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Arnie Alpert spent decades as a community organizer/educator in NH movements for social justice and peace, including a year as a member of the Clamshell Alliance office collective. Officially retired since 2020, he keeps his hands (and feet) in the activist world while writing about past and present social movements.
When New Hampshire House Republican leaders quoted Martin Luther King, Jr. in their defense of the state’s “Divisive Concepts” or “Non-Discrimination” law last week, it wasn’t the first time King’s words were used to imply something quite different from what he intended.
The deep, resonant voice was already familiar, and there it was in my voicemail. “Hello Arnie, this is Senator Barack Obama. Can you give me a call?”
History is, of course, about the past, but we study it to understand the present. In the present, New Hampshire has a Nazi problem.
At a rally held Thursday in front of McNutt Hall, union members, mostly international students, described the long hours, inadequate pay, and the disrespect they experience from white, privileged Dartmouth students who make up much of the student body.
Held outdoors on a busy city street, “the vigils serve to call attention to the issue of immigration,” Eva Castillo said, and “at the same time, send a message to ICE that we’re here.”
Twenty days into a strike against Sysco, a giant food wholesaler, unionized drivers approved a new five-year contract and declared victory Thursday evening.
As they prepared to return to the negotiating table with hopes for a new union contract, striking Sysco drivers were joined by high profile Democrats at a support rally alongside Route 125 in Epping Monday morning.
Instead of spending up to 14 hours a day loading and unloading trucks and driving all over New England, they’re picketing in Bow, Manchester, and Epping.
Sharon Morgan, a retired nurse practitioner from Etna, New Hampshire, took up a position by the corner of Court and North Main Streets in downtown Concord at around noon on Saturday. Holding a sign that said, “Roe, Roe, Roe Your Vote,” she raised her voice every few minutes, shouting “Vote for women’s rights in November” at cars passing by.
Two dozen members of the NH Immigrant Solidarity Network trooped into Gov. Chris Sununu’s office Friday afternoon to call for an end to the deployment of NH National Guard members along the US-Mexico border.