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Previewing Growing Forward: A Cannabis Podcast

September 18, 2020
Composite of icon for Growing Forward, with cannabis plant in the background.

Sept. 18, 2020 – A lot is on the table when it comes to the legalization of recreational cannabis in New Mexico. Legislators are divided, advocates are frustrated, and some are worried legalization would hurt the medical cannabis program. A new podcast from NMPBS and the New Mexico Political Report explores these questions and more.…

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The Moral Problem of America’s Poverty

September 18, 2020
Portrait of Reverend William Barber II.

Sept. 18, 2020 – Rev. William Barber II is the co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, an economic justice effort first envisioned by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s. Rev. Barber calls America’s staggering poverty numbers a moral problem worthy of attention in the current presidential campaign, as well as in political contests…

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