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Article: Success in Santa Fe: score on for the revolution from below.(fight against land developers in New Mexico; includes related article on environmental movement)
- Article from:
- The Progressive
- Article date:
- August 1, 1995
- Author:
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In the struggle between rich and poor, folks like Valentin Valdez usually end up holding the short end of the stick. But not in Santa Fe.
Valdez is a retired janitor who, since childhood, has climbed in the mountains that surround New Mexico's historic, picturesque, and increasingly trendy capital city. Several years ago, as he hiked on Atalaya Mountain, Valdez came across a parcel of land that had traditionally been known as a place of great spiritual significance to members of Santa Fe's large Hispanic community.
Now, however, what Valdez had always thought of as public space was being divided into lots where developers planned to build $500,000-and-up homes ...
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