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A BIG THANK YOU: Our 11th Holiday Gala was a big success, thanks to so many who participated. People loved the enjoyable, larger space at the Heights Community Center. A very special thanks goes to Desi Brown who made that possible. Thanks also to all those who provided the delicious sweet treats and the posole, the set-up and clean-up crews, to Suzanne Ziglar who organized the excellent craft fair, and to all the crafts people who came and added so much to the evening. And thanks too, to our great staff, Cecilia and Mary, who organized the committee and put together all the pieces that made this night such a success. We cleared $2400 and were given an additional $500 donation to bring the final total to $2900. BRAVO!

The 2008 Nuclear Resistance Calendars are now available at the Peace Center for $12. The money benefits the ACP&J!

Art Exhibit January/February: Featured artist, Mary Laniel Nakigan., our co-coordinator will share her recent work - collages and paintings - with the community. In lieu of an artist's reception, please come to the African Dance Party on Saturday, January 12th to help Mary celebrate her creative endeavors.See January calendar for details.

Thank you to the Seidman Foundation for their generous contribution to the Center for Peace and Justice!

Dear members, new and not:starting January 2008, the basic peace center annual membership will go up to $36 - that is less than ten cents a day for peace!

25 years of Peace & Justice work: 2008 is the 25th anniversary year of the founding and incorporation of the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice. We are planning several events to celebrate this occasion and will run historical stories in the newsletter. We would like to contact old members who are no longer active and sign up new members (at least 25!!!) If you would like to be involved in the anniversary events and/or if you have any stories and photos to share, please contact Aanya and France at the Center! Congratulations to all ACP&J members past and present!!

For the last one and a half years, a small group of people have pledged $10.00 per month to be used for staff health needs. We would like to expand the group and build up the account. To contribute, call Suzanne at 505-268-9557 and leave a message. Thanks.

Little bits of information are filtering in from the FCC about the five full-power radio licenses we applied for in October. Available Media continues to work to secure some of the last remaining non-corporate airwaves in New Mexico. As we suspected, we have competition--some progressive, some...not so progressive. The next several weeks call for fancy legal and engineering work, as well as some direct negotiating with our competitors. In the end, we hope all of our efforts and your support will score some points for Media Justice! Our community has done so much to make this possible and we THANK YOU! If you want to know more details than we can fit here or to get involved, please call Maria at 505-247-9694 or write us at Available Media, Inc., POB 1434, Albuquerque, NM 87103-1434. (Oh, yeah, and donations to help with the continued legal and engineering expenses of this effort can be mailed to this address, too!) Thanks!

We are called, urgently, to make a shift in our lives and in our world, a transformative shift that leads to new ways of being together on and with the earth. To assist transformative leaders, Louise Diamond offers a year-long master class for social change agents called How to Change the World. Beginning in January, this course covers four areas of knowledge and skill essential to effective change leadership. For information and to register, go to louisediamond.com/training.html.

The Los Alamos Study Group is having a series of weekly public breakfast seminar and discussion meetings ending next April in both Santa Fe and Albuquerque. The overall theme will be Dimensions of the Global Crisis: Responses and Renewal. They will alternate each week between factual aspects of the unfolding crisis (which is a crisis for New Mexico in particular) and our political response to it. Everybody is invited. Albuquerque: Wednesday mornings, Mennonite Church, 1300 Girard NE. Santa Fe: Thursday mornings, United Church of Santa Fe, 1804 Arroyo Chamiso. 7:25 to 8:45am. Coffee, tea, light breakfast. Free - provided donations cover modest expenses. Info: 505-265-1200.

The homeless could use your support each Sunday at 1pm at 10th and Central. Bring your camera, video camera - in case the police begin again to disrupt the feeding of the homeless - and family, friends, kids. Volunteers are always needed to help prepare the food, help share the food, join us in the park, and help clean up. Trinity House Catholic Worker, 505-242-0497, tna@catholicworker.biz .

Free orange Support the Troops - End the War poster board and yard signs (durable plastic, metal stake, easy to set up) . They are ready to go at the Peace Center with anyone who would like to distribute them / put them to good use.