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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.
The border between Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras in the Mexican state of Coahuila used to be open, like the one between Derby Line, Vermont and Stanstead, Quebec.
At the age of 46, after decades of protest and action, Flynn joined the Communist Party while the group was campaigning against fascism and promoting a “popular front” in support of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Five New Hampshire supporters of an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza were arrested late Friday afternoon when they refused to leave U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas’ Dover office, where they had been sitting quietly for about three hours.
The union representing hundreds of Dartmouth College graduate student-workers says it will go on strike Wednesday, May 1 after eight months of bargaining and what the union calls the college administration’s “grossly inadequate” responses to union proposals.
Although the Dartmouth College administration has publicly refused to negotiate with its highest profile union, labor movement activity, including a possible strike by graduate students, continues to intensify on the Hanover campus.
If you’re not familiar with this trashy survey, it’s one I conduct in conjunction with Canterbury’s annual spring roadside cleanup.
Groups in Texas and New Hampshire say deploying the New Hampshire National Guard to Texas, where 15 New Hampshire soldiers joined Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star this week, wastes tax dollars better spent elsewhere.
In a motion filed Friday by their attorney, Andru Volinsky, Mary Lee Sargent and Arnie Alpert have asked Merrimack County Superior Court Judge John Kissinger to reconsider his ruling that they lack standing to sue the State for removing a historical marker about Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
Unionized graduate students took steps forward this week both at Dartmouth College in Hanover and the University of New Hampshire in Durham.
When an accident at the Three Mile Island reactor in Middletown, Pennsylvania transformed the plant from a technological miracle to a radioactive ruin in a matter of moments on March 28, 1979, the American people got the message: nuclear power was a bad way to generate electricity.