Insight New Mexico – Dorinda Moreno
V.B. Price talks with Dorinda Moreno and Sadie Vialpando Williams about their efforts to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the landmark New Mexico film Salt of the Earth.
Anti-women petition on the city ballot
It looks likely that a petition to ban abortions in Albuquerque after 20 weeks will make it on to the ballot this October in the municipal elections.
Chances are this blatantly sexist, sinister, anti-woman initiative will make this city election one of the most hotly contested since the l970s.
Any candidate who thinks they can skirt reality and not take sides on this matter should be banished from politics and never heard from again…
What Happened to Albuquerque? Part 7: Solving our own problems
For Albuquerque to thrive in the near future, our leaders must shake off tired formulas and become trendsetters in local problem solving.
Insight New Mexico – Margaret Randall
V.B. Price talks with poet, author, photographer, feminist and social activist Margaret Randall. They're conversation covers the meaning of feminism, International Women's Day, the patriarchal power structure and the importance of listening to the next generation of feminists.
Trayvon Martin’s murder
A 17-year old African American, child of divorce, was walking to his father’s house after taking a half time break in a ballgame to get some candy at a local store. He was wearing a hoody in a gated community in which his father had a house. He was unarmed. An armed man, a sort of self-styled neighborhood-watch vigilante, confronted the youngster out of the blue, with no plausible provocation and shoots him dead.
All the rest of what happened that night is a tangle of interpretations, justifications, obfuscations., and a lawyer’s bag of tricks…
Provincial Matters, 7-15-2013
In this inaugural installment, V.B. Price explores a collection of appreciations of Albuquerque and New Mexico.
Insight New Mexico – Chris Wilson
V.B. Price talks with historian, professor and award-winning author Chris Wilson about rethinking and re-branding cities in an effort to survive and what Albuquerque can glean from Santa Fe's historical re-branding success.