Insight New Mexico - Peter Katel

October 09, 2014

By V.B. Price

V.B. Price talks with longtime journalist Peter Katel about the roots of the anti-surveillance movement here in New Mexico as well as the wave of migrants from Central America. Katel recently wrote a piece for the Mercury about a 1974 media campaign, led by filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, that warned of the dangers of surveillance technology. The campaign was extremely prescient in light of what's been exposed by Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers.

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V.B. Price

V.B. Price is editor and co-founder of New Mexico Mercury. He is the former editor of Century Magazine and New Mexico Magazine, former city editor of the New Mexico Independent, and long-time columnist for the late Albuquerque Tribune. His latest book is The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project. He retired as the editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at UNM Press in 2010. He has taught in the UNM Honors Program since l986.