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Three critics of proposed cuts to Medicaid in the state budget who were arrested Tuesday at the Legislative Office Building when they staged a “die-in” at the close of the day’s conference committee on the budget were released an hour later and told to appear in Concord Circuit Court on Aug. 8.
State Police arrested three people after they dropped to the floor in Room 210 at the Legislative Office Building where the Conference Committee on the state budget was just winding up its meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Thousands of people took to streets and parks in dozens of New Hampshire communities Saturday to protest the drift toward authoritarian and militaristic rule led by President Donald Trump.
Two clusters of protesters on Lyme Road in Hanover, each with about 200 people, gathered Saturday while dozens walked between the two groups.
According to organizers, 2100 demonstrations are now planned nationwide and at least 32 in New Hampshire to coincide with Trump’s Flag Day military parade and birthday celebration in Washington on Saturday.
With President Trump militarizing the federal government’s response to dissent against his administration’s policies, organizers say more than 1800 protests will take place nationwide next weekend, including some two dozen in New Hampshire.
At 7:32 a.m. Monday morning, the Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth (SWCD) announced by email that it was going on strike at campus dining locations and residence halls.
“When someone like RFK Jr. says that they want to make a registry of autistic people, that’s terrifying. That’s not safety, that’s control.”
Unionized undergraduate workers at Dartmouth College say they are prepared to go on strike if their demands for pay raises, protection of jobs from automation, and protection of their members from federal immigration agents are not met.