Arnie doing his thing…
Arnie Alpert, of the American Friends Service Committee of NH, put together an excellent summary of the Occupy hearings that occurred last Friday.
For those who live under a rock or thought this didn’t matter to them — it does and it was a fascinating hearing. Barbara Keshen of the NH-ACLU, assembled a relevant, cogent defense, based on the “right to revolution” clause Article 10 of the New Hampshire state constitution.
Barbara served the prosecution their lunch, complete with appetizers of Occupier testimony on their motivations for joining Occupy, a tasty soup to nuts from a local legislator on the inaccessibility of the political system and the Grand Entree from a Rutger’s professor on the state of our economic/political climate and how that effects the agency of the average citizen and Arnie’s finishing with a description of his work in teaching Occupiers peaceful not violent direct action.
A must-read for anyone who cares about the current state of things, civil liberties, democracy, constitutional law and the power of government.
Without further ado: http://inzanetimes.wordpress.com/
This just in: interview of Barbara Keshen, the ACLU-NH attorney who took on the Occupy defense with Arnie Arnesan
Arnie podcast 6-25-12 – News, Views and Blues
BTW…
I intend to order audio of the hearing to post up on this site so people can hear the whole hearing themselves. We at Progressive will fund the fee for this. We can expect the CD in a few days and it will be uploaded here by someone with more tech savvy than me (probably Martin Pfahler, thanks in advance Martin).
But, we would like to be able to post the entire .pdf transcript of this and related motions, arguing memos and final decision.
This costs; costs bundles. An outside contractor does the work and one has to pay ahead and it could take weeks. If you are interested in helping to make them available, please let us know, we will post the exact dollar amount required for the .pdf files and how long they will take. Our treasurer, Matt Lawrence can provide a tracking of donations for this. Any small amount will help to make this important case available to all.
please email me directly with any inquiries at: ibuildfuru at yahoo dot com
Thanks,
Katie T.
Progressive Action New Hampshire 