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Two years after Martin Luther King’s birthday was first observed as a national holiday in 1986 and most other states going along, New Hampshire was a holdout.
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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.
Two years after Martin Luther King’s birthday was first observed as a national holiday in 1986 and most other states going along, New Hampshire was a holdout.
Led by local clergy and joined by civil rights activists, the Faith March for Black Lives drew a crowd approaching 100 people for a march through downtown Manchester and a series of short rallies in Manchester Saturday evening, all aimed at supporting the growing movement to end racism.
Members of the Lincoln Project, out to save the Republican Party from Trumpism, should look deeper than the current president’s failings, too numerous to count.
Arnie Alpert, the longtime co-director of the American Friends Service Committee’s New Hampshire Program, will spend two weeks in Mexico with an AFSC delegation looking into the effects of U.S. policy, including arms sales, on human rights in Mexico.