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Three arrested outside Morgan Stanley shareholder meeting in New York in direct action organized by The FANG Collective
Early this morning a group of activists disrupted Morgan Stanley's annual shareholder meeting by blocking vehicle access at both entrances to their corporate campus in Purchase, New York. The action was carried out in solidarity with com...
State funding for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to be restored
Well over a thousand people with disabilities, their family members, friends, and direct care workers crowded into the Rhode Island State House on Wednesday in what was originally going to be a rally to demand the restoration of $18 mill...
Governor Raimondo teams with RI NOW in phone banking for the Reproductive Health Care Act and equal pay
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo joined with The Woman Project and RI NOW (Rhode Island National Organization for Women at Sprout CoWorking to make calls for legislation currently working its way through the General Assembly related t...
EPI releases report highlighting positive impact of Medicaid for Rhode Islanders and the economy
The Economic Progress Institute (EPI) previewed its latest report today at a press conference at the Rhode Island State House. Medicaid Matters in Rhode Island 2018 provides information about the breadth and scope of the Medicaid program...
Biomass incineration bill opposed at State House rally
"When ECRI speaks, we speak as the united voice of the environmental community in the state," said Jerry Elmer, senior attorney at Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and outgoing President of the Environmental Council of Rhode Island (ECR...
Matt Brown: Biomass legislation "a failure of democracy"
"I think this biomass project is very much like what we saw and what we're seeing with the Invenergy fracked gas plant proposed for Burrillville," said candidate Matt Brown, who is challenging Governor Gina Raimondo in the Democratic pri...
Bishop Tobin supports efforts of RI Coalition Against Gun Violence on safe schools and assault weapons ban
The Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence (RICAGV) has the support of dozens of crucial Rhode Island organizations as well as Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence and Rhode Island Mayors in their campaign to pass the Safe Schools Act...
Week two of the Rhode Island Poor People’s Campaign takes on systemic racism and poverty
Week two of the Rhode Island Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival tackled the linked issues of systemic racism and poverty. As they did the week before, activists marched from the Gloria Dei Evangelical Lutheran Chur...
A peace walk in the rain
The Rhode Island Volunteers for Moms Demand Action teamed up with the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence on Saturday for the second of their monthly peace walks. Over 40 people walked through the rain, carrying signs and...
Rhode Island reacts to yet another senseless school shooting in Santa Fe Texas
“As parents across the country are preparing for and attending high school and college graduations, we can’t help but try to fathom how the parents of these children massacred must be feeling,” said RICAGV President, Linda Finn. “How muc...