Please join us for the 2023 Democracy Dinner.

Our special guest speaker will be Larry Lessig!  

Larry is an American legal scholar and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.  Lessig was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States in the 2016 US presidential election but withdrew before the primaries.  He is the founder of Equal Citizens, a non-profit, non-partisan group that is "dedicated to reforms that will achieve citizen equality".

A prolific author, Lessig has published several books on democracy.  His latest, They Don't Represent Us, he charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including especially our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry. But the blame does not only lie with “them”—Washington’s politicians and power brokers, Lessig argues. The problem is also “us.” “We the people” are increasingly uninformed about the issues, while ubiquitous political polling exacerbates the problem, reflecting and normalizing our ignorance and feeding it back into the system as representative of our will.

It will definitely be an engaging evening that you don't want to miss.  Get your tickets today!

Join Olivia Zink and Martha Madsen with The People in Tilton as part of our series of community conversations throughout the state.

We are looking for NH residents from all walks of life in order to build trust and discover common ground as we share “hot topics” – issues that people see as critical to our future as individuals, as communities, as a state.

Refreshments will be provided!

For more information check out our website at thepeople.org/newhampshire

With the New Hampshire municipal elections and Presidential Primary  just a few months away, now is the time to plug in and learn how to support election administrators ahead of 2024. Please join Open Democracy,  The New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights,  and other statewide and national nonpartisan advocacy groups for Supporting  Our Election Champions: A Community Panel and Documentary Screening. 

The event will entail a free night of education and advocacy around election administration and volunteering at the polls, including a panel discussion where we will hear from local, state, and federal advocates regarding opportunities to support election administrators ahead of 2024. The panel will be followed by a FREE screening of the documentary No Time to Fail , about the heroism of election workers during the 2020 presidential election. There will also be free concessions available at the concession stand! 

What: Supporting Our Election Champions: A Community Panel and Documentary Screening

When: Thursday, October 19th at 6PM

Where: Red River Theater, 11 S Main St, Concord, NH 03301 

All are welcome to join.