Treasurer Magaziner urges Wyatt bondholder Invesco to address community concerns over prison
February 1, 2020

Treasurer Magaziner urges Wyatt bondholder Invesco to address community concerns over prison

“As one of Rhode Island’s business partners, you know the importance of maintaining positive relationships with the...

Advocates call on Citizens Bank to stop financing private prisons and detention centers
November 14, 2019

Advocates call on Citizens Bank to stop financing private prisons and detention centers

“The access to capital that Citizens is providing companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group allows them to...

Vigil for International Migrants Day
December 19, 2018

Vigil for International Migrants Day

Standing Up for Racial Justice Rhode Island (SURJ) braved the windchill to hold a vigil outside the...

Never Again: An Antifascist Assembly for Jewish Lives
October 31, 2019

Never Again: An Antifascist Assembly for Jewish Lives

“Antisemitism,” writes Noraa Kaplan, organizer of Never Again: An Antifascist Assembly for Jewish Lives, “is not a...

Guns and ICE among concerns at Cranston City Council city-wide candidate forum
January 19, 2020

Guns and ICE among concerns at Cranston City Council city-wide candidate forum

The six city-wide candidates for Cranston City Council were at the Cranston Public Library on Thursday for...

Community support grows for Cranston man facing deportation to Cambodia
October 18, 2018

Community support grows for Cranston man facing deportation to Cambodia

Sene Sem was born in a refugee camp and was resettled into the United States when he...

Providence Mayoral Debate sparks teacher protests
January 19, 2020

Providence Mayoral Debate sparks teacher protests

As members of the Providence Teachers Unions chanted “We want contracts!” outside, the Downtown Neighborhood Association held...

Cranston Mayor Fung called out on his ‘Trumpian, divisive, racist, fear-based campaigning’
August 28, 2018

Cranston Mayor Fung called out on his ‘Trumpian, divisive, racist, fear-based campaigning’

Members of the Cranston Action Network (CAN) and allied groups rallied outside Cranston City Hall Monday night...

Cranston Action Network to rally against Fung’s ‘anti-immigrant fearmongering’ at Cranston City Hall
August 26, 2018

Cranston Action Network to rally against Fung’s ‘anti-immigrant fearmongering’ at Cranston City Hall

Declaring that, “Cranston and Rhode Island don’t stand with Fung’s Trumpian divisive, racist, fear-based campaigning, nor with...

Video: Officers topple FANG tripods blocking entrance to Bristol County Jail
January 19, 2020

Video: Officers topple FANG tripods blocking entrance to Bristol County Jail

The videos and pictures are disturbing. Yesterday The FANG Collective erected blockades to obstruct the entrances of...

Entrances to Bristol County Jail blocked by demonstrators over ICE connection
August 20, 2018

Entrances to Bristol County Jail blocked by demonstrators over ICE connection

On Monday afternoon multiple blockades were erected to obstruct the entrances of the Bristol County Jail and...

First Unitarian Church of Providence declares itself a Sanctuary Church
October 31, 2019

First Unitarian Church of Providence declares itself a Sanctuary Church

“We will not be a petty and cruel people,” said Reverend Liz Lerner Maclay, minister of the...

Protesters demand end to family separation at Homeland Security office in Warwick
June 3, 2018

Protesters demand end to family separation at Homeland Security office in Warwick

Over fifty people showed up outside the United States Customs and Border Protection offices on Jefferson Boulevard...

Protest in Plymouth for Cuthbert Bonnie, father taken by ICE
May 1, 2018

Protest in Plymouth for Cuthbert Bonnie, father taken by ICE

A protest was held Monday evening, as close to the Plymouth County Correctional Facility as police would...

First Unitarian Church of Providence seeking donations to build Sanctuary Church space
October 31, 2019

First Unitarian Church of Providence seeking donations to build Sanctuary Church space

The First Unitarian Church of Providence held a vote and decided to become a Sanctuary Church. They...

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