Considering these, Will made clear that he waited and waited to meet with our U. S. Senators and his district 2 Congressman on the wars. Weekly re-quests and visits by other activistists to the Manchester offices of Ayotte and Shaheen were organized by Dave Tiffany and Beryl Brink. He met with Congressman Bass. Never had response from Congressman Giunta. Will’s comments included deep concern for “wealth disparity” and “campaign financing” making his Occupy effort a matter of “trying to work within a broken system,” so that finding himself being in court is what he must do to “try to use the system.” The second witness, Matt Lawrence, a Man-chester native, Manchester High School West graduate, is a 27 year old artist who’s taken courses at NH Insti-tute of Art. Most recently he’s worked in landscaping, but now is unemployed. He came to Occupy from read-ing Adbusters magazine. He went to a first meeting on October 1st, with 80-90 people. He told us the back-ground of Occupy New Hampshire, including consen-sus decision-making and campout logistics. I was most impressed with Matt’s explanation that, “as in any

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I attended the June 22 court proceeding for sev-enteen Occupiers. Manchester District Court Judge Wil-liam Lyons heard the case. NH Civil Liberties Union staff attorney Barbara Keshen swore in the five witnesses for the defense, and six hours of testimony explained why the Occupiers chose Veterans’ Park in Manchester for their 24/7 address, and how Occupy is a needed strategy now. NHPA Director Will Hopkins was the first wit-ness, giving his background, including military service in Iraq. While in Iraq he determined to try “to change the world” and have his voice be heard - he so strongly disbe-lieves in war. The defense calls on Article 1 Section 10 of our NH Constitution: [Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, pro-

tection, and security, of the whole community, and not for

the private interest or emolument of any one man, family,

or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of govern-

ment are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endan-

gered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the

people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or estab-

lish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance

against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slav-

ish, and destructive of the good and happiness of man-

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Last year several NH organizations chose to become part of the National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy (www.studentprivacy.org) led by Pat Elder of Maryland. The NH Coalition consists of NH Peace Action, NH Veterans for Peace, and the Manchester branch of the NAACP. Two other groups, the NH Civil Liberties Union and the National Educa-tion Assoc.of NH (NEA-NH) agreed to endorse the NH Coali-tion’s call for the Commissioner of Education, Dr. Virginia Barry, and the NH State Board of Education (BOE) to issue a directive to all NH public schools to implement “Option 8” concerning the administration of the Armed Services Vocation-al Aptitude Battery Test (ASVAB) in schools. On May 16, 2012, Commissioner Barry and the State Board listened to a presentation and viewed a brief slide show about the ASVAB from two Wills (Hopkins, Thomas) whose “willpower” persuaded the Board to authorize the Commission-er to send letters to all NH Superintendents urging them to rec-ommend to their high school principals that they imple-ment “Option 8” whenever students take the ASVAB test. So, what is this ASVAB and “Option 8” and why is there any concern about its use in schools and what does it have to do with the recruiting of young people for the Armed Ser-vices? According to Pat Elder, the ASVAB is a Pentagon-funded test which is made available to high schools across the country. While this test is designed for military recruitment and assessment purposes, it is camouflaged as a “Career Explo-ration Program.” The ASVAB is the military’s entrance exam that is given to fresh recruits to ascertain their “aptitude” (ability) for filling various military occupations. How do we know that ASVAB is a recruiting tool? Simply read the US Military Entrance Processing Com-mand’s Pamphlet 350-13 that says the ASVAB is designed to “Provide the field recruiter with a source of leads of high school juniors and seniors qualified through the ASVAB for enlistment into the Active Army and Army Reserve.” According to the Pentagon, each school where the ASVAB is administered has the ability to choose among 8 op-tions regarding the release of students’ private, personal infor-mation. Options 1 through 6 allow military recruiters to access students’ ASVAB test results at various times after the results are mailed to the school. Option 7 deals with invalid test scores where, for example, there was cheating involved. Option 8, however, states that “Access to student test information is NOT provided to recruiting services.” In 2010, the latest data available, out of 65 NH high schools which administered the ASVAB, only six chose Op-tion 8. As previously stated, the ASVAB offers several differ-ent types of reporting options for student scores although many school administrators are unaware of these options, including Option 8. At the May 16 DOE meeting, the NH Commissioner remarked that she had personally called several superintendents and all said they were unaware of the various options! By de-fault, if no options are chosen, all students’ test scores and per-sonal data are sent to the military. This private, personal infor-

