FEATURES Begich and Murkowski: Alaska's Constitution-Optional Senators
by Jeanne Devon, reprinted from The Mudflats with notes by the Editor If someone had told you ten years ago that a Democrat-led Senate would vote to pass a bill that allowed the US military to detain and hold American citizens indefinitely without legal representation and without even a charge, would you have believed them?
Building Community: Ester's Nonprofit Organizations
by D. Helfferich Ester is a volunteer-rich place, and the community benefits from five very active, community-oriented nonprofit organizations.
Dose of Reality? A Look at MACC's Problems
Dose of Reality, by Neil Davis The suggestion that we've heard that HB 110 and SB 49 would cost us $2 billion annually at current oil prices is essentially correct; over the life of the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, these bills could cost Alaskans as much as $50 billion. That's more money than is now in the Alaska Permanent Fund.
Gazing Into the Abyss
by Jamie Smith One of the more prevalent stereotypes about atheists is just how damned angry they are. Far from being evidence of any spiritual incontinence, I usually attribute this phenomenon along the lines of the infamous bumper sticker: "If you're not pissed, you're not paying attention."
The Missionary Position on "Where Will It All End?"
by Neal Matson Rich Seifert's column on his forty years in the wilderness really grabbed my attention. My first thoughts about this question were really quite depressing—but then Occupy Wall Street was born!
Occupied! Occupying Alaska; Fairbanks Occupiers; Banana Bread & Hot Tea
by Deirdre Helfferich, Steven Hall, and Fred Monrean, Jr.; photos by Don Derosier and Ronn Murray Occupy Wall Street is in Alaska and moved to downtown Fairbanks in 2011. Steven Hall and Fred Monrean, Jr., interviewed Occupy Fairbanks protestors.
Occupy Wall Street: Walking the Walk
photos and story by Dirk Nelson, part one After an inflatable rat in Anchorage, Wall Street was next. I'd left activism behind me years before, but this I knew I had to do. My moose jerky and me went back East.
Patting Down, Groping, and Homeland Security
Dr. Geyges Guide for the Perplexed A reader asks what would happen to Jesus should he encounter our modern-day airport security measures, and whether a special Airport of the Faithful would spare Him these indignities.
The Presidents Speak: Two Roosevelts on Economic Rights & Responsibilities
"The New Nationalism," by Theodore Roosevelt The Occupy Wall Street movement has deep roots in the populist movements of the past. A major thread in OWS has been economic injustice—not just inequality. Both Presidents Roosevelt spoke in public addresses on this same theme, warning the nation of the dire consequences to our democracy should "our national life bring us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few," to quote Teddy. In this issue and the next, two of these famous addresses shall be reprinted in their entirety in the Republic.
Send Us Your Rich, Your Venal, Yearning to Be Your Yankee Neighbors
A Conspiracy of Ravens, by Rich Seifert Nobody is home at all in America. It has all been sold in a scam, to someone who couldn't ever pay, on terms they didn't know, to be foreclosed without proof, and sold to a questionable foreigner with illegal money laundered by offshore banks.
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