Culture & Community
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Exclusive: Outside 'meeting to plan a meeting' West End residents voice concern over warming center
Residents complained that the warming center has brought in a fair amount of additional crime, as well as more ambulances and sirens, echoing concerns that South Side residents have voiced for years. People ejected from the warming center for substance use or other issues find themselves in Dexter Park or in people's yards said residents, and they do not feel safe.
As RI struggles with public transportation, activists hold annual Transit Equity event
Kennedy Plaza continues to be under threat of being emptied of busses as wealthy downtown developers and landlords, including former Providence Mayor Joseph Paolino Jr.
Problematic landlord called out for retaliation against unionization efforts
Pioneer Tenants United claims that Anurag Sureka has issued retaliatory evictions and terminations of tenancy against five Pioneer tenant households for speaking out against horrific and dangerous conditions pervasive across the company's 60-plus buildings in Rhode Island.
Vigil for Memphis police murder victim Tyre Nichols held in Providence
A vigil for Tyre Nichols and against police violence was held in Providence Monday night. Nichols was brutally murdered by five police officers from the Memphis Police Department during a traffic stop earlier this month.
Remembering Allen Charette, who died alone and unhoused in Woonsocket
Allen Charette was found dead in Woonsocket’s Social Park on Sunday morning. Unhoused, Allen had dealt with substance use issues for years. He received treatment for frostbite exposure to his hands the week before he died.
One of Rhode Island's top 'slumlords' receives a Sunday morning wake up call
About a dozen people approached the home of Anurag Sureka in an upscale neighborhood cul de sac in Walpole, Massachusetts on Sunday morning, holding signs that said, among other things, "Happy 20th Anniversary to Two of RI's Top Slumlords" and "A Slumlord Lives Here." They were there to deliver 25 or so letters, to Sureka from tenants, detailing the repairs their apartments need...
White supremacists litter state with hate literature, recruiting flyers
Uprise RI has also learned that on the same evening the specific homes of trans leftists were targeted by NSC in another part of Providence. Some of these flyers are different and appear to be death threats, showing a cartoon Nazi punching a person hanging from a noose.
Religious leaders talk legislative priorities at Annual Fighting Poverty with Faith Vigil
Dozens of religious leaders, lawmakers and activists from across the state gathered in the Rhode Island State House rotunda on Wednesday afternoon after a short march from the Gloria Dei Church on Hayes Street. Coalition members called on political leaders to "govern with compassion and propose policies for legislative action in 2023 to reduce poverty in the state" and to "fight for economic justice."
Methodist social justice group brings prayers to the State House ahead of legislative session
There were congregants present from six Rhode Island Methodist Churches from across the state, including Newport, Lincoln and Cumberland, where Governor McKee lives. But six churches is just the beginning.
New Year's Eve 'noise demo' at Wyatt prison shows incarcerated they are not forgotten
People gathered outside the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls on a rainy but warm New Year's Eve as part of a "noise demonstration" designed to let people incarcerated inside that they were not forgotten. It was organized by AMOR Rhode Island (Alianza para Movilizar Nuestra Resistencia), joined by the Extraordinary Rendition Band (ERB).