Rhode Island Tag

DHS Denies Reentry for Brown U. Professor Due to Attending Terrorist Funeral in Lebanon

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 17, 2025 53 Comments

Rasha Alawieh attended the "funeral of Hassan Nasrallah— a brutal terrorist who led Hezbollah, responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade terror spree."...

Title IX Complaint Filed Against Rhode Island School Establishment Over Transgender Policies

Posted by James Nault on March 07, 2025 1 Comment

RI Center for Freedom and Prosperity: "school staff [must] use the student's 'preferred' pronouns; change school records to reflect the chosen name; allow the student to use bathrooms aligning with their gender identity; and participate in school athletics based upon their gender preference"...

Court Enters Preliminary Injunction to Bar ‘Categorical Freeze’ on Grants, Contracts

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 06, 2025 35 Comments

The Executive Branch "imposed a categorical mandate on the spending of congressionally appropriated and obligated funds without regard to Congress’s authority to control spending."...

The Rhode Island Foundation’s Discriminatory Grantmaking Warrants Civil Rights Investigation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 25, 2025 13 Comments

Equal Protection Project urges federal agencies to put RIF, with over $1 billion in assets, on the shortlist for investigation of possible civil rights violations, pursuant to President Trump's January 21, 2025, Executive Order 14173....

Brown Medical School Uses DEI to Determine Faculty Promotions

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 21, 2025 4 Comments

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Thirty-Five Discriminatory U Rhode Island Scholarships Under Investigation by DoEd After Equal Protection Project Complaint

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2025 3 Comments

The Dept. of Education has opened formal investigations less than a month after our Complaint was filed. "I hope the incoming Trump administration will make the University of Rhode Island a test case for enforcement of the Civil Rights Laws."...

Fifty-One Discriminatory Scholarships At University of Rhode Island Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2024 3 Comments

"We're going to seek to make URI a test case for the Trump administration"...

Brown University Transfers Ownership of a Portion of its Land to Local Indian Tribe

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 03, 2024 15 Comments

"The land is the ancestral home of Metacom — also known as King Philip — the leader of the Pokanoket people."...

The Fate of DEI

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2024 9 Comments

My appearance on The Matt Allen Show: Cut off the funding from the federal government and private foundations....

Massive Big Wind Project Off Massachusetts Coast Suffers Another Big Blow

Posted by Jody Stone on October 30, 2024 16 Comments

With debris from its July 13th blade disaster still washing up on New England shores, news broke Wednesday that Vineyard Wind, the troubled turbine company leasing ocean off the coast of Nantucket, will be removing more blades from its current project. "We have finalized root cause analysis and confirm the blade at issue at Vineyard Wind was caused by a manufacturing deviation from our factory in Canada," GE Vernova CEO Steve Strazik said on the company's earnings call.

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Board of Trustees at RISD Agrees to Listen to BDS Proposal From Student Activists

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 29, 2024 2 Comments

"it is increasingly evident that divestment is not a political issue, but rather a human rights issue"...

Supposed Guardians of Rhode Island’s Waters Sell Out To Big Wind

Posted by Jody Stone on October 23, 2024 41 Comments

Is Save the Bay Still Rhode Island's Ocean Watch Dog?...

Equal Protection Project Launches Its Own DEI Continuing Legal Education Program

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2024 1 Comment

If you can't beat them, join them. With an increasing number of states mandating DEI education for lawyers, EPP is rolling out its own program to provide lawyers with an alternative that satisfies Bar requirements....

Nantucket Residents Now Want to Freeze Offshore Wind Farms following Vineyard Wind Blade Failure

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 18, 2024 30 Comments

Despite the concerns about wind farm realities after this incident, Vineyard Wind got the thumbs-up from the federal government to resume construction on this project....

Governor Signs Law Making Rhode Island a Sanctuary State for Abortion and Gender-Affirming “Care”

Posted by Jane Coleman on June 26, 2024 37 Comments

Recent developments should have prompted Rhode Island lawmakers to restrict gender-affirming care, not forge it into law....

Rhode Island House Approves ‘Human Composting’ Option for ‘Deathcare’

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 17, 2024 33 Comments

While proponents tout the "green" aspects of "natural organic reduction", others are concerned about the callousness of treating human remains as trash....

Equal Protection Project: Rhode Island Foundation Must End Racially Discriminatory Scholarships and Grants

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 10, 2024 11 Comments

"You cannot have a grant program that says whites cannot apply"...

RI Judge Issues ‘Not Guilty’ Verdict for Anti-Israel Student Activists Arrested at Brown University in December

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 17, 2024 46 Comments

“I think this is a reflection of what nonviolent and peaceful resistance, frankly, is supposed to look like”...

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