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Helping Haiti (& telling Pat Robertson to STFU)

Posted on Wed, 13 January 2010 by Mel Green

How can we help the people of Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday’s devastating earthquake? By sending them assistance — not by blaming them, as Christianist lackwit Pat Robertson so predictably does. Continue reading →

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Battlestar Rhapsody

Posted on Tue, 12 January 2010 by Mel Green

This brilliant parody of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” retells the tale of “Battlestar Galactica.”

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-11-18: The Book That Lied Day 2

Posted on Wed, 18 November 2009 by Mel Green

Lots of tweets about Palin’s book; includes clips from the Daily Show & Colbert Report.

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-11-17: The Book That Lied Day 1

Posted on Tue, 17 November 2009 by Mel Green

The best things on the day Palin’s book is released? — Mudflats reads it; & so does Andrew Halcro. Also, words that begin with dw.

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True Diversity Dinner video, part 5: Diane Benson

Posted on Sat, 3 October 2009 by Mel Green

Janson Jones’ fifth video of the September 25 True Diversity Dinner in Anchorage features Diane Benson speaking about healing racism in Anchorage — & some of my additional commentary on Alaska’s high rate of sexual violence that especially victimizes Alaska Native women.

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True Diversity Dinner video, part 4: Masingka Singers & Dancers

Posted on Thu, 1 October 2009 by Mel Green

Janson Jones’ video, & my photos, of the Yup’ik troupe Masingka Singers & Dancers performing at the True Diversity Dinner in Anchorage on September 25, 2009.

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True Diversity Dinner video, part 3: Hotel workers, & Elvi's speech

Posted on Thu, 1 October 2009 by Mel Green

Part 3 of Janson Jones’ video of the September 25 True Diversity Dinner in Anchorage includes Hilton hotel workers protesting outside the Mayor’s Unity Dinner, and the speech of Assembly Member Elvi Gray-Jackson.

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True Diversity Dinner 1 & 2: Video by Janson Jones

Posted on Tue, 29 September 2009 by Mel Green

Parts 1 & 2 of video coverage of the September 25, 2009 True Diversity Dinner in Anchorage by Janson Jones of Floridana Alaskiana v2.5. Part 1 includes background on the summer 2009 fight for the Anchorage equal rights ordinance AO 2009-64; part 2 is a montage of Janson’s photos of the dinner.

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Bonnie Raitt: Thing Called Love

Posted on Wed, 16 September 2009 by Mel Green

Rocking out to Bonnie Raitt and “Thing Called Love” from her Nick of Time album.

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You're looking very quitty, too

Posted on Wed, 22 July 2009 by Mel Green

Last night while enmired in the seemingly endless (yet it ended, yay!) & repetitively nonsensical “Truth is not Hate” untruthful hate speech testimony of equal rights ordinance opponents (happily broken up by a lot of really good ordinance supporter testimony),  … Continue reading →

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