Category: Perspectives

  • Dear Friends, I admit this week to being short on inspiration. This has, perhaps, in all these years, been the most difficult week yet. We saw Trump – clearly unwell, clearly unfit – leading the country and the world to the edge of destruction. Meanwhile, those closest to him, whether out of abject cowardice or…

  • Click here to read the full Happenings email for this week. Dear Kent Street Friends, We have seen resurging Fascism not only here in the United States, but across the globe. With chilling echoes of 1930’s Europe, we have seen far-right, nationalist parties gaining ground in a several countries, including Italy, Germany, Austria and Finland.…

  • Click here to read the full Happenings email for this week. Dear Friends, I admit this week to being short on inspiration. This has, perhaps, in all these years, been the most difficult week yet. We saw Trump – clearly unwell, clearly unfit – leading the country and the world to the edge of destruction.…

  • Dear Kent Street Friends,It was wonderful to see so many new and familiar faces at the No Kings event last week in Concord and to know that similar events were happening all over the state and across the nation. It’s clear that people are ready to carry the energy, inspiration, and resolve from these protests…

  • View full email here for actions and alerts. Dear Kent Streeters, This week’s Perspectives is simple: it’s a huge round of applause to all who made the third No Kings protests bigger and more powerful than ever. Organizers all across the country, from big cities to small towns, created opportunities for millions of us to…

  • View full email here for actions and alerts. Dear Kent Streeters, I had thought to write this week’s Perspectives on the failure of GOP leadership to condemn the culture of political threatening and hate that has been emanating from those within their ranks at the State House, on social media and beyond. Governor Ayotte, Speaker…

  • View full email here for actions and alerts. Dear Kent Street Friends, Last week, New Hampshire welcomed a winter reprieve in the form of a few days of warm spring weather and a shocking special election. The Granite State made national news with Bobbi Boudman’s surprise win of a House seat in consistently Republican Carroll…

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  • Mary Wilke, Convener of Kent Street Coalition’s Education Working Group, is providing this Week in Perspective. As we experience anguish and rage in the face of ongoing attacks against decency, humanity and democracy, our daily personal lives continue to unfold. And the personal sorrows that inevitably come our way find us with less resilience, because…

  • As Louise finishes her a well-earned sabbatical, Randy Hayes,Convener of Kent Street Coalition’s Health Care Working Group, is providing This Week in Perspective.  Read this week’s complete Happenings Newsletter here. Dear Kent Streeters, We Kent Streeters know all too well that the policies and executive orders of the Trump administration threaten the very survival of…