New Hampshire

Concord homelessness task force recommends more low-income housing, case management

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Concord Monitor

Walk in their shoes: A fundraising walk to help the Concord Homeless Resource Center

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - 5:30pm

Join us on a walk to benefit the Concord Homeless Resource Center. Simply ask your friends and neighbors to sponsor your participation in the walk, and be with us for the event itself.

AFSC, NH coalition partners urge ban on for-profit prisons

Corporations and Prisons

The analysis of proposals by for-profit prison companies has prompted the state of New Hampshire to cancel the privatization process. Now, a coalition of organizations opposing prison privatization is calling for passage of a new law prohibiting prison privatization altogether.

State House Watch 2013

NH State House April 2013

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State House Watch 2013-1

"State House Watch" newsletter, January 4, 2013

State House Watch 2013-1 January 4, 2013.pdf

Organizing community responses to regressive legislation in New Hampshire

Arnie Alpert and Maggie Fogarty have worked relentlessly to not only defend economic rights, but also empower New Hampshire residents to know when and how to take a stand.

The reality of for-profit prisons

While New Hampshire’s corrections department reviews proposals from private companies seeking to build and operate its prisons, the state’s residents are learning how prison privatization has played out elsewhere—namely, in Arizona.

Preoccupied with Justice: Kathleen McQuillen and Arnie Alpert on the Fallon Forum

Kathleen McQuillen and Arnie Alpert talk Occupy on the Fallon Forum

What's new with the Occupy movement in Iowa and New Hampshire? What's driving people around the nation and around the world to confront economic injustice? AFSC staff Kathleen McQuillen and Arnie Alpert explore these questions and more with guest host Jon Krieg on the Fallon Forum.

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The Haves, The Have-Nots, And The Beloved Community: Conversation Series Part 1

November 10, 2011: Economic Justice

Arnie Alpert and Maggie Fogarty the impact of economics, or lack there of, and its effects on communities.
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State Facing Compassion Deficit

Budget fails the common-sense test

By Arnie Alpert
Published in the Concord Monitor June 20, 2011
Link: State facing compassion deficit

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