what did he attribute his success? I’ll let him create the most interesting version of the future? speak for himself: “Nothing in the world can take the PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Gunter Grass place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius wrote, “Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. come out and we are capable of writing about them.”

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipo- I would universalize his thought in this way: Most of tent.” I hope you will write out this quote and tape it to us know that possibly useful ideas and dreams are in the drawer for years before they finally come out and your bathroom mirror for the duration of 2021, Virgo. we know how to use them. I believe this will be an LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Kabbalistic Tree of ongoing experience for you in 2021, Pisces.

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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS BODY OF WRITING: Meet with us on Zoom in a therapeutic group to practice simple relaxation and mindfulness techniques paired with writing prompts to increase connection and integration between intuitive body knowledge and the creative mind. Facilitated by student-therapists, Erin and Christian, via Zoom through Tierra Nueva Counseling Center.

Group will meet Tuesday evenings, 6:30-8:00, January 19-February 23, 2021. $10/ session, sliding scale. Call 505-471-8575 to register.

CREATIVE CONNECTION ONLINE RECOVERY GROUP: Join us for an interactive psychoeducational group for community building and artbased awareness around your addiction(s) such as shopping, gambling, social media, etc. Group meets online Fridays from 6-7:00PM Jan 8th-Feb 26th. Co-facilitated

by Amanda LaMendola and Courtney Kayser, student art-therapists with the Tierra Nueva Counseling Center. $10/session, sliding scale. To register please call 471-8575.

DREAM INTERPRETATION & ART INTEGRATION GROUP: Join us in exploring our dream adventures, integrating their messages through art, for the purpose of healing. Facilitated by Tierra Nueva Counseling Center student therapists Annie and Kennedy. We will be utilizing Robert Johnson's book, Inner Work, and incorporating art directives to assist in dream analysis and integration. Mondays, from 6 - 8 pm, January 11th- February 15th on Zoom. $10/ session, sliding scale.

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FIRST RESPONDERS SUPPORT GROUP: We will meet on Monday evenings from 6:00pm-7:30pm, January 18th - March 9th on Zoom. We will be discussing impacts of trauma on the brain and body, coping skills for high-stress careers, and themes of guilt; perfectionism; and decision-making. Group facilitated by studenttherapist, Alissa Petrosoniak, a fire fighter's daughter with experience working in an adult detention center as part of a behavioral health team. $10/ session, sliding scale. Call 505-471-8575 to register.

HEALING HOOP EMBROIDERY GROUP: Learn a new skill, such as basic stitching techniques that can help build selfesteem, calm and regulate emotions, and build community connections during a time of COVID isolation. Find out how embroidery can soothe your anxiety and be a fun way to express your creative self!

Groups will be held via Zoom.

Call Tierra Nueva Counseling Center at 505 471-8575 to register. Saturdays, 4-5:30, January 9- February 20. $10/ session, sliding scale.

LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUP: We will use The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook along with art-making directives.

Co-facilitated by Hope Hayes and Sam Haid, student-therapists-intraining via Zoom through Tierra Nueva Counseling Center. Ages 21 and up.

Thursdays, 7- 8:30 pm.

Weekly from January 14th- March 11th. Call 505- 471-8575 to register.

PARENTING DURING A PANDEMIC: Having an especially difficult time parenting during quarantine?

You are not alone. We will be utilizing mindfulness and self-reflection to explore how we can nurture our children (and ourselves) through this difficult time. Zoom group meets Thursday evenings from 7:00-8:30 pm beginning January 7. Co-facilitated by Tierra Nueva Counseling Center interns Deborah Weisner and Grady Jaramillo.

Please call 471-8575 to register, cost is $10 per session (sliding scale available).

STRESS RELIEF FOR UNCERTAIN TIMES: If you are experiencing heightened stress or anxiety, meet with us on Zoom to learn simple mindfulness and relaxation techniques, participate in supportive conversation and listening, and explore emotions with artmaking. Facilitated by two Southwestern counseling students via Zoom through Tierra Nueva Counseling Center. Group will meet every Thursday evening, 6:00-7:30 pm, January 7-February 11. Call 505-471-8575 to register. Size of group is limited. Erin Hiser and Christien Gholson.

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Group meets every Monday (Moon-day) from 5:30-7 pm from 1/11 to 2/15 via Zoom. $10/session, sliding scale.

Co-facilitated by student therapists Laura A. and Heidi. To register call Tierra Nueva Counseling Center: 505-471-8575.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Lucy Colleen Reardon Laporte, Deceased.

No. 2020-0207 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address P O Box 1985 100 Catron Street Santa Fe, NM 87504 Dated: December 9th, 2020, Leo E. Gonzales, Personal Representative, 936 Golden Yarrow Trail, Bernalillo, NM 87004.

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF JORGE ENRIQUE LUGO Case No.: D-101-CV-2020-02669 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Jorge Enrique Lugo will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:50 a.m. on the 21st day of January, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Jorge Enrique Lugo to Jorge Enrique Alejandro.

Dated: 12/17/2020 KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Leah Baldonado Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Jorge Enrique Lugo Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF SANDRA J. ALEJANDRO-LUGO Case No.: D-101-CV-2020-02674 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Sandra J. Alejandro-Lugo will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:40 a.m. on the 21st day of January, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Sandra J. Alejandro-Lugo to Sandra June Alejandro.

Dated: 12/17/2020 KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Leah Baldonado Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Sandra J. Alejandro-Lugo Petitioner, Pro Se

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF JO LYNN THIEME Case No.: D-101-CV-2020-02642 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Jo Lynn Thieme will apply to the Honorable Francis J. Mathew, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 1:15 p.m. on the 15th day of January, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Jo Lynn Thieme to JoLynn Thieme.

Dated 12/18/20 Kathleen Vigil, District Court Clerk By: Leah Baldonado Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Jo Lynn Thieme Petitioner, Pro Se

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