Fuck SCOTUS
That’s all I have to say right now. Join the Womyn Project for a rally at the Statehouse tonight at 8pm (Facebook event link)
Activism
Send David Segal to Washington
We get to write about David Segal even if RI’s second congressional district does not encompass the city of Providence, because Dave was one of the three founders of the Providence Daily Dose. [Correction: Part of Providence is within congressional district two. BC] He certainly reflects our political point of view and has already earned …
Rally Against Hate
(2.27) Last Monday a group of fascist goons set upon the Red Ink Community Library. Bearing a Nazi flag and banging on the windows, they screamed hateful, bigoted threats at those peacefully reading inside. Black Lives Matter RI PAC reports: It was only after several brave community members started yelling at the neo-nazis to leave …
‘Don’t You Sit Down’ At RISD
While the museum itself remains closed, some grad students and faculty members have taken over the exterior with a timely message. They have mounted a self-guided, three-part exhibit, to be experienced at one’s own pace along the sidewalk and across the street in Market Square. Scan the Qr codes as you go for a better …
Justice For Floyd
The outpouring of emotion yesterday from those gathered at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis said it all. While a sigh of relief spread across the nation, their response to the guilty verdict was shattering to behold. We now need to reform this corrupted system of policing that has oppressed the Black community for so long. …
A Valentine To The Black Women Of America
This Valentine goes out to all the amazing Black women whose efforts may very well have saved this democracy. And that is not hyperbole. First up is Stacey Abrams of course. It is no exaggeration to say that her tireless work to flip Georgia for the Democrats and flip the Senate towards sanity may have …
Martin Luther King Jr. In Rhode Island
“The appalling silence of the good people is as serious as the vitriolic words of the bad people.” Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke those words to a packed URI gym in 1966. Those words have never been more true. One year later, and less than one year before his death, King was back delivering an …
Congdon Street Baptist Church Needs Help
The Providence Preservation Society brings this to our attention: The Congdon Street Baptist Church, the oldest surviving African American church in the city, is raising funds for much-needed capital improvements. Completed and dedicated in 1875, the earlier congregation had to contend with troublesome neighbors early on. A period of prosperity was followed by a period …
‘No Confirmation’ Protest — Burnside Park
(9.27) Democrats need to get in some good trouble! Last week hundreds of you joined a protest in Burnside Park urging our senators to fight the upcoming Supreme Court nomination. You are invited back this week to hear the plan for that fight and help deliver that plan to Senators Whitehouse and Reed. Aaron Regunberg, …
Tell The Senate To Fight! Rally
(9.20) Need someplace to go and something to do?!!! A rally has been organized by former state rep and activist Aaron Regunberg and city councilor Katherine Kerwin to demand that the Senate use any and all tactics necessary to foil Republican efforts to ram through another Supreme Court nominee. This president can not be allowed …
Thank You Justice Ginsburg
What can we possibly add to the outpouring of praise for the life and career of Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? A trailblazer and lodestar in the realm of women’s rights, she must have been heartened by the victories in the 2018 midterms and last month’s primaries. For it is women, the beneficiaries …
Food For The Soul — Admiral Street
“Baked mac and cheese, that’s our famous thing.” So says Food for the Soul owner Robert Richardson in today’s ProJo. Richardson tells the Journal that since the death of George Floyd in May “he started to see customers coming in who said they wanted to support local Black-owned businesses,” and maybe we can help stimulate …
Mr. Mattiello — You Can Find Slaves Right Down Smith Street
One could fill a warehouse with the things House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello does not know. Of course everything he says and does is best understood through the lens of his Trumpian worldview (Mattiello is still a registered Democrat) but never underestimate his near total ignorance of the world around him. His latest gaffe occurred during …
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Juneteenth Rally At State House
(6.19) A youth-led and -organized protest demanding systemic change by defunding* the police and investing in the health and well-being of the black community will start today at 4pm at Classical High School. The protest will continue on to the State House with a sit-in and speaking program. (Facebook event.) We are meeting at PCTA/Classical …
BLM Flag Flies At Public Safety Complex
Just add wind. This image is not meant to be a metaphor. I am not trying to make a statement. I was really hoping for just one tiny gust of wind to fill out these flags, because symbols are important and the Providence Police have made a worthy gesture here that I find encouraging. When …
Gen Z Protest Kennedy Plaza
(6.14) A peaceful protest is being called by ‘Gen Z: We Want to Live,’ a new youth-led group joining the burgeoning protest landscape first ignited by the death of George Floyd. Judging from the enormous turnout for last week’s demonstration, also comprised mainly of teens and young adults, this should be big. The event will …