Healthy Planet Cleaning Co-Op (HPCC) was co-founded in May, 2018, incorporated under new legislation enacted in Rhode Island in January of this year. This is a new model of democratically owned business where the workers …
On Saturday, the Workers Cooperative Academy graduated its second class in a short ceremony held at Navigant Credit Union in Central Falls. 19 people graduated the class, and may be soon starting new cooperative businesses …
Progresso Latino and the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU RI) have sent a letter to Central Falls Mayor James Diossa and the Central Falls City Council urging the repeal of the City’s …
Incumbent Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo was challenged at a campaign event by members from at least four different environmental groups over her support for Invenergy‘s $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power …
Rhode Island State Senator Gayle Goldin (Democrat, District 3, Providence) held a press conference outside the State House Friday morning with a group of people she called, “[g]rassroots Democrats who have been in the trenches …
On August 10th Cranston Mayor Allan Fung announced his intention to expand the role of the Cranston Police Department in identifying individuals detained by police to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE). …
The Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence (RICAGV) has the support of dozens of crucial Rhode Island organizations as well as Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence and Rhode Island Mayors in their campaign to pass …
The Rhode Island Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America held a press conference at the Rhode Island State House on Thursday, celebrating the imminent House passage of the red flag bill …
Providence County is the only location in the United States that will be conducting a test run ahead of the 2020 Census.
Ironically, despite all the concerns about student safety, when a thousand students walked out of their high schools and and held a rally inside the Rhode Island State House, they moved themselves from a place …
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