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Home Childcare Providers and RIDHS Announce Key Components of Ground-Breaking New Contract Settlement (English/Spanish Translations)

Home Childcare Providers and RIDHS Announce Key Components of Ground-Breaking New Contract Settlement (English/Spanish Translations)

  Today, Rhode Island home childcare providers who are members of SEIU 1199 New England, together with representatives from the RI Department of Human Services, announced they reached an important new contract settlement agreement on December 3, 2022, after nearly a year of bargaining. The new contract agreement represents important progress for hundreds of home childcare providers, whose critical service[Read More…]

by — December 20, 2022 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
Disastrous Pawtucket Schools Star Report Issued By Rhode Island Department of Education

Disastrous Pawtucket Schools Star Report Issued By Rhode Island Department of Education

  It was another difficult day for the City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island School District. Hard on the heels that the influential New England Association of Schools & Colleges (NEASC) had issued a formal accreditation warning for apparently dangerous operating conditions at Shea High School, the Rhode Island Department of Education issued its long awaited 2022 School Accountability & Improvement[Read More…]

by — December 19, 2022 — 2 comments — Civil Liberties
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Calls on @Twitter to Restore Accounts Of Suspended Journalists

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Calls on @Twitter to Restore Accounts Of Suspended Journalists

  Twitter should immediately reinstate the journalists whose accounts it suspended without notice and explicitly commit to practices that defend a free and independent media, Jodie Ginsberg, president of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said in a statement Friday. Responding to news reports that Twitter had suspended the accounts of at least six U.S.-based journalists who cover the platform, Ginsberg said: “We are[Read More…]

by — December 18, 2022 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
Committee To Protect Journalists: Journalist imprisonments Reach 30-Year High

Committee To Protect Journalists: Journalist imprisonments Reach 30-Year High

  Dramatic rise in arrests makes Iran world’s worst jailer of journalists in 2022 From CPJ-The Committee To Protect Journalists The number of journalists imprisoned worldwide is the highest ever recorded in the 30 years that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has produced its prison census, the organization said Wednesday. A record 363 journalists were behind bars as of[Read More…]

by — December 14, 2022 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties, Human Rights - The World
ACLU OF RHODE ISLAND AND CENTER FOR JUSTICE SEEK COURT INJUNCTION AGAINST REMOVAL OF CAMPING PROTESTERS FROM STATE HOUSE GROUNDS

ACLU OF RHODE ISLAND AND CENTER FOR JUSTICE SEEK COURT INJUNCTION AGAINST REMOVAL OF CAMPING PROTESTERS FROM STATE HOUSE GROUNDS

          Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island and the R.I. Center for Justice have today filed a complaint on behalf of two dozen homeless individuals to allow them to continue camping at the State House to protest the lack of adequate housing for individuals in Rhode Island.   The complaint supplements one[Read More…]

by — December 13, 2022 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties, Politics
Providence Public Schools Respond To Providence Teachers Unions Social Media / Inaccurate Depicture Of School Closings/Teacher Layoffs

Providence Public Schools Respond To Providence Teachers Unions Social Media / Inaccurate Depicture Of School Closings/Teacher Layoffs

Providence Public School District Spokesperson Nicholas Domings spoke out this weekend about the growing controversy generated by Tweets from The Providence Public Teachers Union ….   From The Desk of Nicholas Domings, Spokesperson for Providence Public Schools: Maribeth Calabro and Jeremy Sencer have once again shown their true colors by running to social media to advance their own agenda of sewing turmoil,[Read More…]

by — December 13, 2022 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties, Politics, Urban
Caught In Providence! The Providence Driver’s License Restoration Program At Chief Judge Frank Caprio’s Providence Municipal Court!

Caught In Providence! The Providence Driver’s License Restoration Program At Chief Judge Frank Caprio’s Providence Municipal Court!

  Post Hearing Q&A   Mayor Jorge O. Elorza joined partners Jennifer L. Wood, Executive Director, R.I. Center for Justice, Nick Horton, Co-Executive Director, OpenDoors, Elsy Santana, Care Coordinator, OpenDoors & Bret Jacob, Providence Director of Recovery Programs and LGBTQIA+ Liaison from the Providence Driver’s License Restoration Program at a Chief Judge Frank Caprio‘s Providence Municipal Court hearing, as he[Read More…]

by — December 9, 2022 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
ACLU: CITING “SERIOUS LEGAL AND POLICY CONCERNS,” ACLU CALLS ON GOVERNOR TO RESCIND NOTICE KICKING PEOPLE OFF STATE HOUSE GROUNDS

ACLU: CITING “SERIOUS LEGAL AND POLICY CONCERNS,” ACLU CALLS ON GOVERNOR TO RESCIND NOTICE KICKING PEOPLE OFF STATE HOUSE GROUNDS

  From The Rhode Island Chapter of The American Civil Liberties Union: The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island has called on Governor Daniel McKee to rescind a notice requiring all persons currently camping in front of the State House to vacate their property by 9 AM tomorrow or else face arrest.  In a letter emailed to the Governor this evening,[Read More…]

by — December 9, 2022 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
Swift & Furious Reaction To The Biden Administration’s US Department of Justice “Suggestion of Immunity” For Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman In The Murder Of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi

Swift & Furious Reaction To The Biden Administration’s US Department of Justice “Suggestion of Immunity” For Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman In The Murder Of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi

  The International Human Rights Community continues to recoil in horror with the disclosure that the United States Department of Justice issued a “Suggestion of Immunity”, after the elevation to the title of Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, of Mohammed bin Salman, largely recognized as the Architect of execution of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi.     Then 2020 Presidential Candidate Joe[Read More…]

by — November 24, 2022 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties, Human Rights - The World
Pawtucket Director Of Administration Zelazo Snaps Back At Councilman Gregor Over Park Appointments!

Pawtucket Director Of Administration Zelazo Snaps Back At Councilman Gregor Over Park Appointments!

  City of Pawtucket Chief Of Staff Dylan Zelazo is not happy. The “Non Factual” reference was employed this week in a communication to the Pawtucket City Council. (See Below) In a prior City Council Meeting, Councilman Clovis Gregor, citing the absence of Ward 5 representation on Pawtucket City Boards, in particular the Parks Commission, moved to deny Daniel Imbrascio[Read More…]

by — November 22, 2022 — 0 comments — Civil Liberties
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