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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.
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.
A Merrimack County Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by sponsors of the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn historic marker which was removed after an Executive Councilor objected to it because of her Communist party leanings and support for the Soviet Union.
While Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has repeatedly railed against an “invasion” of migrants crossing the Rio Grande River into Texas, some residents of Eagle Pass, a border town where Abbott has taken over a city park and plans to build a new military base, are experiencing an invasion from the other direction.
It did not take long for immigrants’ rights defenders, peace groups, and faith leaders to register opposition to Gov. Chris Sununu’s request for $850,000 to fund the dispatch of New Hampshire National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border.
The Elizabeth Gurley Flynn saga continues as lawyers for the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources argued that the lawsuit over her Historic Highway Marker ought to be dismissed.
On Wednesday, a grassroots effort was launched urging critics of the Biden Administration’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza to vote for “Ceasefire.”
On the longest night of the year, dozens of people huddled in the cold on City Plaza in downtown Concord Thursday to remember New Hampshire residents who died in the past year, their lives shortened by homelessness.