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Locked Out: When School Boards Exclude Native Representation

At a small school district in northwestern New Mexico, many Navajo parents cannot run for local school board or vote in the school district’s elections where their children go to school. 

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People Incarcerated in Doña Ana County Jail Sue Over Violent Paramilitary Tactics and Inhumane Treatment 

Six people who were held at the Doña Ana County Detention Center (DACDC) filed a lawsuit today seeking to end the jail's practice of conducting violent, unwarranted paramilitary training operations on incarcerated people.
Body camera footage from March 8, 2025, when such training operations took place at DACDC. Various officers, masked and armed, are seen running into the quiet cells in the middle of the night.

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More Than a Yard Sign: Fighting for Free Speech in Tomé, New Mexico

When Rita Padilla-Gutiérrez posted anti-Trump signs in her yard, Valencia County threatened her with criminal prosecution at the urging of a pro-Trump county commissioner.

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Beyond the Concrete Box: Gujuan Fusilier’s Story

This blog is the third of a series based on interviews with three men currently held in the Penitentiary of New Mexico who are part of a class action lawsuit challenging the inhumane and unconstitutional conditions of New Mexico’s long-term solitary confinement unit.

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Beyond the Concrete Box: Human Stories from Solitary

This blog is the first of a series based on interviews with Mah-konce Hudson, GuJuan Fusilier, and O'Shay Toney, who are currently held in the Penitentiary of New Mexico.

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2013 Bill of Rights Celebration Awards Announced

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Jennifer Neuman-Roper, Plaintiff in New Mexico Marriage Equality Case, Passes Away

Jennifer Martin Neuman-Roper, plaintiff in the New Mexico marriage equality case Griego v. Oliver, passed away on Friday, November  8 after battling cancer. She is survived by her wife Angelique Neuman-Roper and sons Jayms, David, and Damion.

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2013 Bill of Rights Celebration

Buy Tickets Now Contact Director of Philanthropy Ernest Rodriguez-Naaz for more information at (505) 266-5915 x1001 or [email protected]. Featuring Journalist Peter Maass Peter Maas Peter Maass has worked for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine and many other prominent journals and magazines. Maass has reported on numerous conflicts, including Bosnia and the second U.S. war in Iraq, and in recent years has distinguished himself one of the nation

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Rights Groups Respond to Rep. Steve Pearce’s Immigration Reform Priorities

### The Border Network for Human Rights, founded in 1998, is one of the leading human rights advocacy and immigration reform organizations located at the U.S./Mexico Border. BNHR has over 7,000 members in West Texas and Southern New Mexico.   The ACLU of New Mexico Regional Center for Border Rights, located in Las Cruces, represents ACLU of New Mexico in the southern region of the state and works in conjunction with ACLU state affiliates and immigrant rights advocates to address civil and human rights violations that stem from border-related immigration policies.

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Marriage Coalition Releases Ad Outlining Broad, Faith-Based Support For the Freedom to Marry in New Mexico

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DATE CORRECTION: 2013 Annual Meeting October 19th

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New Poll: Majority Support For Marriage for Gay and Lesbian New Mexicans

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