MVDC Actions - Week of 06/01/2025
MVDC Spring Fling!
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MVDC Spring Fling! *
See you Friday!
And bring a friend (or two)!
Friday June 6th
6:00 - 8:00 PM
At the Library - Rain Location - 2 Blood Road - Watch for an email update ~Wednesday!
Understand How New Hampshire Funds Its Public Schools
Lucy Hurlin Theatre - ConVal High School
184 Hancock Rd, Peterborough, NH
June 4 at 7:00 PM
Want to learn how school funding works in New Hampshire and how the State is downshifting their responsibility onto local taxpayers?
Join this one-hour community conversation with a Q&A session about how NH funds its public schools—and why it's leading to unequal tax burdens and unequal opportunities for students. You’ll see local data, hear about recent court rulings, what's next and how you can help.
This event will focus specifically on the ConVal School District and the challenges its towns face under the current funding model. There will be time for questions and discussion.
For more info, email Casey Neal, Outreach & Engagement Director at Fair Funding NH at: cneal@fairfundingnh.org
Or learn more at: www.FairFundingNH.org
Protest Opportunities
Where Shall We Go?
NATIONWIDE PROTEST June 14th
Lots of choices nearby(ish) for “No Kings” and “No Clowns” Events.
At our Spring Fling on 6/6 we will decide where we’re heading - another State House visit? Boston? The Seacoast? Options we are considering:
Concord - NH State House - 1 to 5 pm
Milford - Milford Oval - 2 to 4 pm
Nashua - Soldiers & Sailors Monument - 2 to 4 pm
Peterborough - St Rte 101 & US 202 - 12 to 1:30 pm
Portsmouth - Congress & Maplewood - 2 to 4 pm
Boston - Copley Square - 11 am - 3 pm
Where you choose to go is less important than choosing to go! Go wherever you feel most comfortable.
NH Legislative Update
David Meuse, a state representative from the Seacoast, posts frequent legislative updates. You can read the latest his update here, but there wasn’t a new one this week.
This week’s sign in opportunities…
None this week. Scroll down for email opportunities.
Email Kelly Ayotte
Key Bills Heading for Signature:
There is still time to reach out on these bills.
HB 324 - Subject Line - Support Free Speech Not Unconstitutional Book Bans
Dear Governor Ayotte:
As your constituent, I ask you to support free speech and stop unconstitutional book bans in our state by vetoing HB 324. Politically motivated censorship has no place here, and attacking Granite Staters’ First Amendment rights is antithetical to our state’s core values. Book bans are ineffective, archaic, and designed to limit the information, communities, and context we can access.
HB 324, even goes so far as to give the state board of education the ability to overrule the decisions of local school boards, creating the prospect of any state board decision acting as a de facto statewide ban on certain books in our local schools. Bills like this undermine our right to education by throwing open the floodgates to ban books based on personal preference and encourage self-appointed censors, including the state board of education, to impose their beliefs on all Granite State families.
Students have a right to learn from a diverse range of materials — including library books by and about marginalized communities — and we must support that right.
Sincerely,
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Mont Vernon, NH
HB 148 - Subject Line - Safeguard Anti-Discrimination Protections for Transgender Granite Staters
Dear Governor Ayotte:
I’m a registered voter writing from Mont Vernon NH asking you to veto HB 148. The bill addresses a problem that simply does not exist in our state and would roll back critical anti-discrimination protections for transgender Granite Staters, denying them their basic rights and dignity at work or in public spaces like schools, restaurants, movie theaters, or stores. When presented with the same opportunity, then-Governor Sununu vetoed the bill saying it, “runs contrary to New Hampshire’s Live Free or Die spirit” and “seeks to solve problems that have not presented themselves,”
Cruel, discriminatory bills like these, which exclusively target LGBTQ people, have no place in New Hampshire and are not what your constituents like me want. There are many other topics that lawmakers should prioritize that would truly benefit Granite Staters, like creating affordable housing, and I urge you to take those on instead.
Sincerely,
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Mont Vernon, NH
Other Email Opportunities
From our friends at:
By WEDNESDAY 6/4
The House Session on Thursday, June 5th, features two highly restrictive absentee voting bills,
SB 287 and SB 213. This week’s pre-drafred emails your House Reps to oppose these extreme bills.
These proposed laws would create unnecessary and burdensome hurdles that disproportionately affect the state's most vulnerable populations and those serving in the military.
SB 287 requires that voters show photo ID before election day, or submit their application with a notarized signature if they wish for their ballot be mailed to a different address other than that appearing on the official checklist, adding significant financial and logistical barriers. It creates two classes of voters: verified and unverified, with little substantive justification for doing so.
SB 213 requires voters provide proof of identity, U.S. citizenship, age, and domicile again when applying for an absentee ballot. It also requires a witness affirmation signed by a Notary Public or Justice of the Peace to confirm the voter's identity, imposing undue burdens that are likely to suppress turnout.
Both bills rely on signature matching as a fallback if notarization or required documents aren’t submitted., which was ruled unconstitutional (Saucedo v. Gardner).
Both bills also require notarization and photocopies of sensitive documents, which pose serious challenges for those without easy access to a notary, copy machine, or printer. If voters can’t meet these demands, they must either make an in-person visit to the town clerk - defeating the purpose of absentee voting - or risk rejection based on illegal signature comparisons.
