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By Will Weatherly on August 9, 2018
The cities of Providence and Central Falls—and in a separate suit, the state of Rhode Island—are taking the Department of Justice and US Attorney General Jeff Sessions to court over its manipulation of federal grant funds to support the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration agenda. The grant in dispute is the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice […]
Posted in Central Falls, Featured, Immigration, Justice, National News, Providence | Tagged Central Falls, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Immigration, james diossa, Jeff Sessions, jorge elorza, Peter Kilmartin, police, Providence |
By Steve Ahlquist on January 14, 2017
The Secular Coalition for America (SCA) believes that Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse deserves kudos for his questioning of Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump‘s nominee for Attorney General. Whitehouse asked Sessions if a non-religious, secular person has as good a claim to the truth as a religious person, and defended the separation of church and […]
Posted in Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Featured, History, National News, Race & Racism, Religion, Rhode Island, Video | Tagged Aegean Stables, Attorney General, Department of Justice, donald trump, Eric Holder, Faith and Freedom Coalition, Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, Jeff Sessions, Loretta Lynch, NASA, Republican Party, Right Wing Watch, Roger Williams, Samuel Alito, Sarah Levin, SCA, Secular Coalition for America, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Thomas Jefferson |
By ACLU of RI on March 15, 2016
In its motion for summary judgment filed yesterday, the ACLU called for the release of “the wrongfully withheld documents post haste.”
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Events, Featured, Health Care, Media, National News | Tagged American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, Department of Justice, DOJ, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Jr., Neal McNamara, Nixon Peabody, Peter Neronha, Steven Brown |
By Steve Ahlquist on February 14, 2015
When asked about the role of faith in his life, Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, invoked the Golden Rule in a way I never thought possible when he claimed that the principle of being customer focused in business, “is not all that different from treating others as you want to be treated yourself.”
Posted in Class Warfare, Corporate Greed, Economics, Events, Featured, Labor, News, People, Religion | Tagged bank of america, Brown Student Labor Alliance, Department of Justice |
By David Segal on August 9, 2011
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: […]
Posted in Business, National News, News | Tagged Demand Progress, Department of Justice, SOPA |
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