Reply #9: More here from Progressive Alaska

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http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2009/01/lower-yukon-community-crisis-awareness.html

Listening to a report friday evening, from Alaska Public Radio Network, by APRN's Janelle Everett (one of my favorites!), on Barrow's KBRW, I was brought to tears. Again.

Everett was reporting on the community responses from North Slope villages to the midwinter crisis in Emmonak and other lower Yukon villages. Please listen to her report http://aprn.org/2009/01/16/north-slope-villages-rally-to-help-emmonak/ , as she describes people in small villages, who themselves have probably been through the same experience as Emmonak's people, bringing together donations of food (even Beluga!), blankets, clothing, fuel and cash.

Some have been watching this crisis emerge longer than have others. The blog Real Alaska's Writing Raven, in describing the plight of the people of Adak late last summer, warned:

This is not the first Alaskan village to have to leave the land, and it won't be the last. How many residents will be forced into the city this winter? How many villages will be facing extinction?

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The report from Barrow is heart-wearming. Alaska's Frontier Airlines is shipping the supplies from Barrow to Emmonak for free. This is how people are SUPPOSED to respond to their neighbors in need.