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Student group plans Inauguration Day rally By David Lynch @RealDavidLynch The Young Progressives Demanding Action is a group that started – both on a national scale and at UNM – just in recent months, but the progressive activist group has one priority for the foreseeable future: battling the potentially harmful reverberations of a Trump presidency that
officially begins on Friday. While most of campus will probably be tuned in to TV screens, laptop displays or their phones to watch the inauguration of the already polarizing President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, YPDA will be hosting a rally at Cornell Mall to “show opposition on many of his policies and ideas on day one,” said Nathan Siegel, president of YPDA UNM. “We don’t want him to go into
the Oval Office thinking that he can get whatever he wants,” he said. Instead, Siegel said he hopes the event – scheduled for noon this Friday – empowers those who attend. There have been numerous antiTrump and anti-hate marches held nationwide and locally since Nov. 8, when the business mogul managed a stunning upset over the presumed frontrunner and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. But Friday’s protest will represent the
first show of opposition to Trump as his administration begins. While much has been made about the results of the election, and the possible influence of outside forces over the course of the campaign, YPDA stated on the event’s Facebook page that the goal of the rally isn’t in changing the outcome, but rather looking forward – and planning. “We must look towards the future to prevent any damages that
are potentially caused by his administration,” the post reads. YPDA – a branch of the larger Progressive Democrats for America that is concentrated on college campuses – will be joined by representatives from other groups to provide “hope for the coming future in solving our most unfortunate problems” as well as information on how to be politically active. Student Alliance
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ABQ Comic Con draws 30,000 By Jonathan Baca @JonGabrielB Last weekend the nerds, geeks and superfans of Albuquerque descended on the Convention Center downtown for three days of fandom, photo ops and costumed revelry. The 7th annual Albuquerque Comic Con brought a long list of cult celebrities, comic artists and vendors to all three floors of the Convention Center, attracting an estimated 30,000 fans. The size of the event was truly impressive, with an endless maze of vendor and artist booths. One could wander for hours around one of the many large ballrooms and still not see everything that was on display. Jim Burleson, the owner and promoter of Albuquerque Comic Con, said that the size and scope of the event has been years in the making. “It’s taken us seven years to get this big. We’ve expanded into three floors of the Convention Center, and every one of them is packed, standing room only,” Burleson said. “It’s a huge testament to the community that Albuquerque has, where word of mouth has given us the opportunity to grow at an exponential rate.”
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Terry Huddleston stands in front of his poster booth at the 2017 Albuquerque Comic Con on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. The convention was a three-day event that brought hundreds of vendors, artists, actors, musicians and authors to the Albuquerque Convention Center.
MLK March hopes to unite the community By Nichole Harwood @Nolidoli1 On Saturday morning, a march honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began near campus before making its way to Civic Plaza downtown. The march not only celebrated the work of the Civil Rights Movement, but promoted unity within the community. It included an array of groups such as La Raza Unida, the Macedonia Baptist Church, Daniels Family Funeral Service, CNM Outreach and the
New Mexico Dream Team. Sayrah Namaste said she attends the event yearly, but marched with the group La Raza Unida this year. “It’s really fun to march with so many different kinds of people,” she said. “Everyone’s talking about current events and also memories of the Civil Rights Movement.” Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-NM, and state auditor Tim Keller joined the crowd, speaking with those they marched with, Namaste said. “I really appreciate that both Tim and Michelle didn’t have a bunch of election signs at all — they were just
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A large banner lays at the Albuquerque Civic Plaza with a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017.
marching with the people,” she said. The march was filled with positive chants, musicians and guest speakers, which continued to Civic Plaza, where more singing took place before and after the guest speakers. “There was a group that said Latino’s for Black Lives, and that was beautiful — to see Hispanics talking about Black Lives Matter,” Namaste said. During the march people also discussed the upcoming inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, as well as concerns with
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