The Media Freedom Foundation » media http://www.mediafreedominternational.org Media Democracy in Action Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:30:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Mexico Abolishes the Death Penalty http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2010/02/22/new-mexico-abolishes-the-death-penalty/ http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2010/02/22/new-mexico-abolishes-the-death-penalty/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:20:48 +0000 admin http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/?p=519 On March18, 2009 New Mexico’s Governor Richardson signed into law a bill to abolish the death penalty. The Governor released this statement “I do not have confidence in the criminal justice system as it currently operates to be the final arbiter when it comes to who lives and dies. If the State is going to undertake this awesome responsibility, the system to impose this ultimate penalty must be perfect and can never be wrong. But the reality is the system is not perfect – far from it.”

There we several factors that led to this surprising decision. The anti-death penalty campaign, New Mexico (NM) Repeal, found that 68% pf death penalty convictions are overturned at the federal and state level. Another reason pushing the bill was the New Mexico Public Defender’s office would save about 2 million dollars per year and it did not account the cost to the Attorney General’s office, local courts, and public-funded attorneys.

NM Repeal as well as Grassroots Organization and Mobilization, Public Education and Media, and Legislative Advocacy all targeted all people who supported the death penalty including: Senators, Representatives, and Lieutenant Governor.

Title: Abolishing the Death Penalty in New Mexico

Publication: PeaceWork, May 2009

URL: http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/abolishing-death-penalty-new-mexico-lessons-learned-long-campaign

Author: Viki Elkey

Faculty Evaluator: Suzel A. Bozada-Deas

Student Researcher: Tracena Webster

Corporate Media Coverage/ http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/20/opinion/ed-death20

Sonoma State UniversitySimilar Posts:

]]> http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2010/02/22/new-mexico-abolishes-the-death-penalty/feed/ 0 Another Salmon Disaster in the Making! http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/11/04/another-salmon-disaster-in-the-making/ http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/11/04/another-salmon-disaster-in-the-making/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:35:14 +0000 admin http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/?p=358 Irrigation in the Scott and Shasta river basins threaten salmon population. Water levels in these rivers are becoming so low that the fish cannot make it far enough up river to spawn.  The reason for the low levels of water is that much of the water is diverted away from the rivers for irrigation on local farms.  Farmers claim that the low levels of water are not because of irrigation but rather from too little rainfall.  Research, however, has shown this not to be the case and that the problem in fact is the irrigation.  Despite taxpayers spending 25 million dollars in an effort to restore the rivers and preserve the salmon, little has been done and the problem continues to get worse. This past August the water level was recorded at its second lowest level in history.

Title:  Another Salmon Disaster in the Making!

Source:  Rogue Valley Independent Media Center      6/9/2009

URL: http://rogueimc.org/en/2009/15347.shtml

Author:  Felice Pace

Student Researcher:  Anthony Sarganis

Faculty Evaluator: Erv Peterson

Sonoma State University: Sociology of Media, Fall 2009

Instructor: Peter Phillips,  #02Similar Posts:

]]> http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/11/04/another-salmon-disaster-in-the-making/feed/ 1 Project Censored In Washington DC March 19 and 20 http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/03/13/project-censored-in-washington-dc-march-19-and-20/ http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/03/13/project-censored-in-washington-dc-march-19-and-20/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:11:11 +0000 admin http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/?p=703

Mickey Huff: Director Project Censored/Media Freedom International

Peter Phillips: President: Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored

Open Lectures:

Truth Emergency International: Censorship Propaganda and Empire

Friday March 19, 6:00—8:00 PM

Location: Busboys & Poets

14th and V St. NW

Host: Rock Creek Free Press

and

Saturday March 20, 6:00—8:00 PM

Location: Institute for Policy Studies Conference Room

1112 16th NW, Suite 600

Book Signings for Censored 2010 at Both Events

Similar Posts:

]]> http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/03/13/project-censored-in-washington-dc-march-19-and-20/feed/ 2