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		<title>Weaving Webs of Resistance in Chiapas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of Tsobol Antzetik (Women United), a cooperative of Mayan weavers working to support their families by selling their products in the U.S. for fair trade prices. Photo by Rebecca Wiggins By Crystal Massey and Rebecca Wiggins In June of 2010, Sophia’s Circle/Las Cruces Chiapas Connection sent a delegation of four people to the highlands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NMSU proposes National Solar Observatory headquarters relocate to Las Cruces</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAS CRUCES, N.M. - New Mexico State University has a long history of working with researchers at the National Solar Observatory, from supplying graduate students to work at the facility to collaborating on grants and research projects. ow it wants to make Las Cruces the headquarters for those efforts. Currently, the NSO is using $280 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua News: Violence, Tensions Boil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around-the-clock executions, routine kidnappings, burnings of rural homes, hangings of murder victims from overpasses, scatterings of body parts on public streets, a car bomb, and threats of more violence have all put Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua on extreme edge. The violence boils as the administration of Chihuahua Governor Jose Reyes Baeza, state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rove, Lockhart, Donaldson among guests for 2010 Domenici Public Policy Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Sen. Pete Domenici talks about public policy during the 2009 Domenici Public Policy Conference at New Mexico State University. This year’s event will take place Sept. 1-2. (NMSU photo) Date: 2010-07-16 Writer: Justin Bannister, 575-646-5981, jbannist@nmsu.edu Fox News contributor Karl Rove, political analyst and commentator Joe Lockhart and ABC News contributor Sam Donaldson are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to New Tijuana, California</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They call it New Tijuana. Located near Chula Vista, California, East Lake Terrace embraces Mexican immigrants who’ve fled across the border from nearby Tijuana to escape crime and violence. Surrounded by new businesses, pricey homes built by immigrant laborers and a nice park with ample sports facilities, the neighborhood is one manifestation of the border’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NMSU criminal justice professor releases book on border violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A New Mexico State University professor lent her talents as an editor as well as her expertise on the subject of feminicide to help produce a text on gender-based violence. &#8220;Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas&#8221; is a series of compositions from activists, survivors and families affected by the violence across Latin America, and also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mexican Political Era Ends</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 4, while oil continued to pour out of British Petroleum’s crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico and spread its contamination to new shores, a rupture of political sorts was consummated in Mexico. In state and local elections, Mexicans ended one political era, sowed the seeds for the possible rebirth of an old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Police, Community Meet on Immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  In an unusual encounter, police chiefs from the Paso del Norte region of the US-Mexico borderland met with community members this past weekend to discuss immigration, racial profiling, identity cards, Arizona’s SB 1070 law, use of lethal force, and overall police-community relationships. Organized by the Border Network for Human Rights, a large crowd turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mexican Revolution in El Paso</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The role of the Texas border city of El Paso remains one of the little-known stories of the revolutionary upheaval that erupted in Mexico in 1910. The US city on the Rio Grande was a vital center for many of the plots, intrigues, advances and retreats of different political factions vying for power in Mexico. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colonias to Get Centennial Boost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Mexico state Senator Mary Kay Papen has taken many a memorable truck ride on the bumpy roads of the numerous communities in her district called colonias. The Dona Ana County lawmaker says she even once donned work boots to wade through a street where sewage was spilling onto the surface. “Very deplorable conditions,” Papen [...]]]></description>
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