Bulletin 283 followup: Working links to photos; outreach orientation Thursday pm in Santa Fe

July 25, 2021

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Previously: Bulletin 282: New billboard: "One bomb core: $50 million -- or 1,000 teachers. Choose."

Dear friends and colleagues --

There were problems with links to the full-sized photos for some (most?) people. We have fixed these in the updated version of Bulletin 283 on-line. Or you can go to  Aerial Photos of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) & surrounding areas Apr & Jun 2021.

As mentioned in a letter to local friends yesterday, we will be having a public meeting this coming Thursday evening, July 29, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at St. John's United Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail, in Santa Fe (map). New Mexico is really in crisis -- openly now, not just in the perception of a few. Necessity can be the mother of invention: if we pitch in, there could be a greater flowering of both resistance and constructive activity as well as dissolution of some political divisions in service of getting real work done. The alternative would seem to be an increasingly feudal society with a growing "precariat." We will send out more information about this meeting in the next couple of days. (Such meeting invites are normally sent to a subset of this email list. If you want to get them send a blank email here.)

Regarding Bulletin 282 (New billboard: "One bomb core: $50 million -- or 1,000 teachers. Choose."), people outside our "high-tech" state might not know that only 30% of New Mexico third-graders are reading-proficient (in 2019; nothing changed for the better during the covid pandemic). Pueblo leaders and a few legislators are rightly furious (here, here, and here), which is encouraging.

Relatedly, here you can see the Mayor of Espanola being grateful -- as we too would be --  for $876,000 in federal grant monies to help with broadband in his city, with help from LANL on the underlying needs assessment. That's fine as far as it goes, but it's not a lot -- and this federal grant cost the federal government about 1/50th of one pit. As a friend in Taos puts it, LANL "sprinkles little grains of salt" all over northern New Mexico, building a culture of dependency. Another calls it "political heroin," an addictive agent of political and moral stupor. Another calls it the "Stockholm Syndrome," where kidnapping victims come to identify with their powerful captors.

Best wishes,

Greg and Trish