Give Peace a Chance
About 50 people and half a dozen organizations participated in Peace and Justice Day in Santa Fe, showing support for five measures:
• A memorial calling for immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq
• A joint resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney
• A bill to create a New Mexico Office of Peace for conflict resolution
• A memorial to dismantle nuclear weapons at Kirtland Air Force Base
• A Bill requiring the state to provide testing for veterans for depleted uranium, a radioactive metal used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The measures, some carried by Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, are not symbolic gestures, says Desi Brown, the senator’s assistant.