Occupy Prov Protests 38 Studios Bond Payment
Calling it the “latest example of corporate welfare,” Occupy Providence is advocating that the state not pay the bondholders who helped finance 38 Studios failed relocation to Rhode Island. The group will hold a protest today at the State House to drive this message home as the House Finance Committee debates a bill that would [...]
Occupy Providence Featured In The Sociological Quarterly
The Sociological Quarterly has an entire section devoted to the Occupy Movement in its Spring 2013 volume. You can read it for free at the Wiley Online Library. While the whole section includes articles from the likes of former president of the American Sociological Association Frances Fox Piven and independent journalist Sarah Jaffe, and all [...]
A Eulogy for #Occupy
If you’re busy, don’t read much further. Wait until you have a lunch break or are home or something. Because Quinn Norton’s “A Eulogy for #Occupy” is that good. Contained within is all the hope, the pain, and the ultimate end of the Occupy Movement as we knew it. You find things like this about [...]
One-Year Anniversary for Occupy Providence
It was a year ago today that well more than 1,000 people closed downtown streets with a huge march through the Providence and some of them capped the event by setting up a tent city. And with the band of income inequality activists known as Occupy Providence began its over 100-day stay in Burnside Park. [...]
Occupy Activist On All-Night State House Protest
A dispatch from Jim Daly, one of the Occupy Providence activists who spent the the night protesting in front of the State House.
Progress Report: Anti-Choice Agenda Fares Well in Primary; Happy Birthday Occupy Movement; Chicago Still on Strike
Anti-choice crusaders Rhode Island Right to Life was one of the most successful PACs on primary night, reports the ProJo. How DINO is that! On the other hand, Political Scene also gives some love to Planned Parenthood and the public sector unions for having a successful primary. 38 Studios will be the issue local candidates [...]
Occupy Providence Rallies at State House Today
To mark the both the one-year anniversary of the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the continued economic morass here in Rhode Island, Occupy Providence is holding a “round the clock occupation at the State House” starting today. The Providence Journal covers the action, the one year anniversary and the evolution of Occupy [...]
Occupy Providence Returns
Occupy Providence is back in Burnside Park. But there are a couple of things different about this incarnation of the local 99 Percent movement. One difference is they aren’t camping this time around. Not yet, anyways. But they have been meeting daily in what activists call the People’s Park for a little over a week [...]
No Shield Against the Results of Public Speech
So the other day I received this email shortly after an article I wrote appeared in RI Future (I’ve only edited it due to some sentence breaks: Sam; Publishing the contents of the OP discussion list serve on -line with links at RI Future blog is a violation of our safety/security policies. Of course, anyone is free [...]
Occupy Prov Plans Sidewalk Protest During Netroots
Netroots Nation won’t be the only progressive group taking Providence by storm this weekend. Occupy Providence, the activists that protested economic inequality by turning Burnside Park into a tent city in 2011, plans to re-occupy the city in honor of Netroots. Local poet and activist Jared Paul, one of the original organizers of Occupy Providence, [...]
RI Progress Report: Netroots Preview, Myth of Union Power, Abortion Politics, 38 Studios and Scott Walker
Netroots Nation comes to Providence this week … you can expect a ton of coverage from us, both previewing the big progressive networking event and covering all the action on the panels, the keynote speakers, the parties and the protests. The Phoenix put together a great Netroots preview story last week (still on news stands [...]
RI Progress Report: Property Taxes, Jason Pleau, URI Contracts, Gemma, the Mob and Occupy Providence
Here’s a list of the 19 cities and towns that are considering raising taxes in next year’s budget, according to a great article by Dan McGowan, of GoLocal: Bristol, Charlestown, Cumberland, East Greenwich, Hopkinton, Jamestown, Little Compton, Middletown, Narragansett, New Shoreham, Newport, North Kingstown, North Smithfield, Portsmouth, Richmond, Smithfield, Tiverton, Westerly and Woonsocket. He quotes [...]
Providence Poised for Annual May Day Holiday
May Day, it’s the original Labor Day and it’s been celebrated with direct action since the first one in 1886 when more than a quarter million workers across the country went on strike to fight for an eight-hour workday. Tomorrow in Providence, the numbers may well be smaller but the issues are no less important. [...]
Occupy Sexism Action Fights ‘Rape Culture’
Rape culture, says the Women’s Center at Marshall University, is when “sexual violence against women is normalized and excused in the media and popular culture. [It] is perpetuated through the use of misogynistic language, the objectification of women’s bodies, and the glamorization of sexual violence.” Sound a bit too familiar? Join Occupy Providence and the [...]
Martin Luther King Would Have Occupied PVD Today
In honor of the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Occupy Providence will hold a rally today “to carry on the great work of this fallen leader who was cut down in his prime for nothing less than his commitment to a fair and just world for all humanity ,” according [...]
Occupy PVD to protest Pfizer, ALEC today
Occupy Providence crosses state lines today for a protest at a Pfizer facility in Groton, Conn. The action is being endorsed by several Occupy groups from Connecticut and Massachusetts, and will include “protest, street theater, puppetry, teach-ins, speakers, music, food, and more,” according to a press release sent this morning. “Pfizer feels it is their [...]
Occupy Providence and the Right’s Selective Support of the 1st Amendment
Occupy Providence has the fringe-right all in a tizzy over an incident in which condoms were dropped on a anti-choice rally at the State House, spawning not one but two diaries calling for criminal charges to protect the religious right from the inconvenience of being confronted with opposing views. Here’s Justin nearly hyperventilating over a [...]
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