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Stories 2013 to 2015
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Stories Mar-Apr 2014
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Theresa Silva
We were sad to hear of Theresa's passing on April 17. A Memorial is on Sat., Apr. 26, 2014 at 10 AM at the Taos Foursquare Church, 223 Camino De La Merced, with burial at the Arroyo Hondo cemetery.
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"Cuentos de mi Valle"
Below are a few of the beautiful stories she told for Cultural Energy.
Where my stories come from
Listen to "Rosalia"
Cuentos de Mi Valle Jan 08
Cuentos de mi Valle Oct 07
Cuentos de mi Valle Aug 07
Cuentos de mi Valle Apr 05
Cuentos de Mi Valle Mar 05
Cuentos de mi Valle Nov 06
Cuentos de mi Valle Oct 06
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Joanne Campbell, elder of the Coast Miwok tribe, speaks at the memorial for Mary E. T. Collier in Muir Beach along with Beverly Ortiz & Betty Goerke.
Beverly Ortiz 14:39
Joanne Campbell 4:38
Betty Goerke 1:50 |
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Stories Jan-Feb 2014
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Loss of Agricultural Tax Exemptions
Forum with the Taos County Assessor, Darlene Vigil, and Chief Appraiser Nick Sanchez, moderated by David Fernandez. Held at the Kit Carson Coop Meeting Room, Feb 3, 2014.
Agricultural Taxes Part 1 1:07:02
Agricultural Taxes Part 2 1:17:44
Recorded & normalized by Robin Collier
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Marcella Cordova, from Chamisal and Candido Valerio from Los Cordovas speak about the current challeges to ranching and farming, and the impact of the potential loss of agricultural tax exemption. Darlene Vigil, Nick Sanchez and David Fernandez listen. Robin Collier photos |
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Stories Nov-Dec 2013
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Jabberwocky
A musical version of the poem by Lewis Carroll, fromThrough the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, in honor of his birthday on January 27. Composed by Joanne Forman, sung by bass-baritone Christopher Wyndham, with pianist Martha Grossman.A production of User Friendly Music. Jabberwocky 3:23
For more Lewis Carroll visit the Lewis Carroll Society of North America
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March in Support of Elias Montoya from Taos Plaza
2 mile march of about 100 people in freezing weather on Dec. 8 to NM State Police. Elias Montoya's employment was terminated by the NM State Police on Dec 6.
Eugene Sanchez Statement 3:02
Opening of March 2:13
Close of March 2.02
Photos & recording by Robin Collier
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Photos & recording by Robin Collier
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Rick Romancito films marchers
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Supporters of the State Police action
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Patrick Trujillo gives letter to Pete Kasseta
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Rivera Sun reads her statement
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Theresa Pasqual
Pueblo Land, Cultural Resources and the US Government: A Century of Change
Director of Acoma Pueblo's Historic Preservation Office. Speaking at SMU in Taos
July 30 2013
Intro by Mark Adler 2:27
Theresa Pasqual 1:01:52
Q & A 24:33
Recorded by Robin Collier
Edited by Spence Stall
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Erin McGaffigan
Inclusion in Public Decisions
How to make sure everyone is involved and what can go wrong, as it does in most public meetings.
National Participant Network
June 21, 2013.
Intro 5:27
Erin McGaffigan 1:11:14
Q & A 7:55
Recorded by Robin Collier
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Maureen McCoy
Sentimental Deportation
John Nichols
How my Mother Came Out West
From a memoir in progress about John's parents
SOMOS Summer Writer's Series Aug 14, 2013.
McCoy intro by Nichols 10:32
Maureen McCoy 29:52
Nichols intro by McCoy 5:51
John Nichols 39:00
Q & A 3:58
Recorded by Robin Collier
Edited by Spence Stall |
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Stories Aug-Oct 2013
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David Barsamian in Taos
What We Say Goes:
Media & U.S. Foreign Policy
Wednesday October 23.
Harwood Museum of Art 7 pm
Benefit for Cultural Energy
in collaboration with the UNM Harwood Museum of Art
Co-sponsored by Code Pink Taos, Peace Action New Mexico & Veterans for Peace Taos
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$10 donation $8 Harwood Alliance members, no one turned away for lack of funds. Advance tickets at the Harwood
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David interviews historian Eduardo Galeano. Robin Collier photo
Barsamian will explore the history of U. S. imperialism and predatory capitalism and the “Obama Doctrine” in relation to traditional U.S. rules of engagement, and mass media's role in drumming up support for violent means to uncertain ends. Barsamian sets the historical context of U. S. complicity in the death squads of the mid 1960’s in Indonesia revealed in “The Act of Killing,” the chilling documentary film to be screened at the Harwood, Oct. 24/25. Does this complicity continues to this day?
