Opinion
Editorial pieces from contributors and staff
An open letter to Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza on privatizing our water supply
Dear Mayor Elorza, On Monday night, April 23, 2018, you were a guest at my neighborhood association's annual meeting, where you spent a few minutes summarizing your priorities for our wonderful city and shared home. One of the priorities...
The Uprising April 20, 2018
The mechanisms, i.e. political parties, that we have that are supposed to organize and express discontent are, of course, precisely the organs that require the money that only the dominant groups possess. - Sheldon Wolin The Rhode Island...
The Uprising, April 13, 2018
"Republicans and Democrats alike represent corporate interests - and uphold the nuclear family as an institution that is central to capitalist society. Preserving the institution of the nuclear family, and most importantly women's unpaid...
The Uprising! April 6, 2018
"For humanity's sake, why don't you give those girls a living wage?" - Diana Prince (1942) Welcome to The Uprising! This is your source for a full week's supply of social justice-y news. 1a. Immigration On Monday Rhode Island Governor Gi...
The Uprising, March 30, 2018
"Your Silver Shoes will carry you over the desert. If you had known their power you could have gone back to your Aunt Em the very first day you came to this country." -Glinda Welcome to The Uprising!, your weekly update of social, econom...
Our Senators seem fine with endless war and death
Rhode Island Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed have decided to turn a blind eye towards the humanitarian disaster occurring in Yemen as a result of both Saudi bombing and blockade. They voted with Donald Trump and the GOP to defe...
Wake Up!! by Halima Ibrahim
Hello Everyone. My name is Halima Ibrahim. I am a 10th grader at the Islamic School of Rhode Island and the youth representative for Women’s March Rhode Island. When I originally sat down to write this speech, I found it very difficult t...
The Uprising, March 23, 2018
“At the edge of our hope, at the end of our time, we have chosen not only to believe in ourselves but in each other. Today there's not a man or woman in here that shall stand alone. Not today. Today we face the monsters that are at our d...
Testimony Project: Rhode Island Franchisee Association against a living wage
Welcome to UpriseRI's Testimony Project. This project will make public and easily accessible the written testimony of the various lobbying groups that work the Rhode Island State House. The following is the written testimony provided to...
Reed and Whitehouse fail to stand against Trump on Yemen
The vote of United States Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed on March 20th to allow the continuation of war in Yemen without Congressional oversight is both outrageous and heartbreaking. Senator Bernie Sanders had a strong Resolut...