Vigil Outside Wyatt Detention Facility Honors Lives Lost in Detention and Incarceration
May 5, 2023

Vigil Outside Wyatt Detention Facility Honors Lives Lost in Detention and Incarceration

Two dozen people gathered outside the Wyatt Detention Facility to honor the lives lost in detention and...

Organizational response condemning Brown’s naming of the Lindemann Performing Arts Center
March 14, 2023

Organizational response condemning Brown’s naming of the Lindemann Performing Arts Center

The choice to reify the Lindrmanns, who’ve not only caused but continue to cause ongoing harm, is...

AMOR and FANG disrupt Invesco shareholder meeting, arrests made
May 13, 2022

AMOR and FANG disrupt Invesco shareholder meeting, arrests made

Invesco is the major investor in the Wyatt Detention Facility, and the key player in keeping the...

Community groups repeat call to remove cops from schools
February 15, 2022

Community groups repeat call to remove cops from schools

“Community investment and involvement is a long term preventative practice that supports the emotional, social, and mental...

Never Again RI brings battle against The Wyatt to the House floor
June 30, 2021

Never Again RI brings battle against The Wyatt to the House floor

“While our elected officials chose to ignore the Wyatt Detention Center, it tripled its population of ICE...

Immigrant Coalition rallies to get driver’s licenses for undocumented residents
June 28, 2021

Immigrant Coalition rallies to get driver’s licenses for undocumented residents

“This bill will allow students to get to school. It will allow workers to get to their...

FANG announces end to ICE contracts in Bristol County, Massachusetts
May 20, 2021

FANG announces end to ICE contracts in Bristol County, Massachusetts

“Contracts should burn. Prisons should burn. We need to continue to forge our own relationships with each...

Central Falls lawmakers introduce legislation to shut down the Wyatt
March 5, 2021

Central Falls lawmakers introduce legislation to shut down the Wyatt

“Our experimentation with private prisons has been a failure,” said Representative Giraldo. “Not only do private prisons...

Demonstrators blockade roads to Wyatt Detention Center, Demand closure of the facility
November 7, 2020

Demonstrators blockade roads to Wyatt Detention Center, Demand closure of the facility

“The existence of the Wyatt is inhumane and violent. People detained by ICE have written to us,...

We Keep Us Safe: The election day march to shut down the Wyatt
November 4, 2020

We Keep Us Safe: The election day march to shut down the Wyatt

“No matter who wins [the election] today or in the coming days, we will still show up...

After peaceful Justice for Jhamal rally, protesters clash with police in Providence
December 13, 2020

After peaceful Justice for Jhamal rally, protesters clash with police in Providence

“We’re here to be Jhamal’s voice in all of this,” said Bernard Tribble, Jhamal Gonsalves’ stepfather to...

AMOR protests forced sterilizations outside the Wyatt and the ACI
September 24, 2020

AMOR protests forced sterilizations outside the Wyatt and the ACI

“Throughout history, forced sterilizations have been used as a means of controlling undesirable populations, immigrants, people of...

Rhode Island Latino Arts announces weekly pláticas about Latinx experience
September 17, 2020

Rhode Island Latino Arts announces weekly pláticas about Latinx experience

“The line-up of speakers include activists, theater-makers, scholars, and artists. This series grew out of the context...

DARE uses street theater to highlight gentrification and displacement
September 11, 2020

DARE uses street theater to highlight gentrification and displacement

“Actually,” said DARE’s Terri Wright, in the role of the developer Omni Group, “If you want low-income...

Community groups push for ‘Justice Budget;’ call for affordable housing, economic justice, and defunding prisons and police
July 20, 2020

Community groups push for ‘Justice Budget;’ call for affordable housing, economic justice, and defunding prisons and police

“If Rhode Island’s elected leaders are serious about racial justice and protecting all of the state’s residents...

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