In response to yesterday’s police overreaction and three arrests, another 420 rally is planned to take place today in Nashua at the same location, at the intersection of Main Street and Amherst Street.

At the Nashua 420 at 4:20 rally on Saturday, three people were arrested: Catherine Bleish, an activist who was in New Hampshire to attend the Free State Project’s Liberty Forum conference, David K. of Keene, and Lewis L., a local teenager from Nashua who had attended the rally and just happened to be the guy who the police decided to grab for smoking. David and Catherine were arrested for “disorderly” conduct: David for refusing to move out of the way of the police car taking Louis away, and Catherine for trying to video the arrest.

More than a dozen police cars had shown up on the scene—most likely a significant chunk of Nashua’s on-duty police force. At the height of the police reaction, there were about a dozen marked Ford Crown Victorias, two SUVs including one K-9 unit, and five or six unmarked blue Chevy Impalas.

Over 100 people attended the rally, and after the arrests about half of us went to the police station to both protest and continue the rally. After the usual bureaucratic delays and similar nonsense, everyone was released within a few hours.

On Saturday, 2010-03-20, a 420 rally will be taking place at 4:20 in the center of Nashua, to coincide with the Free State Project’s Liberty Forum event going on this weekend. The exact location will probably be announced via Porc411 shortly before it’s taking place.

Facebook event here.

I’m posting this for the Nashua High South chapter of Young Americans for Liberty and Students for Sensible Drug Policy. This upcoming Wednesday we are holding a candlelight vigil at City Hall in Nashua. It’s right across the street from where the Nashua Weekly Liberty Discourse meets and where the Liberty Forum 420 celebration is going to be held. It would be nice to get as many libertarians there as possible to attend.