BULLETIN — 11/18/22

Upcoming Actions & Community Events

Every Wednesday starting 11/2 @ 4:30-6:30PM: Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) Organizing Circle Workshops

Are you community rights-minded? Attend Providence Youth Student Movement’s youth leadership program workshops to learn about grassroots organizing, abolition, leadership, and more! Reserve your spot at bit.ly/ocworkshopsform. Location: 807 Broad Street, Room 430, Providence, RI 02907

Friday 11/18 @ 4:30-6:30PM: Participatory Defense Hub Info Session

Attend the Providence Youth Student Movement’s Participatory Defense Movement, focused on utilizing community organizing to fight harmful policing and court systems. The movement is led by and made for youth of color who have had contact with police and/or the legal system. Location: 807 Broad Street, Providence, RI 02907

Monday 11/21 @11:40AM: Protest Demanding the Re-Opening of Hotels for Shelter

With over 500 people staying outside as we move into a brutal winter, HOPE (Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere) are demanding that the state immediately re-open hotel rooms that can provide 300 or more beds and funding for the non-profit Rhode Island Homeless Advocacy Project. HOPE is also collecting signatures on a letter to the governor outlining all of this. Join HOPE in marching to the governor’s office to present him with the letter and the signature. Location: Faunce Arch, 75 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02912

Monday 11/28 @ 11AM-2PM: Period Product Drive

Period Equity @ Brown is hosting multiple dates for their period product drive! The club is collecting individually wrapped pads and tampons (pads preferred) as well as cash donations which will be distributed to the Refugee Dream Center and Providence Rescue Mission. PEB will also be hosting their drive from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday 11/30 in the Blue Room. Location: Blue Room Cafe, 75 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912

Wednesday 11/30 @ 1-4PM: Build Collective Action and Social Change

This community gathering led by Root Cause, a nonprofit consulting team that helps drive effective and enduring social change, will explore collective action as a community-led approach and how it can advance equity and achieve social change. Tickets are free, but you can reserve a spot here: tinyurl.com/rootcause-workshop. Location: Innovate Newport, 513 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840

Arts

Monday-Friday until December 22 @10AM-4PM: Art Exhibition: Perceptions of Organizational Change, through a Kaleidoscopic Lexicon of Color

Jazzmen Lee-Johnson and Deborah Spears Moorehead, two Rhode Islandbased artists, have created site-specific artworks that respond to the Center for Public Humanities’ historic wallpaper, Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord, which features false depictions of Indigenous people. Location: Main Hall in the Nightingale-Brown House, 357 Benefit Street, Providence, RI 02903

Every Second Tuesday of the Month @ 7:30-9:30PM: UpRiseHer’s Feminist Book Club

Join UpRiseHer, an organization aimed at empowering women, for their Feminist Book Club, which meets every second Tuesday of the month. The club studies female authors and books that explore feminism. Sign up to attend here: tinyurl.com/upriseher-bookclub. Location: UpRiseHer, 335 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02906

Every Sunday @ 3-5PM: Queer Knitting Circle

Join Small Format, an organization focused on supporting queer creative culture any Sunday for a queer knitting circle! As the cold season approaches, come by for free knitting lessons—supplies are provided according to Small Format’s availability, so bring your own needles and thread if possible. Be with queer community! Location: Small Format, 335 Wickenden Street, Providence, RI 02903

Saturday 11/19 @ 2:30-4:30PM: Collaborative Zine Workshop

Zines are an empowering medium where artists and writers find expression and community outside of mainstream publishing. For this workshop, engage with What Cheer Writers Club and local artist Zooey Kim Conner at Binch Press/Queer.Archive to learn how zines can be used as a tool for knowledge sharing, participate in drawing and writing exercises, and learn the basics of zine assembly and binding. Participants will also get to take home a copy of What Cheer Writers Club’s collaboratively designed zine. Reserve a free spot on Eventbrite at tinyurl.com/ collaborative-zine-workshop. Location: Binch Press/Queer.Archive.Work, 400 Harris Ave Unit F, Providence, RI 02909

Tuesday 11/22 @ 7-11PM: OUTSPOKENPVD! Poetry Showcase & Open Mic S2E1

OUTSPOKENPVD! is hosting a live poetry series aimed at providing safe spaces for artists, particularly POC artists, to perform. This event’s featured artists are Ginay Lopes, Marlon Carey, and Zara Ayanna Salmon. Tickets cost $16 and can be purchased on Eventbrite at tinyurl.com/ outspoken-pvd. Location: Alchemy, 171 Chestnut Street, Providence, RI 02903

Mutual Aid* & Community Fundraisers

*Mutual aid is “survival pending on revolution,” as described by the Black Panthers. Join in redistributing wealth to create an ecosystem of care in response to a system of institutions that have failed or harmed our communities.

+ Support RI Family Donate at tinyurl.com/help-ri-family Support a family that is part of the Pioneer Tenants Union, a group that stood up to a slumlord’s derelict living spaces. Donate to help this young family pay their legal bills and find a new place to live.

+ Donations needed for a Housing Activist Donate at tinyurl.com/donate-2-hope Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE) at Brown is organizing this GoFundMe for a fellow housing activist. This friend of HOPE’s is facing eviction, recently lost his job, and had to pay for eye surgery. Donate to help him out of this dire situation.

+ Black and Pink Providence’s Fundraiser for Tunji Donate at tinyurl.com/help-tunji Black and Pink Providence, a nonprofit organization working toward prison abolition, is raising money through a GoFundMe for Tunji. Tunji is formerly incarcerated and recently lost his job.

+ Amenity Aid Rhode Island Donate at amenityaid.org/donate-money Amenity Aid works to provide hygiene resources to marginalized communities and low-income people in need. On top of serving individuals, Amenity Aid partners with local shelters, food pantries, anti-domestic violence organizations, and other community groups that support underserved communities to distribute hygiene resources.

+ Project LETS Providence COVID-19 Relief Fund Donate at projectlets.org/covid19 Project Let’s Erase The Stigma (LETS) is working in coalition with various grassroots organizations in Rhode Island to support marginalized groups in our community in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. All donations will directly help individuals, children, and families meet their basic needs.

+ Ocean State A$$ Mutual Aid Fund Donate at tinyurl.com/oceanstateass Support sex workers statewide. Priority is given to BIPOC sex workers, trans sex workers, and sex workers who have been impacted by the pandemic.

+ Queer & Trans Mutual Aid Providence Venmo: @qtmapvd; Paypal: qtma.pvd@gmail.com / Info: tinyurl. com/qtma-pvd QTMA PVD is a small, volunteer-run mutual aid fund for queer and trans folks in the Providence, RI area. They do payouts once per week and have distributed over $80,000 since their founding in June 2020. They currently have over 30 outstanding requests for aid and would appreciate any donations!

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