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Embudo Land Grant
Talk by Estevan Arrellano on the Embudo Land Grant and Acequias. with discussion from the community. Dixon April 21, 2013.
Estevan Arellano Part 1 1:03:22
Estevan Arellano Part 2 39:42
On the Commons & Heirship 2:57
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Welcome & Introductions
Sam Fernald 2:48
Water Resources Research Institute
Vimal Chaitanya 8:12
Vice President for Research, New Mexico State University
Sylvia Rodríguez 5:28
University of New Mexico
All pdf slides are copyrighted by the presentors, their organizations, or their sources.
For best understanding of the presentation open the slides in another window, advancing while you listen.
Recorded by Robin Collier
Edited & Normalized by Spence Stall. Thanks to Miguel Santistevan, AIRIE, NMSU, NMAA, Guido Lambelet and Mike Scarborough for financial support in recording the conference.
CNH Panels:
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Acequias
Alcalde Acequia - NMSU Sustainable Agriculture Science Center
Session 1: Multi-Theme Data Acquisition
Moderater Andres Cibils 2:01
Mexico State University
Acequia Hydrology Foundations of Community Resilience to Changing Climate and Land Use
Sam Fernald 16:41
Water Resources Research Institute
Fernald Slides pdf © 2013
Ecosystem Services, Faunal Biodiversity and Vegetation Dynamics in Response to ForecastedLand-Use and Climate Change within the Upper Rio Grande
Ken Boykin 12:06
New Mexico State University
Boykin Slides pdf © 2013
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Acequia Cleaning, Guerrero, Mexico
Source: Jacinta Palerm
Session 2: Data Integration and Modeling the Interplay of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Factors in an Acequia Community
Moderated by Sylvia Rodríguez
Monitoring and Modeling Hydrologic Connectivity in Semi-Arid Watersheds
Carlos Ochoa 16:01
New Mexico State University
Ocha Slides pdf © 2013
Acequia Perspectives on Climate-Change and Population Growth and the Perspectives of Preparedness and Adaptation
Brian Hurd 16:46
New Mexico State University
Hurd Slides pdf © 2013
Modeling the Hydrologic/ Ecologic/ Economic/ Social Dynamics of Small Scale Community Irrigation Systems (Acequias)
Vince Tidwell 16:15
Sandia National Laboratories
Tidwell Slides pdf © 2013
Modeling Panel Q & A 29:44
Session 3: Spain, United States, Chile
Moderated by Devon G. Peña, University of Washington in Seattle
Deven Peña Panel Intro 3:15
Encounters with the Moral Economy of Water: Convergent Evolution and Diffusion in Valencia
Paul Trawick 24:07
Idaho State University
Trawick Slides © 2013
Safeguarding Valencian Acequias: History and Values of a Millennial Water Sharing Culture
Luis Pablo Martínez 39:09
Directorate General of Cultural Heritage, Valencia, Spain
Martínez Slides © 2013
Society and Hydrology in a Chilean Andean Watershed: How Poor Knowledge of the Hydrological System Produces Social Conflicts
José Luis Arumí 16:46
Universidad de Concepción, Chillán, Chile
Arumí Slides © 2013
The Effects of Social and Economic Disturbances on the Taos Acequias of Northern New Mexico
Michael Cox 25:04
Dartmouth College
Cox Slides © 2013
Q & A 33:08
Closing Remarks 5:26
Sam Fernald, Sylvia Rodríguez
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Session 4: Bali, Mexico, Morocco
Moderated by Steve Guldan, New Mexico State University
Regime Shifts in the Morning of the World
Steve Lansing 19:09
University of Arizona, Santa Fe Institute
No Slides
Visible and Invisible Self-Managed Irrigation Organizations
Jacinta Palerm 22:39
Colegio de Postgraduados, Mexico-Texcoco
Palerm Slides © 2013
Irrigation Management in Pre-Saharan Morocco: Some Perspectives from the Assag(q)yas of the Ziz Oasis
Hsain Ilahiane 24:25
University of Kentucky
Ilahiane Slides © 2013
Modern assaguiya, Morocco
Source: Hasain Ilahiane
Is the Crafting of Self-Governing Irrigation Institutions in the XXth Century Following Elinor Ostrom’s Principles Still Relevant in the Beginning of the XXI Century?
Thierry Ruf 25:45
Supagro-Institut des régions chaudes, Montpellier, France
Ruf Slides © 2013
Roundtable Discussion/Q & A 16:46
New Mexico Acequia Workshop
Co-chaired by José Rivera and Quita Ortiz, in which scholars and activists are invited to formulate and propose an agenda of research and policy based on new insight.
