FEATURES ECA Website!
public announcement New draft webpages for the Ester Community Association and the John Trigg Ester Library are now on line for the membership to check out.
A First-Class Prison
by Richard Seifert Musings on the restrictions imposed in aircraft approaching Washington, DC, and how a book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, presciently saw how this medium is perfect for a totalitarian, monocultural informational system to flourish, depicting the context in which we live today.
Interviews with the Unknown Candidates: "Disco Ray" Dances His Way Toward the US Senate
by C.R. Stice Although the Republican Moderate Party may have lost its case to get on the November 2004 ballot, US Senate candidate Ray Metcalfe may still run as a write-in candidate. In this interview, Metcalfe describes how he created the party because "too many right-wing religious fanatics" were controlling the Alaska Republican party.
Minimal Change for the Proles
by Ross Coen, Fairbanks MediaWatch Any dissent among the proletariat will be nothing more than isolated static, as Orwell said in his book, 1984. Thus, when a small paper like Real Change in Seattle or The Ester Republic in the Tanana Valley publishes subversive rants, their miniscule circulations translate to no meaningful change to the status quo.
The National Pastime
by Jean McDermott "Hating other people seems to be a national pastime right now," laments the author. In this editorial, she describes how a simple stamp celebrating the holiday of Eid seemed to spark irrational hate e-mail stereotyping Muslims as terrorists.
The New Environmentalism
by Mark Richards American environmentalism is failing, because we are unwilling to drop our standard of living. Why would we need to do that? So that, as David Brower once said, "people a thousand years from now can have any standard of living at all."
Opening Day in the Smoke
story & photos by Martin Freed and Ruta Vaksys Thick smoke on August 10, opening day for ptarmigan, made for Martian colors and hard breathing, but Obsidian the black Lab still flushed some birds for us.
Pat Davis at the Artworks
by Sonja Benson An Esterite's recent art show featured woven wire sculpture.
Truth to Power: A Muffled Protest
by Anna Godduhn A participant in the protests at the Republican National Convention describes the events in New York City.
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