From a press release: “Its hard to imagine that selling a cookbook could ever help stop a multi-national, multi-billion dollar fossil fuel power plant company. But it just might,” says Stephanie Sloman creator of the …
Hearings continued last week at the Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) to determine the fate of Invenergy‘s proposed $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant aimed at the pristine forests of northwest …
Turn Off 10, a campaign coordinated by the Rhode Island ReSisters, protested outside Warwick Mall on Saturday afternoon, to call attention to Sinclair Broadcast Group‘s continued ownership of local television station Channel 10/WJAR and the …
United States Representative David Cicilline (Democrat, Rhode Island) held a “community conversation” with constituents at Hope High School in Providence on Saturday morning. The two main topics Cicilline wanted to cover were the government shutdown …
From a press release: Rhode Islanders for Reform expresses cautious optimism about the floor debate and the House Rules that were adopted by the Rhode Island House of Representatives on Wednesday. The issue of House …
On January 15, State Representative Edith Ajello (Democrat, District 1, Providence) introduced the Reproductive Health Care Act of 2019 (H-5127), a bill that would guarantee the right to safe and legal abortion is protected in …
“Fresh, clean water cannot be taken for granted. And it is not – water is political and litigious…” Michael Burry, the businessman featured in The Big Short (2015) Welcome to The Uprising! 1a. Water Things …
From a press release: The Rhode Island Coalition for Reproductive Freedom (RICRF) has great concerns with House Bill 5125 the Reproductive Privacy Act (RPA) that was introduced on Tuesday. While the RPA purports to protect …
The Providence City Council, for the first time a majority woman city council, unanimously passed a resolution in favor of passing the Reproductive Health Care Act (RHCA), legislation currently before the Rhode Island General Assembly …
An open letter from the Demanding Dignity campaign, a coalition consisting of the RI AFL-CIO, RI Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals, United Nurses and Allied Professionals, SEIU District 1199, and District 26 International Association …
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