Podcast appearances and mentions of arnie alpert

Our 26th Episode on Zoom... "One Thing Leads to Another" is our April 25, 2023 theme. Storytellers include: Arnie Alpert, Nina Lesiga, and Roopa Mohan. Arnie's story: "Kangaroo Court." Nina's story: "Snow Potatoes" and Roopa Mohan's story: "Even a Donkey Can." Our announcer is Amy Antonucci. Our Emcee is Pat Spalding. David Phreaner hosts "Backstory Conversation" with storyteller Roopa Mohan. That "Conversation" is on a separate audio file on this Podcast. This audio file is the "Storytelling" part of the show. We will be posting a video on the PPMTVNH.ORG YouTube Channel. Link to that video will be available on our website. www.truetaleslivenh.org and on our Facebook page @truetaleslive.

Each year True Tales Live has the on month set aside for the theme: Activism/Exercising Your Rights. It has been a consistently popular theme and this Zoom edition was no exception. Our three storytellers (in order of appearance) were Jezrie Marcano-Courtney ("The Blasphemer" ) Vicki Juditz ("Longing for Jail Time") and in a rerun recorded at PPMTV Studio on May 28, 2019, Arnie Alpert ("Bending Toward Justice"). After the storytelling there is a brief Q+A session from the Chat List on Zoom and then our announcer, Amy Antonucci, hosts a discussion with Arnie Alpert and Cathy Wolff...all three of these folks have been very involved in "Activism" and they talk a bit about that, but also pay tribute to a NH Legislature Renny Cushing, who had just passed away about 2 weeks before this show. Renny was an activist for many things, but was connected with our program by being one of several people who helped rid New Hampshire of the Death Penalty on May 30, 2019... two days after Arnie Alpert presented his story "Bending Toward Justice". This discussion between Amy, Cathy, and Arnie also included a few words from Storyteller, Activist, Andy Davis who happened to be in the viewing audience. For "Backstory" fans ... we did not do that portion of the program for this show.

After almost four decades of social justice activism, New Hampshire civil rights leader Arnie Alpert is retiring from the American Friends Service Committee. Arnie Alpert joined NHPR’s All Things Considered host Peter Biello to discuss some of the highlights of his career. ( Below is a lightly edited transcript of the interview. ) Alpert pushed to make Martin Luther King Day a holiday in New Hampshire. The Granite State was the last state to make it a holiday in 1999. He spoke on the occasion. “We should remember something else about Dr. King that might be more important for us. Martin Luther King Jr. did not let victory turn him around either. When the Civil Rights Act passed, he was not deluded into thinking racism had been vanquished. When the Voting Rights Act passed, he did not fool himself that the promise of democracy had been realized for everyone.” Two decades later, Alpert won another major victory when New Hampshire abolished the death penalty. Arnie Alpert is with me now,

This is the AUDIO ONLY track of the Interview/Conversation between storyteller Arnie Alpert and our interviewer, David Phreaner. This was an especially interesting discussion as it centered around Arnie's activism in getting an override of the NH Governor's veto of a bill that would stop the Death Penalty in New Hampshire. Two days after this interview, the legislature overrode the veto and NH is now the 21st State to stop the Death Penalty! Congratulations to Arnie and all those who worked so long and hard to get this override vote... and thanks to the legislatures who voted to override the veto.

This track is the storytelling portion only of our May 28, 2019 live taping at Portsmouth Public Media Television in Portsmouth NH. Our theme was "Effecting Change / Standing up." Our Storytellers and the title of their stories in order of appearance were: Bill Maddocks (Cesar's Podium) - Lisa Bunker (Representing) - Nina Lesiga (Coming Out) - Arnie Alpert (Bending Toward Justice) - Martha Reed Johnson - (Josie Up!) The announcer was Amy Antonucci and the Emcee was Pat Spalding. There is another audio track posted on this podcast that contains a conversation with storyteller Arnie Alpert and Interviewer, David Phreaner. The two files are separate. There is also a video of this program at this link: https://youtu.be/TH9zj9xWFXg on the PPMTVNH.ORG website. Visit us at www.truetaleslivenh.org for news about True Tales Live and to sign up for our "True Tales Times" eNewsletter.

A "first person" experience story is a "True Tale" in this popular storytelling program from New Hampshire. Broadcast on non-profit radio since Jan. 2014 until August of 2016 we were known as "True Tales Radio." We began a new adventure at Portsmouth Public Media Television with this premiere show recording of our Nov. 29, 2016 broadcast before a live in-studio audience. Six storytellers (Arnie Alpert, Sylvia Olson, Cathy Wolff, Gordon Merrick, Robin Read and April Purinton) share their True Tales related to our Nov. theme of "Activism" The Video can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfnZ8TZCbJs&t=303s The show can be seen on the last Tues of each month between 6:30 and 8 pm on local cable channel 98 or on the Internet at www.ppmtvnh.org/live Information about the show or to apply as a storyteller can be found by emailing truetaleslive1@gmail.com Also visit us on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/truetaleslive We also offer a free storytelling workshop on the first Tuesday of each month... check our Facebook page for details of upcoming workshops or email as above for information.

Will Hopkins is the executive director of New Hampshire Peace Action and Arnie Alpert is a member of the American Friends Service Committee and governing director of the Influence Project. Will and Arnie did a skit at the Building Sustainable Security Conference November 21st to illustrate how to question politicians -- and how they wiggle out of answering overly general, "softball" questions. Music by Pat Scanlon; audio recorded by Werner Grundl.