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Representative Amore calls for action on sexual harassment legislation to begin the 2019 session
Representative Gregg Amore (Democrat, District 65, East Providence) is requesting that the issues brought forth by the House Commission to Study Sexual Harassment in the Workplace be heard in committee immediately following re-introducti...
Health Care Revolt demands restored funding for Rhode Island 911
Health Care Revolt, an organization of Rhode Island health care workers, health professionals, students and consumers, launched a petition demanding full funding for Rhode Island’s underfunded and outdated 911 system. 68 percent of tax d...
Speaker Mattiello shares his current thinking on sexual harassment and respect for women
In the last days of the 2018 Rhode Island General Assembly session, Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello used his position to prevent a series of bills aimed at preventing sexual harassment in the workplace from coming to the floor fo...
Speaker Mattiello shares his current thinking on reproductive rights and codifying Roe v Wade
Rhode Island Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello has used his position to prevent the codification of Roe v Wade into Rhode Island State Law for years, even though, by his own admission, the majority of Rhode Islanders support the th...
Blazejewski to prefile legislation tackling sexual and discriminatory harassment at the General Assembly
Representative Christopher Blazejewski (Democrat, District 2, Providence) plans to prefile legislation ahead of the 2019 legislative session that would reform the General Assembly’s policies and procedure relating to sexual harassment an...
Speaker Mattiello and Democracy vs Despotism at Chapel Grille
Over 50 people, representing themselves and more than a dozen different advocacy groups, gathered outside Chapel Grille in Cranston Thursday night armed with signs, chants and songs and demanding new leadership in the Rhode Island House...
Senator Bell abstains from voting for Senate leadership slate at caucus meeting
During his campaign then candidate now Senator-elect Samuel Bell (Democrat, District 5, Providence) promised his constituents that he would not vote to elect Senator Dominick Ruggerio (Democrat, District 4, Providence) to the position of...
An interview with Laura Harmon, organizer from Ireland's pro-choice 'Together for Yes' campaign
A sense of hope was brought to Rhode Island women from Ireland at The Woman Project’s ‘Speak Up, Speak Out’ event last month. A mostly womxn audience included advocacy leaders, doctors, clergy, lawyers and one state representative gather...
The Woman Project is working to protect your health care
On exactly what grounds are Conservative Democrats, Rhode Island House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello and Senate President Dominick Ruggiero, blocking the Reproductive Heath Care Act (RHCA) from consideration? That it’s unnecessary? I rememb...
Saudis may see consequences for the death of one journalist, but not for thousands of Yemenis
Last week, Senator Jack Reed called for a halt to the United States refueling of Saudi Arabian planes because of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Turkey. He spoke of the United States using its leverage in...