Posts by Arnie Alpert
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. They wanted to give him an in-person message to veto the budget passed earlier in the day.
Beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, a steady stream of drivers entered the New Hampshire Motor Speedway destined not for the grandstands but for their chance to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Led by local clergy and joined by civil rights activists, the Faith March for Black LIves drew a crowd approaching 100 people for a march though downtown Manchester and a series of short rallies in Manchester Saturday evening, all aimed at supporting the growing movement to end racism.
Fifty-one years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King warned that “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”