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Protesting the veto: Photos
Following Mayor Dan Sullivan’s veto of the Anchorage equal rights ordinance earlier today, a protest was spontaneously organized via Facebook, Twitter, and announcements on pro-ordinance blogs. It was set to begin at City Hall at 5:00 PM — which was … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Dan Sullivan, lgbtq, McGinley's Pub, protest, slideshow, veto
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The veto
As is written in Anchorage Municipal Code 5.10.010: The public policy of the municipality is declared to be equal opportunity for all persons. By his veto of AO 2009-64, Mayor Dan Sullivan has just revised that policy, as follows: Some … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Dan Sullivan, George Orwell, lgbtq, veto
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My letter to Mayor Sullivan: Please let AO 64 stand
Today’s the day that Mayor Dan Sullivan is expected to announce whether or not he’ll veto the Anchorage equal rights ordinance AO 2009-64 passed last Tuesday by the Anchorage Assembly. Here’s the letter I sent him urging him to let … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Dan Sullivan, Identity Reports, lgbtq, One in 10
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"There's no sign of discrimination" — uh, yes there is
This is a slightly revised version of a page I just put up to give Identity Reports and One in Ten a permanent front page presence on my blog. In the 1980s, the nonprofit organization Identity, Inc. conducted two major … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Identity Inc., Identity Reports, lgbtq, One in 10, willful ignorance
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Third time in 35 years: Anchorage's equal rights ordinance
An account of the meeting at which the Anchorage Assembly passed the S-2 version of the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, AO 2009-64, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. It passed by a vote of 7–4.
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance
Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Debbie Ossiander, lgbtq
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-08-11: Anchorage equal rights ordinance passes 7-4
@MermaidSocks Ewww! # Will be livetweeting from Anch Assembly tonight. Tweets update my FB status, so it’ll get busy ~500 PM – hide me if it’s too much. #anclgbt # About those death panels: videos from Daily Show, Colbert Report, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, lgbtq
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What's on the table: Anchorage equal rights ordinance
It’s been a long hard haul: six long nights of public testimony. Now finally tonight there may be some decisions made. Here’s the Assembly’s agenda tonight. The equal rights-related items are item 9.B.2, which is Dan Coffey’s resolution for a … Continue reading
Delay by "task force": My testimony to the Anchorage Assembly
Over the past couple of weeks, Bent Alaska has been publishing some of the testimony of people who testified to the Anchorage Assembly in favor of the Anchorage equal rights ordinance AO 2009-64, which if passed will grant equal protection … Continue reading
Kelley testimony 2: Oncale Supreme Court decision on workplace sexual harassment does not protect LGBTs from discrimination
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc., 523 U.S. 75 (1998) was offered by one speaker in July 21 Assembly testimony as proof that existing law already exists to protect LGBT people from unfair discrimination. But, as attorney and UAA professor Pamela Kelley writes, Oncale’s application is very narrow: to sexual harassment between members of the same sex (regardless of sexual orientation) in the workplace.
Kelley testimony 1: Contrary to prior Assembly testimony, existing law does not protect LGBT people from discrimination
Among the few arguments against proposed Anchorage ordinance AO 2009-64 that does not involve Christianist claims about the Bible is the claim that such an ordinance is unnecessary — that existing law already protects lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transfolk from unfair discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, and financial practices. But this claim is not true, as attorney and UAA professor Pamela Kelley testified on July 21.