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Some of photographer Kevin Bubriski's photos of New Mexico

Top photo: Indian Powwow, Penitentiary of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1982

Middle photo: Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, 1981

Bottom photo: Fiesta, Chimayó, 1981

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Father Vincent Paul Chávez from St Thérèse of the Infant Jesus Catholic Church protesting the restaurant Frontier for supporting ICE on May 9, 2026

Photo taken by bugeyed_girl on instagram

This priest is actually a really lovely guy, it seems. I know people who go to this church.

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Samia Assed, a Palestinian-American and New Mexican/Burqueña human rights activist

Samia Assed is also now the chairwoman of the Jericho-Albuquerque Friendship City Initiative

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Summarized from a post by the Albuquerque chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation:

Elon Musk Becomes World's First Trillionaire

Meanwhile in New Mexico...

42% of New Mexican households are unable to afford basic necessities

466,000 (22% of) New Mexicans rely on snap benefits monthly to afford food

Homelessness has gone up 55% in New Mexico since 2007

"WORKING PEOPLE MAKE SOCIETY RUN, YET WE STARVE WHILE THE RICH GET EVEN RICHER. BUT WE CAN BUILD A BETTER WORLD, ONE WHERE PEOPLE'S NEEDS ARE PRIORITIZED OVER BILLIONAIRES (AND NOW TRILLIONAIRES)."

JOIN THE MOVEMENT FOR SOCIALISM.

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A crypto-Jewish secret wedding by Anita Rodriguez

The New Mexican Crypto-Jews are Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal who were brought to Northern New Mexico. They have, for the most part, lost their Jewish identity and been converted to Catholicism. However, Jewish practices are still seen in many New Mexican Crypto-Jewish communities today.

In Albuquerque (albeit, Albuquerque is Central New Mexico, not Northern, though not all New Mexican Crypto-Jews are from the North, just most), there is a synagogue called Nahalat Shalom that is dedicated to individuals who have recently discovered their Sephardic Jewish ancestry and want to reconnect with it.

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Georgia O'Keeffe's Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico

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Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico

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Billy the Kid and The Regulators playing croquet, 1878

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The 1969 Albuquerque chapter of The Black Berets of New Mexico's 12-point program:

1. We Want Self-Determination and Liberation for All the Chicanos in the USA

2. We Want Self-Determination for All Latinos and Third World Peoples

3. We Want Community Control of Our Institutions and Land

4. We Want a True Education of Our Mestizo Culture and Spanish Language

5. We Want Freedom for All Political Prisoners

6. We Oppose the Amerikkkan Military and Its Unjust Wars of Oppression

7. We Want Equality for Women, Machismo Must be Revolutionary…Not Oppressive

8. We Want an Immediate End to Police Harassment, Brutality, and Murder of La Raza

9. We Want For Our People to Have the Basic Necessities to Exist

10. We Want Full Employment For Our People

11. We Oppose Capitalism and Alliances Made By Our Treacherous Politicos

12. We Believe Armed Self-Defense and Armed Struggle Are the Only Means to Liberation

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Women protesters of the Empire Zinc Strike on the picket line (1951)

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I know I often talk about New Mexico, and I know that may be a bit annoying, but I really do love New Mexico and I feel so connected to it. I mean, how could I not? My entire life has been spent here.

New Mexico, and my city, Albuquerque, have serious problems.

Time and time again, New Mexicans are forgotten.

New Mexico is still treated like it's the Wild West. Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch was located here, and disgusting shit was just allowed to happen.

Up until the 1990s, pedophilic priests were sent to rural New Mexico. They first sent them up to the Jemez Mountains to be "rehabilitated," and then they were sent to parishes to abuse people there and most likely, not get in trouble for it because again, these were very rural areas.

46% of New Mexican households are low-income. 16.4% of New Mexicans live in poverty.

Albuquerque is a very special city. I adore Albuquerque. But other states and more rural New Mexican communities basically just send their homeless people here. A lot of the time, these people think they are going to get help. They aren't. They are probably going to just die. Albuquerque is also often considered the most dangerous city in the entire United States of America, due to our crime rate.

New Mexico consistently ranks the worst state for education. 29% of New Mexican adults read at or below Level 1 reading proficiency.

Now, going back to Albuquerque, and these problems are also prevalent in other parts of the state, our homelessness issues and our crime rate is 100% connected to the poverty issue. The largest demographic of homeless individuals here in New Mexico is Hispanic. And then 15% is Indigenous.

These are groups of people who have been ignored and subjected to the worst over and OVER.

Indigenous people experience the most poverty in the state, and Hispanic people experience the most poverty in Albuquerque specifically.

This is completely connected to systemic racism that has done nothing but cause pain and trauma for generations.

New Mexicans need to start asking for a change. They need to fight.