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Written by Anna Bucci
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 |
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For the first time in a thousand years, a cemetery for followers of the Asatru will be established in Norway. The building of a ship formed burial ground lined with stone was approved on May 13 by the relevant officials. The burial ground will be built at Voksen graveyard in Oslo. The Asatrufellowship Bifrost is a religious fellowship for modern asatru founded on norse custom, the pre-christian religious traditions. The fellowship, with 220 members in Norway, has been an officially recognized religion by Norwegian authorities since 1996. READ FULL ARTICLE
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Another Heathen Politician |
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Written by Anna Bucci
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
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Erin Lale, author of "Asatru for Beginners", is running for a seat in the Nevada State Assembly District 29. She is endorsed by Tea Party group Anger is Brewing, and the Libertarian Party. From Lale's linkedin.com profile : "Lale believes in getting government's eyeball out of your window and its hand out of your pocket. In the last session, the Nevada State Assembly couldn't agree to balance the state budget by either cutting programs or raising taxes, so instead they raided the budgets of local agencies: cities, counties, water districts, and school districts. They raided the Clark County School District's capital improvement fund, which was money raised from Clark County homeowners intended for renovating aging school buildings and replacing portables with permanent buildings, and they put it in the general fund to spend who knows where on who knows what. They raided the Clean Water Coalition of $62 million from hookup fees in Clark County intended for wastewater treatment, resulting in a lawsuit. Lale plans to introduce legislation to define fees in Nevada law so fees collected for a specific purpose must be used for that purpose or given back. Her plan to balance the budget is to end marijuana prohibition so we can tax that, spend $500 million less per year on prisons, free up police resources so we put more cops on the street without spending more money, bring parents back to the community which will help kids do better in school and break the cycle of poverty, have less gang violence, less border violence, and more tourist money in our economy." Erin Lale is a Gythia in Asatru, and is currently on a book tour for her book, Asatru for Beginners, in Phoenix, Albuquerque, Amarillo, Kansas City, and Las Vegas. A book review and interview of Lale is on Raven Radio episode #10.
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SPLC's Faux Pas regarding Asatru |
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Written by Anna Bucci
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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Recently it came to light that the Southern Poverty Law Center's intelligence report, entitled Killer Kindred , described Asatru as "a racist neo-pagan faith". This mischaracterization left a bad taste in the mouths of many Heathens of course. The article is about a prison gang that makes use of Asatru in a twisted racist way. The gang also traffics drugs, commits, murder, theft, runs dog fighting rings, etc. The way the SPLC portrayed Asatru was not only disrespectful to those who actually belong to that faith, but it directly goes against the purpose of the SPLC by promoting intolerance and discrimination of Asatru.
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