Democracy for New Hampshire - Outreach

Women for Obama Rally

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:52:11 -0400

107 N. Main St. If you have never marched or been to a rally, NOW IS THE TIME!

Peace Day Exeter

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:43:50 -0400

The Peace Day Exeter festival will be held on Sunday, September 21 in the lovely downtown Swasey Parkway between the hours of 1 and 5 PM. Activities for the festival include workshops and games for children, music and poetry, guest speakers, panel discussions on peace and sustainability issues, and other exciting events under two tents and the Swasey Parkway gazebo. Some of the participants to date include key note speaker, peace and campaign finance reform advocate Doris “Granny D” Haddock, The Tents of Hope Project, Camps for Diversity with Marilyn Kellogg, the Taoist Tai Chi Society, yoga and meditation with Julie Rost, environmental activist Beth Tener, Mark McPeak from UUSC Just Democracy, music supplied by Chris Avery and The Sassafras String Band, Reni Taylor, Drew Sullivan, Ruth George and other musical guests and poets. The festival is planned to coincide with the UN International Day of Peace. The Blue Moon Market and Café will supply a wonderful array of food and drink. Phillips Exeter Academy students will work with children in supportive and educational roles. Films and meditative exercises for adults are also scheduled. This is a family festival, and those attending are encouraged to bring a blanket or folding chairs and enjoy the day’s activities. The First Unitarian Universalist Society of Exeter is the rain location for this event. For more information, please visit our webpage: www.peacedayexeter.org. If you’re interested in volunteering for Peace Day Exeter, please contact either Cindy at clategan@comcast.net or Bob at bmoore628@comcast.net, phone: 603-642-4648.

Poetry for Peace

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:47:37 -0400

Monday, August 25, 7 pm: Poetry for Peace at the Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Ave. A poetry reading along with an exhibit of photographs and information concerning the atom bomb attacks on Japan in August 1945. Poets reading their work include John-Michael Albert, Neil English and Maren Tirabassi. Attendees may bring a short poem on peace to read during a twenty-minute open reading period.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by Seacoast Peace Response.
For more information contact Lee Roberts at 431-0448, email lnr4@verizon.net

TELL BUSH--Hands off Iran

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:35:00 -0400

The Kennebunks PEACE Department and CODE PINK are organizing a protest march to Walker's Point to bring our message to Bush to keep his bloody hands off Iran !!

The permitted march will commence from the Consolidated School on School Street , which is the same location as last August's protest march. There will not be shuttle buses available, so please allow plenty of extra time to get into Kennebunkport and to find parking. There is a free lot by the Fire Station on North St, which is within walking distance from the assembly site.
please note--if you are coming from out of the area do NOT take the Wells exit to rt#1 then rt#9 as it is always congested!! Take the Kennebunk exit off rt#95.

PLEASE wear comfy shoes and bring plenty of water (NO Poland Spring bottles please as locals are boycotting Nestle).

endorsed by: Maine Veterans for Peace chapters 001 and 003, Veterans for Peace-Smedley Butler Brigade and Seacoast Peace Response

for more info contact Jamilla: jamilla

The Power of One

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:26:59 -0400

Friday, August 15th, 7:30 pm: The Power of One: A Talk by and Conversation with Doris “Granny D” Haddock at South Church, 292 State St, Portsmouth NH. NH's own Granny D talks about how each of us can make a difference, and how public funding of elections can help us. Changing our election funding system can bring peace, the environment, alternative energy, education, poverty, healthcare and more the attention they deserve. Also, from 5-6pm join Granny D and the Leftist Marching Band for the Peace Vigil, Market Square, Portsmouth.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments and a book signing will follow the program. Sponsored by Outreach Associates of South Church, NH Codepink: Women for Peace & Seacoast Peace Response. For more info contact bgh3@comcast.net or 603-431-0138.

Hiroshima Commerative Vigil

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:57:27 -0400

Wednesday, August 6th, 7:15 pm: Hiroshima Commemorative Vigil at South Mill Pond, Junkins Ave, Portsmouth NH. Join us for a service to remember the victims and survivors of the August 6, 1945 nuclear bombing of Japan. The evening will include remarks by Representative Jim Splaine, a candle-lighting ceremony, and poetry.
Free & open to all. Candles provided. Sponsored by Seacoast Peace Response, NH Codepink, Witness for Peace NE & Rockingham/Strafford Democracy for America. For more information contact 603-433-4119 or amyla44@juno.com or see www.seacoastpeaceresponse.org

Soldiers of Conscience

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:03:30 -0400

Tuesday, August 5, 6:30pm: Screening of the documentary "Soldiers of Conscience" followed by discussion at the Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Ave. Eight soldiers face the most difficult decision of their lives - to kill or not to kill. This film takes a realistic look at war, peace, and the power of the human conscience. Post-film discussion will be led by Iraq War veterans Will Hopkins & Mike Hamilton. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by NH Codepink & Seacoast Peace Response. For more information contact: Barbara Hilton at 603.431.0138. This film is not recommended for children. For more information about the film visit www.socfilm.com.

