Opinion
Editorial pieces from contributors and staff
Jaychele Schenck: Gun control from the perspective of a youth activist, a poem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wbxta1yK0o As a youth, I have been told that activism is a hobby As a youth, I have been told that I am not capable of influencing policy As a youth, I have been told that gun violence is a grown-up issue...
Will Rhode Island limit non-compete agreements?
“Want to work? Sign on the line and don’t move.” Thus reads the headline of a 1998 Providence Journal story on non-compete agreements in Rhode Island. When Ann Marie Warren, then a 42 year old Hopkinton resident, accepted a job at a tech...
The Uprising! June 1, 2019
“We are here today in frustration and outrage at our Senators and Governor Gina Raimondo for not coming out against Invenergy‘s proposed power plant in Burrillville.”- Kathy Martley, Burrillville BASE What did UpriseRI cover this week? I...
Audrey O'Donnell: We will not stand to watch our rights slip away as our world becomes more hostile to our bodies
Reproductive rights activist Audrey O'Donnell speaking at a youth-lead, student protest at the Rhode Island State House last Thursday: "On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court determined in the passage of Roe v Wade that acc...
The Uprising! May 25, 2019
“They say they are pro-life but do not believe the world is dying. They ignore the vanishing landscape as they continue to deregulate businesses so that they are able to regulate our bodies so they can exploit what we have left.“That’s b...
Nancy Green: Cheap and easy virtue with the conscience clause
People forget history so quickly. The definition of conscience in ‘conscience clause’ is from the Bizzaro World dictionary. Conscience used to mean you walked the walk and sacrificed. Now a militant Christianity married to politics gives...
The Uprising! May 17, 2019
"Contrary to the rhetoric, women are not deranged murderers who would carry a fetus for 8 or 9 months before deciding to kill it..."-Rhode Island Senator Dawn Euer (Democrat, District 13, Newport, Jamestown) It isn't surprising that the...
Andy Boardman: Middle class families struggle with lunch costs, too
If you didn’t hear about Warwick’s short-lived school lunch policy in local news, perhaps you read about it in the New York Times, NBC, NPR or another national outlet. On May 5, Warwick Public Schools announced it would begin implementin...
Nykia Leach: Abortion denial is a public health issue
The Reproductive Health Care Act (RHCA) to safeguard legal access to abortion at the state level despite federal overturn of Roe v Wade was passed (44-30) in the House. Now, the bill has stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee. With th...
Reverend David Helfer: Forced motherhood isn’t a choice for Rhode Island
I wondered, when I was younger, would my mother have had me if she had other options? Me and my two most immediate siblings were all born pre-Roe v Wade, all within a 4 year span. My mom, by the time the youngest was born, would have bee...