NH P.A.N.T.H.E.R.

Plymouth Area Network To Help End Racism

Who We Are

Plymouth Area Network To Help End Racism (NH PANTHER) is a small, volunteer-run, grassroots community organization. We are a collective of youth, professionals, educators, mentors, and friends standing up for the rights of all the disparaged and marginalized in our communities.

NH PANTHER formed in June of 2020 as a response to the murder of George Floyd and in tandem with a growing movement for social justice in the United States.

Our founder, Benjamin Bacote, is a high school humanities teacher, parent of three, and Black. In the summer of 2020, following the lead of their 13 year old son, Ben went to the town common to march, and answered the plea of a former pupil that wanted to ensure future students would be taught an updated, inclusive curriculum.

Our mission

NH PANTHER's mission is to help end racism and systemic biases through community engagement, direct mutual aid, education and curriculum reform, youth empowerment programming, and the arts.

We stand peacefully within the Democratic principles and rights following the New England tradition of civil public discourse. We stand for representation, recognition, and education of all as we seek to correct historic and current inequities based on race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender, gender representation, ability, and age. These inequities exist systematically throughout our country and its institutions, and here, in New Hampshire. We stand with the Black Lives Matter movement sweeping our country. And, we will continue to stand until the promise of our founding words are not just memorized but also realized.

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How We Do It

We are a platform and a community that seeks to showcase the peaceful youth voices of resistance.  As they resist the silencing that occurs, we offer a community to counter being taken for granted, being ignored, or not being recognized as equal. We seek to show up for youth in solidarity.  We seek to engage our community to reflect love and to show love by investing in the lives of the youth. Our focus is:

Youth-Centric — Equity in Education -- Civil Rights

Follow our journey.

Our annual reports are published online and can be found here:

