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Moderator’s Note: The environmental and food justice movements have a tradition of critical self-study among activists who collaborate on learning how to remain mindfully engaged through an examination of the connection between self and the world. It is well established that people of color suffer disparate harm from the discriminatory maldistribution of environmental risks and access to ecological amenities like open space, clean air and water; safe food and soil;  think: Flint, Michigan and Standing Rock. Our work to heal our bodies is therefore always also the work of restoring balance to lived environments unjustly rendered unsafe and hazardous. This lack of balance is more than a matter of individual choices; only a privileged person can safely make that assumption. The imbalance is instead the by-product of powerful political and ultimately capitalist economic and legal forces endlessly perpetrating acts of structural violence in the places where we live, work, play, eat, ...

Moderator’s Note:  This important petition was posted by La Jicarita, An Online Magazine of Environmental Politics from New Mexico on July 1. It is addressed to Robert G. Frank as the President of the University of New Mexico and concerns the case of Associate Professor David Correia who is being threatened with termination for his involvement in peaceful activism as part of a widening social movement in Albuquerque against police brutality and racial profiling. Professor Correia is the author of a widely praised book Properties of Violence (University of Geirgia Press, 2013) dealing with the slippery politics of property law and New Mexico land grants. Professor Correia has several noteworthy publications and is quickly developing a solid reputation as a world-class scholar with important contributions to environmental history, political ecology, and legal (property) history – particularly as applied to the convoluted history of New Mexico land grants. I urge all my followers an...