June 10, 2020

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It might be said Longyearbyen’s most solid citizen is a black man who’s frequently a rallying point for gatherings of protest, activism and unity by locals. But considering the landmark “miner’s statue” occupies a community with residents from more than 50 countries, de facto “open borders” and an abnormally low crime rate where accusations of police brutality only seem to involve polar bears, it might be an odd place to proclaim “I feel your pain” to those taking part in the massive outbreak of Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and elsewhere.

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Mark Sabbatini

I'm a professional transient living on a tiny Norwegian island next door to the North Pole, where once a week (or thereabouts) I pollute our extreme and pristine environment with paper fishwrappers decorated with seemingly random letters that would cause a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters to die of humiliation. Such is the wisdom one acquires after more than 25 years in the world's second-least-respected occupation, much of it roaming the seven continents in search of jazz, unrecognizable street food and escorts I f****d with by insisting they give me the platonic tours of their cities promised in their ads. But it turns out this tiny group of islands known as Svalbard is my True Love and, generous contributions from you willing, I'll keep littering until they dig my body out when my climate-change-deformed apartment collapses or they exile my penniless ass because I'm not even worthy of washing your dirty dishes.

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