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It was Not My Presidents Day, and most of the signs were aimed at Donald J. Trump and his new best buddy, Elon Musk. “Stop the Coup.” “Impeach.” “Federal Workers Make American Great.” By noon there were about a hundred people gathered, and by 12:30, I counted about 200 and they kept coming.
The matter that grabbed headlines was the arrest of 1415 people who had peacefully taken over the construction site of a proposed nuclear power plant in Seabrook.
The teaching staff at the Dartmouth College Child Care Center has voted to unionize and affiliate with Local 560 of the Service Employees International Union, which already represents hundreds of campus workers.
In a letter delivered Wednesday to Governor-elect Kelly Ayotte, more than one hundred New Hampshire immigrant advocates have called for the state to avoid involvement in President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportation.
At a service for David Diamond, a longtime peace activist from Dover who died in September, I learned that he had been arrested for refusing to take shelter during a civil defense drill in Durham in 1961, when he was a first-year student at the university.
It was Concord’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, drawing upwards of 150 people for a solemn community vigil.
In a packed Dover District Court hearing room after an emotional two-hour trial on Tuesday, five antiwar protesters were found guilty of criminal trespass for refusing to leave the office of Congressman Chris Pappas, who the group charges with complicity for mass killings and destruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure over the past year.
More than 100 Dartmouth College students, joined by faculty, staff, and community members, rallied Monday evening at an on-campus church in support of the college’s growing labor movement.
For the third time in recent decades, the Nobel Peace Prize went this year to a group advocating the abolition of nuclear weapons as the only sure way to eliminate the threat they pose.