2021

2022

2023

 
Hard to express how validating it is to receive community support like this….check out this opportunity from @waterandstonenh to support a small local business, take care of your body AND contribute to mutual aid efforts in NH 🥰🌊🪨 • Re
Hard to express how validating it is to receive community support like this….check out this opportunity from @waterandstonenh to support a small local business, take care of your body AND contribute to mutual aid efforts in NH 🥰🌊🪨 • Repost from @waterandstonenh: Big, exciting news this September ⭐️ 1) First things first - Free Massage Raffle! Once a month all clients of Water & Stone can submit a google review of their experience to be entered into this raffle to win a Free 60 minute massage! Rules are:
- Only one entry per client
- No strangers! You have to have actually come to visit in order to submit a review 😜
- The winner of each month can either use the massage themself, or donate it to someone else!
- If you don't win, your name is automatically put into the next months raffle pot 👍 2) New hours of operation! Thanks to everyone who has come to relax, recoup, and recharge, I am now able to move full time to Water&Stone! That means I will be open Thursday, Friday Saturday, and now Sunday and Monday too! That's two whole extra days of post-op scar care and soft music. I am thrilled to be able to do this full time 🙌 3) To celebrate extending my hours I am donating 20% of my September income to @nhpanthers and @nhmarf ! These volunteer groups are providing tangible and direct action to our NH community members, and are currently looking for support! Please check out their pages, see what they're about, and celebrate mutual aid! Thank you all for reading and being here. Hope you're all as excited as I am. Stay rested, Take care.
A very big thank you to everyone who helped create the SeaChange Conference this past weekend. Special thanks to @vleighcolorado Victoria Carrington, Queen of Networking, for getting us and so many other folks to attend! Being in community with so
A very big thank you to everyone who helped create the SeaChange Conference this past weekend. Special thanks to @vleighcolorado Victoria Carrington, Queen of Networking, for getting us and so many other folks to attend! Being in community with so many creative people who are fighting to live in a way that makes a better world possible not just in the future but in the NOW was a powerful and transformative experience that will continue to feed our work. Some of the themes that we observed as we listened were: establishing and maintaining relationships, being seen as a whole person, touch/proximity/connection, anti-capitalism/desire to live in a world where all basic needs for everyone are met w/ease, the importance of understanding history, the importance artistic expression and its relation to mental health and coping with the times, the importance of storytelling, the importance of the land and the water to connecting movements, and the widespread perception of and experience of New England as a very racist place to live…lots of food for thought and action. •Reposted from: @afrofuturism_seacoast We had a fantastic weekend at the SeaCHANGE Conference and want to thank all who attended and contributed to the collective wisdom as we explored how the arts can be used for healing and social change, how to highlight and amplify the work of BIPOC artists, and what it would take for our community to create a resource-rich environment for artists and grow how we use the arts for healing and social change. We hope the experience was transformative and the connections built will provide a sea change for the future of our community. @theaterforthepeople @greenacrebahai @saacc_nh 📷: @gsegli.photography #SeaCHANGE #Art #Maine #Event #Creativity #Community #Afrofuturism #Seacoast #GreenAcre #Bahai #arts #artists #dance #performance #poetry #workshop #activism #theater #communityfirst #beautiful #diversity #inclusion #bipoc #black #africanamerican #african #summer
NH PANTHER’s first FALL FUND DRIVE is here! Help us raise $10,000 in donations to fund our Black Excellence Fund and Storytelling project and our community programming with diverse NH youth! We are thrilled to say that we will be announcing
NH PANTHER’s first FALL FUND DRIVE is here! Help us raise $10,000 in donations to fund our Black Excellence Fund and Storytelling project and our community programming with diverse NH youth! We are thrilled to say that we will be announcing this year’s incredible Black Excellence Fund & Storytelling Project participants very soon! Last year, we were able to provide two no-strings-attached community grants totalling almost $8,000. This year, we plan to provide THREE community grants totaling at least $15,000. Donate today to help support NH’s BIPOC Youth! Any extra donations raised will go directly to community programming or towards next year’s fund. Want to know more? Ready to donate? Check out our website, or read last year’s annual report (🔗 in bio). We have a secure, direct donation link on our website, as well as directions if you prefer to mail a check. Thank you so much for your support! Boosting, sharing, and reposting are all supportive actions you can take if you are unable to donate. Stay tuned to learn about the incredible young individuals participating this year! #FallFundDrive #NHPANTHERs #BEFSP #BlackExcellenceFundAndStorytellingProject #BlackExcellenceFund #BlackExcellence #BlackLivesMatter #Donate
So wonderful to see such a big crowd tonight @kimballjenkins @artistrichardhaynes @phat_riot @positivestreetart @uncharteredtutoring for their mural unveiling! We are so inspired by the youth in our community making beautiful public art and bringing people together, and we look forward to more of it! #Mural #PublicArt #KimballJenkins #NHArts
Went to see the barber and came out correct. Thanks to Kendry and the Zappata crew for keeping us fly.
Went to see the barber and came out correct. Thanks to Kendry and the Zappata crew for keeping us fly.
The best memories to share are sometimes the simple ones with family. #blackmanandchild #playingcatch #blacklivesmatter #blackjoy
✨Reposting from @blackstonealchemy and @queer_lective✨ • Hi community, here’s one way to push back against media silence pertaining to yt supremacy violence happening in NH right now. Local marginalized small business owners are being targ
✨Reposting from @blackstonealchemy and @queer_lective✨ • Hi community, here’s one way to push back against media silence pertaining to yt supremacy violence happening in NH right now. Local marginalized small business owners are being targeted. Please consider taking this action and follow the accounts tagged so you can stay up to date on this issue and see how else you can help. #BlackLivesMatter #LetterToTheEditor #TakeAction #FacistsNotWelcome
Hi, it’s elizabeth, writing from behind the scenes at NH PANTHER. But to be clear, whether I was a part of this radical, anti-racist group or not, this would still be how I feel. I do not accept the violence espoused by these people. Friends, we must respond together, moving like water, coalesced, as a wave, as a spray, as a tide, as a steady and gentle rain, unconquerable, bold, assured. Hate has no home here. #BlackLivesMatter #AgainstTheFascistCreep #NoHateInNH
Hard to express how validating it is to receive community support like this….check out this opportunity from @waterandstonenh to support a small local business, take care of your body AND contribute to mutual aid efforts in NH 🥰🌊🪨 • Re A very big thank you to everyone who helped create the SeaChange Conference this past weekend. Special thanks to @vleighcolorado Victoria Carrington, Queen of Networking, for getting us and so many other folks to attend! Being in community with so NH PANTHER’s first FALL FUND DRIVE is here! Help us raise $10,000 in donations to fund our Black Excellence Fund and Storytelling project and our community programming with diverse NH youth! We are thrilled to say that we will be announcing
So wonderful to see such a big crowd tonight @kimballjenkins @artistrichardhaynes @phat_riot @positivestreetart @uncharteredtutoring for their mural unveiling! We are so inspired by the youth in our community making beautiful public art and bringing
Went to see the barber and came out correct. Thanks to Kendry and the Zappata crew for keeping us fly.
The best memories to share are sometimes the simple ones with family. #blackmanandchild #playingcatch #blacklivesmatter #blackjoy
✨Reposting from @blackstonealchemy and @queer_lective✨ • Hi community, here’s one way to push back against media silence pertaining to yt supremacy violence happening in NH right now. Local marginalized small business owners are being targ
Hi, it’s elizabeth, writing from behind the scenes at NH PANTHER. But to be clear, whether I was a part of this radical, anti-racist group or not, this would still be how I feel. I do not accept the violence espoused by these people. Frie