Important Events from Kent Street Coalition Partners
There is so much good work being done to protect our neighbors and the rights of all Granite Staters that we can’t possibly highlight everything we care about each week in the Happenings email. Consider this our supplementary guide to important weekly actions and events Kent Street encourages you to consider each week!
Links to Event Sections:
THIS WEEK’S EVENTS
Tuesday, August 18th
NH School Funding Fairness Project
Candidate Webinars: Six Weeks, Twelve Partners
August 18th through September 15th, 12 noon
The 2026 Candidate Webinar Series brings together 12 nonpartisan community organizations to help candidates and voters better understand the issues affecting Granite Staters. Each Tuesday, the series will explore a different priority, from healthcare and education to housing, energy, food security, and economic opportunity. Explore the Series and Register Here
BeautifulTrouble.org
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
7:00 – 9:30 PM EDT
Democracy Defense Training
Back by popular demand, we’re partnering again with our friends at the U.S Department of Arts and Culture to offer a DEMOCRACY DEFENSE training!
Artists and cultural workers play a pivotal role in successful people-powered movements, shaping what’s possible through story, symbol, and song and moving/inspiring people to courageous action.
Whatever your creative medium or path, you’re part of a vital cultural frontline. Let’s grow our power, refuse compliance, and make culture that blocks, bridges and builds. REGISTER HERE!
Th!rd Act New Hampshire
Celebrate National Senior Citizens Day
August 18th, 1PM to 3PM
Tad’s Place: Havenwood Heritage Heights Retirement Community• 33 Christian Ave , Concord, NH 03301 US
National Senior Citizen’s Day recognizes the contributions of senior citizens and celebrates their continuing contributions to the betterment of our communities and planet. Come hear the stories of several senior citizens who are working to make NH a better place. Among those recognized is NH Third Actor, Bill Coder, a certified electrification volunteer coach and energy liaison.
Click Here For More Information
Central New Hampshire Indivisible
August 18th, 5-7pm
Medicaid Matters:
What Granite Staters Need to Know About Medicaid Changes
Join Plymouth Area Democrats with partners for Medicaid Matters: What Granite Staters Need to Know About Medicaid Changes at the Plymouth Senior Center, 8 Depot Street Plymouth. Light refreshments provided.
Wednesday, August 19th
Central New Hampshire Indivisible
August 19th
8:00pm to 9:00pm
“Hands Off Our Vote” training: Election Protection 101 and Election Protection 201.
Join Indivisible for the first two In this two-part virtual training series, you will learn how to get out the vote, become a trusted messenger, prepare for election defense scenarios, and get information for fall activations. (The two sessions will build on each other, but it’s okay if you can only attend one.) Register here.
Thursday, August 20th
Open Democracy – Voter Education Training
Thursday, August 20th
6:00 PM, Keene Public Library, 60 Winter St, Heberton Hall Keene, NH
This training will share information about new voting laws in New Hampshire and nonpartisan ways to talk about the impact of these laws. Local opportunities to be involved in outreach will be shared.
Olivia Zink will lead this training. Register here.
Open Democracy – Become a Non-Partisan Poll Observer:
The New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights is looking volunteers to be at the polls at the upcoming elections.
Click the date to attend one of these scheduled trainings:
Sunday, August 23rd
Southern New Hampshire Indivisible Summer Picnic
Date: Sunday, August 30, Email snhi54@gmail.com with any questions
Register here by August 24, 2026.
ONGOING COALITION PARTNER VISIBILITIES CAN BE FOUND AT THESE LINKS
Southern NH Indivisible Events
RECURRING EVENTS
Coalition Partner Weekly Events
Every Third Tuesday
Protect, Resist and Build with AFSC – 8 PM to 9:30 PM. Hosted by AFSC. Monthly webinar series that brings together AFSC constituents to learn about how to protect, resist, and build just peace, just migration, and just economies.
Every First Wednesday
Mindful Meditation with Aryaloka Buddhist Center of Newmarket – 6 PM to 7 PM, Waysmeet, 15 Mill Road, Durham. Hosted by AFSC Join us for a monthly, volunteer-led guided meditation. We have some cushions and yoga mats to share; you’re invited to bring whatever you may need to feel comfortable for 30 minutes of meditation. Free and open to all. For more information: waysmeetcenter.org/calendar.
