Alaska

Alaska Becomes First State To Allow Public Use Establishments

February 1, 2020 Staff, Norml.org Create! Alaska, Marijuana

Juneau, AK: Officials with the Alaska's Marijuana Control Board have issued their first-ever permits to retailers who wish to allow customers to consume cannabis on the premises. While a handful of cities in other states — such as West Hollywood, California and Springfield, Illinois — have similarly issued municipal licenses to allow for on-site cannabis consumption, Alaska is the first jurisdiction to provide state approval for such facilities.

Young Indigenous Activists Lead Climate Justice Action In Alaska

December 27, 2019 Tripp J Crouse, Hcn.org Resist! Alaska, Climate Change, Youth Activism

“We do not want to stop our ways of life. That’s why we’re here.” Seventeen-year-old Quannah Chasing Horse’s voice broke as she stood on stage in front of a sea of delegates at the Alaska Federation of Natives 2019 Convention in Fairbanks, Alaska. “We shouldn’t have to tell people in charge that we want to survive. It should be our number-one right. We should not have to fight for this.” In October, at one of the largest gatherings of Indigenous people in the U.S., the Hans Gwich’in and Lakota Sioux teenager stood with 15-year-old Nanieezh Peter (Neetsaii Gwich’in and Diné)...

Tlingit Carvers Create ‘Shaming Totem’ Of Trump And Alaska Governor Dunleavy

September 2, 2019 By Frank Hopper, Newsmaven.io Resist! Alaska, Electoral Politics, Trump Administration

The pole supports the effort to recall Dunleavy, who would rather balance the state budget by cutting benefits to the poor than reduce a tax credit to big oil companies. Did the Tlingit “shaming” totem pole featuring images of President Trump and Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy cause the governor to restore most of the nearly half a billion dollars he cut from the state budget? Well, it didn’t hurt. The 11-and-a-half foot red cedar pole arrived in the state capital of Juneau from where it was carved in Sitka just in time for the kickoff of the Recall Dunleavy signature drive on August 1.

Congress Opens Alaska Wildlife Refuge To Drilling, But Roadblocks Remain

December 22, 2017 Sabrina Shankman, insideclimatenews.org Resist! Alaska, Arctic drilling, Congress

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could soon be open to drilling, thanks to the tax bill passed by Congress this week, but one key question remains: Once oil companies can drill in the refuge, will they jump at the chance? A provision tucked into the Republican tax overhaul calls for opening the refuge's coastal plain, a 1.5 million acre stretch of land that did not share the refuge's protected status. Republicans have fought for decades to allow drilling there. But those hoping that oil companies will flock to the refuge—and that revenues raised can help offset some of the deficit created by the tax bill—might be sorely disappointed, said Bud Coote, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center.

Alaska Climate Impact: Collapsing Mountains, Shattered Lives

August 6, 2016 Dahr Jamail, www.truth-out.org Educate! Alaska, Climate Change

By Dahr Jamail for Truthout - The impacts of anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) across Alaska are devastating to witness. In late June, due to glaciers melting at unprecedented rates, the side of a mountain nearly a mile high in Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park, which had formerly been supported by glacial ice, collapsed completely. The landslide released over 100 million tons of rock, sending debris miles across a glacier beneath what was left of the mountain.

Dahr Jamail | Alaskans Witness Collapsing Mountains, Shattered Lives

August 3, 2016 Dahr Jamail, www.truth-out.org Educate! Alaska, Climate Change

Alaska First State To Rename Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day

October 14, 2015 Staff, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Create! Alaska, Indigenous Peoples

By Staff of ICTMN - This October 12 was momentous in Alaska, both Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz and Alaska Gov. Bill Walker signed proclamations declaring the second Monday of October to be Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The state is the first to rename the federal holiday, but joins a number of other cities that have done so, including Portland, Oregon and Albuquerque, New Mexico this year. “The more we can do to strengthen the ties between the communities that make up Anchorage and makeup Alaska, the better,” Berkowitz told Alaska Dispatch News.

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