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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 whole point of it is to be here to protest against gun violence and to protest for taking control in our country,” said Wendy Lapham of Concord, who leaned against the wall by Gibson’s Bookstore in downtown Concord with a sign reading “Kids cannot be replaced.
-Eleven years ago, Godance Ndabumvirubusa had to wade through mud and poison ivy to fetch water from a nearby pond and haul it nearly 100 yards to her new plot at the Sycamore Community Garden in Concord.
Two groups of activists arrested in civil disobedience actions were sentenced in separate Concord courtrooms Friday, May 13.
For the Rev. Heidi Heath, who heads the NH Council of Churches and led the protest, it’s Frank Edelblut’s social conservative views that are problematic.
Raising wages for Manchester city employees and standing up for immigrants topped the agenda at Monday’s May Day rally at Manchester City Hall Plaza.
Speaking to several dozen students clustered on the Great Lawn at UNH in Durham, Kai Parlett asked her audience to consider New Hampshire kids dreaming about going to college to get an education and make friends.
Municipal, state, and federal policies impacting workers, including immigrant workers, will be highlighted at an International Workers Day Rally at City Hall in Manchester on Monday, May 2 at 4:30 p.m.
After two months on the picket line, workers at Cummins Corporation facilities in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts are back on the job with a new contract that promises wage increases, bonuses, and expanded benefits.
It was a frigid morning, and a train carrying 80 carloads of coal was on its way to Merrimack Station, New England’s last major coal-fired power plant.
My first memory of Renny Cushing is probably a photograph. In it, Renny is carrying a suitcase with “Seabrook or Bust” painted in big letters.