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“Hey, Recruiters, Leave Those Kids Alone!” By Will Thomas

New Hampshire Peace Action Staff

Will Hopkins, Director Doreen Desmarais, Administrator

Emily Spencer, Membership Advocate

mation includes not just address and phone number, but the student’s social security number, racial and ethnic category and future plans. We pointed out to the Commissioner and BOE that parental knowledge and consent should be a given for a minor any time such personal data is being sent out by the schools to anyone. In Maryland, the first state to mandate “Option 8” for all students taking the ASVAB, State Senator Jamie Raskin, the lead sponsor, said the bill’s passage is a “big victory” that vindicates the “student’s right to privacy of personal infor-mation and the family’s right to decision making.” Prior to the Maryland law, test-takers had no say in whether their in-formation goes to the military, and parents weren’t required to give their approval for minors. Since Maryland, the Los An-geles and New York City schools have also mandated Option 8 as has the Department of Education in Hawaii. What was the goal of the NH Coalition to Protect Student Privacy? It was to ensure that parental rights are re-spected and to allow students to make informed decisions re-garding their future goals without being targeted, and often harassed, by military recruiters. One NH state senator who was asked to consider sponsoring legislation to mandate Op-tion 8 for all schools, discovered that his own 17-year-old daughter had taken the ASVAB without his knowledge! To reiterate, one of our main goals was to have the NH DOE promulgate a new policy that would shield young people from unwanted military recruiter contact. We told the Commission-er and the members of the State Board that we were certain that most parents and students want the schools to ensure that such institutions are properly safeguarding student information and privacy. The NH Coalition’s next step is to find sponsors for a bill that would mandate “Option 8” legislatively. While the NH Coalition is pleased with the action by the DOE, we want the ASVAB Option 8 codified in legislation. For more infor-mation go to: www.studentprivacy.org Taken in context, this was a small victory in the struggle against the tide of militarism that has seemingly en-gulfed our nation. Strengthened by this effort, let us move forward and resolve to weaken other Pentagon recruiting pil-lars that sell war and indoctrinate our young people to serve, in effect, as foot soldiers in an imperial military. Will Thomas is a member of NH Peace Action and heads the

NH Chapter of Veterans for Peace

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power,

the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix

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Do you believe that, at the decisive moment, the right prophet or words will arise? The Argentine writer Ernesto Sábado seems to imply that when he writes, "Only those capable of envisaging utopia will be fit for the decisive battle, that of recovering all the humanity we have lost." When I read that line today, I thought about the situa-tion in the Middle East. Is there any hope that Israel and Pales-tine will see the right person, the right proposal, the right media-tor, the right words to recover the humanity that seems to have been lost, in lives and ideals, since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948? Will the parties involved, and the US who dispropor-tionately controls, eventually see that the situation can neither be maintained by force forever nor overthrown by the opposition without more suffering? On my second trip to Israel and Palestine with Interfaith Peace Builders in May, 2012, I could make several observations about the situation in comparison to what I found in 2009, right after Operation Cast Lead, and all touch on the clear and contin-uing loss of respect for humanity. First, the situation for Palestinians seems worse, not only in the segregation of Israelis and Palestinians, but also in discrimination against African-Jewish and Asian refugee and immigrant groups. Second, the military presence seems less obvious be-cause the separation between Israelis and Palestinians has be-come more entrenched and “normalized.” Groups like New Pro-file, Other Voice, and Breaking the Silence, however, are ad-dressing the pervasive militarism in society which has made peo-ple insensitive to and even accepting of its presence. How would we react to seeing soldiers and civilians walking down our main streets with automatic weapons during their off hours? Third, grassroots groups are working harder than ever to foster change, promote sensitivity, and encourage empathy. B’Tselem, an Israeli NGO that advocates for human rights in the Occupied Territories, “arms” Palestinians with video cameras so that they can “shoot back” against the violence and document their claims in court. The Israeli Committee Against House De-molitions accompanies families whose homes, despite legal deeds, are targeted for confiscation and/or demolition and stands with them in resistance against this illegal practice. Fourth, more and more Palestinians are involved in many forms of nonviolent resistance to the Occupation, yet, de-spite their conscious effort to resist nonviolently, the response from the Israeli government continues to be violent. Families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem were dis-placed from their homes in the middle of the night over two and a half years ago and moments later saw settlers moved in under the protection of the Israeli military. The Palestinian families’ response was to settle in tents on their property and pursue their claim to the land in court. Daoud Nasser, whose family’s land is now completely encircled by Israeli settlements to the point that even the road leading to it is blocked from vehicular access, is developing a completely sustainable lifestyle: living in caves, installing composting toilets, living off the food grown on his 100 acres, and generating solar energy.

