Communities United for Positive Change (CU4PC) is a group of Pawtucket residents and community leaders who came together in Spring 2020, after the George Floyd murder, in an effort to address city-wide concerns about accountability, transparency, racism and abuse of power within the Pawtucket Police Department. Joao Goncalves, Chairman of[Read More…]
We. Got. Legislation! A pioneering reengineering of Unemployment Laws that have knee capped the Rhode Island Business Community. Here is the actual realization of Rhode Island Restauranteur Dave Levesque of Brewed Awakenings! Find below links to conversations Rhody In Crisis! House Leader Blake Filippi On The Coalition! Dave Levesque/Brewed On[Read More…]
Rhode Island Attorney General Candidate Chas Calenda reacted strongly to Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation Director Liz Tanner’s Assertion that “Mask usage is not going away anytime soon” (followed by a string of dubious scientific claims) As an attorney and candidate to be Rhode Island’s next Attorney General,[Read More…]
BAIL HEARINGS FOR ICE DETAINEES TO RESUME TOMORROW WHAT: Bail hearings for ICE detainees held at the Wyatt Detention Center will resume tomorrow before District Judge Mary McElroy. There are currently 33 ICE detainees being held there, and 4 hearings are scheduled for tomorrow. The hearings are the result of[Read More…]
In order to make the federal funding process more responsive to the needs of the American people, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee will accept requests this year from Members of Congress for Community Project Funding to support specific, worthwhile projects in the districts they represent. Applications from local and state[Read More…]
Supporters of Julian Assange will rally at Copley Square, Boston, on Monday, April 5 from 11:00 to 12:30. The rally will take place on the side of the Boston Pubic Library along Dartmouth Street. The Assange Defense Committee is calling for all charges against Assange to be dropped, and immediately[Read More…]
Brian Kingsford, Owner, Bacaro Restaurant & Dave Levesque, Owner Brewed Awakenings joined The Coalition Talk Radio to discuss the critical challenges facing the Hospitality Industry, the Rhode Island Economy and The Nation Writ Large at the onset of a Post Covid ? Economy. Mr. Levesque formally presented, and explained[Read More…]
On a Friday where among the holiest of Jewish & Christian Religious Observances overlap .. Passover & Good Friday … and the onset of The Holy Month of Ramadan just days away, Peace Activists in Boston and Providence conducted solemn observances of the carnage resulting from both the Covid Crisis[Read More…]
An exigent crisis is facing the American Workplace. Unemployment benefits, coupled with Federal relief funds, are in many places outpacing the traditional wage structure that was the engine for business function. The result? The marked inability for businesses to fully staff their storefronts … choosing between crippling price increases or[Read More…]
Boardroom Videos & Termination Letter: The Sad Final Day of RIPTA CEO Scott Avedisian’s Tenure 
Human Rights Watch & The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: Sudan-One Year of Atrocities Requires New Global Approach (Video-UNHCR: 1 Year Since War Has Broken Out) 
Rhode Island Democratic Socialists Celebrate Formal Designation of Rhody Democratic Convention Delegate As “Uncommitted” 
Breaking! Smiley Administration: City of Providence, Providence Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 Reach Tentative Five-Year Agreement 
Flash: Aniece Germain Resigns from Cranston City Council Effective Immediately 
Board Members of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority met today to formally accept the resignation of RIPTA CEO, former Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian. Citing contractural issues, the Board agreed to honor a 90 day severance clause. Me. Avedisian had not participated in the RIPTA health plan, and was[Read More…]
On March 26, members of RIBLIA: The Rhode Island Black, Latino, Indigenous, Asian-American and Pacific Islander Caucus met in the Rhode Island Senate “Lounge”, to announce priorities surrounding the “reformation” of the Law Enforcements Officers’ Bill of Rights (LEOBOR) and set forth an Agenda for the[Read More…]
Sudan: One Year of Atrocities Requires New Global Approach Investigations into Deliberate Aid Obstruction, War Crimes Needed As global and regional leaders meet in Paris to spotlight Sudan and mark the one-year anniversary of the country’s brutal conflict between Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF), they should[Read More…]
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