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Coalition calls on RI Senate to pass the Reproductive Health Care Act without amendments
The Rhode Island Coalition for Reproductive Freedom (Coalition) calls on the Rhode Island Senate to bring the Reproductive Health Care Act (RHCA) (S0152A) to the floor for a vote, and to pass the bill without amendments. The Coalition th...
Barrington residents to vote on municipal minimum wage increase at Financial Town Meeting
Jacob Brier is a member of the Barrington Town Council. He is proposing a $15 minimum wage for all municipal town employees at a May 22 Barrington Financial Town Meeting. This is his released statement: "The people who work for our town...
Homeless rights community calls for response to attack on woman
The homeless rights community called for "a broader response to the attack on a woman who was preparing to sleep outside in downtown Providence on January 2, 2019." As reported by the Providence Journal, Eileen Boarman was attacked with...
Elected leaders join Carpenters in rally at State House to call attention to tax fraud
Tax fraud is an illegal business practice commonplace in the service industries, disproportionately affecting construction and hotel workers. Rather than retain and pay workers as employees, which requires the payment of payroll taxes, u...
ICE detainees can stay at Wyatt while lawsuit talks underway; Wyatt board holds emergency meeting 9am Sunday morning
Mere days after being found in violation of the Open Meetings Act, the Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation (CFDFC), now operating under a new board of directors, has once more violated the spirit, if not the letter of the law. T...
The earned income tax credit helps low-income working families in Rhode Island
Happy Tax Day! Across the country, today marks the deadline for individuals and businesses to file their income tax returns for tax year 2018. In Rhode Island, it is the deadline for approximately 650,000 personal income tax filers. Rhod...
The Fair Chance Licensing Coalition says everyone deserves meaningful employment
For Rhode Islanders who have been involved in the criminal justice system, occupational licensing restrictions pose a serious barrier to meaningful employment. Many of the entry-level jobs in some of the state’s fastest growing sectors r...
ICE detainees at Wyatt get 'Know Your Rights' presentation from immigration attorneys
This morning a group of immigration attorneys, including Deborah Gonzalez of the Roger Williams University Law School Immigration Law Clinic, were granted access to the Wyatt Detention Facility to deliver a “Know Your Rights” presentatio...
Two protesters from FANG Collective arrested at Bristol County Sheriff public meeting
On Wednesday evening two people were arrested while disrupting a public meeting held by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials and Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson regarding the Bristol County Sheriff's Of...
Wyatt Bondholders sue Central Falls Mayor, City Council and Detention Facility Corporation for $130 million
The lawsuit also seeks to take control of the Wyatt from the Corporation and to reinstate ICE contract. The individuals named in the suit include Mayor James Diossa, City Councilors Maria Rivera,Jonathan Acosta, Hugo Figueroa, Jessica Ve...