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Governor Kelly Ayotte’s announcement Thursday that the state police and other agencies would add enforcement of immigration law to their responsibilities drew quick condemnation from New Hampshire’s immigrants’ rights movement.
Six members of the New Hampshire Coalition for a Just Peace in the Middle East met Wednesday with a staffer for U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, calling on the Senator to oppose a new round of arms transfers to Israel.
Saturday’s theme, prompted by President Donald Trump’s actions and social media messaging, was “No Kings.”
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.