Culture & Community
Arts, culture, and community
For over 20 years Buy Nothing Day Coat Exchange has worked to keep Rhode Islanders warm
The Buy Nothing Day Coat Exchange began over 20 years ago when founder Greg Gerritt decided to channel his love of the environment into a charitable cause. Annually occurring on Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day invites you to give rather th...
Activists Speak about the BDS Movement at Brown University
“Colonial powers are never convinced,” said Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, to a packed auditorium of students last Monday. “Globalized oppression necessitates globalized resistance.” O...
Sunrise disrupts Governor Raimondo's appearance at Boston Globe forum on Rhode Island's future
"It is disgraceful for you to talk about the future of Rhode Island and to not mention climate change," said Sunrise Movement member Rachael Baker. "As young people, we are afraid of the future in this state. The climate crisis is threat...
Student protesters target anti-Palestine talk on RIC campus
"...we strongly object to the idea that any criticism, any speaking up for a free Palestine, in support of the Palestinian people, is automatically assumed to be antisemitic." When I arrived at the Fogarty Life Sciences building on the R...
Tonight! Left Drinking: Where connections and ideas begin
Tonight at the Wild Colonial Tavern (250 S Water St, Providence, RI) Uprise RI, Rhode Island Working Families Party, Aaron Regunberg, David Segal, Providence City Councilmember Rachel Miller, and many other friends are kicking off a new...
After a decade as executive director, DARE's Fred Ordoñez passes the torch
After leading DARE (Direct Action for Rights and Equality) for over a decade, executive director Fred Ordoñez is stepping down, passing the torch to a pair of co-executive directors, Kiah Bryant and Christopher Samih-Rotondo. At a ceremo...
Barrington School Committee sues student for challenging unlawful school suspension, seeks award of fees from student
"I strongly question the wisdom of a school district suing one of its own students over a three-day suspension that happened over a year and a half ago," said ACLU cooperating attorney Aubrey Lombardo. In what the ACLU of Rhode Island ca...
Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Found Guilty on All Counts
“I really think that the verdict was, frankly, reactionary,” Defendant Carmen Trotta told supporters outside the courthouse. “They (the jurors) heard a lot. The judge allowed them to hear a lot. And it’s a little frightening that nuclear...
My TEDx Talk
"I learned that journalism needs to be people focused. Too often... reporters treat statements from corporations as holding more weight than those of directly affected people." In August I opened an email from TEDxProvidence Curator Mich...
A candlelight vigil in memory of 19 year-old shooting victim Berta Perreira-Roldan
"We have to do more work to get rid of guns," said Providence City Council President Matos. "We have to do something to get rid of the guns in our neighborhoods." A candlelight vigil was held in Providence on Detroit Avenue Sunday evenin...