Challenges
One of the goals of Alaska Humanity News is to explore everyday events and situations that escape attention because they are omnipresent. CHALLENGES is one of these features. Look through this edition to find other unusual features.
Send us news about perplexing contradictions, about unexamined assaults on everyday life, and we will take a look inside the news, and outside the box, and publicize it. See page 6 for a look at last month’s Challenge: the Hummer at the Airport.
A goal of Alaska Humanity News is to explore the ways that debilitating situations are imposed on us by bureaucracies and corporations. It often seems that we have little control of these small but omnipresent influences. But we do have control, if only we step up to the monoliths, and challenge them to justify their decisions (in ways other than pure economics)
Challenges is a key element of the paper, and in general a final part of the process of understanding and action. There are external and internal challenges.
Challenge
Do Alaskan politicians support U.S. torture policies?
Do Alaskan politicians support U.S. torture policies?
Psychological torture is now an official government policy, and takes place at U.S. bases such as Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Physical torture is also legal and is known as ‘extraordinary rendition,’ a process in which U.S. prisoners are sent to other countries to be tortured.
These are national policies which Alaskans don’t have direct responsibility for. But our prominent Congressional leaders have tremendous influence. Do they support activities that are changing the DNA of what it means to be an American?
One of the goals of Alaska Humanity News is to explore everyday events and situations that escape attention because they are omnipresent. CHALLENGES is one of these features. Look through this edition to find other unusual features.
Look for the official response next month.