Ocean State Action celebrates
2nd Annual Health Care Policy Heroes!
Please Join Us to Honor
State Representative Ray Sullivan,
SEIU 1199,
and Nancy St. Germain
Guest Speakers to include:
Margarida Jorge, National Field Director for Health Care for America Now (HCAN), formerly of SEIU, AFSCME,
and Missouri ProVote
Jeff Blum, Executive Director of USAction
Monday, June 21st, 2010, 6PM - 8PM
Local 121, Providence
Get your tickets here.
Tell Congress: Protect Consumers and Hold the Big Wall Street Banks Accountable!
Call Senator Jack Reed Toll Free TODAY at 1-866-544-7573.
Tell Senator Reed to support financial reform that holds big Wall Street Banks accountable.
Historic health reform has passed! The bill is a victory for the American people:
- Insurance companies can no longer deny care for pre-existing conditions, charge you more if you’re sick, cap your benefits, sell you junk insurance, or raise rates with impunity.
- For the first time, Members of Congress will get their health insurance from the same system regular Americans do.
- Small business and working families will security and stability knowing they can afford good health insurance that meets their needs.
- 32 million uninsured Americans will get affordable coverage, saving over 30,000 lives per year.
Read an op-ed from a Rhode Island emergency physician explaining why we need reform.
Now write your own!
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN — More than a hundred parents and children walked to Wakefield Elementary School on Monday morning, in part to protest a proposal to close the school in the face of a projected budget deficit.
Wearing T-shirts reading “We believe in our neighborhood schools,” the crowd gathered on the banks of the Saugatucket River and then walked together down Main Street and High Street to the school, where the children were dropped off for the start of the day’s classes.
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Read more... [Community Walks to Wakefield School, Seeks to Protect 'Walkable Environment']
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The Rhode Island is Ready Coalition conducts a lobbying effort at the State House to increase awareness of the need for a "fair, objective and predictable funding formula" adequate to support all of the state's public schools. Peter Asen, interim director of Ocean State Action, a regular at the State House, helps those less familiar with the process hook up with legislators, including the Speaker of the House.
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WARWICK — Despite tuition increasing 46.6 percent over the last five years, professors and students at the Community College of Rhode Island say there are fewer services and not enough spots for even the mandatory core courses.
Jim Brady, the college’s outgoing student body president, said the situation — particularly the tuition hikes that don’t seem to have an end at all three of the state’s higher education institutions — is “completely disgusting” and counterproductive to helping the state build a 21st-century work force.
A call-to-action rally at the community college’s Knight Campus Wednesday afternoon was the first of several planned events to let the General Assembly know “enough is enough.” A petition is also circulating and a march to the State House is in the works.
The rally was sparsely attended, but the unified effort was evident with speakers from two of the three schools and all levels of the school communities — students, teacher assistants, professors and administration — as well as members of Ocean State Action, the political action coalition that helped coordinate the event.
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Read more... [Tuition hikes hit home at CCRI]
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