December 25, 2024

Arnie Alpert and guest co-host Susan Bruce of the American Friends Service Committee-NH catch up on legislative status following crossover week. They talk with two students about Saturday’s March for Our Lives, Eve Caplan of John Stark HS in Weare and Fiona Davis Walsh of Kennett HS in Conway and http://worldfellowship.org/.

HB 628 family leave moves to Senate; HB 1485 rental security deposits (youth workforce?); SB 593 death penalty, – Renny Cushing’s statement – ; SB 318 workhouses; SB 313 expanded medicaid in exec session; SB 525 adult ed. access & immigration; – FOUND TONIGHT, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt -; Eve, initiation of Concord March; Fiona, Kennett walkout, Washington march; student-led movement; white and rural involved as well as urban; counter demonstrators, peace keepers ; keeping the movement alive; social media tools; inspiring one-another; what should and can be done?; do schools become prisons?; not calling for repeal of 2nd amendment or rural gun culture, but regulation; safe environment; school police; confrontations into conversations; create a large informal social net; rural North Country gatherings too; – SHINE, Sawyer Garrity & Andrea Pe~na – ; experience of lockdown drills; teachers with guns?; US’s war culture and war budget; creation of NH Social Justice League & April 20 march, http://www.nhsocialjusticeleague.org/; Kennett’s Eagles for Action;  want to reach the ears of representatives; Parkland & Black Lives Matter; anger and despair reach back to slavery; practical steps going forward?; register and vote, electoral potential;

SHW announcements.