Story Archives of 'Arnie Alpert'

What’s Next for the Death Penalty

By Laura Knoy on Sunday, March 29, 2009.

Last week the State House voted to abolish capital punishment for the the second time in a decade. But death penalty opponents still have a hard fight ahead of them: the bill will face a tough time in the Senate and the governor has alluded to vetoing the measure if it reaches his desk. We’ll look at the deep emotions and politics behind this latest vote and what may happen next to the bill.

Guests

  • Arnie Alpert, New Hampshire Program Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee, and a member of the steering committee of the New Hampshire Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
  • David Hess, Republican state representative from Hooksett, Deputy Republican Leader and author of the original death penalty bill in 1974

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25 in 25: Arnie Alpert

By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, May 1, 2007.

Our 25 in 25 series continues with Arnie Alpert, Program Coordinator for the last twenty-six years at the American Friends Service Committee of New Hampshire, an organization that promotes peace and justice. We'll talk with Arnie about his long career in the peace movement, from his early days protesting the Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook to modern rallies and lessons in bird-dogging the Presidential candidates when they come to the Granite State. In celebration of NHPR's twenty-fifth birthday, we'll also look at how "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire has changed over the past quarter century in terms of the peace movement and political activism and where it's headed in the future.

Guests

  • Arnie Alpert, Program Director for the New Hampshire chapter of the American Friends Service Committee
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No Nukes - Thirty Years Later

By Liz Bulkley on Sunday, April 29, 2007.

On this day 30 years ago, over 2000 protestors occupied the future site of the Seabrook nuclear power plant, and more than 1400 were arrested. They called themselves The Clamshell Alliance, and their efforts to stop the construction of nuclear reactors on the Seacoast helped shape the national "No Nukes" movement. We'll talk with two "Clams" about their protest and what the anti-nuclear movement learned about getting an activist message out into the mainstream.

Our guests are:

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Waging Peace

By Laura Knoy on Sunday, September 25, 2005.

This weekend, demonstrators from across the country came together to protest the war in Iraq. Throughout American history anti-war, peace and non-violence movements have taken different forms, whether in college sit-ins, citywide protests or a one woman effort. We’ll look at the span of the peace movement in America. When it’s been effective, when it hasn’t and how its efforts are playing out now with this war. Laura's guests are Arnie Alpert, New Hampshire Coordinator for the American Service Committee. Michael True, professor emeritus of English at Assumption College in Worcester, MA and lecturer on the history of non-violence and Daniel Monk, George T. and Myra W. Cooley Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University and Director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program there.

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A Career as a Nonviolent Activist

By John Walters on Wednesday, December 4, 2002.

Arnie Alpert moved to New Hampshire in the 70s to protest the Seabrook Nuclear Plant. He?s been here ever since... fighting for peace, economic justice, renewable energy, and a Martin Luther King holiday. For over 20 years, he?s been the coordinator of the New Hampshire office of the American Friends Service Committee.

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The Peace Movement

By Laura Knoy on Thursday, October 11, 2001.

Polls show most Americans want to see military action in the wake of terrorist attacks in the US. We'll find out how traditional anti-war groups are responding. Some are mobilizing for protest, but others are conflicted about whether pacifism will work in this case. Laura talks with Arnie Alpert from the New Hampshire chapter of the American Friends Service Committee www.afsc.org and Tom Kelly, a theologian in the department of theology at St. Anselm College in Manchester www.anselm.edu.