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November 27, 2021

Seven on the Strike Line: Teamsters 251 Calling for Better Working Conditions

“They wanted to spit their rhetoric about why unions are bad and stuff like that,” said Charles Reid. “And what would happen if the union were to join the company, and how bad it would be for us, and paying...

November 26, 2021

Buy Nothing Coat Exchange is back!

“We were trying, as we always do, to over prepare,” said said Becka Carroll, an organizer with...

November 24, 2021

Providence Youth Created a Mural Imagining More Public Fruit Trees and Housing, and Less Police

“The mural was collectively designed to look like a park, which serves as a refuge for youth...

November 26, 2021

Was a rally against the Woonsocket Mayor and City Council deliberately disrupted by city officials?

Workers from the Woonsocket Highway Department were in the park with at least three trucks and multiple...

November 22, 2021

Here are all the bills passed by one chamber and killed by the other

This process matters. For a bill to become law, it must pass both chambers. So we decided...

November 20, 2021

Preservation without Gentrification? PPS charts a new course

“As preservationists, we believe that good buildings contribute to a good quality of life, a good city,...

November 16, 2021

State House holds first meeting of a Commission on Sex Work

“For public testimony it’s very important that we get comfortable with talking about the issues in our...

November 16, 2021

Political Coop rallies at State House to demand action on unspent federal funds

“We are here because we got money eight months ago that is just sitting [there],” said Damián...

November 16, 2021

PVD Ordinance Committee passes two measures limiting fossil fuel expansion

Both pieces of legislation need to pass the full City Council to take effect. The ordinance preventing...

November 15, 2021

Lawsuit challenges ACI prisoner’s eight months in solitary confinement for free speech activity

“I spoke out against conditions at the ACI and I was punished with almost eight months in...

November 16, 2021

Bristol Students Are Joining Providence Students in the Fight to Bring Gen-Z Beliefs into School Systems

“When given an opportunity to embrace the Black and brown students in our school, you shut it...

November 12, 2021

Institutionalizing the Political Theory Project: How an ideological Trojan horse might breach Brown

“Simply put, there is no way to disentangle the proposed center from the [Political Theory Project]’s origins...

November 11, 2021

RI Poor People’s Campaign demands that Reed and Whitehouse pass Build Back Better Act

“A budget is a moral document, and I’m a little bit tired hearing that we don’t have...

November 10, 2021

Candidates for Governor respond to McKee’s lack of action on homelessness crisis

The silence of the McKee Administration prompted UpriseRI to reach out to those candidates (who have submitted...

November 10, 2021

Why is Pawtucket’s William Blackstone monument a bad idea?

“A monument communicates more about the community who decided to erect it than it does about the...

November 9, 2021

Mt Hope Student Union calls out Bristol Warren School Committee for racism

“You as a committee are not acting in the best interest of the students, teachers, and administrators...

November 8, 2021

From Burrillville to Killingly: No more fossil fuel power plants!

November 4, 2021

ICE is building a new detention center in Warwick

November 3, 2021

Homeless in RI: If we leave 600 people out there, people will die…

November 3, 2021

Money from the state’s successful air pollution lawsuit used to plant trees in the Port

November 3, 2021

Grassroots coalition calls on Redistricting Commission to eliminate Prison Gerrymandering

November 2, 2021

PVD Ordinance Committee to weigh bills curbing major fossil fuel expansion in the Port

November 2, 2021

Lamar Advertising wants electronic billboards – The neighborhood wants their trees back

November 1, 2021

The Zombie Apocalypse vs the Climate Apocalypse outside Chase Bank

October 28, 2021

Governor McKee confronted by activists on his failure to act on homelessness crisis

October 28, 2021

Rep. Felix calls on redistricting commission to end prison gerrymandering

October 28, 2021

Direct Action for Rights and Equality rallies against evictions and for housing

October 26, 2021

Fox Point Manor tenants speak out against years of abuse

October 26, 2021

The RI Redistricting Commission hearing that wasn’t

October 25, 2021

Redistricting Redux: How RI’s redistricting process could wreak havoc on progressive movements and divide communities

October 25, 2021

Hiring committee member breaks silence on Michael Stephens as PVD Police Major

October 22, 2021

A conservative Republican with freckles of libertarianism, Alex Cannon is running for State Senate

October 22, 2021

A big love for education: Democrat Sam Zurier is running for State Senate

October 21, 2021

City officials surprised as unhoused encampment on Wilson St is half bulldozed by developer Knight & Swan

October 20, 2021

If RI Redistricting fails to act within 8 days, racist prison gerrymandering will persist for 10 more years

October 19, 2021

Race, politics and Covid collide at Barrington Zoning Board of Review

October 18, 2021

Sisters of Mercy at Bay View Academy demanding action on climate change

October 16, 2021

2021 Housing Fact Book looks at the relationship of housing and health

October 14, 2021

PVD Zoning Board of Review rejects variance application of polluting asphalt company in the Port

October 13, 2021

Kate Coyne-McCoy surprised RI Democratic Women’s Caucus released her letter

October 13, 2021

Interview: Brett Smiley is running for Mayor of Providence as an experienced administrator