Somersworth resident Anthoney Baker claims that Dover police pushed, tugged, tripped, and forced him to the ground while he waited for food at a Dunkin Donuts in downtown Dover, NH.

Guy Chichester passed away a little over a week ago. Guy will be remembered for his work in co-founding the Clamshell Alliance, his work on the Greens, in the anti-nuclear movement, and his peace activism. Among the countless meetings and actions Guy worked on, he helped organize one of the first meetings to discuss creating an NH Indymedia site.

The article below, linked from the Globe, discusses some of his work. His famous political dissent case, referenced in the article below, but not in good detail, involved chain sawing down a warning siren at the Seabrook nuclear power plant in 1990. Guy did it to protest the state government's participation in misleading seacoast residents into thinking an evacuation plan existed in the event of a nuclear emergency at Seabrook. The "Arcane Article" cited in the Globe piece from Guy's legal defense was Article 10 of the New Hampshire Constitution: The Right of Revolution. Article 10 states, "The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." Guy and his team successfully used the article to argue that his own act had not been a criminal offense against the laws of the state, but a revolutionary political action. Guy would later cite the article as a witness in the trials of other activists who had committed nonviolent acts of resistance.

We will remember Guy as a larger than life, peaceful revolutionary, as someone who stood up for his community and environment, as an activist who helped stop Onassis from building an oil refinery on the seacoast, as one of the many arrested at Seabrook in 1976, as an unlikely politician who ran for governor and helped organize the NH Green Party, as someone who for years protested war in its many forms, including the economic blockade of Iraq, as a nonviolent dissident arrested while protesting the Iraq War at Senator Gregg's office in 2005, as the person handing out copies of War Times in the streets of Portsmouth, as a dead ringer for Gandalf the Grey, as a journalist and playwright, as someone who promoted local democracy and town meetings, as someone who brought people together, and, finally, we will remember him as a person who sometimes saw it necessary to take a chainsaw to the system.

Major news outlets report that the Obama administration may rescue New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg from political oblivion, and appoint him Commerce Secretary.

Update: Obama appeared with Gregg today to formally announce his nomination for Commerce Secretary, while Gov. John Lynch announced fmr. interim UNH president J. Bonnie Newman would replace Gregg as senator.

Second Update, Feb. 13: After asking Obama for the job, Gregg quits.

The December ice storm that took out power for millions of people across New England and Upstate New York was the worst ice storm to hit our region in a decade. The aftermath, however, was worse than anything we had to deal with following the last big ice storm back in 1998. Hundreds of thousands of people were without power days after the storm, and thousands of people went over a week without power.The absolute bungling of the response by Unitil management has prompted several towns throughout New England to consider getting rid of Unitil all together and forming their own municipal electric utilities.

In 2003, a group of us met in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. We were all troubled by the same thing: the people with the most to say never seemed to be heard. We wanted to create an outlet for local news from the grassroots, unfiltered by the mainstream media. We formed the New Hampshire Independent Media Center.

New Hampshire Indymedia is affiliated with the global Indymedia network. Our politics are left, progressive and radical, but our newswire at nhindymedia.org has always been open to everyone.

Now, after five years, many of the original members are ready to move on to other projects. We need your help.

On December 6, 2008 Seacoast Liberty Police Anti-Corruption Campaign held a demonstration in downtown Dover, protesting abuse of police power and last week's arrest of David Montenegro.

The Iraqi government is currently debating a Status of Forces Agreement with the US that would remove US soldiers from Iraq by 2011.

That's what we are hearing in the news every day, but almost nothing about it is true. All the terms and ideas are carefully crafted distortions fed to and then parroted by the corporate press, defining the terms of debate and thus the outcome.

Paul Pat Morse rips up his ballot at the Presidential election polls.

11/4/08 Barrington NH
by Paul Pat Morse

Our voting system, does not work, is faulty, rigged, and controlled by cynical manipulators. As we have seen in the last two Presidential elections ballots can be “lost”, destroyed, over or under counted, and altered. The election outcomes are controlled by people who have claimed the authority to decide who gets what when. Many feel that our current President, George W. Bush, has stolen both elections that he “won”. There is ample evidence to show that is true.