Peace

Taos Food Not Bombs has been The Food Not Bombs group provided food each week in The Taos Plaza and at the large protests outside the Taos home of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. After a break of more than a year Taos Food Not Bombs re-started with its celebration of Human Rights Day December 10, 2006 at the Bareiss Gallery. Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry talked about how Food Not Bombs started in Boston and how volunteers were arrested during the dedication of monument to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at U.N Plaza in San Francisco in 1995.

"Local Folks with a National Voice" Peace Action New Mexico is an affiliate of the national organization Peace Action, formerly SANE/FREEZE. Beginning in 1957, SANE pressed for an end to atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. During the 1980's, SANE/FREEZE mobilized millions of people against the nuclear arms race and the threat of nuclear war. The organization changed its name to Peace Action in 1993. Peace Action New Mexico was formed in July 1998. The Director and many Board members are seasoned activists and organizers. Peace Action New Mexico is committed to diversity (economic, age, race, culture, gender and sexual orientation/ preference) within the organization and in our outreach. Peace Action New Mexico members come from all walks of life, working in all kinds of jobs and occupations. Peace Action New Mexico are people of many faiths and many racial and ethnic backgrounds. What unites them is their commitment to a more peaceful world. Peace Action is committed to abolishing nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction, redirecting excessive military expenditures to domestic investment, ending global weapons trafficking, preventing the erosion of civil liberties both in this country and elsewhere, preventing the militarization of space, and fostering non-military solutions to international conflicts

Toward increasing public awareness of the costs of war. To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations. To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons. To seek justice for veterans and victims of war. To abolish war as an instrument of national policy. To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.<br/>