AKPF #1: Robin Hood’s Direct Action Panel 3/3

This week’s AKPF #1 installment is the third of three parts of Robin Hood’s Direct Action akpf_patrioticPanel from the 2014 New Hampshire Liberty Forum. This never before seen edit of the panel includes b-roll embedded to better illustrate the scenes as painted by the panelists. This footage will air on Cheshire TV at 7:00pm on March 31, as per the usual AKPF #1 timeslot.

Crime Dog McGruff Featured in Illustrated AKPF Video

The issue of parking and its enforcement in downtown Keene occupied much of the final akpfsafety-tips-from-mcgruff-the-crime-doghour during yesterday’s weekly episode of SoundOff on WKBK radio. Hosts Greg Pregent and Chris Cotes were joined by Keene Sentinel correspondent Kyle Jarvis. One of the calls in to the show was placed by none other than city code enforcement officer Fred Parsells, who has previously moonlighted for the federal Toilet Safety Administration and has also operated as a chalk removal agent for the AKPF. Hear the entirety of the parking analysis as posted in audio format to Free Keene.

Black Sheep Rising – Episode 45

Manchester activists exercise their first and second amendment rights at local airport • Healthy streets Manch = fun time activism • 15 metaphors/similes only a millennial will understand • More on what is fake • Humankind needs more cuddle time • Circumcision: legalized baby torture • Nemi, Joe and Shaunna join.  Show notes at: BlackSheepRising.org

What does it mean to be “affiliated”?

In video shot this morning, Keene District Court’s Judge Edward J Burke tells Cop Block Radio‘s Eric Freerock that he’ll accept his thirty-one community service hours as certified by the Shire Free Church.  (He volunteered to record hours of panels and speeches at a recent event.)  However, Burke warns Freerock that one is not supposed to do community service for agencies with which one is affiliated.  That makes no sense.  Why wouldn’t one be able to do community service for an agency one has already supported previously?

If one has worked previously at say, the Community Kitchen, does that mean one is “affiliated” and cannot perform community service hours there?  Or does “affiliated” mean that one is on a board of directors of said organization?  That is not made clear during this hearing, and the community service order that courts issue to defendants says nothing about a prohibition of affiliation with an agency.  Regardless, Burke accepts the hours.  Case closed.

In case you missed it, here’s the full video of Freerock’s trial in January where he was convicted of not showing his license to a state cop fast enough.  Here’s the community service hearing from this morning:

Minimum Wage is too Damn High

On Tuesday March 25th, 2014, five activists from Manchester including myself and Free Keene DSC00021blogger Joel Valenzuela drove to Nashua to protest the rally to raise minimum wage.  According to the Nashua Telegraph, Vice President Joe Biden was to be speaking at the event.  Unfortunately, Joe Biden did not show.  However, neither did anyone else.  The crowd consisted mostly of activists from Manchester, a friend of the Free State Project (who none of us had ever met), and the local media. The most interesting part of the event was how the “show” went on.  There was no real reason to do a political presentation to just protesters, yet they did it anyways.  The Union Leader interviewed us and mentioned the protest in their article.

 

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AKPF Rate Hikes Raised on WKBK’s SoundOff

logowkbk1290Towards the end of last week’s Saturday morning episode of the live local call-in radio program SoundOff, a listener raised the issue of Keene parking rate and fine increases. The caller expressed discontent that parking would become more expensive and from his perspective, the rate hikes were enough to disincentivize him from choosing to frequent downtown businesses. The necessity of the rate hike is kicked around for several minutes by host Chris Cotes and guest host Dale Pregent, and the efforts of Robin Hood of Keene are mentioned in passing. Towards the end of the segment, Dale makes an underhanded comment about the parking enforcers, referring to one of the workers as a ‘parking maid’ while suggesting that there previously had been allegations of harassment of city employees by city officials. The audio has been specially set to b-roll footage of the AKPF van occupying various parking spaces throughout the city.