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Jane Arnold's avatar

A great report, as usual, but "after the fact" (not your responsibility). Does anyone have a suggestion about how we could get all these protests reported regularly before the fact?? I am not on social media and not terribly connected, but I was the person running around telling my friends about the second demostration on the State House, and they were saying, "How did you find out?" (Steve Alhquist, probably). When I find out someone has organized something, I try to get on whatever mailing list they have.

If anyone wants to try to organize some kind of overall "save our country" demonstration newsletter, I'd be glad to help. In the meantime, if you're not on Meghan Kallman's e-mail list, this is part of her recent "Fighting Back" report:

"Alongside IndivisibleRI, I'll be hosting a community meeting in Pawtucket at Hope Artiste Village on March 26th at 6pm. The address is 999 Main St, in Pawtucket. All are welcome. We will be discussing building power at the local level, legislative advocacy, and what I'm working on this year."

I am on Indivisible RI list; I didn't hear about this from them; last time I checked, it wasn't on their website.

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Greg Gerritt's avatar

Jane, I hope you have MOrley Field on your agenda for March 26. I do not know if I will make it, too many meewtings, but try to get someof the Morely Field activists to come so the commuity can see this City of Pawtucketsd criminality in action.

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Jane Arnold's avatar

Greg, I sent you an e-mail. I don't know anything about this! I have been wondering what's going on with Morley Field. Please send me the e-mail, and I will send it out to people I know who might be interested.

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Robert Nolan's avatar

“ Joey Pallino” doesn’t really care about the people, he just cares about being wealthy. I’m sorry that Steve had such a terrible interview with him.

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Greg Gerritt's avatar

Elon Musk is a horrible human being, a racist fascist. Joe Paolino is also a pretty poor excusxe for a human. The policies and developments he brings to Providence support the racist classist order. That he defends Musk's business practices and does not care that he is a fascist tells us all we need to know about how much harm joe paolino regularly does to Providence. Paolino in a totaly typicalmove for him, is the downtown slum lord always trying to chase the commujity out of Kennedy Plaza and close the bus hub.

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Lesley Maxwell's avatar

Between local and national stuff, I can't keep up anymore. How you do it, I don't know.

Trump was called out about Musk and once again said Musk is only an advisor and doesn't have authority. Maybe he should have told Musk since it's still going on. I wonder if I'll get my Soc. Sec. next month. With the number of protests and people showing up, it's hard to believe that Washington isn't paying attention.

Paolino used to be a big supporter of the homeless. Now he's a DINO. Like the clowns in Washington, it's about real estate and money. These people forget that they can't take it with them. I was against Skeffington and Lucchino. I went to every meeting and Joe was sitting behind me at the Garden City meeting with Nancy Thomas (RINews.com). I took a guess at the time and figured he was on Skeffington's side. Providence pols are thick with each other.

I've been union and management. His dismissal of unions bothers me. Unions serve a purpose for a company and its workers. Both demand the best. Unions generally won't protect deadwood as long as the company does its due diligence and documents. A $10 million investment in Providence for an automaker doesn't bring droves of people to Providence. They show up, buy a car, and leave. It doesn't offer many jobs and doesn't support the neighborhood. Any business can come in, offer jobs to those within the neighborhood, provide an income, pay taxes, etc. I doubt that the salespeople or mechanics live in that particular neighborhood.

Trump should be impeached. He continues to flout the laws of the Constitution and not by a fine line, either. Musk should have his citizenship revoked and his contracts voided. The entire administration should be kicked to the curb. They bought their way in via money, favors, etc. Trump pays back on our sweat, not his own.

Big Brother didn't go far enough. It's worse. Someday, I hope someone rewrites the book if they can find a copy.

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Gerry Willis's avatar

Translation: The money that I'll be getting from them is more important than anything else.

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