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'Furious at the Journal': Protesters demonstrate in front of 近距离内射合集 headquarters over air quality board editorials

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Carrying signs reading such things as 鈥淲e Need Objective 近距离内射合集,鈥 some 30 protesters met at the 近距离内射合集 on Friday largely to criticize the paper鈥檚 editorials throughout a controversial saga over an environmental justice rule.

鈥淭here was just ultimate bias,鈥 said Magdalena Avila, who added she鈥檚 been a Journal subscriber for at least two decades. 鈥淎nd I am so furious at the Journal.鈥

Journal Editor Patrick Ethridge said he planned to take the protesters鈥 concerns to heart and have more discussions with them.

鈥淚 respect and appreciate their right to assemble. And I am generally in favor of anyone exercising their First Amendment right, whether I agree or disagree, whether it鈥檚 critical of the newspaper or not,鈥 he said.

The Health, Environment and Equity Impacts rule, proposed by a group of community members living in and around the South Valley, intended to limit air pollution in 鈥渙verburdened communities鈥 鈥 areas already experiencing high levels of industrial emissions.

The rule clashed with some business groups, who felt the restrictions could stymie economic development in Bernalillo County.

In November, City Council voted to pull the four city-appointed members of the joint city and county Air Quality Control Board and cease board hearings on environmental justice regulations until February.

Protesters at the Journal

But the board continued with the hearing, as scheduled, in December. The seven-member board passed a pared down version of the rule on a 5-2 vote.

On Thursday, a state district judge ruled in favor of the board and granted an injunction, suspending the two ordinances. That injunction will remain in effect until a hearing in the lawsuit against the city of Albuquerque is heard, and allows the board to continue operating as usual.

The Journal editorial board has lambasted the rule and the actions of the air quality board, saying in one editorial that the rule was one which 鈥渂usiness leaders consider a job-killer, military folks consider a national security threat and many others simply consider environmental extremism.鈥

鈥淔or those who don鈥檛 believe in a bureaucratic deep state, look no further than the outrageous conduct this week of the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board,鈥 the editorial board wrote in an early December piece. 鈥淛ust who do these people think they are?鈥

Richard Moore

On Friday, Editorial Page Assistant Editor John Leacock likened the protest to 鈥渋ntimidation tactics鈥 and said the protesters never asked for a meeting to discuss their concerns.

鈥淭he petitioners are upset that our editorials have lacked balance on the air board. They don鈥檛 understand that editorials are different than news,鈥 added Editorial Page Editor Jeff Tucker. 鈥淭hey have different guidelines and don鈥檛 present both sides. We present an argument.鈥

Los Jardines Institute co-coordinator Richard Moore acknowledged that his organization did not ask for a meeting, but said the editorial page鈥檚 publication decisions were 鈥渙ne-sided.鈥

鈥淭his was a complete one-sided, unethical, unprofessional position that the editorial board was continuing to print over and over again,鈥 he said.

As Moore spoke in the front of the building, Tucker, who鈥檇 walked outside, turned around and started to walk back inside, later explaining he 鈥渨ent to receive their letter, not listen to their speech.鈥

鈥淲e ain鈥檛 leaving until you come back,鈥 Moore told Tucker. 鈥... We鈥檙e here to give (the letter) to you.鈥

Tucker turned around and took the letter from the protesters.

The letter demands the Journal create a 鈥渕ore diverse editorial board reflective of Albuquerque鈥檚 populations,鈥 which the board pushed back on, pointing out that at the time it was writing about the air quality board, half of the four-member editorial board was comprised of people of color.

The letter also requests a monthly column for people to share the 鈥渞ealities of our communities, not just the political conservative ideologies of politicians, industry and advertising profit.鈥

鈥淢y hope is that I鈥檒l get to sit down with them and talk about their concerns a little bit more before I make any decisions,鈥 Ethridge said of the demands. 鈥淎nd I鈥檝e never been averse to doing that.鈥

Moore said the protesters will keep returning if their demands in the letter are not met.