Posts by Jeff Proctor

Feeling some gloom in your life? Of course you are, but what to do? If you’re a New Mexican, you burn it. That’s the concept behind Zozobra, a 50-foot marionette meant to represent the troubles, hardships and other obstacles of the past year. Into this monster we pour that which has been done to us,…

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks hadn’t yet occurred when Peter Simonson took over as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico. And what unfolded less than a year into his tenure would fundamentally alter the civil rights and liberties landscape in America forever. Congress passed the U.S.A. Patriot in short order,…