There have been many wonderful, inspired signs at the various Occupy rallies around the world, but this one gave me the biggest smile. I admit it. Next up is a huge photo album of the rallies around the state of Alaska. Deep thanks to the people who came out and occupied Fairbanks, Juneau, Anchorage, Homer, [...]

By Erin Pohland Hello from Kinshasa, or should I say Hell’s Waiting Room…. Seriously, it seems like all I do here is wait.  Wait at the hospital, wait for the power, wait for my laundry (it took 4 days for 2 baby blankets and a sleeper), and wait at the Embassy.  Poor Andrew is going [...]

Hooray for the hale and hardy Occupiers in Unalaska who set out to occupy the Bering Sea!  We note with a smile the awesome yellow boots on the ground. And this great shot came from Mudflatter Tele, an Alaskan out of state, currently occupying  Bellingham, Washington. Definitely take a minute to check out her awesome [...]

  Alaskans are busting their buttons this week. I couldn’t let these wonderful accomplishments pass without a little hat tip to the folks that made their fellow Alaskans proud as peacocks. Brian Schmidt An Australian-based astrophysicist, Brian Schmidt, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics is a product of the Anchorage School District, having graduated [...]

Friday afternoon, the offices of the AFL-CIO in Anchorage were hopping. Look at the sinister faces of all those “union thugs.” That’s one thing I’ve never understood. How can any Alaskan, in a state with the second-highest union density in the country, think of unions as “thuggery.” Union men and women are your neighbors, your [...]

  I got this great photo from Mudflatter PH, in the Valley! The Twins Occupy Casa Grande The twins turned 86 in April. I know them as Mom and Aunt Lena. With assistance from my brother, they made a whole bunch of signs and set out to show solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, [...]

      Several dozen protesters showed up yesterday at noon at the Legislative Offices in downtown Anchorage to show their support for Senate Bill 5 which would restore the level of inclusion in the Denali Kid Care program (SCHIP) to where it was in 2003. Last session, a bill was introduced that would have [...]

Afternoon. Spenard. SOMEthing dancing down the sidewalk. Drive-by Blackberry photo. The Tlingit Indians of Southeastern Alaska called it “Kushtaka.” The Den’aina Indians of South central named it “Nant’ina.” The Eskimos of southwest Alaska call it “Urayuli” or “Hairy man.” I call it “The Dancing Mystery Beast of Spenard.”

  The Constitution. We’ve seen it wrapped around buses, misspelled on Tea Party signs, hailed and praised by the “back to basics” Republicans who tell us that if we just went back to the wisdom of the founding fathers, life would be good again. It’s been waved like the flag, held up like holy writ, [...]

As promised, here are the shots I took on the return leg of my frosty hike the other morning. All mornings since have followed suit, with temperatures well below freezing, and a beautiful but fleeting display of frost when the sun rises.         What I thought was just a clump of frost [...]

Thanks to Mudflatter Alex (an adopted Alaskan) for passing on this great pic via Twitter @coldfootfilms. OK, rural or solitary readers… time to send me your “Occupy” pics for future threads! Email me at akmuckraker(at)yahoo.com

Sean Parnell, the man that his former boss Sarah Palin called a “brother in prayer” has made his priorities known.  Remember that favorite Sunday School hymn, “Jesus Loves the Little Children?” Remember how Jesus’ priorities were all about healing the sick, and helping the poor, and doing unto others as you would have them do unto [...]

  Well, it seems that moose are not the only ones feeling a little amorous lately…  I ran into Mudflatter BlueinAK at the Occupy Anchorage rally the other day.  We both happen to have the same awesome camera (Canon 1ds) and we often just check in with each other to confirm that we are both [...]

Remember when Governor Sean “Who Needs the Feds” Parnell, and a bunch of Republican “Who Needs the Feds” legislators decided to push to abolish Alaska’s Coastal Zone Management program? When the bill to extend the program failed in the State House, Alaskans effectively gave away their local voices, and turned control of our coastal issues [...]

~Photo by Zach Roberts By Shannyn Moore I remember wondering what gold tastes like. As a child sitting in Mrs. Harris’ Sunday school class, I listened raptly to her recount the biblical tale of Moses coming down from Mount Sinai armed with the Ten Commandments. He’d spent the last 40 days and nights meeting with [...]