Please Contact Our Leaders to Protect The Caja del Rio

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A request from Rev. Andrew Black, an IPL-NM/EP board member and coordinator of Earthkeepers 360 He is also a pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe.

Dear New Mexico Spiritual, Tribal and Faith Leaders,

Please join me in calling on President Biden, Secretary Haaland and the New Mexico Congressional Delegation to make the Caja del Rio a National Monument. The Caja del Rio is one of the most remarkable cultural, spiritual, archaeological and ecological landscapes in the southwest. To learn more about the Caja del Rio check out this film. An op-ed I wrote on Caja del Rio is HERE. In calling for a national monument, we will be joining the All Pueblo Council of Governors, Santa Fe County Commission, and Santa Fe Mayor.
As spiritual, tribal and faith leaders, I am asking you to SIGN ON TO THIS LETTER. 
The deadline to sign on is Wednesday, December 18th. Also I’ve attached the letter. Please feel free to share this letter with other spiritual, Tribal and faith leaders you work with and encourage them to sign on as well.
For those interested in extra credit, please call Senators Heinrich and Lujan and Representatives Leger-Fernandez, Stansbury and Vasquez offices and ask them to support President Biden designating the Caja del Rio as a National Monument.
Thank you and feel free to reach out if you have any questions,
Reverend Andrew Black
EarthKeepers 360 and First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe
For more about our work at EarthKeepers 360 and to sign up for our weekly reflections please visit: https://earthkeepers360.org

Sacred Dialogue and Foraging in the Fall

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Rev. Ryan Tate, a board member of Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico El Paso, offers a poem and a perspective on the changing of the seasons and foraging for native plants and herbs during the Fall Season in the Middle Rio Grande.

Pilgrims Protest Approval of Los Alamos Lab Transmission Line

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Earthkeepers 360 held a  Caja del Rio Peace and Prayer Pilgrimage in Santa Fe on Friday, October 25. Participants traveled from the Santa Fe county Administration Building to the National Nuclear Security Administration Office to protest the recent approval of the Los Alamos National Lab’s transmission line.

The participants hand delivered the Caja Del Rio Coalition’s formal objection Letter and held a press conference featuring the voices of Pueblo and Hispanic leaders, local elected officials, Spiritual leaders, conservationists and other community advocates speaking up to Permanently protect the caja.

Here are some photographs, courtesy of Rev. Andrew Black