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Reed and Whitehouse protested against for extreme military budget
"Senator Reed has single-handedly gutted Senator Gillibrand's very important bill which would have protected our servicewomen and servicemen in the military from sexual assault," said Rhode Island resident Susannah Halloway. "He did it behind closed doors. He did it after he indicated he would not do it, so he's a liar."
Bristol-Warren schools again under fire for racist policies
"Black students were disproportionately suspended by immense margins compared to their fellow white students," writes the ACLU of Rhode Island, after analyzing the data.
Senator Mendes holds rally ahead of second night outside RI State House
"We know that the moral will to make it happen has never been evident [at the State House]," said Senator Mendes. "They will only do it with public pressure and under a unified voice about what our values are. They have shown us who they are, and now we're going to show them who we are."
First payments in PVD Guaranteed Income Program already effecting positive change
"I'm sure I'm not the only one who works in health care who has the intentions of helping people," said Ms. Perry. "We all know how moms are. If we can get us all up on our feet, a little bit better, we would be in a really great place despite all of the coronavirus."
Senator Mendes to sleep in a tent outside State House until leadership acts on homelessness crisis
"There are a lot of ways to address this crisis if state leaders had the moral will to do it," noted Senator Mendes.
Was a rally against the Woonsocket Mayor and City Council deliberately disrupted by city officials?
Workers from the Woonsocket Highway Department were in the park with at least three trucks and multiple leaf blowers. The leaf blowers and the trucks were so loud that the rally moved from one area of the park to a stage to hold their rally, only to have the truck, and the leaf blowers, follow them... Promptly at 2:30pm, when the rally ended, the trucks departed.
State House holds first meeting of a Commission on Sex Work
"For public testimony it's very important that we get comfortable with talking about the issues in our society and not hiding behind language that seems more appropriate or more innocent," said Justice Gaines. "And that's especially true when we're dealing with populations - women, trans folks, queer folks, people of color - who often don't get to see themselves in the language that's used in many of these spaces."
Lawsuit challenges ACI prisoner’s eight months in solitary confinement for free speech activity
“I spoke out against conditions at the ACI and I was punished with almost eight months in solitary confinement," said Joseph Shepard. "Now that I’m out of prison, I’m speaking out again to make it clear that incarcerated people have a right to share information about misconduct in our state prisons.”
Bristol Students Are Joining Providence Students in the Fight to Bring Gen-Z Beliefs into School Systems
"When given an opportunity to embrace the Black and brown students in our school, you shut it down, because it didn't suit all the students. 'All Lives Matter'… is what you're saying," said student Luciano Camara, to the Bristol Warren School Committee.
RI Poor People’s Campaign demands that Reed and Whitehouse pass Build Back Better Act
"A budget is a moral document, and I’m a little bit tired hearing that we don’t have the money to pay for basic needs for people, but we have billions of dollars for the military-industrial complex," said Angela Howard McParland, a Justice Resource Manager for Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. "I’m a little bit tired of hearing that we don’t have the money to give people housing, to give people paid family leave, when so many other countries have no problem doing this.”