“Stop the Giveaway!” Backbone Rally Photos
This just in from Juneau:
Just after 2:00a.m. the House Resources Committee amended the bill, reducing the tax rate from 35 to 33 percent, giving away an additional $300-$400 million dollars a year. This rate applies to all oil, whether it is already in production or not.
Today, hundreds of Alaskans all across the state showed up for a “day of resistance” to stop the oil wealth giveaway.There were rallies in Juneau, Fairbanks, Sitka, Homer, Dillingham, Soldotna, Sterling and Anchorage.
Today, April 4th – the Mudflats crew joined nearly 150 people who protested in front of the Alaska State Legislative Offices in Anchorage. Vic Fischer, Katie Hurley, Malcolm Roberts, Harry Crawford, Nick Moe, Cesar Martinson, Ethan Berkowitz, Jim Sykes and David Gottstein were just some of the speakers at the rally that called out the Alaska legislature on the multi-billion dollar oil giveaway, SB21.
Homer and Soldotna reported 100 people attending, Juneau had around 500 with Legislators French, Wielechowski and Ellis (among others). Juneau photos are at the bottom of the post (they’re awesome).
If you’ve got photos from other rallies around the state please send them! We’d love to post ’em! (zdroberts (at) gmail.com)
This is what we think of that no-strings-attached oil giveaway, and those checks to the oil companies.
The Alaska flag flies as Backbone co-founder David Gottstein addresses the crowd.
David Gottstein
Jane Angvik
We’re about to get guillotined
Katie Hurley
Katie Hurley
Katie Hurley and Vic Fischer- Constitutional originals!
Backbone co-founder and former aide to Gov. Wally Hickel, Malcolm Roberts
Jeanne’s photos from the Anchorage rally
Pat Abney and Cindy Roberts
Cesar Martinson in the crowd
The sign says it all
Cindy Roberts
Ray Metcalfe on the right
And as the Bi-partisan coalition was dismantled, so was the firewall that kept our coffers safe
Jane Angvik, center
Grumpy cat says NO.
Assembly candidate Nick Moe. Those ballots have yet to be counted.
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Updated: with Photos from Juneau
The view from above
Yes, we will.
Democratic legislators fighting for Alaska on the Capitol steps – Sens. Wielechowski, French, Ellis and Gardner
Did I read recently that the oil production rate in the pipeline for the next two years has been revised downward? If so, how does that increase revenues since tax rates on oil were cut(or so I thought)?
I’m proud of you JNU!
Am sorry I couldn’t leave work to there with you ( I usually can but not this time -dang) but proud to see so many neighbors turn out in our small town.
This has been such a disheartening session . Pfffttt!
Do rwnj in Alaska blame all the state problems on tax and spend Dems? That is a persistent theme in the lower 48. Even when dumbass dubya had the White House and both houses of Congress were controlled by nutjobs,they blamed all problems on tax and spend, fiscally irresponsible Dems. Hope the people’s anger carries over to the next election and for decades to come.
Not exactly. The dealie here is all about how poor ole multi national businesses just can’t make it in our anti-business climate, women, kids, and Native peoples just need to get a job, move, shut up or all of the above,and daddy-knows-best patriarchal interpretations of resources for benefit-of-all-alaskans will save the day. Whatever day it is the daddy-knows-best crowd determines is the one they are saving, of course.
The demonization of Dems is alive and well but is almost a sidebar to the other stuff.
Pssst-I got my onion plants(about 5 or 600) yesterday and am gonna be busy tomorrow planting Ailsa Craig and Candy onions. Temps in the 60s.
I’m jealous! With all the hot steaming piles o horsepunky coming out of the Leg we’d be all thawed out and the like here but, no, we are still in the yes-no-maybe-it-is-spring phase.
With 28 degrees and 2 inches of fresh snow this AM I am pleased though that there are lil lettuces and spinaches growing merrily away under double covers out in the yard.
Got a rilly pleasant surprise with my onion plants. This company from Texas sent nearly twice as many plants as I ordered. Got six more bunches to plant and have used up over half my alloted garden space with the first two bunches.
GOP: Give Oil a Pass..
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yup.
and mining
and the whole shebang.
Flavor of 2 current changes to permitting processes working through the Leg this session is cause for alarm. Current batch of majority Legs are acting more like a corporate board than a governmental body.
The spin on all this is that they are just looking out for the interests of all Alaskans with streamlining the processes.
Yeah right. You betcha.
It’s time for a dramatic “time capsule/funeral” type ceremony where we take the names of the yes-voters on 37, photos, statements, etc and bury them in a box so we can re-open it in 5 years and be reminded why we don’t have money for schools or roads or even a dividend anymore.
Good show.