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3-Minute Civics: Trans rights are citizens rights Published: 5/23/2021 9:00:14 AM ‘Civics, broadly defined, is the rights and obligations of all citizens.” As bell hooks declares in All About Love, “Until we live in a culture that not only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children...they have no legal recourse...children can only rely on well-meaning adults to assist them if they are being exploited and oppressed.” Here in the United States, our premise is “freedom fr...

Photo by Jackie Finn-Irwin via Flickr Creative Commons A coronavirus outbreak continues to grow inside the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord. Twenty-one cases of COVID-19 are now confirmed in the general inmate population, and over 160 of the inmates are now in quarantine. The Department of Correction says 16 staff at the prison are not coming into work after having recently tested positive, and that members of the National Guard are being trained for positions at ...

By Eileen OGrady - Concord Monitor • Dec 10, 2020 Most Granite State schools don’t have policy protections in place for transgender students, leaving them alone to “advocate for themselves,” according to a new report by the ACLU of New Hampshire. The 37-page report, which was released Wednesday, shows 66% of New Hampshire public school students attend a school without comprehensive protections for students who are transgender or gender nonconforming. In the report, tit...

ACLU: Most New Hampshire schools lack policies for transgender students Modified: 12/9/2020 9:42:57 PM A new report by the ACLU of New Hampshire shows that many of the state’s schools don’t have policy protections in place for transgender students. The 37-page report, which was released Wednesday, shows 66% of New Hampshire public school students attend a school without comprehensive protections for students who are transgender or gender nonconforming. In the report, titled “The Case for...