{"id":41940,"date":"2023-06-27T07:20:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T14:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/?p=41940"},"modified":"2023-06-28T07:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T14:28:33","slug":"its-easy-to-dismantle-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/its-easy-to-dismantle-something\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s easy to dismantle something&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-fill has-small-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/lp.constantcontactpages.com\/su\/woyxJ21\/ourland\">Subscribe to Our Land Weekly<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:46px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>New Mexico in Focus Correspondent Antonia Gonzales spoke last week to Brian Vallo, former governor of Acoma Pueblo and current chair of Chaco Heritage Tribal Association, about the U.S. Department of the Interior\u2019s order to create a 10-mile buffer zone around Chaco Culture National Historic Park. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/64qZPbJLAnk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">You can watch that interview on YouTube<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I stepped away from environmental reporting last week to invite my friend Ed Williams into the studio. An investigative reporter at Searchlight New Mexico, <a href=\"https:\/\/searchlightnm.org\/author\/edwilliams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ed has spent the last five years writing about child well-being in New Mexico<\/a>. The numbers\u2014and the stories of suffering beneath\u2014are agonizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In collaboration with ProPublica, Ed\u2019s latest work examines how New Mexico, and the private companies the state contracts with, have failed foster children\u2014and in many cases, actively (and repeatedly) harmed the kids and teenagers who need the most help.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During our conversation, Ed spoke of deeply entrenched problems across the state and within the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department. And it&#8217;s also crystal clear that the deliberate and needless decimation of the state\u2019s behavioral health care system in 2013 by then-Gov. Susana Martinez and people working in her administration still reverberates today. As Ed\u2019s stories remind us, generations of children, teenagers and adults will never lead their best lives or have the opportunities afforded others because of those cuts in services, funding and support a decade ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1aZT12fxnqU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">As Ed pointed out in our conversation, it\u2019s easy to dismantle a system.<\/a> \u201cBut then building up, doing the work to build an alternative, that\u2019s where we dropped the ball,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, how we treat one another\u2014and especially, how we treat our children and our elders\u2014is integrally tied to how we treat the Earth and the lands and waters all around us. Right?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On to some of the other news I think you\u2019ll appreciate reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/ictnews.org\/news\/supreme-court-rejects-navajo-nations-water-rights-trust-claim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cSupreme Court rejects Navajo Nation\u2019s water rights trust claim\u201d<\/a> (Kolby Kickingwoman, ICT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kunm.org\/local-news\/2023-06-22\/despite-pushback-usda-plans-to-spray-toxic-insecticides-in-the-rio-chama-watershed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cDespite pushback, USDA plans to spray toxic insecticides in the Rio Chama watershed\u201d<\/a> (Bryce Dix, KUNM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/sourcenm.com\/2023\/06\/21\/3-95b-not-enough-to-meet-all-new-mexico-disaster-victims-needs-nm-delegation-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201c$3.95B not enough to meet all New Mexico disaster victims\u2019 needs, NM delegation says\u201d<\/a> (Megan Gleason, Source NM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/sourcenm.com\/2023\/06\/21\/prc-delays-community-solar-energy-reserve-meant-for-low-income-new-mexicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cPRC delays community solar energy reserve meant for low-income New Mexicans\u201d<\/a> (Megan Gleason, Source NM)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/lifestyles\/health\/best-ways-to-quash-mosquito-habitats-and-prevent-bites-this-summer\/article_8e0b99cc-0f97-11ee-a6cb-6bced1be653d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cBest ways to quash mosquito habitats and prevent bites this summer\u201d<\/a> (Elizabeth Tucker, <em>Albuquerque Journal<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canarymedia.com\/articles\/guides-and-how-tos\/does-new-tool-helps-you-get-your-share-of-the-climate-laws-billions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cDOE\u2019s new tool helps you get your share of the climate law\u2019s billions\u201d<\/a> (Alison F. Takemura, Canary Media)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Thanks to my pal Michael Warren at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njspotlightnews.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NJ Spotlight News<\/a>, who always keeps me posted on Holtec happenings on the East Coast, for sending this one along: <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/ny-legislature-assembly-passes-ban-dumping-radioactive-waste-hudson-river\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cNY passes ban on dumping radioactive waste in Hudson River\u201d<\/a> (Rosemary Misdary, <em>Gothamist<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And thanks to the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfreporter.com\/news\/morningword\/2023\/06\/23\/investigator-criticizes-sheriff-on-rust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Santa Fe Reporter<\/em>\u2019s Morning Word<\/a><strong> for calling attention last week to the New Mexico Environment Department\u2019s <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22-NMED-Notice-Regarding-Sackett-Decision.