KUNM 89.9 FM 8:00 PM Tonight: Organizing Against Barelas/Martineztown Flooding

From Espejos de Aztlan:
Tune in to KUNM 89.9 tonight, Monday, February 19th, at 8:00 PM for "Espejos de Aztlan," a weekly radio program highlighting the courage, strength and beauty of the Chicano/Latino community in New Mexico.

Host Javier Benavidez will be interviewing several community organizers from Albuquerque's Barelas and Martineztown neighborhoods who have undergone reoccuring struggles in their streets and homes with severe flooding and sewage-contaminated storm water due to crumbling and inadequate infrastructure systems.

This past summer, a great deal of attention was brought to the two neighborhoods' agony as television news images of the damage inflicted in some areas by rainstorms resembled images brought on by flooding in New Orleans. Since the storms took place last August, community members have organized to bring a critical remedy to the situation, including a $40 million construction proposal before the New Mexico State Legislature and a plan to transform Tingley Park into an emergency flood basin and park.

Espejos de Aztlan has been on-air since 1979 and is part of the Raices Colectiva which conducts programming on news, culture and music from a Latino perspective on KUNM 89.9. Listeners outside of the radio area can access streaming audio at https://www.kunm.org/.