The Rhode Island FY2022 Budget: The Unveiling!
A Complete Overview of The 2022 “McKee” Budget … More To Come!
Articles by: Pat Ford
STATEMENT BY AARP RHODE ISLAND STATE DIRECTOR KATHLEEN CONNELL RE: VACCINATION
AARP Rhode Island is still waiting for a more transparent, age-prioritized state vaccination plan that includes an efficient and effective centralized registration and appointment system. Our first call for transparency was on January 8. Subsequently AARP, our members and thousands of other Rhode Islanders have sent letters and petitions to Governors Raimondo and McKee on age prioritization and a centralized[Read More…]
Grieving Mother Of Inmate Who Died From As Yet Unexplained Circumstances Holds Press Conference
Marie Franco, Mother of Jose Franco, held a press conference alongside her lawyer, David Strachman, and community organizers from the RI COVID Response: Decarcerate NOW Coalition, outside the Rhode Island ACI Medium Security Prison Marie’s son, Jose, unexpectedly passed in RIDOC custody nearly a month ago. He was found dead in his cell on February 9th. He was 46 years[Read More…]
Education Activist Stephanie Meuse Explains It All To You – On The Coalition Radio Network!
Stephanie Meuse … Teacher … Activist testifies to the Actual performance of Rhode Island Schools during the Pandemic. We talk Pods … Social Distancing in the classroom … Curriculum … Substitute Teachers, and of course, RICAS. Listen/Watch to this breathtakingly, errr, different perspective … as well as a provocative response to the lecture delivered by School Superintendent Infante-Green at this[Read More…]
Mass Peace Action/Veterans For Peace-The Raytheon Anti War Campaign Take To The Streets of Cambridge
Demanding Peace By Action. The Raytheon Anti War Campaign, a broad coalition of Peace Activists demonstrate in Cambridge Massachusetts to call attention to American sponsored atrocities in Yemen, at the hands of the Raytheon Corporation. For these folks, social media is performed live, in person, on the streets of Boston, Cambridge, & literally anywhere they can provide witness. Recent Videos/Appearances[Read More…]
MARIE FRANCO, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, & ORGANIZERS DEMAND ANSWERS
Marie Franco will be holding a press conference alongside her lawyer, David Strachman, and community organizers from the RI COVID Response: Decarcerate NOW Coalition who have been protesting substandard medical care and inhumane conditions in the prison. The press conference will be held at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Facility Medium Security Building at 2PM Sunday March 7, 2021.[Read More…]
Massachusetts Peace Groups Rally To Send Message To President Biden About Yemen
Massachusetts Peace Groups Rally to Send a message to President Biden about Yemen Yemen can’t wait: Keep your promise: Stop Supporting the Saudi attack on Yemen End all support for the “pariah” regime in Saudi Arabia When: Saturday, March 6 From Noon To 1PM Where: Fresh Pond Shopping Center (Cambridge) Walkway What: In-person Rally With Masks & Social[Read More…]
RIDOT Honcho Alviti Uses Rhode Island Capitol TV To Promote Private Industry: Conflict of Interest?
For years, wagging tongues have referred to Rhode Island’s Capitol TV as the tiny states very own Pravda, the infamous Russian News Agency that offered distorted, self indulgent views of Brezhnev era appartchiks as noble warriors on the front lines of building Soviet Worker’s Paradise. In it’s own Monty Python-esque fashion, Capital TV would elevate an obscure back-bencher to Herculean[Read More…]
FAMILY OF JOSE FRANCO, FORMERLY INCARCERATED PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS CONDUCT A CAR RALLY IN HIS MEMORY, DEMANDING ANSWERS
Formerly incarcerated people, families of incarcerated people, and accomplices are rallying in cars circling the ACI facilities on Sunday, 2/28, 3 PM in solidarity with the family of Jose Franco. (Meeting Point: Rhode Island RMV 600 New London Avenue Cranston RI) Jose died in RIDOC custody on 2/9. His family was not notified by RIDOC about his death, and[Read More…]
Governor In Waiting McKee Begins To Stake Out Position On Second Amendment Legislation
In a cycle that began in early February, responding to a detailed (see links below) set of questions/request for analysis on his positions on a variety of pending gun legislation, “Governor In Waiting” Dan McKee has finally begun to “flesh out”, in specifics where he stands. Andrea Palagi, the Lt Governors Director of Communications issued the formal response: “The Lt.[Read More…]
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