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The largest crowd yet of anti-Trump protesters met up at the State House Saturday for a rally coordinated with about a thousand other rallies nationwide, including fifteen others in New Hampshire from Colebrook to Plaistow and Portsmouth to Keene.
Workers at the Starbucks store at the Seabrook Crossing plaza voted Thursday to join Workers United, a union that is representing workers at more than 550 Starbucks stores, including three others in New Hampshire.
The grassroots upsurge of resistance to the policies of the Trump administration will reach a new peak Saturday, April 5, when demonstrations are expected in one thousand locations nationwide, including sixteen in New Hampshire.
Rachel Spayd and Jennifer Almeida parked their cars near Tesla’s only New Hampshire showroom at a Portsmouth shopping plaza, took up their signs, and walked away from the showroom toward Lafayette Road.
On the day before the Starbucks Corporation’s 2025 annual meeting, baristas from three New Hampshire Starbucks stores held “Sip-Ins” to support their efforts to get a union contract to raise their wages and protect their benefits.
The 75 people who set off from a West Manchester church early Sunday afternoon knew they weren’t going to be met by police violence on the Granite Street bridge.
Participants chanted with purpose, waved their mostly homemade signs at passing motorists, and cheered when drivers honked or gave them thumbs up.
When Dave Boucher, a Transportation Safety Officer at Manchester Airport since 2002, received the first Office of Personnel Management memo telling him to produce a list of five accomplishments within about 48 hours, he considered the order badly thought out.
“Stand Up for Federal Workers” will be the theme of a protest at 8:30 AM Friday at the Federal Building on Pleasant Street in Concord.