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By Bob Plain on August 8, 2018
Politics makes for strange bedfellows, observed Charles Dudley Warner in 1850, and it seems true enough this campaign season in Rhode Island as the highest-profile incumbent Democrats are each taking fire from not only Republicans, but also the progressive left. Sometimes even on the same issues. Governor Raimondo Governor Gina Raimondo faces the most-obvious two-front […]
Posted in Elections, Featured, Politics | Tagged Allan Fung, bob flanders, Gina Raimondo, Matt Brown, Nicholas Mattiello, Pat Fontes, Sheldon Whitehouse, State House, Steve Frias |
By Bob Plain on July 19, 2018
Pat Fontes, a stalwart of the local antiwar movement, used to support Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. “I did not vote for Obama but I voted for Sheldon Whitehouse,” she told me in a recent interview. Now the 81-year-old peace activist is making her first-ever run for elected office by challenging Rhode Island’s junior senator in this […]
Posted in Congress, Elections, Featured | Tagged antiwar, Congress, election18, military industrial complex, Pat Fontes, Peace, Sheldon Whitehouse |
By Will Weatherly on June 27, 2018
As the deadline to run for elected office came and went Wednesday afternoon, there are more than a few political newcomers—many young, and many centered around social justice—that could constitute the makings of a progressive wave in Rhode Island. Governor Most notable might be the governor’s race, where Matt Brown promises to give incumbent Governor […]
Posted in Congress, Elections, Events, Featured, National News, News, Politics | Tagged Aaron Regunburg, Anthony Giarrusso, Anthony Kennedy, Bridget Valverde, Carlos Cedeno, Cassandra Michael, Chris Blazejewski, Dan McKee, Dana Gee, David Cicilline, Dawn Euer, Donna Nesselbush, edith ajello, Elections, Ewa Dzwierzynski, gayle goldin, Gina Raimondo, Harold Metts, Holly Taylor Coolman, James Langevin, Jason Knight, Jeanine Calkin, Jessica De la Cruz, John Carnevale, John Pacheco, Jonathan Hernandez, josh miller, Justice Ameer Gaines, Justine Caldwell, Kat Kerwin, Kenneth Marshall, Laufton Ascencao, Lauren Carson, lauren niedel, Marcia Ranglin-Vassell, Mark Gee, Mark McKenney, Matt Brown, Matthew Perry, Melanie DuPont, Michael Earnheart, Moira Jayne Walsh, Nellie Gorbea, Nick Autiello, Pat Cortellessa, Pat Fontes, Paul Fogarty, Paul Jabour, Paul Roselli, primaries, Ramon Perez, Rep. Mike Chippendale, Salvatore Caiozzo, Sam Bell, Scott Slater, seth magaziner, Shelby Maldonado, Sheldon Whitehouse, Stephen Archambault, Teresa Tanzi, William Hunt Jr. |
By Fossil Free Rhode Island on January 13, 2016
“We’re calling on Governor Raimondo to wake up and recognize that building more gas-fired power plants threatens the future of our state and of humanity as a whole.”
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Class Warfare, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Featured, Labor, News, Rhode Island | Tagged Burrillville Land Trust, Clear River Energy Center, CLF, Conservation Law Foundation, DEM, EFSB, Energy Facility Siting Board, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Fossil Free Rhode Island, Gina Raimondo, Invenergy, janet coit, Lisa Petrie, Mary Pendergast, Narragansett Bay, Occupy Providence, Pat Fontes, Resilient Rhode Island Act, Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, sierra club |
By Steve Ahlquist on April 18, 2015
Protesters describe the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as “a corporate power grab disguised as a trade deal.”
Posted in Activism, Class Warfare, Climate, Corporate Greed, Featured, International News, National News | Tagged David Cicilline, Occupy Providence, Pat Fontes, Randall Rose, RI Progressive Democrats of America, RI Sierra Club, Robert Malin, Susan Walker, tpp, Trans Pacific Partnership |
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