The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity.
With SANDRA POSTEL,  Director of the Global Water Policy Project and author of “Replenish: the Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity”

The Santa Fe Watershed Association Presents:
Tomás Rivera, Chainbreaker Collective Leader and Paul Gibson, Co-founder of Retake Our Democracy, Give the Low Down on the Prospects for Social, Environmental, Economic and Racial Justice under Santa Fe’s New Mayor

Preview the 2018 Legislative Session — Budget, Crime and Tax Reform with Senator Peter Wirth

MELYNN SCHUYLER, Founder and Executive Director of YouthWorks, Talks about How We Can Connect Disconnected Youth

FRED NATHAN, Executive Director of Think New Mexico, talks about innovative approaches to state school funding that can help address the funding disparity between administrative costs and classroom spending. By shifting priorities only moderately, we can free up much-needed funds to solve our educational crisis. With Journey Hosts Alan Webber and Bill Dupuy

Does New Mexico’s Sub-par Education Violate the State Constitution? Noted Santa Fe Attorney, DANIEL YOHALEM, Co-counsel for the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty  Shares His Understanding and Insight with the Journey Audience

Wildlife Biologist, First Mexican Wolf Recovery Program Leader, and Wolf Activist DAVID PARSONS Tells the Inside Story of the New Wolf Recovery Plan Hashed Out Recently between the Feds and the States

PETER DE BENEDITTIS, PH.D, Progressive candidate for Governor, will speak about how the Progressive movement is formulating responses to business as usual politics. De Benedittis will show how his gubernatorial campaign will bring New Mexico politics back to the people.

JOEL AALBERTS, new Executive Director of the landmark Lensic Theater, shares his vision for Santa Fe’s historic 800-seat theater. Aalbert’s presentation will give an exciting look at the future for the Lensic. Free and open to the public. Journey Hosts Alan Webber and Bill Dupuy.

ANN FILEMYR, Dean at Southwestern College and NATE DOWNEY, President Emeritus of Santa Fe Permaculture  forecast the upcoming (October 12-14) Economics Of Happiness Conference. Filemyr and Downey  talk about the importance of developing local economies instead of relying on an economy based on exploitation. With Journey Hosts Alan Webber and James Burbank

Senator Jerry Ortiz Y Pino: On the State of New Mexico’s Political, Social and Budgetary Situations.

Renee Athay: Taking Political Action with Indivisible Santa Fe.

Senator Bill O’Neill: On Poetry and Politics.

With Red Mountain Press Editor/Publisher Susan Gardner on The Freedom of the Ignored, the author’s debut poetry book.

With Creativity for Peace Executive Director Dottie Indyke and Students of the 2017 Santa Fe Summer Program for Young Israeli and Palestinian Women Peacemakers.