Saturday, October 08, 2005

Starting out

Well, The Ester Republic is now venturing into the world of blogs. Here's a bit of info to start things off:

The Sustainable Campus Task Force, of the UAF campus, has gotten political/activist organizing off to a roaring start. Rodney Guritz called a meeting of progressive "activists, visionaries, and advocates" last Thursday evening, and about thirty people showed up. The SCTF showed "Outfoxed", an exposé of Fox News and how it's pretty much a partisan organizing machine for the Republican Party, issuing propaganda and "infotainment" instead of genuine news. (Very good film; I recommend it highly.) The group discussed several issues of local concern, and resolved to set up a website and possibly to start a paper, or at least a newsheet similar to the Recycled Toilet Paper. Most of the group were students, but Representative David Guttenberg, myself, Doug Yates, Jeanne Olson, the director of the Northern Environmental Center, and a several others from the community were there. It was an encouraging and energizing gathering.

The next meeting will be on campus at 6 pm, Thursday Oct. 13.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very exciting to see the Ester Republic adding a blog. I'll be reading it regularly I am sure.

jeanne, you are so right. At the local level and with a smaller group, you can make real change happen. The trick, and I haven't figured this out exactly yet, is to get beyond protecting ourselves from Wal Mart etc, to actively improving the non-WalMart economy. More small scale local businesses which serve people's needs is the larger goal.

Alaska's in good hands I'd say.

Anonymous said...

have a few odds and ends from former alaskan papers if they really want to start one.