Fifth, many adjectives may be used to describe the Palestinians I met—steadfast, resilient, hospitable, generous, deeply joyful, and friendly. The Abu Ramah family of Bil’in hosted a group of us overnight and shared the village’s success in reclaiming 30% of their confiscated land in the High Court; Nasser Abdelhadi, a Ramallah restaurant owner gave me sam-ples of food and fresh squeezed orange juice when he learned I was from NH where he attended a year of schooling at New England College; Ali Zbeidat, his wife and daughters prepared a sumptuous dinner and provided entertainment in Sakhnin even while their home is under a demolition order; every Pal-estinian host and NGO provided tea, their symbol of welcome. And there were so many other sincere and warm examples of reaching out to befriend. James Baldwin observed, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing is changed until it is faced.” For us Americans, it seems to me, to do nothing is to be com-plicit. There are many actions that we can take: 1) Divesting from stocks in and boycotting companies that benefit from the Occupation; check the website http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-israel-2012.phpfor for a list of those companies that have been identified for boycott; http://www.whoprofits.org/ also provides good information; 2) Appealing to our government officials to observe international laws to which the US is a signatory; the US gov-ernment and Israel are egregious violators of the Geneva Con-ventions, for instance; 3) Continuing to demand the end of aid to Israel, now at $116,411,235.86 over ten years for New Hampshire alone/ check www.aidtoisrael.org and see how that money could be used to improve life for NH’s citizens rather than furthering militarism; 4) Insisting that trips to the Holy Land include oppor-tunities to meet Palestinians and/or human rights groups work-ing in Israel and Palestine to offset the propaganda we read in mass media; 5) Joining one of the many US groups working to end the Occupation and providing the accounts that the media sel-dom provides; these advocacy groups include US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Jewish Voice for Peace, Friends of Sabeel-North America, and Students Against Israeli Apartheid; 6) Signing on to a daily internet site that provides independently researched and reported accounts often ignored in the popular media, such as Electronic Intifada, This Week in Palestine, or NewsToday in Palestine; 7) Reading to expand your knowledge about the evo-lution of the state of Israel and the conflict. Good places to start are Elias Chacour’s Blood Brothers and Sandy Tolan’s The Lemon Tree. 8) Becoming a delegate with Interfaith Peace Builders (http://www.ifpb.org/) to witness firsthand how Israeli policies affect the daily lives of Palestinians and to meet the Israeli and Palestinian groups who are “committed to nonviolent struggle, human rights and peace with justice”; 9) Joining the special committee Palestine Education

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Staying Human in the Middle East By Carolyn Cicciu

ALEC Exposed by Lucy Edwards

We all know what Walmart is, most of us probably know what Amazon.com is, but do you know what ALEC is, and what the relationship between them means? ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Coun-cil. You can find out a lot about it at this link www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed. But if you have wondered about the many bills introduced in the legislature this year that seemed to come out of nowhere, that nobody in NH seemed to have asked for, you might very well find that they came from ALEC and several other like-minded groups that are funded by large corporations and write bills which benefit these businesses and the causes their owners support. Walmart and Amazon.com are the most recent of the group of companies who have withdrawn their financial support from ALEC. Why? Because of the outcry from consumers who have discovered that these companies provide the backing for identical laws, which are hurting the rest of us, being introduced all around the country. It’s supposed to be a secret, but in the age of Google, and Facebook and Twitter, it’s hard to keep a secret and the word gets around very fast. I don’t know about you, but I really don’t like it when legislators in the NH State House take their orders from outside the state. It makes me angry when they get treated to trips and parties in Washington DC to get their marching orders from peo-ple who don’t live here and have no real interest in our wel-fare. Have you asked your legislators about ALEC? Have they sponsored legislation that was written by ALEC? Taken trips paid for by ALEC? You can find out here: www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC_Politicians. Might be worth knowing before the election this time. Lucy Edwards is a NH Peace Action member. She is currently

running for State Representative from Northwood, NH.

