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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.
On a hot summer day in 1962, five Black men from New Orleans stepped off a bus in Concord, New Hampshire, where they hoped to find employment. Their tickets had been purchased by white segregationists who staged the “Reverse Freedom Rides” in an attempt to embarrass northern liberals.
There’s just no room for white supremacists in Nashua, no room for white supremacists in Manchester, no room for it anywhere. We need to fight back every time they come.
ANDOVER — As of Aug. 7, there’s another reason to visit the village of Potter Place in the town of Andover: a Black Heritage Trail plaque in honor of the village’s namesake, Richard Potter.
Deciding that something needed to be done, she started an anti-bullying group, Everybody Love Everybody, with support from a teacher.
When Olivia Zink, Executive Director of Open Democracy, began planning the organization’s eighth annual Seacoast Democracy Walk, she probably had no idea it would attract so much attention.
-People began filing into the Nashua Unitarian Church for the Faith Forum on Immigration a little before 7 p.m. on June 29. Black, brown, white, young, old, and in between, mostly masked, about 80 people spread out in the sanctuary’s wooden pews.
Besides Manchester, Dover and Concord, protests were planned in Exeter, Hanover, Keene, Lancaster, Plymouth and Portsmouth.
The group assembled by the Soldiers and Sailors Monument north of downtown Nashua at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Jen Bisson, a Sandown mother who founded the public education advocacy group Support Our Schools NH, handed Frank Edelblut a stack of letters calling for his resignation during the public comment period at Thursday’s monthly meeting of the NH Board of Education.
Cate McDonald was one of the Belmont High School students who persuaded the Shaker Regional School District’s board that it’s time to ditch the Indian mascot.