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Senator Elizabeth Crowley: All Lives Matter
"Certainly Black lives matter to everybody, so do Brown lives, so do yellow lives, so do red lives," said Senator Crowley. "There should be no discrimination, no matter what color you are. The Irish were white and look at them. They were...
Representative Williams calls on governor to nominate women of color to the judiciary
"We have had this conversation far too often, and for far too long," said Representative Anastasia Williams. "While our state continues to grow year after year in diversity, our courts have remained stagnant in the past and void of the c...
Justice for Dijon Kizzee solidarity event in Providence
On Tuesday evening just over 50 protesters marched through Providence, past the Providence Public Safety Complex and up and down Atwells Avenue to call for justice in the police killing of Dijon Kizzee in Los Angeles, who was shot after...
Cutting the state budget will hurt the economy, delay recovery says Economic Progress Institute
"It is critical that Rhode Island does not repeat the mistakes of the last downturn. The options presented here could preserve, replace, or bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, enough to cover much, if not all, of the pro...
At the Kenosha solidarity action Providence
"As the state meets further resistance it will continue to deputize its vigilante counterparts to carry out deadly violence. We must rise up against this threat and oppose both wings of white supremacy," wrote MATCH in a statement about...
Community groups rally to oppose RIDOT's Multi-Hub Bus Plan and the deconstruction of Kennedy Plaza
"Let's just be very clear," said Dwayne Keys, who heads the South Providence Neighborhood Association. "This is not just some simple transit plan. There are underlying reasons for removing those who they do not want in this area. This pr...
Second meeting of LEOBoR Task Force suggests soft reboot, not big changes
"...LEOBoR is being invoked very infrequently… The sentiment of the overwhelming majority of chiefs I had spoken to was that what was going on with discipline with officers… was working." During the second meeting of the Rhode Island Sta...
PERA reviews recent Providence protests
"What I saw on Dean Street on July 23 was in my view a really excessive use of force against one part of a protest, against one side, if you will, of a public protest, where the other side was basically given free reign and allowed to do...
Local transit advocacy groups and other orgs oppose RIDOT bus hub plan
"Splitting up Kennedy Plaza is going to be a big inconvenience to our every day RIPTA riders and anyone with a two hour transfer. Our seniors, folks with mobility issues, parents with little children, the working public - we depend on RI...
At the Post Office Day of Action in Providence
"This is an effort by the President of the United States to privatize the Postal Service," said Representative Cicilline. "Probably to sell it off to a crony of his, in another example of corruption." Forty people gathered outside the Un...