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Decarcerate Now rallies for the release of incarcerated persons during Covid outbreak
"Take control over your guards! Tell them to do their job! Roll the tape so you can see with your own eyes that your employees are refusing to follow the state’s new COVID-19 protocols, and RIDOC’s own policies. Our loved ones’ lives matter. They’re trying to protect themselves because you have failed to do so."
Rhode Island State House Monday, February 01, 2021 – Thursday, February 04, 2021
All the video from the Rhode Island State House for Monday, February 1, 2021 - Thursday, February 4, 2021.
Rhode Island State House Monday, January 25, 2021 – Thursday, January 28, 2021
All the video from the Rhode Island State House for Monday January 25, 2021 - Thursday January 28, 2021
RIght from the Start campaign introduces 2021 legislative package for children and families
“Because I’d lost two previous pregnancies, being pregnant and giving birth to my beautiful daughter Amarie during COVID was a big challenge," said Wilmaris Soto-Ramos. "Without my doula, I would not have had the empowering and peaceful birthing experience that I did."
The pandemic has changed the way the public testifies before the General Assembly, and it's for the better
"Here we were, giving testimony about access, and I was literally having access," said Jocelyn Foye, executive director of The Womxn Project.
Rhode Island State House Monday, January 18, 2021 – Thursday, January 21, 2021
All the video from the Rhode Island State House for Monday January 18, 2021 - Thursday, January 21, 2021
Senate telemedicine bill protects insurers over patients
We urge readers to call their Senators and ask them to support amendments that correct these four problems with the S0004A. A vote against such amendments, is a vote for protecting health insurance company profits over patients’ access to telemedicine.
ACLU of RI: Portsmouth political sign ban violates First Amendment
“I have been the victim of selective enforcement and harassment by many Town of Portsmouth officials," said town resident Michael DiPaola. "All I’ve wanted from Day One is to be treated the same as everyone else, nothing more. The rules apply to everyone equally, or none at all. I was left no other option!”
Highway signs reading "Prison is Genocide" and "Gina You're Killing Us" placed over night
Both signs display paintings of a person behind bars, looking out directly at us. The words are decorated with paintings of the COVID-19 virus.
Derailed by the pandemic, a bill to improve the Open Meetings Act is re-introduced
House bill H5032 "would require that all meetings closed to the public be recorded by audio tape or other audio recording device."