Kristi Martel @ Roots Cultural Center October 24th When: Wednesday October 24th Where: Roots 276 Westminster St Providence Contact: 401-272-7422 Who: Kristi Martel (avant soul) Time: Doors @ 7pm, Music 8-10pm Cost: $5 Kristi Martel is thrilled to return to Roots for a full-length show, her first in RI in quite some time. She will …
The Diocese of Providence has just issued a list of recommendations to local parishes to help prevent the spread of swine flu. They recommend, first and foremost, that parishioners avoid the practice of shaking hands during the sign of peace. (Those of you who aren’t Catholic may not be aware, but in-between all the sitting …
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 7PM in Wilson 102 (on the Main Green of Brown University), two extraordinary people will speak about their extensive experiences in Palestine: Anna Baltzer is a Columbia graduate, former Fulbright scholar, the granddaughter of Holocaust refugees and the author of Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied …
Lots of pretty lights have popped up around town for the holidays. Here’s another type: The India Association of Rhode Island is hosting a candlelight vigil tonight to share its solidarity with caring and concerned people and to express its outrage and sorrow on behalf of the victims in last week’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai. …
World peace and a healthy investment portfolio are not mutually exclusive, per se. The Providence Journal reports that 6000 origami cranes will be distributed at this Saturday’s WaterFire. These cranes have been folded over the last few months by volunteers from the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence and employees of Fidelity Investments. …
Says GWB: Phrases such as “bring them on” or “dead or alive”, he said, “indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace”.
I just popped by the Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College, which I sort of assumed wouldn’t even be running a show during the summer, and was pleasantly surprised to come across Protest, a show featuring photographer LeRoy Henderson that will be up through early July. Henderson shows the struggles of Americans as they …
This is very sad news, for a group that’s done great work in contributing to Providence’s decreased crime over the last decade. PROVIDENCE — A streetworker for the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence was stabbed and attacked with a baseball bat early yesterday as he tried to break up a disturbance that …
…of at least one thing the RI House of Reps did this week — pass Al Gemma and Ken Carter’s HOUSE RESOLUTION RESPECTFULLY URGING THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO FULLY SUPPORT HOUSE BILL 808 And what’s up with US House Bill 808, you ask? It creates the Department of Peace. (Dan asked for …
Scott Ewing is in the unusual position of having gone to fight in Iraq after he’d already been active as a campus anti-war activist: What are things really like in Iraq? How do the military and media filter information disseminated to the American public? Scott Ewing spent a year in Tall Afar, a city that …