Red Bandana ‘Community Hero’ nominations now being accepted
It’s Red Bandana nominations and award time again! We all know people who work tirelessly, selflessly for others with little regard for themselves. They donate their time, give up bigger salaries (or work for free), and work to make a difference in the community around them. Well, it’s time they were recognized for all that […]
Ninth Circuit rules in favor of youth plaintiffs in constitutional climate trial
Chief Judge Sidney R. Thomas, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, rejected the Trump administration’s “drastic and extraordinary” petition for a court order to drop the landmark climate lawsuit brought by 21 youth supported by Our Children’s Trust. The U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon lifted the […]
ACLU files second class action lawsuit against UHIP
Rhode Island put low-income residents “at risk of losing their homes and their utilities and deprives them of funds needed for their daily living expenses, including food,” by removing them from a popular Medicaid program without proper notice, according to a new class action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island. It […]
Welcome to RI Victoria Strang, new director of RI Interfaith Coalition
When the Rhode Island Interfaith Coalition to Reduce Poverty holds its 10th annual Fighting Poverty with Faith Vigil at the State House next week (Wed., Jan. 3, 3pm), it will be among the first public event for the group’s new director and lead organizer, Victoria Strang. Strang, who started in October, grew up in Massachusetts […]
Marcela Betancur keeps busy for Rhode Island
Marcela Betancur is director of the RI New Leaders Council, vice-president of the RI Latino Political Action Committee and a policy associate with the ACLU. She was raised in Colombia and moved to Rhode Island when she was 12. She graduated from Rhode Island College with a BA degree in political science and public administration […]
Democracy without equality has led to ‘Ubermensch Escapism’
Our anxieties about democracy typically focus on the scum floating on the surface. Political polarizations might lead us to note different noxious currents, and the good hearted and most civic among us are likely, then, to say that the problem rests in our distant standpoints, our filter bubbles, our echo chambers. I think that the […]
Providence FOP elections sparks concerns over implementation of the CSA
We hope they will engage productively in the implementation of the [Community Safety Act] and not waste time trying to undo an ordinance that has had several years of vetting by all parties involved.
Migrant Justice signs dairy farm worker human rights agreement with Ben & Jerry’s
For Migrant Justice, this is just the beginning. As the program is rolled out on the farms in Ben & Jerry’s supply chain, Migrant Justice will be preparing to expand Milk with Dignity to other companies.
The March for Racial Justice in Rhode Island
Well over 400 people converged on India Point Park for the March for Racial Justice (M4RJ). Sister marches were held across the country. In Providence, the “march” was actually more of a rally.
Milk With Dignity: Vermont dairy farm workers want Ben & Jerry’s to honor their human rights
The tour is building support for a national day of action on October 5th with protests and actions outside Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shops across the United States.
ACLU challenges DOC’s use of ‘civil death’ statute in denying rights to prisoners
The state’s “civil death” law, enacted more than a century ago, declares people sentenced to life in prison to be “dead” for virtually all legal purposes, even though most of them are eligible for parole after 20 years.
Immigrant rights organizations call for ‘action, not just words’ on DACA
The Democratic Party has railed against Trump’s decision to end DACA in six months but actual action, in the form of legislation that could help undocumented immigrants in RI, has not passed in the Democrat controlled General Assembly.
K-Love must continue WBRU tradition of engaging with ACI, prison populations
That Rhode Island’s 95.5 WBRU has, for around 50 years, served as Rhode Island’s alternative radio station and our state’s lifeline to the national music scene is only half of its significance. WBRU is also one of the community’s most direct communicative links into the Adult Correctional Institution. Listen to WBRU on Sundays and you’ll […]
Governor Raimondo pledges to defend Dreamers
“Rhode Island was founded on the principles of tolerance and diversity. Those values mean nothing if we abandon them in times of difficulty. Dreamers are in our schools in every community. They are Rhode Islanders. As long as I am Governor, Rhode Island will stand with Dreamers and DACA recipients.”
Raimondo signs conversion therapy ban bill
“When Wendy Becker came to me again and asked me to work on the conversion therapy ban, I had to say yes. Wendy was just amazing in her running the campaign for passage of this bill.”
Po Metacom Camp responds to Brown letter disputing Pokanoket legitimacy
Po Metacom Camp issued three responses Friday evening to a Brown University letter that challenged the legitimacy of the Pokanoket Tribe.
3 Pawtucket politicians say Trump insults American values
As duly elected officials in the city of Pawtucket and the state of Rhode Island, we condemn in the strongest possible terms the abhorrent display of hatred and white supremacy in Charlottesville over the weekend. The act of domestic terrorism that claimed a life should be severely punished. We recognize that the divisions in America […]
Rhode Island stands with Charlottesville by celebrating diversity
Rhode Islanders gathered at the State House Sunday to stand with Charlottesville, the Virginia college town just south of the Mason-Dixon line where a white supremacist rally this weekend devolved into violence and left one woman dead and 19 others injured after an alleged Nazi sympathizer is said to have sped his Dodge Charger into […]
Tanzi confident domestic violence gun prohibition bill will become law
Representative Teresa Tanzi, D-Narragansett, South Kingstown, was the lead sponsor of a domestic violence/gun control bill in this year’s General Assembly. She told me about domestic violence and her hopes of the bill becoming law now that Speaker Matiello has signaled an end to the current stand-off, with an indication that the House will meet […]
Standing against Trump’s assault on transgender rights in Rhode Island
Carly Crystal is a combat veteran discharged from the military just before the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and spent four years on the streets as a homeless veteran.
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