Roman aqueduct near Valencia, Spain
Source: Luis Pablo Martínez
Photo: Petercero
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Stories March 2013
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Town Manager, Oscar Rodriguez
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Taos County Commission
Annexation & Command Center
Mar 11 2012 meeting
Audio minimally edited, due to error first portion of Arsenio Cordova's comment is missing
Public Comment 18:04
Staff-Commission 1:13:52
Exec Session-Lease 50:38
Recorded/edited by Robin Collier |
Town of Taos Council meeting on 911 Lease & Airport annexation
The town voted Mar 12, 2012 to sign a lease for the 911 facility from Kit Carson Electric Coop and to annex the airport & Hwy 64. Both El Prado S.&W. & Taos County promise legal challenges to the annexation.
Public Comment General 16:46
911 Kit Carson Lease 19:46
Matt Foster airport 11:02
Public on annexation 1:02:49
County Presentation 31:07
Council discussion/vote 1:14:17
Recorded/edited by Robin Collier |
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Stories February 2013
Below are underlined links to our segments now online. If you want to save the mp3 file for later listening, on Windows, click on the link with the right mouse button, on the Mac, click on the link while holding the control key. Click on images for an enlarged view.
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Compadrazco: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo & Beyond
Celebration of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Española, Feb. 23, 2013
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Taos High Schools Poets
Vista Grande, Taos Academy, Chrysalis, Taos High School
Somos Winter Writers Series
Feb 21 2013 Intro by Jan Smith
Intro 2:50
Poets 1:20:36
Thanks 3:43
Recorded by Robin Collier
Edited by Spence Stall |
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Pilar Trujillo 11:07
Adam Baca 1:17
Estevan Arellano 25:00
Panel Thanks 0:49
Mike Scarborough 34:06
Mike Q & A - Ending 7:00
Recorded & Normalized by Robin Collier
Some presentations are handicapped by use of Power Point which is slowly destroying our oral traditions & skills |
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Economic Development
Workshop Feb 19 2012 for the Town of Taos "Re-Vision 20/20" plan. Pauses without content for SWOP public input edited out
Economic Development 1:42:41
Recorded & normalized by Robin Collier
Joint work study by Town of Taos, Taos County & Kit Carson Electric Coop
Command Center &
Airport Annexation
Tuesday Feb 12 2012
Command Center Part 1 58:54
Command Center Part 2 1:09:38
Airport Funding/Annexation 1:02:47
Acoustics in Commission Chambers are very bad. Recorded by Robin Collier
Edited by Spence Stall
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Crimes Against Peace
Allen Ferguson, JD, MFA
Harvey Solomon Lecture Series
Feb 9, Intro by George Jaramillo
Intro 2:10
Crimes Against Peace 57:26
Q & A 31:45
Recorded by Robin Collier
Edited by Spence Stall
Airport Annexation
Taos Planning Commission hearing on annexation of Airport & Rt 64
Feb 5 2012
Hearing was continued to Mar 6
Full Hearing 1:13:19
Recorded & normalized by Robin Collier
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Allegra Houston
Lara Santoro
SOMOS Winter Writers Series
Jan 31 2013 Intro by Jan Smith
Intro 8:31
Allegra & Lara 51:54
Q & A 2:25
Recorded by Robin Collier
Edited by Spence Stall
Drones
What Activists Can Do
Robert Naiman - Santa Fe
of Just Foreign Policy & President of Truth-Out.org Hosted by Amnesty International Feb 5 2013
Intro 1:31
Robert Naiman 47:04
Q & A 27:53
Recorded & edited by Robin Collier
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Stories January 2013
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Dr. Rodriguez spoke about her work with NMSU on an interdisciplinary study of acequias and her work with the New Mexico Acequia Assocation on training new Mayordomos.
The talk gives a taste of the major international conference "Acequias and the Future of Resilience in Global Perspective" March 2-3 in Las Cruces
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The Chile Assoc. lobbyist, Charlie Marquez, jokes that he is sick from eating some organic food. Expert witness Louie Hena from Tesuque Pueblo with sponsor Senator Peter Wirth.
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SB 18 GMO Labeling
Hearing in the NM Senate Public Affairs Committee Jan 29, 2012
on SB 18 sponsored by Senator Peter Wirth to require labeling of foods with Genetically Modified organism (GMO) content. Bill text
Full hearing 1:17:35
Recorded by Robin Collier & edited by Spence Stall |
The bill passed with no reccomendation and was to go to the Judiciary, but on the Senate floor Jan 30 was instead sent to Corporation & Transportation and the Public Affairs report was not adopted, effectively killing the bill.
In progress - being edited this week "Remarkable Women of Words Festival" from Apr 14, 2012
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