Olivia Ebertz

1 month ago | thepublicsradio.org | Olivia Ebertz

A Palestinian flag was raised on Friday at City Hall, but the flag-raising ceremony turned tense as a crowd of several dozen pro-Israel protestors attempted to drown out the speeches by making loud noises, chanting into a megaphone, and playing loud music. The flag was raised to commemorate the Nakba, when Israel officially declared itself to be a state and Zionist militias drove out more than 750,000 Palestinian Muslims and Christians from their homes in the territory.

1 month ago | thepublicsradio.org | Olivia Ebertz

Workers at Butler Hospital began chanting, cheering and trudging in the mud out front of the psychiatric hospital at 6 a.m. Thursday morning and remained on strike by the end of the day. Members of the union’s bargaining committee say the workers are fighting for higher wages across the board and better staffing. They began day one of their strike after negotiations over a new contract stalled with the company that runs the hospital.

1 month ago | thepublicsradio.org | Olivia Ebertz

The Rhode Island Water Resources Board voted unanimously on Wednesday to allow four Jamestown households to connect to the town’s water. The residents, who live just north of the Newport-Pell bridge along Seaview Avenue, say they ran out of usable water in their own wells more than two years ago. Some of the residents say the water in their homes is so brackish and flows so slowly that they had no choice but to move out.

1 month ago | wbur.org | Olivia Ebertz

Brown University history professor Mack Scott grew up Indigenous in Rhode Island. He moved to the Narragansett reservation in Charlestown in middle school, where he was steeped in his culture. But prior to that he lived in Providence, where he said this identity was less present in his own life. “I was considered a city Indian, which means that we would go to the pow wow, but a lot of the storytelling and cultural practices, we weren’t involved in,” he said.

1 month ago | thepublicsradio.org | Olivia Ebertz

Brown University history professor Mack Scott grew up Indigenous in Rhode Island. He moved to the Narragansett reservation in Charlestown in middle school, where he was steeped in his culture. But prior to that he lived in Providence, where he said this identity was less present in his own life. “I was considered a city Indian, which means that we would go to the pow wow, but a lot of the storytelling and cultural practices, we weren’t involved in,” he said.