{"id":31648,"date":"2023-09-19T19:53:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T01:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/n-m-advocates-join-climate-march-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:44:27","slug":"n-m-advocates-join-climate-march-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/n-m-advocates-join-climate-march-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"N.M. advocates join climate march in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Members of the New Mexico delegation at the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City on Sept. 17.<\/span>John Acosta<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Environmental advocates from New Mexico attended a march in New York City this weekend to demand the end of fossil fuel extraction and use.<\/p>\n

The march in Manhattan brought an estimated 75,000 participants from across the country, including about 50 New Mexicans from a variety of advocacy groups. The demonstration came in advance of this week\u2019s U.N. Climate Ambition Summit in New York.<\/p>\n

The group of New Mexicans who participated in the march were led by Indigenous and youth advocates who carried an 18-foot long banner addressing President Joe Biden and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham that said, \u201cNew Mexico is Burning, Biden and MLG: Climate Action Now!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA collective of grassroots movements across the state of New Mexico is joining other front line movements who mobilize around a No False Solutions narrative to bring light to the financialization and continued commodification of our natural and cultural resources,\u201d Julia Bernal, executive director of Pueblo Action Alliance, said in a news release about the demonstration. \u201cWe\u2019re bringing a unified grassroots message to the international platform to demand our elected leaders take bold climate action that doesn\u2019t continue the legacy of harm and extraction that has negatively impacted our ancestral territories for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The advocates also delivered what they called the New Mexico Declaration for Climate Justice to federal and state officials as well as the United Nations. The declaration calls for stopping new extraction and phasing out existing extraction of fossil fuels. It also calls carbon capture and hydrogen false solutions and urges the leaders to reject them.<\/p>\n

In a statement following the march, Celina Montoya-Garcia, a member of the Pueblo of Ohkay Owingeh who serves as the land and body violence coordinator with the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, called the climate crises \u201cthe most heartbreaking issue that we see today.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the extractive industry is damaging more than just the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s destroying the future of sustainability for our future grandchildren. Not only are the pipeline and oil industries depleting our life source, but they are also precipitating violence against \u2018Our First Environment.\u2019 Our life-givers are facing high rates of gender-based violence from non-Indigenous perpetrators working in temporary man camps,\u201d Montoya-Garcia said. \u201cWe must protect our Mother Earth. This isn\u2019t just an Indigenous issue; it\u2019s an everyone issue. Money doesn\u2019t water the food that feeds our community. Money doesn\u2019t water the corn that we hold in our palms for prayer. Our Mother Earth is perishing before our eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the state has a \u201cplethora of renewable resources that are being ignored\u201d and urged policymakers to end fossil fuel production immediately.<\/p>\n

Melissa Troutman lives in the Permian Basin and serves as the climate and energy advocate for WildEarth Guardians. She said there is \u201cno future for anyone without an end to the extraction and burning of fossil fuels \u2013 quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Troutman has lived in front line communities where extraction has occurred for 13 years and said people in those communities are dying as a result of the fossil fuel industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur elders and our children are riddled with strange diseases and cancers that health professionals are just now linking to the extraction of fossil fuels,\u201d she said. \u201cBut we have known it all along. It is well past time for everyone to demand that this atrocity inside our communities and across the world come to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n

This <\/em>story<\/em><\/a> was written by Hannah Grover and has been republished here from NM Political Report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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