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THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003

Desa Jacobsson, an Alaska Native activist, is on a hunger strike to protest the recent acquittal of a man accused or raping and murdering an Alaska Native woman.

Jacobsson says Joshua Wade should be indicted by the U.S. on civil rights violations for alleged hostility to Natives. She also wants Anchorage Police Chief Walt Monegan, who is Alaska Native, to step down because she said he blamed women for being victims.

Della Brown, the woman Wade was accused of killing, was found dead in early September 2000.

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Hunger strike over Wade verdict (The Anchorage Daily News 4/24)

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