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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.
HB 1255, still in the hands of the House Education Committee 4 weeks after it was discussed at a public hearing, would prohibit teachers from advocating “subversive doctrines” by expanding a 1949 description of banned doctrines.
At a time when the state’s lack of affordable housing has become apparent to just about everyone, the Senate is considering a bill that would cripple one of the state’s most successful models for preserving housing affordable to low- and moderate-income families.
The facts of the case were mostly clear and uncontested: On January 7, Cody Pajic of Boston and Dana Dwinell-Yardley of Montpelier went onto the property of Merrimack Station in Bow, New Hampshire, New England’s last operating coal-fired power plant.
“The United States is now upgrading and rebuilding its entire nuclear arsenal at tremendous cost,” Judy Elliott told a group of about 20 people huddled in the cold in front of North Church.
Seventeen people arrested in Bow five weeks ago circled up with supporters outside Concord District Court Monday morning to prepare for arraignment on misdemeanor charges stemming from a demonstration at Merrimack Station.
Local Abenaki leaders and other community members spoke at Warner’s first official observance of Indigenous People’s Day, held Monday at the Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum.
The first Afghan evacuees may arrive in New Hampshire as early as next week, Henry Harris of the International Institute of New England told a group of interested New Hampshire residents Wednesday.
Aiming to reclaim the coal-fired power plant in Bow for life-affirming purposes a group of activists used pickaxes, shovels, and rakes to plant a garden in the middle of one of the plant’s access roads on Sunday afternoon.
The Solidarity Walk for Immigrant Justice ended Saturday pretty much the way it began, with a plea for immigrants and their allies to press New Hampshire’s Senators to actively support a broad pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants.
Rested up from the previous day, participants in the Solidarity Walk for Immigrant Justice started day 2 where they left off the day before, at the Northwood Congregational Church.