Alaskans 4 Personal Freedom held their annual freedom conference on Saturday, October 3, titled “Beyond the Narrative.” The theme for the all-day conference was “the truth begins where the script ends.” It featured expert presentations on hyperbaric oxygen therapy, food as medicine, DEI and AI in education, vaccines, water purification, and more. Candidate for Governor Treg Taylor and Candidate for Lt. Governor Mike Shower, running with Bernadette Wilson, also gave short speeches. All of the candidates for Governor had been invited.
Medicine, nutraceuticals, and hyperbaric oxygen
Dr. Ilona Farr gave the first talk, presenting a rapid summary of recent advances and topics of interest in medicine. She talked about nutraceuticals, which are foods or food-derived products that provide medical benefits. Purple potatoes were described as high in potassium and antioxidants that may slow cancer-cell growth. Haskap berries, Lonicera caerulea, were cited for memory improvement and blood-pressure reduction within an hour and a half of consumption. Fireweed, Chamerion angustifolium, was presented as a traditional Alaskan and Russian plant used for vitamin C, inflammation, and digestion. Rhubarb roots were said to be under oncology study for compounds that inhibit cell proliferation.
Next, former Alaska legislator Sharon Jackson shared about the Integrative Medicine Chamber of Commerce, which she founded as a body meant to organize practitioners and lobby for recognition of alternative modalities like hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT).
Dr. Daphne Denham dived further into hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which is a treatment that gives a patient 100 percent oxygen delivered above atmospheric pressure, aimed at tissue that is ischemic but not yet dead. Dr. Denham made absolutely clear that necrotic tissue cannot be revived but swollen or poorly perfused tissue can still be reached and improved. Oxygen dissolves into plasma and travels about five times farther than regular air, helping oxygenate tissues that are otherwise not getting enough oxygen. Studies revealed HBOT reducing swelling 20 to 30 percent, helping with vasoconstriction balance, and resolving compartment syndrome. The therapy is described as FDA-approved for compartment syndrome and frostbite. Dr. Denham and other practitioners assert acute traumatic brain injury should be included in that approval because it treats the skull as a closed compartment.
Dr. Denham stated Alaska has the highest traumatic-brain-injury rate in the country and a suicide rate three times the national average, arguing “we cannot afford to not treat concussions.” She said HBOT is successful in helping some veterans and student-athletes with suicidal ideation and depression by treating traumatic brain injuries. According to Dr. Denham, suicide becomes 3-4x more likely after someone has a concussion, offering a potential contributing factor of Alaska’s high suicide rates.
DEI and AI in education
The conference then shifted to education with Paul Runko’s presentation “DEI to AI: The New Frontiers in the Battle for America’s Children.” Runko argued that diversity, equity, and inclusion is a rebrand of critical race theory, citing Fairfax County’s “privilege bingo” where students’ bingo cards had squares such as “White,” “Military kid,” “Both parents went to college,” and other life circumstances or characteristics deemed as a contributor to “privilege.” Runko pointed out that the bingo game leaves every child feel bad about things outside of their control. He also pointed to Los Angeles’ race-restricted Black Student Achievement Program created by the school district despite data showing academic struggle across races.
He said about 80 percent of polled parents want schools to disclose gender-identity issues, but schools all across America allow or even require teachers to withhold that information from parents. He quoted American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten’s 2021 remark about using the pandemic “for the society we want to see,” and said the National Education Association of Alaska received $34 million over eight years through deductions made automatically to teachers’ salaries. Schools are subsequently becoming more left-wing in ideology, but producing dismal results as far as math and reading goes.
He then transitioned to AI, stating that artificial-intelligence access through Google Classroom was pushed into schools overnight without administrator, parent, or board consent. AI is now being used to further proliferate liberal ideology in schools. Runko pointed to local examples included the Anchorage School District renaming Veterans Day a professional-development day, disclaimers issued with copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, the Association of Alaska School Boards promoting Southern Poverty Law Center social-justice standards, and student walkouts against immigration enforcement and the Trump administration. He urged parents to attend board meetings, file Alaska open-records requests, use Defending Education’s incident form, use the opt-out letter tied to a recent Supreme Court parental-rights ruling under the Fourteenth Amendment, and file federal civil-rights complaints. Defending Education has filed about 20 such complaints this year and about 60 since its founding.
Vaccines
Dr. Bob Sears talked about vaccines, arguing that the vaccines for whooping cough, polio, and diphtheria do not stop infection or transmission and may trade off longer-term immunity. He credited public health measures and better sanitation for decline of those diseases, asserting that they would not likely return if people stopped getting those vaccines because the vaccines never prevented them in the first place. Instead, the whooping-cough shot mutes symptoms, the polio vaccine prevents nerve damage, and the diphtheria vaccines protects against toxins in the diphtheria germ, but not the germ itself. He contrasted this with the measles vaccine, which does prevent the measles infection, not only lessening symptoms caused by the germ.
In over 28 years of practice, Dr. Sears stated he found no infection-related intensive-care stays, permanent disability, or deaths among his unvaccinated patients, and fewer sick visits. He offered a theory that vaccination lowers the body’s natural immune response, making it more susceptible to germs which don’t have a vaccine, causing vaccinated people to be sick more often. He admitted supporting studies are retrospective, not controlled, citing ethical barriers to conducting a controlled study. He made clear his theory is only a theory and said he simply informs patients rather than advising them against vaccination.
Treg Taylor and Mike Shower speak briefly
Then former Alaska Attorney General and 2026 Candidate for Governor Treg Taylor took the stage, recalling an early-pandemic briefing by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Republican attorneys general on vaccine and Anthony Fauci concerns. Taylor emphasized Democratic attorney generals unwillingness to hear the concerns.
Next, Candidate for Lt. Governor Mike Shower spoke briefly, urging yes votes on Ballot Measure 2 to repeal ranked-choice voting and on Measure 3 to codify a citizenship requirement for voting. He warned that ranking only one Republican leads to exhausted ballots and helps the Democrat reach a majority by shrinking the total pool. He encouraged voters to rank all three Republicans.
Water purification
Dr. Pierre Kory gave a presentation via Zoom on water and water treatment. He had left conventional practice during Covid and started his own practice to treat patients with Ivermectin, which he spoke at length about at last year’s freedom conference. He has also written three books on water and minerals. He described Themarox, a Japanese extract from volcanic biotite and vermiculite developed by Sal Shimanishi, made by leaching rock with sulfuric acid. When added to water, the charged sulfated minerals precipitate contaminants in 24 to 48 hours, with 0.1 milliliter said to treat a liter. He visited the sole Themarox plant in the mountains of Fukushima, away from radiation-affected areas, and met manager Mr. Ishii and Professor Satoshi Nomura. A home test of 10 bottled waters produced visible precipitate in most, demonstrating areas for improvement in modern water treatment.
He attributed roughly half of the total mortality drop, and most of the infant and child drop, in 13 American cities from 1900 to 1936 to sand filtration, aluminum-sulfate flocculation, and chlorination. He also called mineral bathing possibly the first medicine, speaking about how cultures tend to build around waters they believe are sacred and healing.
More freedom conference
The freedom conference also featured Jill Hines who talked about protecting individual health rights, Jill Diane who talked about defending nature from atmospheric experimentation, and Dr. Ryan Cole who spoke about alternative therapies to treat cancer. The conference also included a panel discussion with audience questions at the end.
A recording of the conference and all the speakers’ PowerPoint presentations will be made available at a later date by Alaskans 4 Personal Freedom. Check for those materials here: Alaskans 4 Personal Freedom – Fighting for your rights! Free To Sign Up!
