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January 25: The World Says NO To The War In Yemen. Massachusetts Participates In The Global Day Of Action

January 25: The World Says NO To The War In Yemen. Massachusetts Participates In The Global Day Of Action

  On Monday January 25, Massachusetts residents will join our brothers and sisters in 17 countries around the world to lend our voices to the world’s cry for an end to the war on Yemen. We will demand that U.S. military contractors stop providing Saudi Arabia with bombs and other sophisticated machines of death that are wreaking havoc on Yemen’s[Read More…]

by January 23, 2021 0 comments Politics
Mock Wedding Pilot & Training Video Production Confirmed For The Rhode Island Coalition of Wedding & Event Professionals

Mock Wedding Pilot & Training Video Production Confirmed For The Rhode Island Coalition of Wedding & Event Professionals

  A Mock Wedding will be held at Ocean Cliff on Tuesday, January 26. Organized by the Rhode Island Coalition of Wedding & Event Professionals, this is a great partnership with Rhode Island Commerce as well as the Department of Health, Department of Business Regulation and the Providence Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau to put together a training video on[Read More…]

by January 23, 2021 0 comments Business
ACLU SUES TOWN OF PORTSMOUTH OVER POLITICAL SIGN BAN

ACLU SUES TOWN OF PORTSMOUTH OVER POLITICAL SIGN BAN

A federal lawsuit filed by ACLU of RI cooperating attorney Richard A. Sinapi challenges a Portsmouth town ordinance that bans the posting of political signs on residential property. The lawsuit is on behalf of town resident Michael DiPaola, who recently erected a series of signs on his property that express “his opinions criticizing perceived selective and corrupt code enforcement by[Read More…]

by January 22, 2021 0 comments Civil Liberties
ACLU CALLS FOR STRONGER ACTION TO ADDRESS “PERSISTENT” PROVIDENCE POLICE BODY CAMERA VIOLATIONS    

ACLU CALLS FOR STRONGER ACTION TO ADDRESS “PERSISTENT” PROVIDENCE POLICE BODY CAMERA VIOLATIONS   

  Citing repeated instances of police failing to activate their body cameras in high profile encounters with the public, the ACLU of Rhode Island has called on Providence Commissioner of Public Safety Steven Paré and Police Chief Hugh Clements, Jr. to take stronger steps, including establishing a more vigorous audit process, to hold officers responsible for violating the department’s body[Read More…]

by January 19, 2021 0 comments Civil Liberties
Republican Conservative Caucus: Cancel Culture Attempts the Impossible

Republican Conservative Caucus: Cancel Culture Attempts the Impossible

Today the RCC Chair again spoke out on the aftermath of the tragic event. Ms. Holmes-Brackett took note of legislation being filed in the US House and Senate to officially designate any MAGA themed organized action as Domestic Terrorism. “According to DC Journalist, Paul Sperry, Senator Durbin and Representative Schneider will introduce legislation to direct the Department of Justice to regard all[Read More…]

by January 14, 2021 0 comments Politics
RI Democratic Women's Caucus Executive Committee Asks Incoming Governor McKee to Appoint a Woman as Lieutenant Governor

RI Democratic Women’s Caucus Executive Committee Asks Incoming Governor McKee to Appoint a Woman as Lieutenant Governor

The Rhode Island Democratic Women’s Caucus Executive Committee is writing to encourage future Governor McKee to appoint a woman to be the next Lieutenant Governor. In Rhode Island, women make up over 51% of the population, yet upon Governor Raimondo’s departure, only 1 in 9 –a mere 11%– of top federal and state elected officials will be women. COVID-19 makes it[Read More…]

by January 14, 2021 0 comments Politics

A Palace Coup? John Phillips Mark Rutherford Conner Drigotas Discuss: Implications Of The Trump Riot

Coup? Insurrection? A Reflection Of Today’s Political Realities? It was an “Open Mic” kind of night, as Host Pat Ford is joined by 3 Libertarians O’ Note: John Phillips: Libertarian National Committee Regional Representative … Someone who can be described as a Conscience of The Liberty Movement Conner Drigotas: Director of Communications at a national law firm, & an Adjunct[Read More…]

by January 9, 2021 0 comments Politics

The Coalition Radio Focus On Business: Dave Levesque – Rhode Island’s Brewed Awakenings 12/29/20 PT2

Dave Levesque, Proprietor Extraordinaire of Brewed Awakenings, joined The Coalition Focus On Business for the second part of the evenings proceedings. Brewed’s history, their evolution from Coffee House to a full Dining Experience. And of course, the Covid Era Challenges facing any Food/Entertainment Business. We talk supply chains, employees, fixed costs and a provocative discussion of Rhode Island’s response to[Read More…]

by January 9, 2021 0 comments Business
What's Your Favorite Gina Raimondo Memory? Here Is Your Place To Comment. Let's Create A Memorial!

What’s Your Favorite Gina Raimondo Memory? Here Is Your Place To Comment. Let’s Create A Memorial!

  While all the other Media Poobahs are weighing in, The Coalition Radio Network wants to ask You! what your favorite Gina Raimondo moment was … So we’ve opened up the comment section, to create sort of a farewell card, on ode … a paen … an homage to the nearly 11! years that Candidate, then General Treasurer, now Governor,[Read More…]

by January 9, 2021 1 comment Politics
RIDE Education Commissh Bars NK School District From Punishing Children  ... For The “Sins of the Father”

RIDE Education Commissh Bars NK School District From Punishing Children … For The “Sins of the Father”

  Responding to an appeal brought on behalf of two North Kingstown children by ACLU of RI cooperating attorney H. Jefferson Melish, R.I. Commissioner of Education Angélica Infante-Green ruled today that the school district could not ban the children from in-school learning solely because their parents had let them attend school last month while their father was waiting for the results of[Read More…]

by December 29, 2020 0 comments Civil Liberties