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May 10, 2022 Thursday evening public discussion in Albuquerque: Ukraine, propaganda, progressives supporting Nazis and war Permalink for this letter (later). Please forward as desired. Prior letters to this New-Mexico-oriented list. Dear friends and colleagues -- The push for a longer and more intense war in Ukraine has only gotten worse since our Bulletin of 12 days ago ("Bulletin 299: Emergency call to action: stop Biden's proposed $33 billion war escalation"). Apart from the stalwart ANSWER Coalition and our own small efforts, we are unaware of any current organized opposition in New Mexico to the U.S. war against Russia in Ukraine and elsewhere. No other New Mexico organization, church, political party or group within a party, and no member of our congressional delegation is to our knowledge doing or saying anything against this war. We haven't made an extensive search and perhaps we are mistaken. We would be delighted if that were the case! Please tell us if so! Also feel free to let us know if you are an active part of any national organized opposition we should know about. But regardless of whether opposition to the war in New Mexico is entirely absent, or just very weak and invisible, we are in a very strange situation, in this state and in this country. We evidently need to talk about this. So: On Thursday May 12, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, in the large meeting room of the Albuquerque Mennonite Church, 1300 Girard Blvd. NE (map), the Los Alamos Study Group will lead a discussion about the conflict in Ukraine. Related, our promised antiwar billboard went up in Algodones on May 5 (photo). We need to get a proper web page up with resources about the war ASAP and hope to have that done by Thursday. Some of you have probably seen Greg's interview with Brian Becker at BreakThrough News ("Escalation in Ukraine: The Nuclear War Danger is Real," May 4, 2022). This has had a lot of views and was further spread by Caitlin Johnstone and then Consortium News. Previous recent work on this subject: on our lists:
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The Study Group has an "inner group" with whom we share a little bit of the very best information and analyses as we see and find it daily. Some of us share a lot more between one another. Structurally, this situation isn't too great. Trish and I are full-time nuclear experts, with non-inconsiderable entre in Washington despite our disarmament, peacenik, and climate-hawk views. We can't drop our litigation, decisionmaker education, lobbying, and media work to go very far down the road of organizing, especially under current languid conditions. So who will? At one time we could do both, but the U.S., and New Mexico, and their institutions including many NGOs, have now all moved far to the de facto political "right," at least as the term was used 20 years ago. And we all now live and work in an almost total propaganda sphere, with the confusion that entails for so many. So while the war and its support -- by progressive Democrats, for example -- is a huge problem, it is also a symptom of even bigger problems that affect all the issues we face. Right now, the best simple thing I can think of to do is to throw open our "inner group" to more people. We have powerful adversaries, so we cannot create an open list where trolls take over as we almost invariably have seen elsewhere. If you want to be in a much larger information flow about the issues we are working on, please write. We always ask that you think of volunteering with us, and we must perforce always look for financial support as well. See you on Thursday! Greg Mello and Trish Williams-Mello, for the Los Alamos Study Group |
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