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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 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.
Nine years old at the time, Eustaquio “TJ” Carvalho said, “I wake up to go to school and there’s a man standing in the middle of my room. I knew that something was wrong.”
Workers at Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE), known for providing low-cost reproductive health care, have organized a union and are in the midst of negotiating their first contract.
Coinciding with the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington, 15 people waved signs in front of Democratic U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan’s office in downtown Manchester calling on the state’s junior senator to back her support of the For the People Act with action to “fix the filibuster.”
When Martha Hennessy was released from a federal prison and transferred to an “adult residential re-entry” program in Manchester, it wasn’t her first trip to the Queen City or her first entanglement with the criminal legal system.
After a day of protests at the State House, five activists were arrested when they refused to leave the Executive Council chambers without seeing Gov. Chris Sununu and giving him an in-person message to veto the budget passed earlier in the day.
At a pro-HB 544 rally held at the State House in April, one person reportedly carried a sign reading, “Teach MLK not CRT.”
The first day of May has been an occasion for labor rallies since 1886, when workers throughout the United States demanded an 8-hour day.
Canterbury’s annual roadside cleanup always provides an opportunity to examine the drinking habits of the littering community.