Tag: Sheldon Whitehouse
Petition against Communion Denial gathers 11,000 Signatures
Over 11,000 people have signed a petition urging the priest of a West Warwick church to stop denying Communion, and other important Christian rituals, to...
Rhode Islanders rally against war with Iran
"The same shit's happening all over again," said Nancy Hood from East Bay Citizens for Peace. "We can not have this...
Low-income Rhode Island families and seniors are missing over 11 million meals annually says...
"Right now, 148,000 Rhode Islanders are enrolled in SNAP. One proposal by the Trump Administration, aimed primarily, believe it or not,...
Joe Biden confronted by climate activist outside fundraiser on East Side of Providence
As former Vice President and current Presidential candidate Joe Biden left his car in the pouring rain to enter the East Side...
The entire Rhode Island delegation signed on to the War Powers Act for Yemen
No Endless War and Excessive Militarism (NEWEM) is very excited and pleased about the events of the last seventeen days, a period...
Demand Progress demands Reed and Whitehouse vote to end war in Yemen
Demand Progress is urging Rhode Island Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, both Democrats, to vote to stop United States involvement in the War...
Whitehouse and Reed asked to vote to stop United States involvement in the War...
Peace activists visited the offices of United States Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, Rhode Island) and Jack Reed (Democrat, Rhode Island) to deliver a petition...
Speaker Mattiello shares his current thinking on reproductive rights and codifying Roe v Wade
Rhode Island Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello has used his position to prevent the codification of Roe v Wade into Rhode Island State...
Allan Fung in Burrillville
Saying that he would put his "put my environmental record against this Governor's any day," Cranston Mayor Allan Fung, the Republican challenger to incumbent...
Test riding RIPTA’s new electric buses
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) has leased three new all electric buses for use in Providence. "This marks a major step toward a...