Every Wednesday
4:30PM to 5:30PM
Central NH Indivisible – Visibility Event
DiCenzo Bridge in Plymouth/Holderness.
Every Third Wednesday Countering Christian Nationalism conversation – 7:00 PM, hosted by the NH Council of Churches, every third Wednesday of the month. Zoom link here.
Every Thursday
What’s the Plan
with Leah and Ezra, Founders of Indivisable
3:00PM, Zoom, Register here
The chaos out of the White House is meant to overwhelm us. Our antidote is community. This is people-powered politics in real time. Questions can be submitted via the Q&A function during the live event. Real talk. Real people. Real action. That’s the plan.
Meeting for Worship with Attention to Peace in Palestine & Israel – 7:30 PM. Hosted by AFSC. Every week, AFSC’s Quaker Engagement team hosts Meeting for Worship virtually for Friends from across the globe. Embracing the practice of Quaker unprogrammed worship, we gather to bring our attention to witnessing injustice in our world and bolstering our solidarity with people facing oppression. Join us to explore and experience the spiritual dimensions of activism and social justice.
Solemn Vigils for Ceasefire Now – 12 noon at City Hall Plaza, in front of the State House, Concord.
NHPA (New Hampshire Peace Action)
Vigil in Meriden on Rt 120 at the blinking light.
The black Lives Matter vigils in Meriden, NH have been broadened to include No War, Ceasefire in Gaza, Gerrymandering is the Real Fraud, Workers over Billionaires, End White Supremacy, etc.
What’s the Plan with Indivisible’s Co-Founders
Hosted by Southern New Hampshire Indivisible
Every Thursday | 3-4PM
Zoom | Register Here
If you are not already signed up, Indivisible co-founders Ezra and Leah host weekly “What’s the plan” meetings that are inspirational, informative, and actionable.
Every Friday
AFSC Action Hour for a Ceasefire – 12 noon. Join AFSC staff every Friday to hear updates on what’s happening in Gaza. Then, take action with us as we contact Congress and call for a permanent cease-fire, arms embargo on Israel, and humanitarian access for Gaza. Our elected officials need to keep hearing from us!
Stronger Together: Protect Our Neighbors Weekly Visibility – 4 PM to 5 PM. Hosted by the Stronger Together Coalition. Corner of North Main Street and Loudon Road, Concord. Join us for a weekly visibility to stand against the war being raged against our communities. Our immigrant loved ones and neighbors are being targeted and kidnapped off the streets. Our public dollars are being funneled into a violent, bloated deportation and detention machine while local police are being weaponized against the communities they are supposed to serve, and life-giving programs are being defunded. Stand with us to protect our communities. All are welcome!
Every Saturday
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
ICE Weekend Watch – Southern NH Indivisible
1000 District Ave, Burlington, MA
The organizers of the weekly protests at the ICE facility in Burlington, MA, have issued a special invitation to Granite Staters to join them on April 8th.
They’re asking New Hampshire activists, who helped stop the ICE facility in Merrimack, to bring solidarity, energy, and visibility as they demand a stop to human warehouses and highlight our victory as a source of optimism.
No need to RSVP. Just show up. Scroll down for more information on the ICE Burlington weekly protests. Parking suggestions are listed here.
Central NH Indivisible – Visibility Event
12:00PM – 1:00PM
Tenney Mountain Highway across from McDonald’s.
Every Sunday
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Civil Rights Sundays is back in Market Square
Portsmouth at 4-5 pm every Sunday, sponsored by Occupy New Hampshire Seacoast and Seacoast Peace Response.
All are welcome to join. Bring your own sign or there will be ones available.
Coalition Partner Monthly Events
NH NAACP Monthly Meeting
Thursday, August 27, 6:00 PM,
New Location: Manchester Community Action Coalition (MCAC), 340 Granite Street.
