At around 9am on a freezing Thanksgiving morning, over a dozen people representing the FANG Collective, community members and allies demonstrated outside the New Bedford home of Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson over the county’s …
Sene Sem was born in a refugee camp and was resettled into the United States when he was a child. His mother is a survivor of war and genocide. She has since passed. He has …
Lieutenant Governor Daniel McKee, Lincoln Town Administrator Joseph Almond and Bernard Georges, founder of New Bridges for Haitian Success announced the donation of an ambulance and 10 sets of rescue gear to Belle-Anse, a Haitian …
Members of the Cranston Action Network (CAN) and allied groups rallied outside Cranston City Hall Monday night ahead of a Cranston City Council meeting to protest Cranston Mayor Allan Fung‘s “Trumpian divisive, racist, fear-based campaigning, …
Hope and Change for Haiti works to improve the quality of life of the Haitian community, contribute to the effort of rebuilding Haiti and facilitate the recovery of the people victims from natural disasters in …
Declaring that, “Cranston and Rhode Island don’t stand with Fung’s Trumpian divisive, racist, fear-based campaigning, nor with divisive, racist, fear based governing” the Cranston Action Network released the following statement ahead of their planned “Rally …
On Monday afternoon multiple blockades were erected to obstruct the entrances of the Bristol County Jail and House of Correction. The facility also hosts a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility. At …
[From a press release] Gabriela Domenzain is leaving her position as director of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University to pursue her passion for national-level work involving human rights and journalism. Domenzain became …
Around 400 people attended a rally in Cranston against the separation of families Saturday afternoon, held in coordination with hundreds of rallies across the United States. The rally outside the Adult Correctional Institutions broadened the …
Rhode Island Interfaith Power and Light joins many other local, national, and international faith organizations in condemning the incarceration of children and families on our southern border. The new policy of indefinite detention of families, …
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