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NORTH CONWAY—A day before 80 demonstrations were planned outside its branches, Citizens Bank announced it would withdraw its financial support from two private corporations which operate immigrant detention centers under contract to ICE. The demonstrations went ahead, anyway.
Members of unions representing University of New Hampshire graduate students and faculty made their cases for fair contracts during a University System Board of Trustees meeting Friday at UNH in Durham.
Gatherings in eleven or more New Hampshire communities will mark International Workers Day, Friday May 1, with rallies promoting the theme, “Workers over Billionaires.” Local and national organizers are calling for a day of “No work. No School. No Shopping.”
“Given threats and actions by the Trump administration to intervene militarily in an increasing number of places around the world, it is concerning that, at this time, steps are now being taken to grow the number of people who could be facing the threat of a future draft,” warns a statement endorsed by 43 anti-war and libertarian organizations at the end of March.
Young men and those who care about them would do well to heed a recent change in the law governing the Selective Service System (SSS), the federal agency which would administer a military draft.
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Saturday’s No Kings Protests has already listed 50 locations in New Hampshire. Please send any additions or corrections to: arnie.alpert@indepthnh.org.
Under Article 33 of the Mexican constitution, foreigners can’t meddle in Mexican politics, but they otherwise are entitled to human rights, including freedom of expression. Democrats Abroad has held sidewalk protests and rallies before.
The “Red Cup Rebellion” strike of Starbucks workers reached New Hampshire Thursday, when baristas set up picket lines at stores in Epping, Stratham, and Seabrook.