Op-Ed
NH Youths Speak Out at State House Rally
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“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.”
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“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.
May Day was celebrated in Concord and around the state on Thursday.
The first day of May, which has been an occasion for labor rallies since 1886 and immigrants’ rights marches since 2006, has taken on new significance this year due to President Donald Trump’s assaults on immigrants and unions.
Diversity may be out of fashion in certain circles, but my annual roadside trash survey reveals an opposing trend: Beer’s dominance among local litterers may be trending downward, with a wide array of other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks on the rise.
Upwards of 150 people rallied outside the State House Thursday to support continued funding of Medicaid with no rate cuts, no premiums, and no work requirements.
Hundreds of people from all over southwest New Hampshire thronged Keene’s Central Square, most carrying signs denouncing Trump administration actions they see as contrary to democratic principles.
Two weeks after the last national day of anti-Trump protests and two hundred and fifty years after American patriots fired the “shot heard round the world” in Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19 will be another day of nationwide demonstrations, many of them with a theme of “No Kings.”
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.