Opinion
Editorial pieces from contributors and staff
Adah Bryan: We are not pawns, I am not a puppet...
Hello senators and representatives. My name is Adah Bryan, I am a freshman at Classical High School, and I am here to represent students from Providence High Schools. We, who in an act of defiance against what we feel are an abhorrent la...
The Uprising, March 16, 2018
"Debt is an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver." -Ambrose Bierce Welcome to The Uprising!, where the the only debt we care about is what we owe each other. 1a. Guns! Wednesday marked the largest student led pr...
On the fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre. On the morning of March 16, 1968, American forces entered the village and gathered up all living things: elderly men and women, infants in mothers’ arms, pigs, chickens, and water...
National Grid doesn't serve Rhode Island's interests, but there's an alternative
Mere months after 150,000 Rhode Islanders lost power, many for several days, National Grid had the gall to demand a rate increase from the very customers who they had failed. In its filing with the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commissio...
The Uprising, March 9, 2018
“In the times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while fools build barriers.” -T'Challa Welcome to The Uprising. Let's dive into the deep end. 1a. A storm hit the State House on Tuesday. Hundreds of people, many wearing the yellow tee sh...
Time to red-flag the Red Flag Gun Bill
Hardly any state bills this year are as likely to increase racial and other discrimination as the awful Red Flag Gun Bill (H7688 and S2492), which is scheduled for a public hearing today. The bill claims to be about removing guns from pe...
The Uprising, March 2, 2018
“Downpressor man, where you gonna run to, all along that day?” -Peter Tosh Welcome to the Uprising: 1a. On Wednesday the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) was in Providence as part of their coastal state tour designed to sell the...
The Uprising, February 23, 2018
'We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.' -William Wonka, industrialist The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School dominate the news and have single-handedly changed the tenor of the gun debate in the...
Nick Autiello’s disturbing views on the George Zimmerman Case: Should Democrats trust his recent “conversion” to progressivism?
Nick Autiello, the former Republican operative who’s running as a Democrat to be my State Senator, has come under heavy criticism for the racially charged way he talked about President Obama on Facebook. For me, as a young Black man livi...
The Uprising, February 16, 2018
“We will not take shortcuts on the path to righteousness.” - Commander Michael Burnham It's The Uprising for February 15, 2018. What's happening you ask? Well... 1. Immigration: “While eight of my Republican colleagues did the right thin...