Immigration
Vigil for International Migrants Day
Standing Up for Racial Justice Rhode Island (SURJ) braved the windchill to hold a vigil outside the Federal Building across from Kennedy Plaza in downtown …
Immigration
Refugee Dream Center
Breaking Barriers: Refugee Dream Center begins classes to train refugees to access vital resources
The Refugee Dream Center, with a grant from the Department of Public Safety Grant Administration Office, has developed a program called Breaking Barriers, which will …
Immigration
Sheriff Hodgson helps ICE separate families, earns protesters outside his home on Thanksgiving
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 …
Immigration
Community support grows for Cranston man facing deportation to Cambodia
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 …
New Bridges for Haitian Success
Lieutenant Governor Dan McKee and Town of Lincoln donate ambulance to Haiti
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 …
Immigration
Cranston Mayor Fung called out on his ‘Trumpian, divisive, racist, fear-based campaigning’
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 …
Hope and Change for Haiti
Hope and Change for Haiti holds first annual ‘Engage for Change’ gala
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 …
Immigration
Cranston Action Network to rally against Fung’s ‘anti-immigrant fearmongering’ at Cranston City Hall
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 …
Immigration
Entrances to Bristol County Jail blocked by demonstrators over ICE connection
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 …
Immigration
Gabriela Domenzain leaving Latino Policy Institute
[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 …