News and Updates

2018

4/14/18 – New Hampshire Union Leader
Paul Feely’s City Hall: Student representation on school board takes a step closer

2017

10/30/2017 – Union Leader: Network launches to support immigrants

10/09/2017 – Union Leader: Another View — Carol Backus and Eva Castillo Turgeon: Treating immigrants with the dignity all people deserve

9/26/2017 – Ap News: Judge puts deportations of Indonesians on hold

9/10/2017 – Union Leader: Shaheen attends prayer vigil at ICE offices

8/22/2017 – Union Leader: Groups to seek info on equity in schools

8/17/2017 – Nashua Telegraph: Nashua leaders taking a stand

6/10/2017 – Union Leader: GSOP organizes Active Bystander Trainings to teach community members how to safely intervene during harmful situations 

5/21/2017 – GSOP organizes an event to create conversation between immigrant families and NH Bishop Libasci

2016

11/29/16 – Public News Service: Higher Minimum Wage: “Key Issue” into 2017

4/28/16 – Nashua Telegraph: Higher wage will only help NH

2/26/16 – Union Leader: Manchester’s Commission on Substandard Housing learned last year that a number of landlords in 2014 were not being held accountable for unacceptable, even illegal, housing conditions.

2/1/16 – Union Leader: A special commission set up to investigate substandard housing in Manchester is wrapping up its work and preparing its recommendations for the mayor and aldermen — recommendations that some landlords say amount to “public shaming.”

1/21/16 – Union Leader: A conference about the “caring economy” is scheduled for Saturday in Concord, where issues such as living wages, retirement security, clean energy and family health will be discussed.

2015

10/24/15 – Nashua Telegraph: Donchess, Williams talk affordable housing, social justice issues

10/15/15 – Concord Monitor: PHOTOS: “Fight for Fifteen” comes to New Hampshire

10/14/15 – Union Leader: Minimum wage rallies to be held in Manchester, Concord

5/27/15 – Union Leader: Micah in Community Action Heroes Honored for Volunteer Service

4/12/15 – Union Leader: City taking aim at absentee landlords

2014

10/6/14 – Union Leader: Manchester panel would take on evaluating conditions of city rentals

10/3/14 – Union Leader: Abandoned Manchester builing remains without water

10/3/14 – WMUR VIDEO LINK

5/7/14 – Union Leader: Report details ‘substandard’ Manchester housing

5/6/14 – Union Leader: Manchester students would benefit from ending student tracking (by Heather K. Conley)

May 2014- nhmagaine.com: Remarkable Women 2014: Game Changers (GSOP’s Sarah Jane Knoy)

4/21/14 – More than 40 protesters joined GSOP, the Alliance for Retired Americans, and the NH Citizens Alliance outside the “NH Freedom Summit” April 12, 2014! SEE MORE »

4/20/14 – Union Leader: Granite State Group proposes student-centered learning

2013

3/31/13 – Union Leader – Elmwood Gardens residents to resume weekly walks in Manchester

3/26/13 – Union Leader – Manchester school’s English Learner guidebook gains approval from immigrant advocates