Seacoast Anti-Pollution League--Annual Meeting

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:25:43 -0400

We at SAPL have been making a concerted effort to raise the issues we all care about to a new, younger generation of New Hampshire seacoast residents, and to engage the area press in these issues:

Independent, offsite monitoring of the man-made-radiation environment
Containment and treatment of toxic waste sites
A push for energy conservation and sustainable energy alternatives
A physically and biologically healthy NH seacoast environment

Our annual meeting, May 29th 7PM at the Urban Forestry Center in Portsmouth, will feature the nationally recognized President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Arjun Makhijani as the main speaker. His seminal work, “Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free, A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy”, gives us a glimpse at a hopeful American energy future.
His bio: http://www.nuclearabolition.research.umich.edu/makhijani.html

Maude Barlow Lecture

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:06:16 -0400

Maude Barlow Canadian author and water justice activist to speak March 31 at the Portsmouth Library at 7 in the Levenson Room 175 Parrot Avenue.. Portsmouth New Hampshire

Save Our Groundwater, a grassroots, regional organization advocating to conserve and protect water as a public trust, is co-sponsoring a talk and book signing with author and international water justice activist Maude Barlow.
Barlow who is the national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, will discuss her latest book Blue Covenant,The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water which investigates the environmental issues pertaining to the world's freshwater supply and the political struggle to control this natural resource that life depends on. Her talk will look at the links between climate change and displacement of water, the growing corporate cartel seeking to control water resources and the movement to conserve and protect water as a human and ecological right.

Candlelight Vigil in Market Square in Portsmouth

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:58:43 -0400

Wednesday, March 19, at 6 pm: A candlelight vigil in Market Square in Portsmouth on the actual date of the beginning of the Iraq war five years ago. We will have some signs and candles, or bring your own. For more information contact Seacoast Peace Response at info@seacoastpeaceresponse.org or 603-749-9159.

Richardson Surrogate Judge Reinhold on Celebrity Layover with New Hampshire Young Democrats at Airport Diner in Manchester

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:23:39 -0500

NH = NEW HOLLYWOOD? Richardson Surrogate Judge Reinhold on Celebrity Layover with New Hampshire Young Democrats at Airport Diner in Manchester.

Richardson Supporter Judge Reinhold Joins NHYD for breakfast on Sunday,December 16th.

10:00am

The Airport Diner Street

2280 Brown Ave

Manchester, NH

Judge Reinhold Bio:

http://www.myspace.com/therealjudgereinhold

NH For Richardson Campaign:

http://newhampshire.richardsonforpresident.com

NH Young Dems:

nhyoungdemocrats.org

RSVP to:

nhyoungdems@gmail.com

On December 16, actor Judge Reinhold (best known for his roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Beverly Hills Cop) will be stumping for Democratic presidential candidate Governor Bill Richardson. He’ll be “flying” into the Airport Diner on Brown Avenue in Manchester with his wife Amy for a Q&A brunch with the New Hampshire Young Dems. Judge and his wife Amy plan to mingle with the NHYD crowd, answer questions, talk about the issues that matter to young voters and discuss his involvement on the Richardson campaign.

ServeNext Presidential Straw Poll is NOW LIVE!

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:14:02 -0500

The ServeNext Presidential Straw Poll is now ready for your vote! Designed celebrate the season of service, create some friendly competition between campaigns, and address the unprecedented critical food shortage faced by residents in need this winter, the contest will benefit the New Hampshire Food Bank and its local agencies across the state.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE NOW!

A Taser Factsheet for use in your community

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:59:54 -0500

In case you have absolutely nothing better to do with your holidays or are planning on joining the "Code Pink" ladies on an outing, you might want to check out this missive from Austin, Texas.

"Be wind changers," Jim Wallis tells audience

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:13:58 -0400

Jim Wallis tells NH audiences: Creating change requires more than your vote

Progressive Evangelical leader calls on NH voters to create a political movement to address poverty, AIDS, global warming

DURHAM – (Oct. 16, 2007) The Rev. Jim Wallis last night challenged people of all faiths, as well as those who consider themselves “spiritual, but not religious,” to create a movement to address the major global issues of our time, including poverty, AIDS, genocide and global warming.

Wallis told a crowd of about 200 people in Dartmouth College's Rollins Chapel Monday night that “people of faith should be the ultimate swing voters,” who use their moral compasses to evaluate candidates. But he also cautioned that regardless of where the next U.S. President stands on these issues, he or she will not be able to solve them without “a social movement pushing them from the outside to make it happen.”

“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” he said, quoting abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Portsmouth Peace/Labor Parade--1st Annual

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:08:04 -0400

In 1902, Portsmouth celebrated its labor force with a 2000-marcher parade. Over 15,000 spectators lined the streets to applaud the trades. Then in 1905, the Seacoast welcomed the Russian and Japanese delegates to the Treaty of Portsmouth peace conference with a parade led by the New Hampshire National Guard. In 2005, for the 100th anniversary of the Treaty, the New Hampshire Air National Guard hosted a “Welcoming Parade” that honored those who serve. 2005 was also the year that the Seacoast turned out in a force of yellow t-shirts to “Save Our Shipyard” from BRAC closure.
On September 23, 2007, Portsmouth will remember two grand city traditions: a salute to Labor and the tradition of commemorating the Portsmouth Peace Treaty with a public celebration in September, the month the Treaty was signed.
The 2007 Labor/Portsmouth Peace Treaty Parade commemorates the Treaty of Portsmouth—the first Treaty negotiated between two foreign powers on neutral US ground, an accomplishment for which President Theodore Roosevelt earned the Nobel Peace Prize—and honors the men and women who make the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard the “gold standard’ of Shipyards as well as the Seacoast’s police, fire-fighters, teachers, nurses and others who do the same for their trades.