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.Ana Maria Branden
No Room for Hate Groups, Summer Weekend of Rallies
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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.
New Black Heritage Plaque Honors Potter Place’s Namesake
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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.
Ending the Death Penalty, Step by Step
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Deciding that something needed to be done, she started an anti-bullying group, Everybody Love Everybody, with support from a teacher.
Business & Economy
A Sunday Walk in Portsmouth for Multi-Racial Democracy
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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.
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Faith Community Delivers a Pro-Immigrant Message to Congress in Nashua
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-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.
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Protesters Gather Around N.H. Opposed To the U.S. Supreme Court Overturning Roe V. Wade
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Besides Manchester, Dover and Concord, protests were planned in Exeter, Hanover, Keene, Lancaster, Plymouth and Portsmouth.
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Students March – Again – to End Gun Violence
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The group assembled by the Soldiers and Sailors Monument north of downtown Nashua at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
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One Thousand Call for Education Commissioner Edelblut to Resign
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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.
Baidyn Lewis
Belmont HS Red Raiders to Get a New Image
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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.
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Ruger Shareholders Take A Stand: Human Rights Resolution Passes at Annual Meeting
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With political officials seemingly unable or unwilling to do anything about mass shootings, leadership may be coming from an unexpected quarter: shareholders in corporations that manufacture firearms.