David Segal
Drinking Liberally Tonight (Weds)
From DL: Just wanted to put out a tickler to join us for drinks, conversation and an all around good time tomorrow at Wild Colonial. And our apologies for the duplicate messages last week, we were obviously working out some technical kinks! See you then! DL Providnece Presents Faces you should know – Feb. 22 from [...]
Jack Reed Work-Sharing Language Passes
Little fanfare, but this work-sharing legislation will (hopefully) come to make a difference in the lives of millions of Americans by creating incentives for employers roll back hours during downturns rather than lay people off wholesale. If you needed to cut payroll by 10%, the new law would make it more sensible to reduce everybody’s [...]
Netroots Nation “Grab a Booth” Contest
Netroots Nation — in Providence in June — is offering free exhibit booths and passes to a select few non-profit orgs. Sounds like being a local non-profit helps your chances: Would your nonprofit or small business like a free booth in the 2012 Netroots Nation Community and Exhibit Hall in Providence, Rhode Island? Then enter [...]
Drinking Liberally Tonight at 8pm
Some number of us will be gathering at 8pm on Wednesday at the Wild Colonial in Providence. (And we’re looking for new folks to help organize Drinking Liberally — if you’re interested, please come by and let us know.)
SOPA/PIPA Dead, At Least For Now
Huge win for the Internet, its users, and democracy. LA Times: The SOPA online piracy bill that helped spark this week’s unprecedented Internet protests will be redrafted, its lead sponsor said Friday. The move came shortly after the Senate postponed a key vote on the companion PIPA bill scheduled for next week and amid calls [...]
An Update From The Internet — Before Crony Capitalism Shuts It Down
Demand Progress delivered 500k signatures in opposition to the Internet Blacklist Bill today — at a press conference alongside Congresmembers Zoe Lofgren and Darrell Issa. (That’s our David Moon to the left of the podium.)The legislation gets heard tomorrow, and there’s an unprecedented avalanche of opposition snowballing among online advocacy groups tech companies, and rank-and-file [...]
An Interview With Joey “Quits” DeFrancesco
That’s right, RIFuture knew Joey before he was famous. (You can check out the viral YouTube video here.) Everybody should go see him and the What Cheer Brigade next Saturday, November 19, 2011 at Firehouse 13 (fh13.com) 8:00pm. More details at bottom. DS: From what I’ve seen of the press you’ve gotten, people are really psyched about your quitting [...]
Netroots Nation 2012 Meet-Up
Netroots Nation — the big annual gathering of lefty bloggers and activists — will be in Providence next year. It’s looking like we’ll be having a meet-up of the local welcome committee (not sure exactly what we’re calling ourselves) sometime in the next couple of weeks. If you’re interested in helping out could you please [...]
Celebrate The World Wide Web’s 20th Birthday — Ask Your Lawmakers To Oppose The Internet
It was twenty years ago this week that Tim Berners-Lee, while working at CERN, put the world’s first website online. It announced his new creation: the World Wide Web. Last year while urging Internet users to sign Demand Progress’s petition against the Internet Blacklist Bill, Berners-Lee wrote this about the principles that underpin his project: [...]
Erica’s New Book On The Wisconsin Fight
Many of you know Erica Sagrans from her time in Providence as a student and activist. This month she’s self-publishing an awesome new book about the labor fight in Wisconsin: In February of 2011, the people of Wisconsin changed the political landscape in America overnight. In response to their Republican governor’s move to strip workers [...]
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