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Residents of condemned apartment complex will not be homeless
"We only have a matter of hours before we are literally homeless," said Abreu. "We have been placed in this situation because of negligence by management."
Groups threaten lawsuit over school year beginning on Rosh Hashanah
"It's extremely sad that at this time of rising antisemitism we have to meet to fight this needless display of discrimination against Jewish students," said Rabbi Barry Dolinger, President of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Rhode Island.
The Wyatt Detention Center continues operation on shaky financial ground
The Chair of the CFDFC admitted that the Wyatt Detention Center is “not in a good enough cash flow position to be paying anyone, honestly.”
In response to Sayles Street incident, activists rally in the rain to defund police, remove SROs, repeal LEOBoR, and more
"I don't see what road we take to make [the police] change," said Justice Ameer Gaines, the Queer Justice Coordinator at Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM). "What I do know is that during my time in Providence, the most effective strategy has been disruption. If they can't respect our dignity, then we don't need to respect their comfort, we don't need to respect their meetings, we don't need to respect their offices, we don't need to respect their professionalism, we don't need to respect their processes, and we don't need to respect their policies - They need to change them."
Black Lives Matter RI calls Sayles St incident 'one of the worst assaults in Rhode Island history'
"Me and the neighbor were having words in the street," said Juan, 17-years old. "The police rushed into the yard, grabbed me, brought me to the middle of the street, started beating me and my cousin. Pepper sprayed us. They were saying I was hitting them when I had my hands up. They locked us in the back of a paddy wagon, over 100 degrees, no AC. I'm burning, saying I can't breathe… It felt like torture…"
PVD city officials comment of Sayles Street incident
"…any officer or anyone on the scene who acted inappropriate, who was unprofessional, or did not comply with our stated goal of deescalations, is going to be held accountable," said Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza.
Parents hold press conference after police beat, pepper spray and arrest their children
"They had us in the back of a van for almost an hour," said Zyrray. The temperature reached the high 90s on Tuesday. "We're yelling, we're screaming… Just open the doors! You don't even have to turn on the AC. It's hot, just open the doors. If we leave a dog in a car for friggin' 20 minutes we're getting arrested."
Providence Police officers pepper sprayed and beat our children, say Moms
UpriseRI spoke with four mothers, Taffii Moore, Nicole Blakely, Alynzea Quaranta and Kayla Lopes, whose children were assaulted by police. And not only pepper-sprayed - but beaten, held inside the back of a police van with no ventilation or air conditioning in 95 degree weather, dragged in the street, misgendered, and more.
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 detainees - from 34 to over 100 in June alone - and is poised to further expand its population," writes Never Again RI in a statement. "Never Again Action Rhode Island is committed to making it impossible for legislators to ignore their moral obligation to end the practice of ICE detention in our state."
Coalition presents affordable housing plan that approaches the scale of the problem
"Over half of Rhode Island renters are cost burdened by housing and Black and Latinx Rhode Islanders disproportionately bear that burden," said Harrison Tuttle, Executive Director at BLM RI PAC. "We have an unprecedented amount of money coming in from the federal government. I hope Governor McKee does not squander his chance to make housing truly affordable for every Rhode Islander."