Titanic Post

Denise Lang
Executive Director Peace and Justice of La Luz

The film, V Day Until the Violence Stops, will be shown twice on Saturday, Jan. 17, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the New Mexico State University-Alamogordo campus in the Technical Education (Pro-Tech) Building, Room 128. (NE side of campus) The subject is how people are working to end violence, reclaim peace, and to celebrate women’s sexuality and strength. Admission is free!

Peace and Justice of La Luz (Pajoll) proudly supports 2009 events to help celebrate women, their strength and their sexuality.  Pajoll is part of Otero County’s Take Back the Night Committee, bringing a controversial documentary film to Alamogordo to share with community members.

Government by itself is not always the problem
by Denise Lang

Government should not be too big. But if it is too small, it can’t protect its citizens from abuses of power. President Theodore Roosevelt said, “The limitation of governmental power means the enslavement of the people by the great corporations.” This is happening now.

The libertarian notion that privatizing services traditionally performed by government is unrealistic. In 1992, Dick Cheney, as defense secretary, spearheaded the movement to privatize most of the military’s civil logistics activities. (more…)