The Rhode Island Anti-War Committee (RIAC) hosted a program at the Rochambeau Public Library in Providence Thursday evening featuring talks by two veterans critical of United States military interventions and the military/industrial complex. Raymond Ajemian …
The fourth public meeting of the Rhode Island Democratic Party (RIDP) Platform Committee was held in South Kingstown with about two dozen people in attendance. As has become the pattern, the issues of greatest concern …
“Students, including myself, don’t feel safe around police officers because they carry guns and I have to constantly watch my back instead of feeling safe,” said Aleita Cook, a Junior at Providence Career and Technical …
Early this morning a group of activists disrupted Morgan Stanley‘s annual shareholder meeting by blocking vehicle access at both entrances to their corporate campus in Purchase, New York. The action was carried out in solidarity …
Well over a thousand people with disabilities, their family members, friends, and direct care workers crowded into the Rhode Island State House on Wednesday in what was originally going to be a rally to demand …
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo joined with The Woman Project and RI NOW (Rhode Island National Organization for Women at Sprout CoWorking to make calls for legislation currently working its way through the General Assembly …
The Economic Progress Institute (EPI) previewed its latest report today at a press conference at the Rhode Island State House. Medicaid Matters in Rhode Island 2018 provides information about the breadth and scope of the …
“When ECRI speaks, we speak as the united voice of the environmental community in the state,” said Jerry Elmer, senior attorney at Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and outgoing President of the Environmental Council of Rhode …
“I think this biomass project is very much like what we saw and what we’re seeing with the Invenergy fracked gas plant proposed for Burrillville,” said candidate Matt Brown, who is challenging Governor Gina Raimondo …
The Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence (RICAGV) has the support of dozens of crucial Rhode Island organizations as well as Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence and Rhode Island Mayors in their campaign to pass …
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