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Arnie Alpert spent decades as a community organizer/educator in NH movements for social justice and peace, including a year as a member of the Clamshell Alliance office collective. Officially retired since 2020, he keeps his hands (and feet) in the activist world while writing about past and present social movements.
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.
In a packed Dover District Court hearing room after an emotional two-hour trial on Tuesday, five antiwar protesters were found guilty of criminal trespass for refusing to leave the office of Congressman Chris Pappas, who the group charges with complicity for mass killings and destruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure over the past year.
More than 100 Dartmouth College students, joined by faculty, staff, and community members, rallied Monday evening at an on-campus church in support of the college’s growing labor movement.
Amerika Garcia Grewal came to New Hampshire with a simple message: don’t let what happened in Texas happen to you.
The National Labor Relations Board has ordered Dartmouth College to begin collective bargaining with its basketball team, the first undergraduate basketball players in the country to form a union.
Nur Shoop remembers meeting Valerie Cunningham for the first time about fifteen years ago at a meeting of the Seacoast NAACP. Shoop asked Cunningham to sign her copy of Black Portsmouth, a book Cunningham had co-authored based on decades of historical research.
On Saturday, five years after it launched a campaign using nonviolent civil disobedience to shut down a coal-fired power plant in Bow, New Hampshire, No Coal No Gas held a celebration in Pembroke’s Memorial Park marking the commitment of the plant’s owner, Granite Shore Power, to end coal combustion in 2027 and convert the facility to a “renewable energy park.”
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After 59 days on strike, the union representing Dartmouth College graduate students has approved its first contract, winning a substantial pay increase, expanded benefits, and protections against unfair treatment.