03/02/2026
This week, we saw a big win in Merrimack! Plans to build an ICE detention facility will not move forward thanks to sustained protest, organized pressure, and persistent community advocacy. When communities organize consistently and strategically, decision-makers are forced to listen. We remain vigilant and committed to opposing any future attempts to expand ICE detention in New Hampshire.
To read more, copy and paste this link into your web browser: https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-02-24/ayotte-ice-detention-merrimack-newhampshire
February 25 also marked the 40th anniversary of the 1986 nonviolent People Power uprising in the Philippines, when two million ordinary Filipinos used disciplined resistance and organizing to end the Marcos dictatorship without civil war. NH activist Karina Quintans, writing from the Philippines, reflected: “I randomly put on a yellow shirt not initially remembering it is Edsa Day. Yellow is the color that came to represent the resistance… I have forever been inspired by this history… I always think–if the Filipinos achieved this, so can we. Mabuhay!! Cheers!”
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