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Gloria La Riva, a New Mexican and Burqueña activist with the PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation) protesting in 2016

Staircase of Loretto Chapel. Santa Fe, New Mexico

The story (summarized, I'll put a link to where you can read it in detail below. I'm also not claiming that this is true) is that a group of religious sisters began to start working on constructing the chapel, but a staircase would take up too much space, so they decided to pray a 9-day novena to St. Joseph.

On the 9th day, a carpenter appeared with a hammer and a carpenter's square. He built this staircase with only wooden pegs and a type of spruce (they can't fully identify it) that is not native to New Mexico. The carpenter disappeared before being thanked or paid.

The carpenter is believed to be St. Joseph himself, or someone sent by him.

Top photo: Indian Powwow, Penitentiary of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1982

Middle photo: Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, 1981

Photo taken by bugeyed_girl on instagram

Samia Assed, a Palestinian-American and New Mexican/Burqueña human rights activist

Elon Musk Becomes World's First Trillionaire

Meanwhile in New Mexico...

42% of New Mexican households are unable to afford basic necessities

466,000 (22% of) New Mexicans rely on snap benefits monthly to afford food

Homelessness has gone up 55% in New Mexico since 2007

"WORKING PEOPLE MAKE SOCIETY RUN, YET WE STARVE WHILE THE RICH GET EVEN RICHER. BUT WE CAN BUILD A BETTER WORLD, ONE WHERE PEOPLE'S NEEDS ARE PRIORITIZED OVER BILLIONAIRES (AND NOW TRILLIONAIRES)."