#OTD (Apr 25) in #OrganizedCrime #History: Petto is charged with #BarrelMurder, D'Andrea of #Chicago goes to prison, #KansasCity mobster faces bootlegging charges, #RhodeIsland robbery gang is charged, body is found in trunk of #Bronx car, #Patriarca is too ill to be tried, grand jury indicts 14 in Family Secrets case.
Happening this afternoon in Providence, Rhode Island!
PULL TOGETHER: A Celebration of Local Music and Community Power
Hosted by Indivisible RI
Friday, April 25
5 – 9pm EDT
Waterplace Park
Memorial Blvd
Providence, RI 02903
https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/774460/
Spring is here; it’s time to dance against dictators and boogie against billionaires!!
So many community organizations are struggling right now in this moment of crisis for our country. Come meet these groups and find out how you can offer support to keep them and the people they serve strong and healthy. And dance to local bands and choirs while you’re at it!
We can’t forget how important it is to keep our spirits up at times like these. Celebration, music, dance, and community aid are essential as people across the country pull together to resist authoritarianism.
PERFORMERS: --Anchors Away Brass Band-- --Apparatus Disco-- --Audiofunktion-- --Blackout Drum Squad-- --Extraordinary Rendition Band-- --Exult Choir-- --Raging Grannies-- --Undertow Brass Band--
COMMUNITY GROUPS: Are you part of a group or organization that’s working in support of vulnerable community members? We want you at Pull Together! It’s simple: fill out our Interest Form (https://forms.gle/jUgVpZJiixf3vhaQA) and then come with a clipboard and whatever materials you need to inform and gather new supporters.
This event is being collaboratively produced by members of: --AS220-- --Carpenters Local Union 330-- --Indivisible RI-- --Providence Streets Coalition-- --Reclaim RI-- and the performers listed above!
PULL TOGETHER organizers are inspired by many community organizers that have come before. Here are some messages that have inspired us as we’ve worked to make this celebration a reality:
“We are all one, and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.” -Bayard Rustin, lead organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for. It didn’t look like we were going to win then and we did. It doesn’t feel like we’re going to win now but we could. Keep fighting, keep dancing.” -Dan Savage
"At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a young boy took me aside. With a grave face he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal should demand the denial of life and joy. If it meant that, I did not want it. I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things." -Emma Goldman
#District13 #Resists against #Fascism!!! #NewHampshire, #Vermont, #Maine! Is #Massachusetts in as well (we know #HarvardUniversity is resisting)? What about #Connecticut and #RhodeIsland?
ALL OUT TO RESIST ICE TERROR AT RI HOSPITAL — ANDERSON EMERGENCY CENTER!
A community member was kidnapped and reportedly tazed by ICE before being taken to the Anderson Emergency Center. A crowd has already formed to demand his release, and our numbers are growing!
JOIN US ASAP TO PROTEST — THE LARGER A CROWD, THE GREATER THE PRESSURE! WE WON’T LET OUR COMMUNITY GET DEPORTED!
Credit: @pslrhodeisland, @ona_providence, and @amornetwork on Instagram
What is this thread? Every weekend I scour a bunch of calendar listings to find events in New England that are worth the trip. I highlight Somerville Massachusetts (my home) most frequently but if it looks awesome or notable, even if its in Maine, I'll throw it in the pile.
#Maine #Vermont #Connecticut #Massachusetts #Boston #PortlandME #Providence #RhodeIsland #NewEngland #event #events
#BostonWeekend 26/x
Can eminent domain be used to halt development in the name of public good? A Rhode Island case could set precedent in governments’ power over private development. #RhodeIsland #eminentDomain #housing
Posted into The American Story @the-american-story-csmonitor
https://www.europesays.com/2016720/ Utah heads list of states with affordable costs for electricity, national gas and gasoline | News #AmericanAutomobileAssociation #California #Connecticut #CoreyGilgan #Florida #GasPrice #hawaii #LiquefiedNaturalGas #lng #LNGPrice #Maryland #massachusetts #milwaukie #NaturalGas #NatureGasPowerPlant #Nevada #NewHampshire #OregonGenerators #PowerCounty #RhodeIsland #SpencerCox #U.S.EnergyInformationAdministration
Mediterranean restaurant chain Cava to open in Warwick https://www.diningandcooking.com/2024581/mediterranean-restaurant-chain-cava-to-open-in-warwick/ #Cava #Chain #FastCasual #Mediterranean #MediterraneanCuisine #Opening #restaurant #RhodeIsland #Warwick
Saturday starts National Park Week - free entry at all US NP's on Saturday
https://home.nps.gov/planyourvisit/passes.htm#free_entrance_days
#NationalParks #acadia #Maine #NewHampshire #Vermont #Connecticut #RhodeIsland #Massachusetts
#BostonWeekend 17/x
'Known as the URI Botanical Collections Database, this application stores a wealth of information about many of the plants that adorn the University’s campus. This new database is particularly exciting because of its many benefits to both the University and the larger public, a myriad of potential applications and the multi-pronged approach that the project encompasses.'
Video footage of ICE agents smashing in Juan Mendez's car window in New Bedford before abducting him.
The agent with the red beard shows his face clearly throughout the video. Do you know this man? If so, be aware he is a fascist who does not believe in our constitution or our laws.
By request, I've added HIGH-DEF PDF versions of my healthcare enrollment pie charts for every House district in #RHODEISLAND!
Scroll past the web version to download; suitable for printing to a 24" x 36" poster board for your next town hall or #HandsOff protest!
#OTD (Apr 13) in #OrganizedCrime #History: Monk is shot in the head, #Masseria & others are arrested for burglary, #Buffalo pistol permits are investigated, Parisi is acquitted of murder, car-bomb kills #Gambino underboss, Strollo pleads guilty at #YoungstownOH, Manocchio gets probation in #RhodeIsland.
Hubby, who used to teach American history, reminded me of the #HartfordConvention from 1814-15. #Maine, #Massachusetts, #Vermont, #Connecticut, #NewHampshire and #RhodeIsland had considered leaving the union and forming their own "independent republic" in opposition to "political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power. "
Excerpt:
"Some delegates may have been in favor of New England's #secession from the United States and forming an #independent republic, though no solution was adopted at the convention. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison rejected the notion that the Hartford convention was an attempt to take New England out of the Union and give treasonous aid and comfort to Britain. Morison wrote: 'Democratic politicians, seeking a foil to their own mismanagement of the war and to discredit the still formidable Federalist party, caressed and fed this infant myth until it became so tough and lusty as to defy both solemn denials and documentary proof.' "
Through Aug 10: ~60 Animatronic #dinosaurs in #Providence at the Zoo, admission plus dino add on is $31+ for adults, cheaper for kids
https://www.rwpzoo.org/dinosaurs/
#PVD #RhodeIsland BostonWeekend 20/x
#OTD (Apr 8) in #OrganizedCrime #History: #NYC area coin counterfeiters are convicted, mobster Luigi Marciante kills himself, seventeen in #Arizona and #NewYork are accused of drug crimes, #Strollo disappears in #FortLeeNJ, #Spilotro case ends in mistrial, #RhodeIsland racketeer is charged with planning murder.
