CONWAY — Organizers and community officials alike are expecting another peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration when the third such event in Conway is held on Sunday.
Organized by John Sparks of Freedom of the Northern New Hampshire Democratic Socialists of America, Sunday’s march will start at 1 p.m. from Settlers Green’s Met Coffeehouse parking lot and travel north on the sidewalk of Route 16 to Schouler Park in North Conway Village.
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So sad to see these protests in the best country on Earth. Prejudice and Police brutality have dropped dramatically in the last several decades. Minority unemployment was the lowest it has ever been before the pandemic struck. There is nothing better for someones well being then having a job to go to every day rather than a hand out from the government.
It's to bad we have to see these protests here in N.H. I pray it doesn't turn into rioting like in the bigger cities. I stopped supporting BLM when the protesting went to violence and riots. I do, however support ALL LIVES MATTER!
Kinda ironic that the organizer is a proponent for socialism but lives in Freedom, a town in the Live Free or Die State.....
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