OR – Join via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83242055643?pwd=cUJNSmR1S0UxeFBDcE1FYUNISDFkZz09
For more information on upcoming actions and events with the NH NAACP visit their their website at https://naacpmanchesternh.com/
FUTURE & MULTI-DATE EVENTS
Coalition Partner Multi-Series Events
NH School Funding Fairness Project
Candidate Webinars: Six Weeks, Twelve Partners
August 18th through September 15th, 12 noon
The 2026 Candidate Webinar Series brings together 12 nonpartisan community organizations to help candidates and voters better understand the issues affecting Granite Staters. Each Tuesday, the series will explore a different priority, from healthcare and education to housing, energy, food security, and economic opportunity. Explore the Series and Register Here
NH School Funding Fairness Project
Pathways to Prosperity: What Makes New Hampshire Business-Friendly? – exploring the conditions employers say are essential to NH’s future success.
The first session, Public Education, takes place on Tuesday, July 28 from 12–1:30PM and will focus on findings from NHBSR’s employer roundtables, where business leaders consistently identified strong public schools as critical workforce infrastructure. Employers described school quality as a key factor in recruiting talent, retaining employees, and building thriving communities across the state. Employers also pointed to New Hampshire’s school funding system as a source of instability that affects families, businesses, and local economies alike.
If you’re a business owner, community leader, advocate, or simply interested in understanding how New Hampshire employers are thinking about the future of our state, we encourage you to join the conversation.
Register here
Register once for any session, or all of them. Sessions run the last Tuesday of the month, Noon–1:30 PM ET.
– Childcare — Tuesday, August 25, 2026
– Housing — Tuesday, September 29, 2026
– Energy — Tuesday, October 27, 2026
– Climate — Tuesday, November 24, 2026
Central New Hampshire Indivisible
August 26th
8:00pm to 9:00pm
“Hands Off Our Vote” training: Election Protection 101 and Election Protection 201.
Join Indivisible for the first two In this two-part virtual training series, you will learn how to get out the vote, become a trusted messenger, prepare for election defense scenarios, and get information for fall activations. (The two sessions will build on each other, but it’s okay if you can only attend one.) Register here.
Future Events
Southern New Hampshire Indivisible Summer Picnic
Date: Sunday, August 30
Time: Noon to 4 pm. Meal about 1 pm.
Location: Picnic Pavilion, Clough State Park, Weare, NH
Join us for an afternoon to connect, relax, eat good food, and enjoy some time together. You can join in games, win prizes, swim, or just hangout. Kayaks and paddleboards are available to rent (or bring your own). Lunch and ice cream are on us! Whether you’ve been involved in SNHI since the beginning or are just joining us, we’d love to see you there. For more information and to reserve, click Here.
Please submit Reservation by August 24, 2026.
Email us with any questions at snhi54@gmail.com
We hope you can join us!
Dave, Jenn, Jill, Ken, Kim, Mark, and Susan
Southern NH Indivisible Leadership
Wednesday, September 2, 10am
UNH Durham
Dover Rep. Luz Bay, candidate for the Executive Council, is calling for us to attend the upcoming council meeting in Durham. There will not be a chance for the public to speak during the meeting but we need to demonstrate by our respectful presence our grave differences with the current Republican-dominated council, including their opposition to funding for women’s reproductive health and their hostility to programs (such as childcare) that aid to deliver services to a diverse population. Stay tuned for more details.
Granite State Matters
New Hampshire NAACP
September 19th, 11am to 2pm – Fall Family Festival
603 Forward
September 20th, 26th, 27th
603 Equity
If you haven’t experienced our powerful self-defense and de-escalation trainings, we encourage you to register for the last two of 2026
We offer bimonthly trauma-informed safety trainings to small groups. The trainings scale from verbal de-escalation to light self-defense, with a focus on exiting a dangerous scene with minimal impact. This program helps to empower those within the LGBTQIA+ community to build mental, emotional, and physical strength and resilience through a trauma-informed lens. They also help build community and give folks the tools to pivot out of dangerous situations in real time.
Click one of the dates below to register:
Sunday, September 27, 2026 in Nashua / Milford
Sunday, December 06, 2026 in Lebanon
NAACP NH Annual Gala
October 3rd, 6pm
