[lbo-talk] authentically working class

[John Thornton]

martin wrote:
>
> On Sep 12, 2008, at 4:37 PM, shag wrote:
>
>> booze.
>>
>> http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/20/4winter2004/a_rapes.html
>>
>
> Weekends after the bars close. But the report still seems to use the 
> national estimates of reported violations, rather than determining 
> whether the intimate nature of alaska's primarily isolated small 
> communities affects the level of reporting upward.
>
> Granted, there can be some frightening drunks around fish processing 
> ports. My son just returned from doing a job in some oilfield guy's 
> hunting cottage up there, and he worked for a couple of trips aboard a 
> local shipping/fish buying boat to get to/from the job. He had stories 
> about some of the local fishing guys that seem to have given him pause 
> about returning to those parts.
>
> xx, martin 

Keep in mind the high percentage of Native American women in Alaska when 
compared to the lower 48.
It is well known that Native American women are more likely to be raped.
The assault of aboriginal women at the hands of whites is infamously 
well known and documented.

John Thornton