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Marking the fifth anniversary of Lewis’ passing, “Good Trouble Lives On” is the theme of 20 demonstrations taking place in New Hampshire tomorrow and more than 1600 nationwide.
The fighters were members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a force of nearly 3000 volunteers who saw the writing on the wall when forces led by Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and fascist Italy went to war against the Spanish Republic in 1936.
The power of Douglass’s words is so resonant that even now the 1852 speech gets recited in public settings, which is what will happen in 16 New Hampshire locations at noon on Saturday, June 28.
NH 50501, the group that’s been behind most of the major anti-Trump rallies at the State House since February, put out a call on social media at 11 a.m. for people to join a 3 p.m. anti-war demonstration at City Plaza.
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.