Tag Archives: Anchorage ordinance 2009-64

Three Assembly hearings: A compilation

Posted on Thu, 18 June 2009 by Mel Green

Compiling posts and publications on the first three hearings on the AO 2009-64, the Anchorage equal rights ordinance. Continue reading →

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-06-17 (Assembly public hearing #3)

Posted on Wed, 17 June 2009 by Mel Green

@trishthiel There were more blues earlier. Lots os these reds dated from late bus arrival last Tuesday in signing to testify. in reply to trishthiel # @trishthiel and glad to meet you! I’m completely exhausted now cat Calling me to … Continue reading →

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Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You (poem)

Posted on Wed, 17 June 2009 by Mel Green

Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You does anyone beat your heart for you — oh yes I know there are some who will quicken it or slow it at their leaving — but when you are alone at night … Continue reading →

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-06-16 (Assembly public hearing #2)

Posted on Wed, 17 June 2009 by Mel Green

This automatically-generated compilation of tweets from my Twitter feed all are in regards to the June 16 Anchorage Assembly meeting — public testimony on the Anchorage equal rights ordinance. Later, when I have time, I’ll intergrate them with my liveblog … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging Assembly meeting, June 16 (Assembly public hearing #2)

Posted on Tue, 16 June 2009 by Mel Green

I will be testifying about these studies at tonight’s Anchorage Assembly meeting. They are online by following this link:http://www.henkimaa.com/identity/. Liveblogging commences below. I will also be occasionally twittering at http://twitter.com/yksin which also updates my Facebook status.  This is partly to … Continue reading →

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The new Carrie Prejean?

Posted on Mon, 15 June 2009 by Mel Green

In what looks like another of last Tuesday’s ploys by Prevo & company, an obvious attempt to bait LGBT people & our allies into turning the newly-crowned Mrs. Alaska United States® into another Carrie Prejean, martyr of the religious right.

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Identity Reports & One in Ten — now online!

Posted on Sun, 14 June 2009 by Mel Green

You’ve heard about them — or maybe you haven’t — but now you have. Anyway: now they’re online! As I wrote in my June 2 letter to the Anchorage Assembly: It’s been pointed out that the government maintains no statistics … Continue reading →

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Billboards

Posted on Fri, 12 June 2009 by Mel Green

While in 2003 Jerry Prevo decried Westboro Baptist Church tactics, in 2009 he & his allies didn’t hesitate to use children — even some younger then 10 — in a very like way, as billboards for their parents’ prejudices.

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Assembly report 2: June 9 public testimony

Posted on Thu, 11 June 2009 by Mel Green

So yes, finally I have a little time to write up my account of last Tuesday’s public hearing before the Anchorage Assembly on the AO 2009-64, the Anchorage equal rights ordinance. In the parking lot I got there pretty early … Continue reading →

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Outside influence

Posted on Wed, 10 June 2009 by Mel Green

Why are Mat-Su residents being bused into Anchorage to testify on Anchorage’s equal rights ordinance?

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