U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) are asking their supporters to take action - and they don't (just) mean phonebanking or canvassing. They're asking for folks to give back directly to their communities.

Through Thanksgiving, the Clinton campaign will collect food for those in need this holiday season.

During Thanksgiving week and through the end of November, the campaign will deliver food and other items collected to shelters and pantries throughout the state. “Serving the ‘least of these’ in our communities is the ultimate contribution to the common good. We are all blessed when we join together to offer a helping hand,” said Senator Clinton. “I am heartened that my campaign is joining with the people of New Hampshire in lifting up our fellow Americans in need as we enter the holiday season.”

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.

DNC Chairman Howard Dean is welcomed by the crowd at DemocracyFest Sunday evening in Manchester.

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Coalition Exceeds 1000 Signatures, Recommends Decrim Similar to Other States

Concord, NH (Feb. 5) -- The NH Coalition for Common Sense Marijuana Policy has announced that it will encourage legislators to support an amendment placing reasonable limits on the bill that would decriminalize marijuana in New Hampshire. Sponsored by Reps. Charles Weed (D-Keene), Paul Ingbretson (R-Haverhill), and Steve Vallaincourt (R-Manchester), House Bill 92 has been assigned to a subcommittee, which has not yet been scheduled to meet.

During the bill’s initial hearing before the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, bill sponsors encouraged representatives on the committee to craft amendments that would improve the bill, which currently places no limits on acceptable amounts for possession. This process could turn HB 92 into a workable “partial decrim” bill similar to those which are in effect in other states such as Maine.

Under current New Hampshire law, possession of even a trace amount of marijuana is treated as a misdemeanor; the “perpetrator” can face up to one year in prison and up to a $2000 fine. In Maine, possession of less than 1.25 ounces is a “civil violation” punishable only by a fine. “Partial decriminalization is a sensible, moderate reform that should garner broad support from all sides of the political spectrum,” explained Matt Simon, a spokesman for the Coalition. “There’s no good reason to put people through the system for simple possession. This will unclog our courts, conserve tax dollars, and allow police to focus their resources on serious crimes.”

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Democracy for New Hampshire Grassroots Community Reception With Special Guest Senator John Edwards

Thursday, April 20, 2006, 7-9pm

Featuring Live Music by the Jeannie Daniels Band

The President's 2006 budget will cost NH residents a lot.
The budget proposal includes cuts of $54.5 million for discretionary grants to state and local governments, including:

$12.8 million for community and economic development;
$1.8 million for low-income home energy assistance; and
$3.9 million for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.

In New Hampshire, programs constituting the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) would remain under funded by $39.3 million.

While taxpayers in New Hampshire would lose local services, they will pay increasingly more for the Pentagon, including: $87.7 million for the proposed increase in military spending; and $680.4 million for what Congress has so far allocated for the Iraq War.

Where will this money come from? NH cannot borrow from China.

Now the administration wants to give a huge permanent tax break to very rich, people like, Paris Hilton, whose sexual escapades are on the internet, John Kerry's kids, the Walton kids who pay people to write their college papers, and other spoiled kids who have never really worked a day in their lives. These kids did not work for it and it was earned on the backs of the American worker. It seems very fair that America get some of it back. Call it a death tax or inheritance tax; it is a great give back

Photo by Paul Johnson
Dozens of Democracy for America and Democracy for New Hampshire supporters gathered in Concord on Friday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of our organizations.

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