Opinion
Editorial pieces from contributors and staff
Support Rhode Island single payer
The enormous costs of healthcare cannot be controlled by hospital closures and buyouts or cutting Medicaid funding. The solution is to pass legislation to create an improved medicare-for-all single payer system. While critics focus on “h...
Justine Caldwell to RIPR’s Scott MacKay: Women’s issues are not 'identity politics'
Scott MacKay’s column Whither the Democratic Party in 2018? creates a false dichotomy between "speaking to struggling workers" and issues related to women’s rights. The top priority of women’s rights advocates in the Rhode Island Democra...
The Uprising January 26, 2018
President Donald Trump tried to fire special counsel Robert Mueller last year, only backing off when his lawyer threatened to quit. In Davos, Trump declared the United States "open for business," which makes sense, since he's been giving...
Police are NOT the law: They shouldn't have to be reminded
On January 25, the Providence Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #3 issued a statement on Facebook and Twitter making a claim that the uptick in shootings this past week are a result of the January 1 implementation of the PCPRA, otherwise...
Greg Gerritt's State of the Union
Hello, I am Greg Gerritt, a Green Party member since 1984 and a resident of Rhode Island. The State of the Union is fragile, threatened by three interconnected issues, the expansion of the war machine, growing inequality, and climate cha...
Who Gets Heard at the State House?
Last April, Karen Baldwin lobbied the General Assembly about a new employment benefit law. There is nothing unusual about lobbyists—usually hired guns—in the State House. What was different was this time it was a direct support professio...
The biggest pimp is Uncle Sam
The real victims of sex trafficking are sex workers who have endured state-sponsored violence. Uncle Sam seems to think that some people deserve to live in extreme poverty. Yet sex workers know that sex work puts food on the table and wi...
What we fight for on the anniversary of the Women's March
On this, the anniversary of the first Women’s March on Washington, I have so much to share with you, and not much time to share it. Most importantly: Life isn’t fair. One of the few positive things to come out of the trump election is, w...
The Uprising, January 19, 2018
It's very important to be pragmatic and make the tough decisions when it comes to scooping $3.2 million in co-pays out of the pockets of Medicaid recipients to balance the budget. It's also important to dream big and roll the dice when i...
Come talk to the BOEM
At the behest of the head in the sand Orange Haired Monster and his band of enablers the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will be hosting a public meeting in Providence, as well as many other places around the country to give us...