What Do I Know?

In April 2009 I posted a video of Eriel Tchekwie Deranger who was in Anchorage for the Indigenous People's Global Summit on Climate Chan...

Image from All Posters Brent Scarpo Brent was the casting director of The Shawshank Redemption (and other movies like That Thing You D...

[The video is taking forever to load, so I'm going to post this and add the video when it's done, probably within the hour.  Conside...

I keep being amazed by the number and variety of people walking the halls of the Capitol to make their case to legislators. Alaskans compla...

At the Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change (click link for all the posts on the summit) last week, one of the people I spoke...

I've still got a couple more interviews and other video from the Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change (click link for all...

It's late Saturday night already and I have a lot of video and pictures and thoughts about the Summit. Yesterday (Friday) afternoon I w...

I've got to check some names but I'll post this now and fix the details later. The signing hasn't happened yet. There are still...

The Steering Committe is at the front and the President of the UN General Assembly is with them as well and they are asking him to take the ...

It's 11:30, they've just reopened the doors to where the delegates have been discussing final language for the Declaration. There w...

I just got here at 9:30am. I'm not quite sure what is happening. An Indonesian woman was speaking when I got in. Now and elder from B...

Patricia Cochran, the coordinator of the whole summit went over the schedule. There will be an extra hour for people to work on the Declarat...

Hassab is studying at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and was delighted to learn this Summit was being held in Anchorage. He's study...

Again, this is written on the fly for immediate posting. Spelling and names are not necessarily all they should be. It's bits and piece...

Neza's people were forcibly removed from their land that had been designated a national park. In the video recorded this morning, he br...

I'm finally getting into synch here and figuring out how to report this with both my fingers at the computer and the still and video pic...

Questions to the previous panelists. 1. In French: Many indigenous people especially people of the forest do not know that they are repres...

The Bolivian foreign minister's speech was in Spanish, so I got some earphones to hear the English and typed as fast as I could. I'...

[Picture of UN General Assembly President Father d'Iscoto with Bolivian Foreign Minister before the speech.] Father d'Escoto Brockm...

The President of Bolivia Evos Morales WILL NOT speak in Anchorage today. Critical issues in Bolivia prevented his coming here and the fore...