Radio Free Keene News is a five minute newscast which is available as a podcast and also will air at the top of some hours on LRN.FM.
You can download the edition for this week here. Topics covered include the crowded BEARCAT hearing and the police hunting for school outreach activists.
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This blog is made pursuant to NH Rules of Professional Conduct 3.6 (c) (2) as the below has been filed with the 9th Circuit – Merrimack District Division Court.
The hired guns of the state…to me, they represent a man’s inability to peacefully work and talk with others. The Supreme Court has ruled many times that these costumed jocks have no obligation to protect anyone. May your heroes be negotiators, not threat-makers.
After attending a four hour school board meeting on Saturday morning, Ian and I were having breakfast when Ademo called, saying that the police had just been at the Keene Activity Center looking for myself, Ian, and Derrick (video to come). Because Ademo said that a Swanzey police car was accompanying two Keene cars, we assumed that it had something to do with the high school outreach the three of us had participated in at Monadnauck Regional High School in Swanzey; which resulted in massive controversy when a student, Mason Amadeus, confronted us in opposition to the outreach we were doing at his school. (more…)
It appears from the Cheshire TV video from December 8th, 2011 where they were discussing the BEARCAT, that then-city-councilor Kendall Lane leans to Mitch Greenwald and says to him, “We’re going to have our own tank.“. Here’s the clip, taken from the full length video of the discussion and amplified to make it easier to hear. If you’d like to see the clip in context, please see the full video – the clip happens at 2 mins in:
Our success at Thursday’s city council meeting here in Keene has made national news, as featured this morning on The Agitator.
Free Staters in Keene, New Hampshire, are pushing back against the town’s proposed plan to buy a Bearcat armored personnel carrier.
Interestingly, LENCO, the company that makes the vehicle, pulled the promotional video below from its website in response to the Keene protests. DHS has given out hundreds of homeland security grants to local police departments across the country to purchase these vehicles. (more…)
There will be an Anti-BEARCAT meeting today at Colony Mills Food Court at 3PM. More details on Facebook (and while you’re there, please like Thanks But No Tanks).
After the over-capacity BEARCAT meeting last Thursday at Keene City Hall, the community has been organizing to stop the city from accepting what current Keene Mayor Kendall Lane called a tank. Weapons manufacturer LENCO tells us that BEARCAT stands for Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck which doesn’t sound any less terrifying than “Tank.” Especially in the hands of a police department that has proven it’s willingness to initiate violence against our peaceful friends and neighbors.
Please join us to oppose the further militarization of the local police department. The website thanksbutnotanks.com has been launched in addition to the comprehensive overview of Keene’s unprecedented Anti-BEARCAT campaign here on FreeKeene.com. Former Keeniac Sam A. Robrin even penned the following song after being inspired by the local resistance. It’s to to the tune of ”Joy to the World” by Three Dog Night. It’s called, what else, but… (more…)
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