Alcoholism: Sitka Teen Speaks Out About Rebuilding Her Culture
Sitka Teen Speaks Out About Rebuilding Her Culture
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Mt. Edgecumbe High School student Shanelle Afcan delivered a powerful commentary last week on Sitka’s KCAW Raven Radio about the disappearance of her Alaska Native culture. Shanelle is a member of the Mount Edgecumbe Radio Club, which won a Spirit of Youth award last year in the category of Technolo …
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Why I Run
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I’ve been asked this… and I’ve not always been sure how to respond… I don’t have a cause I’m running for. I’m not over coming some situation or event. I’m not marking any signifigant milestone. I don’t have an inspirational and special story. Just my story… And this is it: I shouldn’t be alive. If I …
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Irish Slums
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Last month, I met Michael Patrick MacDonald at an Irish Studies conference in Rhode Island. He was the keynote speaker. I didn’t know much about him beforehand, other than he wrote All Souls about growing up in South Boston in the 70s and 80s. I knew All Souls was a story about heartbreak, drugs, an …
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Turkey’s ‘Democratic’ Reforms Are Anything But
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo: World Economic Forum. Over dinner at the newest hot restaurant in Istanbul, my friend exhales his fury. “ This is democracy?” he snaps. “What kind of democracy?” It has been barely a month since Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reversed …
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