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notice to the state\u2019s Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permittees<\/a><strong> in response to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, <em>Sackett v. EPA<\/em>,<\/strong> in which the high court ruled that certain wetlands and waters are not protected under the Clean Water Act.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a news release, the state agency noted: \u201cThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently issues CWA discharge permits in New Mexico. There are approximately 3,950 active discharge permits in the state, including over 3,600 stormwater discharge permits and 350 industrial, feed lot, or other types of discharge permits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All I can say about the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling and its fallout: What a mess. These sorts of anti-government decisions\u2014like <a href=\"https:\/\/nmindepth.com\/2017\/the-slow-motion-unraveling-of-new-mexicos-medicaid-crackdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Martinez administration&#8217;s decision to dismantle the behavioral health care system<\/a> mentioned earlier\u2014have vast and long-term impacts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaking of vast and long-term impacts, I appreciated coverage of the late Daniel Ellsberg<\/strong> that focused not only on the Pentagon Papers, but also on the nuclear papers he copied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/postscript\/daniel-ellsbergs-life-beyond-the-pentagon-papers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Daniel Ellsberg, who died on Friday, of pancreatic cancer, at age ninety-two, became the father of whistle-blowing in America when he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the Times, in 1971. In the course of several months in 1969 and 1970, he copied seven thousand pages of top-secret documents that laid out how four successive Presidents, from Truman to Johnson, deceived the public about U.S. policy in Vietnam. But, at the time, Ellsberg was also planning an even more audacious reveal. Another several thousand pages, which were never released to the public, detailed Washington\u2019s plans for an all-out nuclear war with the Soviet Union and China.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/postscript\/daniel-ellsbergs-life-beyond-the-pentagon-papers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">That story continues:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As he aged, Ellsberg grew frustrated that people associated him primarily with having leaked the Pentagon Papers and that they knew little of the six decades that he had subsequently spent as an anti-nuclear activist, getting arrested as many as ninety times in civil-disobedience protests. \u201cReally, only the people who\u2019d been doing anti-nuclear resistance with me knew, though it\u2019s actually been the theme of my life since I was twenty-seven,\u201d he told me. \u201cThat part nobody\u2019s written about at all.\u2019\u2019 In 2017, Ellsberg tried to remedy that, publishing \u201cThe Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner,\u201d a memoir of his role in building the American nuclear arsenal at rand and the Pentagon, which warned of nuclear disaster if the U.S. and other nuclear powers failed to take more active steps toward disarmament.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/18\/us\/politics\/daniel-ellsberg-espionage-act-pentagon-papers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, Charlie Savage wrote about this, as well, noting that late in Ellsberg\u2019s life\u2014at age 90\u2014he was still trying to draw attention to nuclear war:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Decades ago, Mr. Ellsberg said, he had taken a second classified study based on internal government records, which he had not given to reporters at the time of the Pentagon Papers because it was about a different topic: when Communist Chinese forces shelled islands controlled by Taiwan in 1958, setting off a crisis. It showed that the world had come closer to nuclear war than the public had been allowed to know.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of Ellsberg\u2019s motivation in bringing the issue to light, Savage writes, was \u201cto be charged under the Espionage Act. He wanted to be a test case to put before the Supreme Court the constitutionality of how the Justice Department has used the law to punish leaks.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, we\u2019ll be rebroadcasting a few recent segments of Our Land, including <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.knme.org\/video\/ukraine-war-makes-it-harder-to-be-a-nuclear-dove-tjwol3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my 2022 interview with anti-nuclear activist Greg Mello<\/a>. I think often of something he said at the time:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSimone Weil writing in the Second World War said, \u2018Only those who know the empire of might and know how not to respect it are capable of love and justice\u2019 \u2026 and that\u2019s our problem here. We don\u2019t know how not to respect the violence of weapons of mass destruction and the death-oriented solution to human relations. And it harms our ability to throw ourselves wholeheartedly into the social innovation and the environmental innovation that we really need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last fall, I reached out to Los Alamos National Laboratory and National Nuclear Security Administration officials repeatedly over the course of a month, inviting them onto the show to discuss the need for nuclear weapons and plans for pit production expansion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never succeeded in getting someone to come on the show and talk on the record. But I heard recently that NNSA offered some journalists a partial tour of the main plutonium facility at LANL. 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