KGLP Podcasts

Sarah Tancred exhibition (3/1-4/1/16) and artist talk (3/1/16) at UNMG

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Sarah Tancred, Adjunct Instructor at UNM-Gallup, about her upcoming exhibiton, in place from March 1 through April 1, 2016, and her March 1st lecture:

THE INGHAM CHAPMAN GALLERY PRESENTS

"THE CONVENIENCE of SUCH ITEMS",

NEW CERAMIC WORK BY SARAH TANCRED

TUESDAY / MARCH 1, 2016

Artist Talk / Calvin Hall Auditorium Rm 248 / 5:30-6:15 PM

Reception / Gurley Hall Rm 1232 / 6:30-7:30 PM


The Artist's Website:  http://sarahtancred.com/home.html

Holiday in New Mexico music, 12/3/15 at UNM-Gallup

Music performed during Holiday in New Mexico, a December 3, 2015 event at the University of New Mexico, Gallup campus.

Navajo Tech business incubator center grand opening 12/10/15

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub covered the Grand Opening of Navajo Technical University's Churchrock, NM business incubator center on December 10, 2015.  Dr. Elmer Guy, President of NTU, was among dignitaries present, and his address and interview are included here, along with other folks.

UNM-Gallup Nov. 2015 Native Heritage Month observance

In November, 2015, the University of New Mexico Gallup campus hosted an observance of Native American Heritage month, featuring area workers, artists, leaders and professionals whose Native ancestry inform their lives and careers, serving as role models for Native Youth.

Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission 12/9/15 hearing Gallup emp

On December 9th, 2015, the eve of International Human Rights Day, there was a public hearing on employment practices affecting Navajos in a border town.

The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, NNHRC, welcomed testimony from Diné workers in the City of Gallup, New Mexico, on their work experience, application process, and other information related to employment practices.

Brandon Benally was one of those who provided testimony...

NNHRC Executive Director Leonard Gorman acknowledged that similar issues affect indigenous people all over the world.

 

For more information on the work of the commission, you may visti nnhrc.navajo-nsn.com.

Gallup Finalists for Gallup Police Chief at 12/1/15 Meet & Greet

On December 1, 2015, the three finalists vying to take over from Gallup Police Chief Dan Cron early next year were at a meet and greet in downtown Gallup, New Mexico.

Logging Bill Won't Reduce Fire Risk, Researchers Claim - Dec. 2015

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with and Dr. Chad Hanson, Ecologist with the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute in California, who, with Dr. Dominick DellaSala, Chief Scientist of the Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon, are making a case opposing a logging rider that is being developed in Congress that could be attached to a spending bill very soon.  These researchers make the following argument:

As Congress considers the "fire-borrowing" issue via legislation to prevent the wildfire suppression program from taking money from non-suppression programs, Republicans in the House and Senate are using fear and misunderstanding of forest fires to urge some Western Democrats to attach provisions that would exempt commercial logging from environmental analysis and public oversight, weaken environmental laws, and increase federal funding for logging on national forests. These provisions are out of touch with the latest fire science, and, as a result, could actually be detrimental to national forests and the safety of rural communities.

Dr. DellaSala and Dr. Hanson were the lead authors of a recent letter to Congress from over 260 scientists, informing policy-makers that large fires are not ecological catastrophes, rather, they create variety in forest habitat associated with extraordinary levels of plant and animal richness and diversity in the western United States, including many imperiled species that require post-fire habitat http://johnmuirproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Final2015ScientistLetterOpposingLoggingBills.pdf They are also the editors and co-authors of the recent book, The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix (http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780128027493&pagename=search), and a 2015 op-ed in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/opinion/more-logging-wont-stop-wildfires.html. 

As the work of Drs. DellaSala and Hanson and their colleagues demonstrates, there is generally a deficit of post-fire forest habitat created by these beneficial fires, and many wildlife species that depend upon the unique "snag forest habitat" created by more intense fire patches have become rare and imperiled, and/or are declining, due to fire suppression, "fuel reduction" logging, and post-fire logging.

The best available science indicates that comprehensive fire management should consist of:

• managing backcountry fires safely for ecosystem benefits and

• focusing the existing limited resources on protecting homes from fires.

• It also shows that the only effective way to protect homes from wildfires is to reduce the flammability of the homes themselves and encourage reduction of combustible vegetation within 100 to 200 feet of homes.

The logging appropriations rider currently being developed will do nothing to protect rural homes from fire; in fact, it will increase risks to homes by diverting scarce resources away from home protection and toward irresponsible and environmentally damaging backcountry logging, while creating unnecessary risks to firefighters by focusing fire management in steep, remote forests.

KGLP 11/27/15 special - Excerpts of 11/8/15 Red Rock String concert

On Friday, November 27, 2015, from 12 Noon until 1pm, Mountain Time, KGLP, 91.7 FM, Gallup Public Radio, will air excerpts from the November 8th concert of the Red Rock String Ensemble and the Gallup Community Choir, which featured works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Vivaldi's Gloria, the latter performance being broadcast in its entirety.  The full concert recording is also available in this podcast (kglp.podbean.com)

UNMG event 11/19/15 on history of NM & WY Japanese Internment

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Curtis Hayes of Western New Mexico University in Gallup, NM, about a presentation planned for November 19, 2015:

UNM-Gallup and Western New Mexico University are hosting a presentation by three Japanese-Americans who were held in relocation camps during World War II. The event will be held in the Calvin Hall Auditorium on the UNM-Gallup campus on Thursday, November, 19 at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

The three presenters all experienced War Location Authority  “family” camps as children: Sam Mihara in Heart Mountain, Wyoming; Herb Tsuchiya and Nikki Nojima Louis in Minidoka, Idaho. Nikki Nojima Louis’ father was held in camps in Santa Fe and Lordsburg.  Mihara will present his acclaimed video on the Heart Mountain camp and the effects of that experience on his life and family. Victor Yamada, whose mother came to America as a “picture bride,” will discuss the New Mexico Japanese American Citizen League’s collaboration with the National Park Services program entitled “Confinement in the Land of Enchantment.”

A diary written in Japanese by Lordsburg prisoners has been donated by Mihara, and translated into English for this project. New Mexico audiences will be the first to hear entries from the diary that tell the story of life in the Lordsburg prison camp. A panel discussion and Q&A follow the presentation.

During World War II, the United States government removed 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from their homes and held them in prison camps in remote parts of the western U.S. and Arkansas. Entire families, including women, children and the elderly--two-thirds of them American citizens--were forcibly moved to 10 so-called “Relocation Centers“ hastily constructed by the War Relocation Authority in undeveloped and desolate areas of the U.S.

Three such camps were located in New Mexico: Santa Fe, Fort Stanton, and Lordsburg.

For more information you may visit the website, http://sammihara.com/

This program is sponsored by the New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League and funded by the New Mexico Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

NM Health Ins. Xchange enrollment due by 12/15/15 for Jan. 1st coverage

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Amy downd, CEO of the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange (http://bewellnm.com) about the current enrollment period (residents must enroll in a new health insurance plan by December 15, 2015 in order for coverage to start on January 1, 2016.)