Tag Archives: sexual assault

Rollins trial, day 2: SANE nurse testifies about genital injuries in rape

Posted on Wed, 26 January 2011 by Mel Green

Grace Jang of KTVA Channel 11 News was in court livetweeting Anthony Rollins trial. He’s the former Anchorage Police Officer accused of multiple accounts of sexually assaulting women while on-duty. I didn’t retweet much, so see her twitter feed for … Continue reading →

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Rollins trial, day 1: Stats on violence against women in Alaska as Rollins trial begins

Posted on Tue, 25 January 2011 by Mel Green

My two big items today, the subject of most of my tweets (or retweets), both had to do with sexual violence in Alaska. One. Baseline stats from the 2010 Alaska Victimization Survey on the victimization of women by sexual assault … Continue reading →

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The Daily Tweets 2011-01-24: Rollins trial begins

Posted on Mon, 24 January 2011 by Mel Green

@GraceJangKTVA is tweeting trial of Anthony Rollins ex-APD officer charged w sexual assaulting multiple women while on-duty. #fb # RT: @GraceJangKTVA: Opening statements in Rollins trial scheduled for 830 am tomorrow #

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How to be a friend to an accused serial rapist

Posted on Fri, 9 October 2009 by Mel Green

Accused serial rapist Anthony Rollins is an Anchorage police officer whose alleged crimes were perpetrated against at least 6 women while he was on duty. Members of his church, Lighthouse Christian Fellowship, are packing the court in droves. Are they helping him face the consequences of any crimes he committed? Or are they merely showing up in Christianist solidarity?

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-08: PFD day

Posted on Thu, 8 October 2009 by Mel Green

@jansonjones It’s PFD day! (but I’m thinking you might be referring to soemthing else) in reply to jansonjones # @tonei Did you get a different PDF than I did, or is that a typo? I got $1305. in reply to … Continue reading →

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-07: Happy birthday, barcodes!

Posted on Wed, 7 October 2009 by Mel Green

RT @outeralliance: Outer Alliance plans blogging event for 10/11 Coming Out Day http://bit.ly/1cBuUB #outeralliance # NYT: the e. coli-nization of ground beef. This does not make me eager to line up for a hamburger. http://bit.ly/1wTyu4 # Parents get jail terms … Continue reading →

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True Diversity Dinner video, part 5: Diane Benson

Posted on Sat, 3 October 2009 by Mel Green

Janson Jones’ fifth video of the September 25 True Diversity Dinner in Anchorage features Diane Benson speaking about healing racism in Anchorage — & some of my additional commentary on Alaska’s high rate of sexual violence that especially victimizes Alaska Native women.

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Kelley testimony 2: Oncale Supreme Court decision on workplace sexual harassment does not protect LGBTs from discrimination

Posted on Thu, 23 July 2009 by Mel Green

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc., 523 U.S. 75 (1998) was offered by one speaker in July 21 Assembly testimony as proof that existing law already exists to protect LGBT people from unfair discrimination. But, as attorney and UAA professor Pamela Kelley writes, Oncale’s application is very narrow: to sexual harassment between members of the same sex (regardless of sexual orientation) in the workplace.

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Sarah Palin: The rape kit controversy

Posted on Tue, 7 October 2008 by Mel Green

[Update 6/25/09: Another post whose embedded video went missing when I ported this over from the prior blogsite. Now restored, with a link also to the original YouTube home page.] The Wasilla Project has a new mini-documentary out about Wasilla … Continue reading →

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