Fairbanks City Council and Land Acknowledgements Part 1

In this episode, Kunaan shares two different conversations around Resolution 4981. This Resolution would have added a Land Acknowledgement to the beginnign of Fairbanks City Council Meetings to be read the same time the Council gives a Pledge of Allegiance and the invocation (or prayer). One conversation we follow is from Fairbanks City Council itself and the other is from Fairbanks Diversity Council. This is only the beginning of the conversations, so there will be more episodes covering these conversations. We do apologize for taking so long to publish this episode. Kunaan struggled to record this several months ago. She kept putting this episode off until summer hit; this is when she decided to slow down and take a different tactic. They listened to over 9 different meetings, editing out clips while doing this. Then once again, they struggled to record before deciding to record when they could and editing along the way. She will be back to finish the rest of this conversation, but plans to release one or two more episodes before releasing a part two for this episode. You can look at the agendas for the different meetings in this episode if you like: the first Fairbanks City Council Meeting, the second City Council Meeting, and the first Fairbanks Diversity Council Meeting. Elections for a new Mayor and two City Council seats will happen on October 4th, but early voting begins September 19th (this upcoming Monday). You will also be able to vote for FNSB Borough Assembly, FNSB School Board, and North Pole City Council. The two city councils are only available to vote on if you live in the city limits for the city council you want to vote in.