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Please Share with Unhoused/Those Facing Heating Challenges: Providence Residents Urged to Exercise Caution Ahead of Frigid Weekend Conditions

Please Share with Unhoused/Those Facing Heating Challenges: Providence Residents Urged to Exercise Caution Ahead of Frigid Weekend Conditions

  Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza and Providence Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) Director Clara Decerbo are warning residents to take precautions as dangerously cold temperatures and high winds are forecasted for Friday evening through the weekend. In these predicted temperatures, frostbite can occur on exposed skin in as little as ten minutes and the extreme cold temperatures can cause hypothermia. PEMA[Read More…]

by — December 23, 2022 — 0 comments — Politics
Congressman Cicilline Update: War Crimes Jursidiction / POTUS Annual Audits / Anti Trust Enforcement Budget

Congressman Cicilline Update: War Crimes Jursidiction / POTUS Annual Audits / Anti Trust Enforcement Budget

    From The Desk of Rhode Island Congressman David Cicilline (D1): House Sends Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill toBroaden War Crimes Jurisdiction to President’s Desk Today, following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s joint address to Congress Wednesday evening, the House of Representatives voted to update war crimes law to ensure that alleged war criminals cannot find safe harbor in the United States. Passed[Read More…]

by — December 23, 2022 — 0 comments — Human Rights - The World, Politics, United States Congress
Secretary of State Antony Blinken Delivers Year End Remarks to the Media at the Department of State!

Secretary of State Antony Blinken Delivers Year End Remarks to the Media at the Department of State!

    In the first year of our administration, we focused on rebuilding and revitalizing America’s alliances and partnerships, weaving them together as well in new coalitions of common purpose.  As you all saw, we reinvigorated our engagement with NATO, with the European Union, the United Nations, the G7, ASEAN, the OECD.  We elevated and strengthened the Quad.  We created[Read More…]

by — December 22, 2022 — 0 comments — Human Rights - The World
Statement: Secretary of State Sanctioning Iranian Officials Connected to Serious Human Rights Abuses

Statement: Secretary of State Sanctioning Iranian Officials Connected to Serious Human Rights Abuses

Statement From Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State Since protests erupted across Iran in September, the Iranian regime has responded with ruthless crackdowns on peaceful protestors in an effort to suppress the Iranian people’s voices.  Iranian authorities have killed hundreds of peaceful protestors, including dozens of children, and arbitrarily detained thousands, in addition to using sexual violence[Read More…]

by — December 21, 2022 — 0 comments — Human Rights - The World
Rhode Island Council on Elementary and Secondary Education Approves $330 Million in School Construction Projects

Rhode Island Council on Elementary and Secondary Education Approves $330 Million in School Construction Projects

Approval provides funding for facilities improvements at 13 schools across four districts; Central Falls to build first new high school in nearly 100 years      The Rhode Island Council on Elementary and Secondary Education tonight voted to approve more than $330 million in new school construction projects across Rhode Island, allowing for educational enhancements, health and safety improvements, and five new or like new[Read More…]

by — December 21, 2022 — 0 comments — Politics
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
RIPTA (AKA The RIPTER) to Run Sunday/Holiday Service Schedule on Sunday, December 25, 2022 and Sunday, January 1, 2023

RIPTA (AKA The RIPTER) to Run Sunday/Holiday Service Schedule on Sunday, December 25, 2022 and Sunday, January 1, 2023

  All RIPTA Offices Will be Closed on Monday, December 26, 2022, & Monday, January 2, 2023 The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) will operate all fixed-route bus service on a Sunday/Holiday schedule on Sunday, December 25, 2022, in observance of Christmas Day, and Sunday, January 1, 2023, in observance of New Year’s Day.  RIPTA will run regular fixed-route[Read More…]

by — December 20, 2022 — 0 comments — Business
Is The Rhode Island Department of Education Blocking Critical Safety Repairs at Shea High School? Joanne Bonollo-Pawtucket School Board Speaks Out — Space Heaters/Electrical Issues: Pawtucket Shea High Crisis Continues!

Is The Rhode Island Department of Education Blocking Critical Safety Repairs at Shea High School? Joanne Bonollo-Pawtucket School Board Speaks Out — Space Heaters/Electrical Issues: Pawtucket Shea High Crisis Continues!

Space Heaters In Classrooms … Structural Issues … Electrical Issues … in a Pawtucket High School? The Coalition’s Pat Ford is working to establish just who decided, despite a 2018 City of Pawtucket multi-million dollar school repair bond issue, to delay critical safety repairs at Shea High School. So severe, in fact, that NEASC Accreditation Agency has issued a formal[Read More…]

by — December 20, 2022 — 2 comments — Politics
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
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