ALASKANS TAKE ACTION NOW IN THE 2018 SESSION! DEMAND A FULL PFD IN THE BUDGET. DONATE, CONTACT LEGISLATORS, AND SHARE WITH FRIENDS TO DO THE SAME.

 CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO HELP.                                                      MAILING ADDRESS TO SEND A $5 CHECK OR MORE IF YOU DON’T WANT TO DONATE ONLINE:   PERMANENT FUND DEFENDERS, PO BOX 771073, EAGLE RIVER, AK  99577

CLICK HERE TO DONATE THROUGH GOFUNDME Help us to support a statewide media campaign to inform Alaskans that the People own resource wealth, publicize candidates’ records as PFD friends or foes, and organize Alaskan voters to take action. We support restoring all the PFD funds cut from past PFDs and a public vote (on SJR1) for a constitutional amendment to protect the PFD. Thanks for doing your part!

April, 2018. The Legislature is holding the State budget hostage by making education funding dependant on PASSING A PFD RAID WITH SB26! Stop SB26! Send outrage to the House lawmakers now. Clem Tillion in the video below is a founder of the Permanent Fund and PFD. Please SHARE his message. Join this fight for the PFD at www.pfdak.com  CONTACT your legislators now to demand they pass the budget without SB26 now and stop spending per diem!    Like Permanent Fund Defenders on Facebook. Help us fight this raid. Here’s the full bill SB26 from akleg.gov    http://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/30/Bills/SB0026A.PDF

IT’S TIME TO DEMAND CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION FOR THE PFD OR IT WILL BE LOST!

For over a year, the Senate has blocked public testimony and vote on SJR1 to lock the current PFD formula in the Alaska Constitution. Senators Wielechowski, Shower and Costello forced a hearing by a Committee majority to discuss this important legislation. Here’s a must-see video with Sen. Wielechowski’s statement (4/7/18) at the Senate Judiciary Committee on why Alaskans need this constitutional protection for their PFD resource share.   

 Click this link for Sen. Wielechowski’s explanation on why we must protect the PFD in the AK Constitution:

 

The Permanent Fund Belongs to Alaskans

“The Permanent Fund comes from the oil owned by the State of Alaska. Like oil, the Fund belongs to the people of Alaska collectively. The Alaska Constitution (Article 8, Sec. 2) requires that all natural resources belonging to the state be used, developed and conserved for the maximum benefit of the people. In short, the Fund is a Constitutional right, not a gift bestowed by a generous government.” From An Alaskan’s Guide to the Permanent Fund (1998) by the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation.

Protect Your AK Home And Shareholder Rights

The Permanent Defenders is an educational, non-partisan, non-profit group dedicated to protecting the Permanent Fund and PFD for current and future generations. Join us in stopping the Raid on the People’s money and Alaskan rights.

Permanent Fund Defenders Leaders 

• Clem Tillion
• Dr. Jack Hickel
• Roselynn Cacy
• Rick Halford
• Joe Geldhof
• Jon Faulkner
  

PFD Friends

• Vernon Smith, PhD, Nobel Laureate
• Todd Moss, PhD, Center for Global Development

More PFD Supporters

• Sen. Bill Wielechowski – D
• Sen. Mike Dunleavy – R
• Rep. Colleen Sullivan Leonard-R
• Gregg Erickson
• Walter Jim, Orutsararmiut Native Council
• Milt Barker  

Bella Hammond and Vic Fischer, Alaska’s beloved elder leaders, speak out to save our Permanent Fund and PFD.

Dr. Vernon Smith, PhD from Harvard and a Nobel Laureate in Economics (2002) met with Permanent Fund Defenders in Anchorage (Oct., 2017) and said he’s a “tremendous admirer of the Permanent Fund and the principle of citizens, not the government, owning public resources.” Smith is especially qualified to comment on our fiscal situation because he worked in Anchorage from 2003-2004 as a visiting professor, the Rasmuson Chair of Economics at UAA.  We appreciate his support and solidarity with Alaskans protecting the Permanent Fund.