We need rent controls — and we need them now. bbc.com/news/articles/…

so excited for this conversation tonight in providence ! with Reclaim RI and Providence Organization of Workers and Renters moderated by Daniel Denvir at Riff Raff Books !!

Feel proud Providence! Today, hundreds of our neighbors came together to reject Trump, Musk, and their fascist behavior. In our city and state, we value public education, healthcare, and our immigrant community 🫶🏾

✅ Drive rent and evictions through the roof ✅ Hand the city over to corporate landlords and developers ✅ Ignore the homelessness crisis even as people die ✅ Make Providence unlivable for anyone but the rich Smiley’s not shaping the future—he’s selling it. Time to fight back

This is Rhode Island Democratic National Committeeman Joseph R. Paolino Jr criticizing yesterday’s powerful labor-organized anti-Musk protest at the Providence Tesla location—all because Tesla pays him rent. This is outrageous. Paolino should step down from his position immediately.

I just wrote a Reclaim RI letter: Just Cause 2025. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/just-c…

The proposal to create a mixed-income public housing developer in Rhode Island has a phenomenal coalition behind it: the tenant movement and organized labor plus the GOP House Minority Leader and RI's business think tank. Damn! Great story Antonia Noori Farzan. providencejournal.com/story/news/pol…

Unusual bedfellows are aligning to support the public developer model in RI, as Antonia Noori Farzan reports providencejournal.com/story/news/pol…

Register now and join us for a discussion on tenant unions in Rhode Island: Friday 4/18 at 8:45am over Zoom. Panel to feature Mel Potter of Elmwood Tenant Union RI, Shana Crandell of Reclaim RI, and Emily Harrington of Atlantic Mills Tenants Union. funraise.org/give/One-Neigh…

Thanks Council President Rachel Miller and Councilwoman Sue A for leading the way to ensure that RI's public housing developer builds the housing we need in the the city of Providence—particularly on North Main Street, which could be transformed through dense new social housing!

Shame on Mayor Brett Smiley. Opposing genocide and supporting a free Palestine are not antisemitic. And its particularly enraging for you to say this about a City Council led by a Jewish President, Rachel Miller, whose chief of staff, June Rose, is a leading Jewish anti-war activist.

Why is Mayor Brett Smiley Brett Smiley sending cops out to harass striking SEIU 1199NE healthcare workers on the picket line?

NEW: legislation in Rhode Island would protect tenants from unfair evictions and rent hikes. Today's episode of Bartholomewtown, wherever you get pods Reclaim RI

this will be catastrophic for the people of Providence if this passes as currently written. please please please contact your state senator to strongly oppose this legislation.

🧵1/ Before I unpack Mayor Brett Smiley’s statement and explain how we reached this point in the 8-Law saga, I’m asking you to share this thread. I’m relieved that the 8-Law “reform” bill (S 963 / H 5688) didn’t make it out of the Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee. What’s

BIG NEWS: We joined tenants filing a federal RICO case against slumlord Jeff Butler and Elmwood Realty detailing conspiracy to rent apartments rife w dangerous conditions and threatening tenants w eviction when they requested repairs or organized a union. providencejournal.com/story/news/pol…

Yeah we did this 🤘🏽 so proud of everyone who has followed through and stood in solidarity with one another to make this happen…this is why it’s so important that renters rights need to be taken seriously …if there was ever a reason to pass a law…this right here is the reason

About 50 people attended last night's RI Candidate Recruitment Retreat with RI Working Families Party + Reclaim RI. Thanks to all who came out. We're excited to find candidates—to run against both Republicans & Democrats—who are brave enough to expand childcare, protect renters, and tax the rich.

.Reclaim RI & RI Working Families Party have teamed up in hopes of building a progressive wave election up and down the ballot in Rhode Island next year (#2) thepublicsradio.org/tgif/tgif-ian-…

As a founding member of Reclaim RI I’m a bit biased, but I think it’s one of the most exciting organizations in Rhode Island, maybe the country. And now we’re hiring!!! See listings here and feel free to dm me with questions!