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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.
Tension between the roles of graduate students as workers and scholars continues to play out in negotiations between Dartmouth College’s administration and a union representing the college’s graduate students.
Immigrants’ rights advocates gathered in the Legislative Office Building lobby Wednesday to criticize Gov. Chris Sununu’s plan to have New Hampshire police look for unauthorized immigrants near the Canadian border and to release a letter asking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to deny the state’s request for state and local law enforcement officers to be given the authority to enforce immigration laws.
Mary Ellen Foley was organizing opposition to U.S. support for the military dictatorship in El Salvador, where three nuns and a laywoman had been murdered by death squads the year before.
The union says its members haven’t had a raise in fourteen years, a span in which the cost of living has risen by more than 40%.
Watching TV news coverage of the United Auto Workers strike from my sister-in-law’s suburban Detroit home, it looked like there weren’t that many people picketing at the Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan, one of three plants where the UAW went on strike Thursday night.
Peter Cass recalls hopping on a chartered bus from his home in Swampscott, Mass. and joining the 1963 March on Washington, now remembered largely for Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
It’s been 47 years since he was first arrested protesting the Seabrook nuclear plant, and over three decades since he relocated to the DC Beltway, but Paul Gunter still has New Hampshire on his mind.
LACONIA — “I’m from Cornish Flat, New Hampshire, near Claremont and Lebanon, and my environmental concern is single use plastic waste and pollution in our state.”
Mary Lee Sargent and I filed suit in Merrimack County Superior Court to call for the state to reverse its illegal removal of the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn historical marker.
The two New Hampshire residents who petitioned the state’s Division of Historical Resources to establish a historical marker near the birthplace of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn filed suit Monday in Merrimack County Superior Court calling for the Flynn marker, which the state dedicated on May 1 and removed on May 15, to be reinstalled.