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As gun violence continues, Providence residents lock arms for peace
Diana Garlington held her third annual Lock Arms for Peace event in Providence Saturday evening. About a dozen people gathered near the intersection of Broad Street and Elmwood Avenue, locking arms and speaking out against violence in th...
Poor People's Campaign week six: A new unsettling force
Week six of the Rhode Island Poor People's Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival took things up a notch when Peter Nightingale, professor of physics at the University of Rhode Island, and Sister Mary Pendergast, from the Sisters of Mercy re...
Whistleblowers defend democracy, say rights advocates
Rhode Island Rights held a rally Wednesday outside the Federal Building near Kennedy Plaza in downtown Providence to support whistleblowers facing jail time, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Terry Albury, who revealed government secret...
Week five of the RI Poor People's Campaign tackles education and jobs, begins to up the ante
The fifth week of the Rhode Island Poor People’s Campaign A National Call for Moral Revival went slightly different from the weeks before. This week's theme was Everybody's Got a Right to Live, and the rally was centered upon education,...
'No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!'
200 of us chanted as we marched up Beacon Street to the Massachusetts State House in Boston last Saturday (June 2nd). The “2nd Amendment Rally” was already assembled at the State House steps, and the roughly 30 attendees weren’t thrilled...
Turn off 10 targets Yorker Shoes over Sinclair advertising
Turn Off 10, a campaign coordinated by the Rhode Island ReSisters, protested outside Yorker Shoes on 1503 Hartford Ave, Johnston on Tuesday afternoon in opposition to the family-owned business's continued advertising on Channel 10/WJAR,...
Week four of the Rhode Island Poor People’s Campaign takes on ecological devastation and health care
Week four of the Rhode Island Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival took on the Right to Health and a Healthy Planet: Ecological Devastation and Health Care. The action took place on the Rhode Island State House lawn....
Henrietta White-Holder and Linda Finn receive Red Bandana Awards
Henrietta White-Holder and Linda Finn were honored at the sixth annual Red Bandana Award Celebration, held in memory of activist Richard Walton and all that he stood for. Henrietta White-Holder is the founder & CEO of Higher Ground Inter...
Week three of the Rhode Island Poor People’s Campaign takes on the war economy
Week three of the Rhode Island Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival took on the War Economy: Militarism and the Proliferation of Gun Violence. This week activists started and finished the action on the Rhode Island S...
Rhode Island Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival kicks off
The Rhode Island Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival kicked off a six-week season of nonviolent direct action Monday afternoon in Providence. The 60 plus people in attendance included clergy, advocates and members o...