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REMINDER: If you are moving or going to be away, PLEASE let the office know, we have to pay first class return postage when the mail-ings get returned. ALSO, Anyone who has email that would prefer to receive their newsletter electroni-cally (pdf format) can drop me a line at Doreen@nhpeaceaction.org or give me a call in the office, 603-228-0559. All other mailings will still go out via snail mail. Thanks to all of you who have already done so! It is helping to save mon-ey, trees and the environment!

Network of NH Peace Action to work on local and New Eng-land actions; the next scheduled meetings are on Saturday, July 14, at 10:00 a.m. at the Common Man restaurant in Concord and on Monday, July 30, at 9:15 a.m. at the NH Peace Action office at 4 Park Street, Concord. Desmond Tutu observed. “Yes, Israel wants a home-land and security, but in its mission to accomplish those goals, it has overlooked the humanity of the Palestinians who have lost their homes and land. Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ulti-mately be built only on justice.” A young Palestinian girl of Bethlehem, whose family hosted a meal for several of us, when asked if she hated Israelis for the hardships they have created for her and her family, said, “No, I do not hate Israelis; I hate the Occupation.” That is the belief and spirit of the Palestinians who struggle every day to keep life human. Carolyn Cicciu is member of NHPA and Palestine Education

Network

Staying Human in the Middle East continued from page 3

Sandra Yarne working the PEN table at the Annual Meeting

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NH Peace Action Education Fund

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Alex Freid

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business, you need an address to be findable. We made Veterans’ Park our address.” State Rep. Seth Cohn, Canterbury Republican, told us money talks when it comes to gaining access to our government representatives, though less at the state level than the federal level. Annmarie Timmins quotes him (Concord Monitor): “The people’s rights are being taken away from them, and we are in danger of losing these rights if someone doesn’t stand up and say, ‘No more’.” Rep. Cohn made the point that NH’s “special” legislators, only twenty-four in number (senators) “draw lobbyists.” When Defense Attorney Keshen asked, “Is the government serving the common good?” without hesitation Rep. Cohn said, “No.” Always, too, Manchester city prosecutors Jeremy Har-mon and John Blanchard asked their questions. Expert witness Law professor James Pope of Rutgers University, specializing in social movements and labor law, point-ed out that “founding father Thomas Jefferson said there must be unrest and upheaval in government to prevent corruption.” Prof. Pope provided slides that enabled me to see the place for Occupy in the long history of gains made by revolutionaries in our U.S. In this personal account of Friday’s experience, I thank my former PSU student Ben DiZoglio, among the attendees. Ben was my student in Ancient Literature, and. I hadn’t seen him for a few years. We felt recognition, quickly checked for the link. He blurted, “Gilgamesh!” That was all it took. How ironic, too, that the subject matter of that course was so often young leader takes

on the world to have a better life, subsequently defining “hero.” Thank you, Ben, for making Occupy and its underlying redress of grievances part of your post-university, adult life. While I listened at one point I took my U. S. Constitution from of my purse (thank you, Congressman Kucinich, for getting me into this habit) and read Article 1 Section 8, Congress is given the charge “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” Regulate is the key word here. Include the idea of “government being institut-ed for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men” (NH Constitution, [Art. 10] and the contemporary grievance around outrageous wealth discrepan-cy shows the Occupy strategy needed -- with different regulation one likely solution. The Manchester police, we heard anecdotally, respect Occupy’s goals, themselves in the 99% too. Last witness called was AFSC-NH’s Arnie Alpert, ever working for “people before profit.” He recounted how he arrived in time to witness the citations. He himself had not stayed over-night, but respects those who felt so strongly on the issues raised by Occupy that they did. He supports Occupy for “calling for fun-damental changes in the our economy and politics are organized.” Judge Lyons gives both sides until July 3 to submit memos. Lynn Chong is Chair of the NH Peace Action Education Fund

Board and a Professor at Plymouth State College.

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Director Will Hopkins takes the stand 6/22/12

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Human Rights Education in Argentina by Alex Fried

