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July, 2024

Blessings to all this July! Find below a special note highlighting upcoming events NM & EL Paso IPL is co-sponsoring as well as opportunities to hear from our community in advocacy and inspiration.

This Week!

ANNUAL CHURCHROCK URANIUM SPILL COMMEMORATION

Saturday, July 13, 7am to 4pm, Churchrock

MASE (Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment) is hosting their annual commemoration for the uranium spill at Red Water Pond which is the second largest in our country's history. The day will include: Blessing, Walk, Discussion, Lunch, and Closing Prayer. Bring your own chairs and umbrellas.

Flier and more info here.

A WORLD WITHOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS

From Reflection to Action

Sunday, July 14, doors open at 2pm.



An Interfaith Remembrance of the Tinity Test in June of 1945.  All Are Welcomed.

Free: Reservations are highly recommended

For reservations: Event Invitation

St JOHN XXIII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY: 4831 TRAMWAY RIDGE DR NE, ALBUQUERQUE

NM & El Paso IPL in the News

"A World Without Nuclear Weapons is Possible" ABQ Journal, Opinon

Along with other faith leaders and organizations, we co-signed an opinion piece uplifting the moral calling and human choice to create a world free of nuclear weapons: "Like climate change, that other existential threat, nuclear weapons are a problem of our own making. Should we choose to do so, we have the power to fix it. By acting with empathy and compassion we can in fact change “our modes of thinking,” and use the gifts of human intellect and reason to create a world free of nuclear weapons."  

Please check out the full Opinion piece HERE.

"Loving Our Changing Homelands" NM PBS, In Focus

Tune in for an interview by environmental journalist Laura Paskus with our very own Sr. Joan Brown! The show will air this Friday, July 12th on NM PBS at 7:00 pm. Afterwards, you will be able to find clips at the NM PBS wesbite, as well as the In Focus youtube page.

We hope you can tune in for this beautiful conversation and series!

More July Events...

Film Screening of "Cooked"

Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 6:00 pm (ABQ Mennonite Church)

All are invited to a haystack (taco variation) buffet and screening of the award-winning film "Cooked: Survival by Zipcode." The film delves into the story of the worst heat disaster in U.S. history in 1995 in Chicago, when 739 residents—mostly elderly and black—died over the course of one week. The film links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the manmade disaster of structural racism, shining a light on the issues of poverty, race, class, and education that underlie how natural disasters take lives.

Hosted at ABQ Mennonite Church (1300 Girard Blvd NE) in partnership with Central United Methodist Church, First Congregational UCC, New Mexico & El Paso Interfaith Power and Light, and more friends!

Agua es Vida: Do Your Part!

Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 6:30 pm

Join MIddle Rio Grande Water Advocates for a discussion with Nat Chakeres, OSE General Counsel, and Tanya Trujillo, Deputy State Engineer, to discuss how the OSE is managing Rio Grande Compact compliance in the Middle Rio Grande and below Elephant Butte Dam in the Lower Rio Grande. Learn about incentives and motivators that the OSE can use to ensure that New Mexico complies with its legal water sharing mandates. Register HERE.

Quintessence Summer Festival

"The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy"

Concert Sunday, July 28th, 3pm.

NM & El Paso IPL is a co-sponsoring and will be tabling at the conert with advocacy and prayerful materials.See the Quintessence website for more details and for the workshop content that will be offered in the days prior to the concert.

Our co-chair, Ruth Striegel, will be helping lead a workshop highlighting our mass extinction crisis write large. In her presentation, she uplifts this quote on hope:

"Hope is holding a creative tension between what is and what could and should be, each day doing something to narrow the distance between the two." —Parker J. Palmer