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The Phoenix this week devotes a special issue to the Beijing games. Here are some of the highlights: Peter Kadzis talks with Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman . Not everyone who is critical of China is an unqualified supporter of the Dalai Lama. Some say...
Best wishes to Jenn -- a forceful advocate -- with her departure from MERI : Executive Director Jenn Steinfeld will be leaving the organization on August 1, 2008. Steinfeld has been involved with MERI since its inception as the Campaign for Marriage Equality...
Local peace activist Mark Stahl is apparently experiencing a little pushback for some critical remarks he made about the Brown pie-tossers. He relayed these comments to me via e-mail this past week, and I thought it was important to include his gist in...
UPDATE: More from Segal. Linking to this post, the representative has cross-posted at RI's Future and Dose a longer response to PPRIAN. --- It's no surprise that the Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island Action Network would applaud Representative Art Handy...
For your consideration: -- A Taste of Sustainability , a fundraiser for the nonprofit advocacy group Groundwork Providence, takes place from 6-8 tonight at Roger Williams Park Casino in Providence. David Cicilline is the honorary chair, and Gordon Fox...
Several dozen gay and lesbian couples are expected at the State House at 10 am tomorrow for a celebration of the one-year anniverary of the right of same-sexers to marry in Massachusetts. Their will also be calls for the General Assembly to establish...
The ProJo today devotes generous front-page play to yesterday afternoon's IWW rally in North Providence, although the event got far less attention from local TV. Channel 10 was still showing a football game last night at 11, and Channel 12 ran a report...
The Providence chapter of the Industrial Workers of the World will be joined by activists and other members of the labor movement when it rallies at 1:30 pm this Sunday at North Providence High School. I offer an update in this week's Phoenix : Plans...
WPRO is reporting that talks this morning between the IWW and North Providence Mayor Charles Lombardi have produced an agreement: the protesters will stage a stationary rally in NP (I believe at the high school) this Sunday, August 26, instead of marching...
The ProJo reports today that the Providence chapter of the Industrial Workers of the World plans an August 26 march in North Providence to highlight what it calls the prevalence of "police brutality" in Rhode Island, and that Attorney General Patrick...
North Providence mayor Charles Lombardi just told Dan Yorke that he believes the NP police department can fairly investigate its own conduct related to the injury suffered by Alexandra Svoboda . Yorke isn't buying it, even though he takes a dim view of...
If nothing else, the injury suffered in North Providence by 22-year-old Alexandra Svoboda is bringing some attention to the reemergence of the Industrial Workers of the World, who have maintained a low public profile locally. Today, to bring more attention...
-- There's a fundraiser tonight for state Representative Grace Diaz (D-Providence) at the Roger Williams Park Casino. Matt has the details . -- Brian C. Jones updates how Providence's long-awaited, long delayed First Source ordinance is being implemented...
As Matt Jerzyk notes on his site , the law student-led push to remove Ralph Papitto's name from the law school at Roger Williams University gets some attention today from the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ also sheds some light on the activist credentials...
While the social networking site Facebook is popular with today's college students , using it can come back to haunt them in unexpected and alarming ways. In this week's Phoenix, lawyers Greg Lukianoff and Will Creeley, of the Foundation for Individual...
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