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The Partnership for Earth Spirituality
is a non-profit membership organization which brings together people from
various religious traditions, ages, cultures and economic backgrounds
to promote a better understanding of the interdependence of ecology and
spirituality. The Partnership's vision is explored through retreats, forums,
seasonal rituals, wilderness experiences, programs for children, hands-on
projects and education for sound environmental policies.
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Fourth annual Women's Pecos Wilderness Camping
Retreat
Holy Ghost Campground
The forest we see is dependent upon 70% of the forest below the earth
that we do not see. In this retreat we will listen, see and smell intently
the hidden life beneath the surface. Joan Brown and MJ Zimmerman will
lead the retreat that focuses upon ourselves, the forest and Divine
Mothers as retreatants explore the messages for each individual and
for the world collective. See attached flyer for details or write info@earthspirituality.org
or call Joan Brown at 505-266-6966.
Download
the flyer for details.
Honoring Mt. Taylor: Working Against Uranium
Mining
The annual Pilgrimage to Mt. Taylor, “Pilgrimage
for Health and Wholeness of Earth Community” drew over 60 people
from diverse communities in Northwestern New Mexico. The Partnership
for Earth Spirituality and Stewards of Creation co-hosted the event
with participants from Laguna and Acoma Pueblos, and several Navajo
communities. To see the complete article
click here.
Community Groups Go to Court to Clean up LANL
Santa Fe, New Mexico—Citing significant violations of the Clean
Water Act at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), an alliance
of nine New Mexico community organizations and two individuals today
filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy and the Los Alamos
National Security, LLC. (a copy is available at www.amigosbravos.org/lanl.php)
This morning at the state capitol building in Santa Fe, the community
groups said it was time for LANL to address the substantial contamination
problems that are migrating off the lab’s property. More
about this...
In May 2006, six community organizations sent an historic 60-Day Notice
of Intent to Sue to the Department of Energy (DOE) for violations of
the Clean Water Act at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The Notice
of Intent is a result of LANL’s unwillingness to deal effectively
with its historic and on-going toxic discharges, which threaten the
Río Grande watershed and regional drinking water supplies.
Today, three new community groups and two individuals are joining to
re-send the 60-Day Notice of Intent to Sue DOE and the new management
of LANL. These groups and individuals include: the SouthWest Organizing
Project (SWOP), the New Mexico Acequia Association, the Don Gabino Andrade
Community Acequia, Gilbert Sanchez, and Kathy Sanchez. Original groups
that signed on to the first Notice are Amigos Bravos, Concerned Citizens
for Nuclear Safety, Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group, Partnership
for Earth Spirituality, Rio Grande Restoration and Tewa Women United.
“Our future drinking water supply is threatened,” said Kathy
Sanchez, of the Pueblo of San Ildefonso. “There are more than
1400 documented contaminated sites at LANL, and every time it rains
or snows, these contaminants move through our canyons and springs to
the Río Grande. We want zero contaminants discharged from LANL
and we want them to implement Best Management Practices for discharges
and dumping.” Click
here to read the entire press release.
A
September 11, 2006, wire story from Reuters by Carey Gilliam describes
a new film, The Great Warming, intended to have a political
impact on global warming this election season. Sponsored by the National
Council of Churches of Christ, Presbyterians for Restoring Creation,
and leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals and funded by
Swiss Re, the giant reinsurance corporation, the film is to persuade
conservative Christian evangelicals and other people of faith to demand
resolute political action to deal with greenhouse gasses. For the full
story, click
here.
In the course of preparing this website, Partnership volunteers assembled
one of the most complete lists of organizations dealing with Earth Spirituality
available. (To take a look, click on Links.)
Now, webmaster Dorothy “Bunny” Bowen is seeking reciprocal
links from those listed, and in the course of her inquiries discovered
even more organizations and programs that everybody should know about.
If you have some suggestions for your own, contact Bunny by clicking
on Webmaster.
Thanks. will be sent to mailing lists
sought from Partnership friends and associates. The inaugural edition
of Partnership Notes will be
mailed this spring to 1,000 recipients from the lists supplied. To participate,
please send names and mailing addresses from your Rolodex or address
book to Elena Rodriguez,
administrative assistant for the Partnership.
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Pilgrimage to save Mother Earth, March 17, 2007

Desert Rock Power Plant vigil

Women's Wilderness Soul Quest Retreat in the Pecos Wilderness, June 2005

Equinox celebration in the Sandia Mountains, Fall 2004

From a march in homage to the sacred petroglyphs of Albuquerque, November
2005
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