(10.15) Head downtown to Burnside Park in Kennedy Plaza to take part in the ‘Occupy Providence’ demonstration. Organizers on Facebook have the start time at 5pm, with a scheduled clean-up at 10pm! And should a reporter stick a microphone in your face and ask you exactly what you want, how about reviving the Glass-Steagall Act, […]
Complete info on Twitter, Tumblr, etc. after the jump. Brian Crandall’s report from the Brown teach-in for Channel 10 click here. Facebook event page. (ProJo article “Activists Prepare” 10.13) 5pm, Saturday, October 15, Burnside Park, Kennedy Plaza
From the Office of the Mayor comes this announcement, As of July 5, parking on metered spots in Providence will cost $1.25 an hour or 25 cents for every 12 minutes. In addition to the rate increase, all 15-minute parking spots will be converted to 30-minute parking at 75 cents for the half hour maximum
“With great power comes great responsibility”, so read the Spider-Man plaque that graced the exterior of the Attorney General’s office during the tenure of Patrick Lynch. (Is Spidey coming back with some Spackle?) In all fairness Lynch was not the AG who first made the holes. (ProJo 3.31.04) The state bought the office building at
From Ocean State Action, Join us at City Hall to stand in solidarity with the 1,926 Providence teachers who have been unfairly fired! The Providence Teachers Union is calling upon Mayor Taveras to rescind these unjust terminations. Teachers Rally, 4:30pm to 7:30pm, Wednesday, City Hall steps, Kennedy Plaza, (fb)
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NBC Nightly News featured the firing of the Providence schoolteachers in a report on the calamitous budget problems facing many American mayors. Mayor Taveras calls the situation “an unprecedented fiscal crisis.” Teachers have expressed alarm regarding the ramifications of being terminated, as opposed to getting laid off. (ProJo 2.25) . . . under the layoff
It’s hard times, and the free market ain’t free. Luckily, there’s the Providence Really Really Free Market, which is! Join us in this collaborative event to create an autonomous space for community sharing. No $$$, no barter, just FREE. Give what you can, take what you want! For more information, please send an email to
Everything looks like a nail. Nicholas Kristof has a great piece in The New York Times regarding the bloated and often counter-productive investments we continue to make in the military, when spending in other areas could make us safer. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has
A day-long industry conference arranged to discuss the future of casinos in New England was held at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, a casino which, according to the Hartford Courant, will have cut 5% of its workforce, or 475 jobs, by the end of this month. Foxwoods and MGM Grand at Foxwoods have laid off
Emily Mellor of Ocean State Action explains the role this financial monster continues to play in the destruction of our economy having already accepted $25 billion in the bailout, To this day, JPMorgan Chase continues to repackage mortgage-backed securities still on their books, all the while foreclosing on those affected by the havoc they wreaked.
Word just in from Ocean State Action. Jobs or Income NOW! Rally to Stop Cutoff of Unemployment Payments. Join us on Wednesday, July 7, at 4pm for a rally at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Kennedy Plaza calling on Congress to deliver federal extensions to the unemployed and COBRA benefits to Rhode Island! Partisan
James Kwak, contributor to the “Baseline Scenario” blog and author of the nationally acclaimed new book “13 Bankers” will be giving a talk and signing his book on the East Side this Sunday. Bill Moyers says of this book, “If the wads of money you’ve stuffed into your mattress for safekeeping don’t keep you up
Robert J. Healey, Jr., lawyer, businessman, and founder of the Cool Moose party is once again running for the office of lieutenant governor for the sole purpose of eliminating it. Should he win, he has the same plan he pitched the last time he ran: He’ll take no pay, hire no staff and work to
Good work by Alex Bell writing for The Brown Daily Herald concerning the decision of Brown University President Ruth Simmons to step down from the Board of Directors at Goldman Sachs on which she has served since 2000. This report was picked up today by the ProJo who also focused on her decision to step
Having trouble with rent, utility bills, food assistance, health care, housing, foreclosure? Dial 211 and get help. In these extraordinary economic times people who have never before needed assistance, now find themselves in serious trouble paying bills and no idea what help is available and where to find it. With this in mind, the United
His “percentage of income payment plan” or PIPP bill, will be before us this session: In 2009, some 31,000 households in Rhode Island will have their utilities shut off, and the effort to juggle energy bills and mortgages is helping push some homeowners into foreclosure, said Henry Shelton, director of the George Wiley Center, a