PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOCUS FOR ALBUQUERQUE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 6 CANDIDATE FORUM AT UNM

October 15, 2003

PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOCUS FOR ALBUQUERQUE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 6 CANDIDATE FORUM AT UNM

The UNM Planners Network and the Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) are co-sponsoring a City Council District 6 candidate forum focused on planning and economic development issues on Monday, Oct. 20, from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Woodward Hall 101 on the UNM campus.

Community and Regional Planning Professor Claudia Isaac will moderate.

District 6 candidates Bob Anderson, Shane Canfield, Linda Doran, Martin Heinrich, Javier Martinez, Johanna Tighe and Donna Upson are scheduled to attend. To date, Tighe has not confirmed.

Questions for the candidates to answer during the forum may be submitted by e-mail to maggiemaeadams@msn.com or javierbenavidez@hotmail.com.

For more information and copies of the event flyer, contact Javier R. Benavidez at 315-3596.

The mission of UNM Planners Network is to promote fundamental change in political and economic systems. They believe planning should be a tool for allocating resources and developing the environment to eliminate inequalities of wealth and power in society, rather than used to maintain and justify the status quo.

"We are committed to achieving racial, economic, social and environmental justice. We believe that planning should be used to assure adequate food, clothing, housing, medical care, jobs, safe working conditions and a healthful environment. We advocate public responsibility for meeting these needs, because the private market has proven incapable of doing so," said Benavidez, UNM master's student in community and regional planning within the UNM School of Architecture and Planning.

For more information on the Southwest Organizing Project, visit www.swop.net or call505-247-8832.

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