LIVE and LIVESTREAMED, April 8@6 pm!
The New Republic will bring together America’s Most Banned Authors and hand out the first Toni Morrison Awards for Courage to Americans fighting against censorship
The celebration of the national Right to Read Day will also spotlight The 10 Most Challenged Books in America in 2023
Listen to some of the testimonials and share around. It takes courage to speak out about your party.
ALERT! The NH Department of Education has introduced their proposed Minimum Standards for Public School Approval, also known as the Ed 306s, to the NH State Board of Education. The proposal, which appears to be largely crafted by Commissioner Frank Edelblut, would undermine public schools by weakening the standards to which our public schools are held. Read the whole Reaching Higher Press Release.
According to Reaching Higher NH’s analysis, the overhaul would have substantial implications for New Hampshire’s public schools and the students and communities they serve. Wednesday, March 20, at 1:00 p.m., RHNH is holding a webinar to unpack the newest proposal and its implications. Register here: bit.ly/UnpackED306s
Granite State Progress (GSP) NH State House Update,
https://granitestateprogress.org/press-releases/
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC NH)State House Watch, https://afsc.org. Their weekly newsletter is on the site.
Fast Democracy,https://fastdemocracy.com/, tracks bills you choose and sends you updates on a regular basis.
Other excellent news resources for reporting, analysis and commentary:
Remember if you want to watch the legislative sessions live on YouTube, you can jump on with these links.
NH House committee live streaming
NH Senate committee live streaming
Consider Conversation Canvassing NH (CCNH), a virtual Deep Canvassing training experience that combines instructional videos and a one-hour interactive workshop. The online training videos can be viewed at your own pace or you can have a house party and we will zoom in for the workshop.
The format is ultra-flexible for the busiest activist and many Granite Staters have been trained since 2021. So join the CCNH team. Browse the website: https://www.conversationcanvassing24.org/, watch the videos and sign up for a workshop.
Register at https://www.conversationcanvassing24.org/ to learn more about the workshops. Our next CCNH workshop dates are below. Come on your own, with friends or as part of a team.
Wednesday, March 13 @ 7 p.m,
Monday, March 25 @ 7 p.m.
ALERT! some of our Grafton County Dems have received emails from someone trying to impersonate Chairman Buckley’s asking to connect over email or other means.
THIS IS FAKE and not Chairman Buckley. Please do not respond. Their goal is to try and get you to respond and then send some sort of link in the follow up that would try to scam you.
For whatever reason, they have targeted the NH Democratic County Chairs with this scam. Chairman’s real email, chairman@nhdp.org, is not compromised and the email address he uses. Please let us know if you get an email claiming to be from him that’s not from that address.
You can watch this excellent presentation by Rep.Mary Hakken-Phillips, D-Hanover, from session last Thursday, on Bill 1560 concerning monies in the the Education Trust Fund. Republicans are proposing that at the end of the year, monies in the Education Trust Fund be emptied into the general fund. Hakken-Phillips makes the case against the bill. The bill was tabled. 346-14!
Watch Rep. Hakken-Phillips’ presentation at 3.05.01; the video should start at that point.
Read the IndepthNH article on the public hearing of the House Finance Committee on Jan 29 on the bill 1560.
The Boston Globe New Hampshire, February 12, 2004