Click here to use our pre-drafted email template to voice your concerns to the House Election Law Committee. We encourage you to personalize your message, as unique emails have a greater impact!
From our friends at:
By WEDNESDAY 6/4
Both the New Hampshire Senate and House will cast votes on Thursday, June 5 that could ban confidential access to birth control for teenagers.
New Hampshire has the lowest teen pregnancy rate in the country, in large part because of our state's strong Family Planning Program and access for teens to talk with a provider, confidentially, about contraception. Our state lawmakers should not jeopardize this legacy.
From our friends at:
NH Actions:
Federal Actions:
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Use this link to contact Senator Ricciardi to encourage her to oppose these bills that ban healthcare options for transgender adolescents. We cannot allow the government to interfere in personal healthcare decisions that should rightfully be made by patients, parents, and medical professionals.
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Use this link to contact Congresswoman Goodlander.
In an apparent effort to aid President Trump’s discriminatory clamp down on free speech, Republicans on the House Ways & Means Committee have snuck a dangerous anti-dissent bill into their massive, new tax package.
This provision would grant the executive branch the power to effectively shut down any non-profit organization – including news outlets, universities, and civil liberties groups – by accusing them of “supporting terrorism” and using that accusation to suspend their tax-exempt status without any real due process. Ask her to fight to remove the provision threatening nonprofits from the tax bill.
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Use this link to contact Senator Hassan, Senator Shaheen and Congresswoman Goodlander.
Since his first day in office, President Trump has launched nonstop attacks on the rights and lives of transgender people—targeting our health care, exposing us to discrimination at school, at work and when traveling, censoring any mention of us across the federal government, and threatening to pull government funding unless other organizations discriminate against us too. Each of these attacks are just one piece of the larger effort to erase trans people from public life and deny all people the freedom to be ourselves. Send your message loud and clear: Tell the NH delegation to FIGHT BACK against attacks on the trans community.
From our friends at:
AFSC has a very informative website. They sponsor petitions and email drives to help make our voices heard. Thousands who have signed petitions, sent messages, and taken public action to effect change based on their templates. They also lead campaigns to facilitate coordinated, public pressure to drive change. They work in the areas of ECONOMIC JUSTICE, GLOBAL PEACE, MIGRATION & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS, PRISONS & POLICING.
Learn more about the issues, how communities are responding, and how you can help.
Other Upcoming Events
Recurring Events
Stronger Together
Stand in Solidarity with Our Immigrant NeighborsFridays 4-5 PM125 N. Main St & Loudon Rd, Concord, NHAmerican Friends Service Committee—NH
Lawline
Attorneys from the NH Bar Association Answer Legal Questions2nd Wed / Monthly 6-8PMHotline: (800) 868-1212NH Bar Association
Manchester ICE Vigil
Interfaith Prayer Vigil1st Tues / Monthly 6-8PMNorris Cotton Federal Building, 275 Chestnut St, Manchester, NHNH Immigrant Solidarity Network
Civil Rights Sunday
Stand Up for Democracy Sundays @ 4-5PMMarket Square, Portsmouth, NHOccupy Seacoast
Unite and Resist
Saturdays @ 12-1PMCentral Square, Keene, NHIndivisible
One Time Events
Meeting the Moment: Practicing Dissent
A Kent Street Online Forum
Meeting the Moment: Practicing Dissent
Know Your Rights, Know Your Power!4-June @ 6:30-8PM - Via ZoomKent Street Coalition
PPNH Action Fund Action Fund Virtual Tabling Training
Prepare to volunteer for Summer Pride events! Volunteers MUST complete training before tabling with PPNHAF this summer3-June @ 6-7PM - Via ZoomPlanned Parenthood NH
Planned Parenthood NH Action Fund Protect Repro Health Visibility
5-June @ 9-10AM
NH State House, 107 N. Main Street, Concord, NH
Planned Parenthood NH
2025 Legislative Wrap Up
8-June @ 7-8:30PM - Via ZoomHillsborough County Democratic Party
Open Democracy Book Club—Discussion of Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos
Led by Author Russ Muirhead12-Jun @ 7PMVirtualOpen Democracy
PPNH Action Fund Virtual Deep Canvass
If you’ve completed all 3 parts of our BTG training, join us to have deep conversations with voters about abortion stigma.5-June @ 5-8PM - Via ZoomPlanned Parenthood NH
Annual Meeting: Democracy at a Crossroads: Engaging the Leaders of Tomorrow
18-Jun @ 5:30PMDerryfield, 625 Mammouth Rd Manchester, NHOpen Democracy & Open Democracy Action
Support Academic Freedom
ACTION:
Follow the link to review the letter to see if your college or university has signed onto it.
If Yes - call or email to thank them!
If No - call or email to urge them to take a stand for academic freedom and urge your alum networks to do the same.
If you asked last week and they still haven’t signed - Ask them why!
Molly Finnegan of PBS News reports’ “Hundreds of college presidents and other officials have signed a letter protesting the “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” that higher education is facing under the Trump administration.
IT’S WORKING!!!
When we first posted this on 4/27, there were just over 500 signatures, as of Friday, it was 657.