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From this point forward the curriculum from the State officially changed to teach a “pedagogy of memory” from the perspective of “State Terrorism”. What this means is that according to the Argentine government, the State, during the last dictatorship, acted as a terrorist organization in order to instill a sense of fear in the Argentine people and to control the population both socially and economically. They also taught that the victims of State Terrorism were just victims, and nothing more. Once human rights abuses had been inflict-ed upon them by the State, their innocence or guilt in previ-ous matters was no longer a factor. Through the pedagogy of memory, students are taught that human rights issues aren’t just problems of the past, but that they exist in the present and the future as well. Students are taught to think critically about human rights abuses in their own communities, like a lack of access to critical resources, or the fights for worker rights, lgbt rights, women’s rights and more. These programs seek to foster active citizens by teaching that the attainment of human rights are part of a constant struggle that need to be fought for, won, and maintained. One of the programs I researched during my semes-ter abroad took place at the largest former Clandestine Tor-ture and Detention Center called the “ESMA” which had been transformed into a “Space for Memory, and the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights”. The ESMA was a former military base and training facility that has over 30 buildings and at one time had 10,000 soldiers pass through its doors annually. The entire facility has been turned over to human rights organizations and currently houses not just human rights groups, but university researchers, a library, a huge archive, a cultural center, and much more. Among many other programs and events, this facility also held guided tours of the detention and torture chambers and had specific tours set up for teachers to bring their classes which focused on the pedagogy of memory. From one of the tour guides at the ESMA, “You have

to understand that everything is connected. So one cannot

speak of the dictatorship in Argentina, without mentioning the

School of the Americas, or without mentioning Guantanamo,

or the French school, or the Cuban revolution, or Peronism.

We cannot talk about these things without talking about pov-

erty, or hunger, equality and justice. We contextualize, in

order to understand why what happened in Argentina hap-

pened and what we can do about these types of abuses in the

future. One cannot understand the full story if one does not

understand these things; it is like having blurred vision.” We need a movement for memory, truth and justice in the United States. Alex Freid is a Political Science and Philosophy student at

UNH and a member of the Board of Directors for NH Peace

Action Education Fund. He can be reached at

freid.alex@gmail.com

I spent the last 4 months in Argentina with 16 other stu-dents from all over the US, studying Social Movements and Hu-man Rights through the School for International Training. We lived with exchange families in Buenos Aires and traveled around the country, learning about the country’s rich cultural and histori-cal backgrounds, and everything from border and migration is-sues, to the rights and struggles of indigenous communities, to occupied factories, to the movements for memory, truth and jus-tice for what happened during the military dictatorship of the late 1970’s. During our final month, we executed extensive research projects entirely in Spanish on various topics. Mine was titled (translation) : “The Education of Human Rights: The Role of the State in the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights from the Perspective of State Terrorism”. Please feel free to contact me. For more info, my email is at the end of this article. Argentina has a long history of violent changes of gov-ernment, and the last dictatorship, which lasted from 1976 to 1983, was the darkest period in their history. The dictatorship was made of a “military junta” (coalition of three branches of military forces) which instilled a repressive system of terror over the people of Argentina in order to silence the working class movements. According to human rights organizations, an estimat-ed 30,000 people, mostly workers, organizers, activists, profes-sors, and union leaders, were kidnapped, interrogated, tortured, and disappeared by their own government. What is important to understand about Argentina is that over the last 30 years since the start of Democracy, there have been a number of widely-held opinions and beliefs about the pre-vious dictatorship. Immediately following the fall of the dictator-ship, many officers in the military were put on trial and given life sentences, but in the early 1990’s the Menem Government par-doned them all. Throughout this period, children in Argentina learned about the dictatorship through the “theory of two de-mons” which states that while it’s true that the dictators may have done some horrible things, that what they did was justified in order to remove the “internal threat” of the “subversive” forces in the country. However, over the last 30 years the human rights organi-zations never gave up their fight for memory, truth and justice and in 2004, the Nestor Kirchner government adopted these three values as “politics of the State”. Many “Clandestine Detention (and torture) Centers” that had been used during the military dic-tatorship were turned into public spaces for “Memory” and the “Defense and Promotion of Human Rights”. The trials against the military were reopened, and Kirchner removed photos of the Dictators from the Military College while asking for forgiveness in the name of the State. Ultimately, the government passed vari-ous laws which made the education of collective memory and the importance of human rights a part of the curriculum. According to Article 3 of the National Education Law 26.206, “The education [of human rights] is a national priority

and is officially state policy in order to build a just society, to

reaffirm sovereignty and national identity, and to profoundly

improve democratic citizenship, respect for human rights and

fundamental freedoms and to strengthen socio-economic develop-

ment in the Nation.”

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July 14, from 10AM to 3PM. In the Capitol Room, at the Common Man in Concord, We can accomplish more if we work together for peace and justice in Palestine/Israel! A Northern New England regional strategy and net-working session for advocates of a just peace in Israel and Palestine, light lunch and beverages served, $12 suggested do-nation.

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