1. ACPJ Events & News

   a. Thank you to Marcey
   b. Updated Membership Policy
   c. Planting Day at The Peace Center!
   d. June 2, 16 and 30: ABQ Workers School
   e. June 21: Help us paint the Peace Hall
   f. June 26: ACP&J Film Night
   g. Yoga on Wednesdays and Thursdays at ACPJ
   h. Last weekend’s Police Violence
   

2. Events in the Wider Community
   a. June 1: Remaining Native Film Screening at The Guild
   b. June 1: New Mexico vs The Nuclear Economy Webinar
   c. June 2: Santa Fe Watershed River Cleanup and Coffee
   d. June 2: John Fleck Author Talk at Bookworks
   e. June 4: “An Ordinary Insanity” Film Screening with Daniel Ellsberg
   f. June 20: Taos Fundraiser for the Anti-Uranium Mapping Project
   g. June 8: Deadline for Public Comments on LANL Nuclear Waste (Submit Comments here)
   h. June 13: Sacred Heart Parish Picnic at Barelas
   i: June 14: New Mexico Peace Choir at Central United Methodist Church
   j: June 14: Sunset Summer Series Lotus Sound Bath
   k: June 20: Fairgrounds Organizing Meeting
   l: June 21: Community Birding Outing
   m: June 21: The Peace Trio Performance
   n: June 26: Queer Cinema for Palestine at The Guild
   o: June 28: Mile Post 398 at The Guild
   

ACP&J Events and News

Thank you to Marcey: Earlier this month, Marcey Kostiner, one of our CC members, let us know she will be exiting her position on the CC in order to focus on her other work. We were saddened to get this news, but are also extremely grateful for the opportunity to have served with Marcey on the CC. During her time on the CC, Marcey has helped the ACP&J get into compliance with the city, provided services for hundreds needing a warm meal and a good chat, acted as a mentor to many, and sustained our building as our main groundskeeper, tending to broken appliances, leaks and potholes. She always works from a place of kindness, optimism and consideration for others. We will miss Marcey and are glad to continue working with her in her role as a coordinator of The Peace Cafe.

Updated Policies: The CC passed an updated Membership Policy and a new Safety and Accountability policy at May’s CC meeting! The impetus of this effort was to standardize our rates, processes and procedures, and through it we also clarified and updated our Events Policies and forms. Please find the new Membership Policy here, and our Safety and Accountability Policy here.

Planting Day at the Peace Center! On May 23rd several volunteers, members and friends of the Peace Center came together to improve the landscaping of our outdoor space. Alicia RW led this effort and brought a truck load of wood chips to spread next to the building and the parking lot wall. Alicia, Braiden, Richard and Renee moved the wood chips and then loaded pieces of concrete into the truck to be hauled away. Armee and Sunshine from Kalpulli Kaltonaka, who meet weekly for Mexica dance practice at the Peace Center, came to bless us, the plants, and the planting project. Thank you! Multiple community members including Olivia and Ellan at Good Dirt Farm, Ian and Renee provided native and water-wise high desert plants including trees, flowers, and cactus. Patsy, Richard and Renee planted several of these around the building and at the parking lot boulevard space, and (another) Richard, an enthusiast and spontaneous neighbor, came to help with the cleanup. Thank you all for your efforts to beautify the space! It was fun working in community! Photos by Cecilia Chávez Beltrán

June 2, 16 and 30: Albuquerque Workers School is a political education class facilitated by Workers for A New Southwest, reading and discussing fundamental Marxist theory. This gathering takes from 6-8:00pm at the Peace Hall. Join this course to recover the radical roots of philosophy to sharpen our tools of critique, and to see how the history of thought is also the history of class struggle.

June 21: The Peace Hall is in need of a fresh coat of paint! We’ll be gathering to start taping and painting starting at 1pm. Food will be provided.

June 26: ABQ Cine Club has been showing socialist films and films from the Global South since 2023 at The ABQ Center for Peace and Justice. They will be hosting another screening on June 26 at 6pm, of “War at A Distance”. In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those generated on computer. This is the central premise of “War at a Distance”, which sets out to define the relationship between military strategy and industrial production and sheds light on how the technology of war finds applications in everyday life.

Yoga on Wednesdays and Thursdays at the ABQ Center for Peace and Justice: Each Wednesday at ACP&J Lisbeth hosts Chair Yoga! Join from 1:30-2:30, donations accepted 🧘🏽 And on Thursdays, there will be Decarcerate Yoga, a space for people impacted by the carceral state, which you can join from 3:00-5:00pm.

