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TD Bank targeted by protesters for DAPL support
The FANG Collective staged a demonstration outside TD Bank Wednesday to protest the company’s support of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which is even now being blocked by First Nation protesters...
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Boycott Wendy’s protest in Providence
Nearly three dozen people marched and chanted outside Wendy’s on Charles St in Providence Friday afternoon to call attention to the boycott of the food chain called by the Coalition of Immokalee...
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Boycott Wendy’s to help end abuse of farmworkers
Julia de la Cruz (CIW) Julia de la Cruz, of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), came to Providence for two days to “amplify the farm worker-led national boycott of Wendy’s” as part of a regional,...
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New Hampshire joins Mass. in rejecting pipeline tariff
RIPUC Chair Margaret Curran National Grids proposed pipeline tariff, now under an indefinite stay per the Public Utilities Commission here in Rhode Island, was rejected in New Hampshire last week. The...
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Killingly power plant battle impacts Rhode Island
As large as Invenergy‘s $700 million fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant would be if it were to be actually built in the pristine wilderness of Burrillville, the project is but a small part...
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The failure, and abiding danger, of Trump
Michael D. Kennedy is a Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University: The candidacy of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States finds daily a new road to...
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Sixty percent of Catholic voters say that abortion can be a moral choice
Catholics for Choice has released a new poll that “the story of what Catholic opinions might mean at the voting booth come November 8.” According to the polling data, 46 percent of Catholic voters...
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While championing renewables, Raimondo dog whistles fossil fuels
Gina Raimondo “At breakfast this morning my nine year old, out of the blue, said, ‘Mom, what are you doing about climate change?’” said Governor Gina Raimondo at a press event in the offices of Newport...
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In message to Rhode Island, Bill McKibben praises and undercuts Sheldon...
Bill McKibben “Five to ten years ago we thought the transition was going to be from coal, to natural gas as some sort of bridge fuel, onto renewables,” said 350.org’s Bill McKibben in a message to...
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CLF files first-in-nation lawsuit over ExxonMobil climate cover-up
Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) filed a lawsuit today against ExxonMobil for its endangerment of communities along the Mystic River – the first lawsuit of its kind in the nation since revelations...
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Political violence and elections in Trumplandia
VirTrumpian Man That Kavanaugh victory party feels like it was so long ago. The GOP sounds nervous again. The mid-term elections are a referendum on Trump, so Trump declares. If the Trump-sympathetic...
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Providence, Central Falls sue Jeff Sessions and Justice Department
Central Falls Mayor James Diossa The cities of Providence and Central Falls—and in a separate suit, the state of Rhode Island—are taking the Department of Justice and US Attorney General Jeff Sessions...
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Single-payer is better for businesses, says one expert
Dr. James Cowan has seen how health insurance works from multiple angles and both sides of the pond, consulting for the National Health Service, the United Kingdom’s public health-care system, to...
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Spicer claims Cohen doesn’t have info against Trump during sparse book-signing
Sean Spicer at a book signing for his new memoir at a Middletown Barnes and Noble Friday. I had time to ask Sean Spicer, the former press secretary under President Trump for six months last year,...
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Stage set for progressives to take over Rhode Island
Gubernatorial candidate Matt Brown addresses state convention. As the deadline to run for elected office came and went Wednesday afternoon, there are more than a few political newcomers—many young, and...
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Graduate workers at Brown dodge Trump’s labor board in historic agreement
Stand Up for Graduate Student Employees (SUGSE). Courtesy of their website. Graduate workers at Brown University announced a landmark agreement with the university Thursday afternoon, paving the way...
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Cicilline describes life inside, and politics behind, tender age detention...
“It’s horrific,” said Congressman David Cicilline. “It’s barbaric.” The Rhode Island Democrat was describing what he saw after visiting immigration detention centers on the Texas/Mexico border this...
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Reed, Whitehouse counter forced separation of undocumented families
Sen. Reed and Sen. Whitehouse announced their support of the Keep Families Together Act on Monday at Dorcas International. Picture courtesy of spokesman for Sen. Reed Chip Unruh. Sen. Jack Reed and...
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Date set for climate lawsuit brought by kids against U.S. government
On Thursday, April 12, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon set October 29, 2018, as the first day of trial in the landmark constitutional climate lawsuit brought by 21 American...
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Ninth Circuit rules in favor of youth plaintiffs in constitutional climate trial
Chief Judge Sidney R. Thomas, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, rejected the Trump administration’s “drastic and extraordinary” petition for a court order...
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