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Worthy Causes
Links to cool NH Lefties |
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"The members of New Hampshire Peace Action are dedicated to making a contribution to world peace.
We envision a world in which complete nuclear disarmament, mutual security, global understanding,
international cooperation and respect for human rights create social, economic,
and environmental benefits for all humanity."
-- NH Peace Action website |
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"Save Our Groundwater (S.O.G.) is a citizen action group
dedicated to advocating that water is a natural resource
to be held in the public trust and to be protected now and for the future."
-- Save Our Groundwater website |
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"Seacoast Peace Response is dedicated to promoting peace and justice worldwide.
We foster dialogue within the Seacoast community through public programming and non-violent action.
We seek a peaceful US response to threats and acts of war."
-- Seacoast Peace Response website |
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"Our mission is to change America's budget priorities to reflect a national commitment to education,
healthcare, energy independence, job training and deficit reduction -- at no additional taxpayer expense --
by shifting funding from obsolete Cold War and nuclear weapons
-- Priorities NH website |
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"Across the country and around the world,
a new type of street band is emerging.
Acoustic and mobile, borrowing repertoire and inspiration
from a diverse set of folk music traditions...
First and foremost, they honk their horns –
or beat their drums, or wave their flags –
to enliven and embolden their audience...
Just as important, they honk their horns because it’s the best way they know
to protest a world of violence and oppression...
As often as they honk in protest, however,
they also perform to celebrate the causes and institutions they support..."
-- HONK! Festival website (see also MySpace page) |
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"The Portsmouth Halloween Parade is an annual event
that has been organized by a group of local citizens since for our neighbors and friends.
It is always held on the 31st of October, Halloween night, at 7:00 pm.
The goal of the parade is to provide a grass roots, creative, and all-inclusive
alternative to contemporary Halloween.
Represented among the organizers are musicians, local business owners, directors of after-school programs,
and artists among others.
It has been a collective effort by an eclectic group for the mutual enjoyment of all."
-- Portsmouth Halloween Parade website |
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"The mission of Portsmouth Community Radio is to operate a nonprofit,
listener supported, volunteer driven, non-commercial FM community radio station
dedicated to serving the greater Portsmouth community.
Portsmouth Community Radio broadcasts diverse and alternative programming
which is primarily produced locally
and reflects the cultural, educational, artistic, civic,
and business fabric of the listening community."
-- WSCA website |
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"Almost 250 years old, the [New Hampshire] Gazette is stronger now
than it has been in over a hundred years.
Our political system is as broken as it's been at any time since the adoption of the Constitution.
At the risk of appearing to be complete fools - something we're fairly comfortable with by now -
we would like to suggest that the remedy to our national ills might be a resurgence of a free press,
with our cranky old Yankee paper as a model others might use.
We believe our success here could be replicated in other communities across the country.
It's a long shot, but so was the shot fired 'round the world."
-- New Hampshire Gazette website |
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"for the radical passionate and accurate telling of truth"
-- NH Indy Media website |
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Street Bands
Other Bands with a Progressive Bent |
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"Fear shall lead you to the place you most need to be.
When you arrive, dive into the sea of the unknown,
we will be there cheering you on,
furiously playing in a state of absolute delightful madness."
-- Hungry March Band website |
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"The Green Dragon Tavern is where the Sons of Liberty (Paul Revere, Sam Adams, etc.)
plotted flavoring Boston Harbor with Earl Grey tea.
Greene Dragon is a media and street theater campaign
mixing humor and historical context to highlight the unpatriotic policies
in government and its corporate special interests."
-- Greene Dragon website |
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"The Brass Liberation Orchestra ... plays music to support political causes
with particular emphasis on peace, and racial and social justice.
... We work to build a multigender/ multiracial/ multigenerational group
that enhances and strengthens the culture of the Left."
-- Brass Liberation Orchestra website |
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"TIME'S UP! is a grassroots environmental group that uses
educational outreach and direct action
to promote a more sustainable, less toxic city.
For more than 15 years, TIME'S UP! has worked
to educate people about the environmental impacts of everyday decisions,
from the food we buy to the means of transportation we use."
-- TIME'S UP! website |
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"Distinguishing features of the Titubanda (from the Italian "titubare" the wavering band)
are its community involvement and participation in demonstrations aimed at promoting civic causes...
The Titubanda is especially sensitive to grass roots involvement...
the band's autonomous, roving musical presence is by definition a political statement."
-- Titubanda website |
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"No one has ever seen Oakland/San Francisco's Extra Action Marching Band actually march...
at least not in a straight line and in the same direction.
Instead, the fifteen-to-thirty-five inebriated troubadours ooze, shuffle, loiter, charge,
and crawl around embracing their environment and quite frequently their audience."
-- Extra Action Marching Band website |
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"The Rude Mechanical Orchestra is a New York City-based radical marching band.
We exist in order to serve the efforts of progressive and radical groups and causes.
We have and will continue to play for events that support feminism and women's rights,
the queer community, labor, the environment, social and economic justice, peace and community self-determination."
-- Rude Mechanical Orchestra website |
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"The Infernal Noise Brigade is a 15-piece mobile sound ensemble,
a hybrid marching band and drum corps,
internationally active in the furtherance of popular liberation for five years.
First organized in 1999 to provide the soundtrack for actions during the
World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle,
the INB marched through clouds of gas and hails of rubber bullets without dropping a beat."
-- Infernal Noise Brigade website |
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