Last week’s police violence: New Mexico is currently the state with the highest rate of police killings in the country and Albuquerque Police Department (APD) has shot three people in the past week, killing two of them. Three women were arrested by the APD at the site of their latest shooting on Central and San Mateo over the weekend while protesting the cop shootings. According to organization, Dare to Struggle, officers asked an AI tool on their APD devices what the women could be charged with. These arrests and murders, the killings of all working class and unhoused people on the streets and communities of Albuquerque are part of a greater systemic war of the ruling elites against the people of this city and country.

Events in the Wider Community

June 1: Remaining Native Film Screening at The Guild
On June 1 at 12:30pm, The Guild Cinema will be screening “Remaining Native”. Ku Stevens, who lives on the Yerington Paiute reservation is a solo runner at a high school with no coach. This is a free screening with limited seating.

June 1: New Mexico vs The Nuclear Economy Webinar
Pueblo Action Alliance, SW Uranium Impacts and others are hosting a webinar to learn how to make public comments to protect New Mexico from nuclear industry.

June 2: Santa Fe Watershed River Cleanup and Coffee
Help clean the riverbed in Santa Fe! Coffee, snacks and trash bags will be provided. 9am-11am, West De Vargas St., Santa Fe.

June 2: John Fleck Author Talk at Bookworks
A reading and signing of Ribbons of Green: The Rio Grande and the Making of Modern Albuquerque. The author, Fleck, will be in conversation with Enrique Lamadrid. 6:00pm at Bookworks on Rio Grande.

June 4: “An Ordinary Insanity” Film Screening with Daniel Ellsberg
Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers in 1971, is featured in a new 29-minute film that provides “a powerful wake-up call about the planetary threat posed by nuclear weapons”. A free online premiere will take place on Thursday, June 4 at 6pm MST on Zoom, and will include a panel featuring the director, Judith Ehrlich and Ellsberg family members.

June 6: Anti-Uranium Mapping Project Fundraiser: Join the Anti-Uranium Mapping Project at 7k Studios in Taos for an evening of anticolonial mapping, live music, DJ sets, and community building in support of uranium based education in the Southwest. Starts at 5:00pm.

June 8: Deadline for Public Comments on LANL Nuclear Waste
New Mexico officials are taking action to require DOE, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to prioritize sending LANL’s “Legacy” nuclear waste to WIPP for disposal. “Legacy Waste” is Cold War nuclear waste created during decades of nuclear weapons research, design and fabrication. Members of the Stop Forever WIPP Coalition and Fire on the Mountain and others urge submission of written comments in support of NMED's action by Monday, June 8 at 5 PM. Learn how to submit here.

June 13: Sacred Heart Parish Picnic at Barelas
Protect and Preserve Barelas welcomes all to the Annual Parish Picnic happening on Sunday, June 7th after the 10:30AM service. All are welcomed to join us for hamburgers and hot dogs.

June 14: New Mexico Peace Choir at Central United Methodist Church
The NM Peace Choir will be singing in Albuquerque on June 14 at Central United Methodist Church in Albuquerque. Tickets can be obtained here, and it will also be live streamed.

June 14: Sunset Summer Series Lotus Sound Bath
Lotus Sound Bath is offering an event that is free for the first 50 Vets on Flag Day and will be partnering with the NM Veterans Integration Center with a sound bath that is free. This event is also a food drive for the Integration Center.

June 20: Fairgrounds Organizing Meeting
The concerns and needs of the communities surrounding the fairgrounds have been ignored throughout the state’s redevelopment process, and neighbors have been lied to about the true impacts and stadium would have on their community. ABQ PSL invites the community to a public conversation and organizing meeting to talk about the fairgrounds. June 6 at 12pm and June 20th at 3pm.

June 21: Community Birding Outing
Feminist Bird Club invites you to go birding with them on June 21st from 8:30am-10:30am at Randall Davey Audubon Center, Santa Fe.

June 21: The Peace Trio Performance
The Peace Trio brings together three artists who will debut at ChatterABQ for a Summer Solstice / Father’s Day performance.

June 26: Queer Cinema for Palestine at The Guild
Presented by Albuquerque Tzedek Collective, No Pride in Genocide is a short film program standing in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom, justice and dignity. Tickets are sliding scale and showing is at 7:00pm only.

June 28: Mile Post 398 at The Guild
Mile Post 398, released in 2007, was written, produced, directed, filmed and starred by an all Navajo team. This film is about substance abuse, coming of age and family. Screening at The Guild at 12:30pm only.