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Activists shut down Massachusetts DOC to resist collaboration with ICE
An activist was arrested by the Massachusetts State Police on Thursday morning when she and another person locked themselves to concrete blockades in front of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections headquarters in Medford, Massachus...
Central Falls students protest funding cuts
Students, parents, teachers and community leaders gathered outside Central Falls High School on Wednesday to protest the lack of funding in the Rhode Island 2020 Budget for the Central Falls School District. Due to looming bankruptcy, th...
Representative McEntee’s bill to extend civil statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse passes the General Assembly
Representative Carol Hagan McEntee (Democrat, District 33, South Kingstown, Narragansett)'s legislation (H5171B), that amends the state’s civil statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse, was passed by the Rhode Island General Ass...
Key Republicans call for greater budget transparency and a line-item veto in wake of Dr Pedro revelation
Businessman and candidate for Governor Ken Block and Rhode Island Republican Party Chair Sue Cienki held a press conference in the State House Library on Wednesday to call for greater transparency in the wake of the revelations that Spea...
Rhode Island Progressive Democrats statement on approved House budget
Public pressure works, but budget still places the rich before working families Following approval this weekend of the nearly $10B budget by the Rhode Island House of Representatives, the Rhode Island Progressive Democrats would like to...
Statement of LGBTQ Action RI and GLAD on House vote to send Parentage Act to study commission
We are very disappointed in the House vote to send the Rhode Island Parentage Act (RIPA) to a study commission. Rhode Island children and families need security and legal protections now. The RIPA is based on nonpartisan model legislatio...
Warwick students, parents rally at Warwick City Hall over funding cuts; More protests planned
In response to the funding cuts presented by the Warwick School Committee (which would eliminate the sports program and cut funding to teacher assistant positions, janitorial services building improvements, mentoring and transportation)...
Providence students featured on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Recent Providence schools graduates Aleita Cook and Ahmed Sesay held back laughs as The Daily Show correspondent Jaboukie Young-White wheeled into a classroom on a hoverboard, doing his worst impression of a modern teenager. The subject...
Community members bring complaints about the Providence Police to a PERA Board without a quorum
The Providence Police Department has violated the Community Safety Act on several counts, say community members, adding that these violations are crimes and open the City to lawsuits. But PERA, the board established to deal with such vio...
FANG visits the Wyatt Detention Facility's "Special Master" at Locke Lord LLC
Members and allies of the FANG Collective entered the law offices of Locke Lord LLP in Providence on Monday to call on Deming Sherman to do his duty as the Special Master of the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls, Rhode Island and e...