Rio Grande Valley Broadband • Entered by Linda Starr on August 7, 2020
Variety of Webinars, Zooms and Videos
May 1, 2020 – May 16, 2020
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 2 |
| Post Admin hours | 1 |
| Activity Hours | 8 |
| Participants | 1 |
| Total Hours | 11 |
Key Issue: Multiple apply
Activity Type: Education & Outreach (tabling, films & lectures, regional B-walks/works)
Key Partners: Break Free from Plastic.org; Retake Our Democracy; Endangered Species Coalition, Center for Biological Diversity
Short Description of Activity
5/1/20, Michael Moore’s film, “Planets of the Humans,” regarding renewable energy, inefficient, old info, good list of extended producers who must own responsibility for cleanup, health and waste + we must end fossil fuel subsidies; 5/5/20, “COVID-29 & Fracking, Gas & Oil Industry” Zoominar, Dahr Jamail says: Hope is an impediment to action and we need to be hope free.” 5/12/20, “Living Rivers Live,” Wild Earth Guardianjs, Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge endangered by expansion plan; hunting and fishing allowances take away ocelot, yellow-billed cuckoo, Southwestern willow flycatcher and other endangered species protections; 5/12/20, Cent. for Bio. Diversity, “Why Congress Must Fight for Power, Water & Broadband for All,” 5/14/20, “Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Effort,” panel webinar with one of our own Broads from Arizona, Roz Switzer; 5/16/20, Webinar, Retake Our Democracy, KSFR interview with NM Senator Antoinette Sedillo-Lopez re Fracking Moratorium & opposition to Produced Water Act to come in 2021 legislature.
Reflection/Evaluation
Michael Moore’s film had poor reviews. It angered me.
On 5/5, this zoominar indicated that with hope, we are surrendering to agencies to “take care of us,” and they won’t. This was a scary zoom, so much information that we are ignorant of – what oi and gas are getting away with, not to mention health repercussions to NM and beyond.
On 5/12/20, before Endangered Species Day, 5/15, I sent my comments to the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge and to US Fish & Wildlife Service regarding their plans to expand hunting and fishing. 5/14 Presentation on Mexican Gray Wolves was instructive and a lot of information in one fell swoop.
5/16 Senator Sedillo-Lopez is my state senator for my district and we love her environmental stances.