Award-winning First Amendment Activism Highlighted for Sunshine Week, 2021
Manchester, NH – In 2017, the City of Keene denied the Right to Know requests of five Keene State College journalism students made as part of an annual classroom assignment. The students decided to fight back. Their teacher, Dr. Marianne Salcetti, who represented them, and David K. Taylor of Right to Know NH, who helped them, tell their story. The case took the team from the classroom, through the Cheshire County Superior Court and to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Learn how they did it, and how you can use the Right to Know law in your own community.
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The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides for the “right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” But what does that mean and how does it work? On March 15, from 6:30pm - 8 pm, the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications and the New England First Amendment Coalition are celebrating Sunshine Week with an expert, online panel discussion, Keeping the Light On: Holding Government Accountable.
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