Progresso Latino and the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU RI) have sent a letter to Central Falls Mayor James Diossa and the Central Falls City Council urging the repeal of the City’s …
Over twenty people, mostly members of Climate Action Rhode Island (CARI) but also members of many other activist groups in Rhode Island, enjoyed dinner in Westerly Friday evening at Amigos Taqueria Y Tequila, the restaurant …
The ACLU of Rhode Island today wrote to officials at the Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority to raise concerns about an incident that occurred yesterday when the agency initially sought to ban local journalist Steve …
“I’m going to need you to gather up your stuff and come out into the hallway,” said James Pereira, Chief Security Officer at the Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority (RIPTA), just ahead of the monthly …
The City of Providence cannot pick and choose when to apply an ordinance against residential picketing says Steven Brown, executive director of the ACLU of Rhode Island. If the City is going to allow protesters …
The North Smithfield Town Council held a special meeting Monday evening with the sole purpose of rescinding an anti-Nike, anti-Colin Kaepernick resolution passed one week ago that caused public outrage and made national news. Council …
A press release from North Smithfield Town Council President John Beauregard: “At the North Smithfield Town Council meeting this past Monday I proposed a resolution only ‘requesting’ Town departments refrain from doing business with Nike. …
In all, twenty people stepped up to the podium during Monday night’s North Smithfield Town Council meeting to speak against a resolution requesting that “the School Department as well as other departments of the Town …
On September 14 Lindsay Crudele, a resident of Dorchester Massachusetts, discovered that she had been blocked on Twitter by the Republican candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, Cranston Mayor Allan Fung. Crudele is a professional digital …
Incarcerated people in at least 17 prisons across the United States have been on strike since August 21. These strikes are expected to last until September 9. On Saturday, members of Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee …
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