BULLETIN

Bulletin — 12/2/22

Upcoming Actions & Community Events

Every Wednesday @ 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

Saturday 12/3 @ 6-10PM: Christmas Toy Drive

The Milagros Proje ct, a Rhode Island-based organization aimed at food insecurity, is hosting a Christmas Toy Drive. The organization is looking for donations of new (unwrapped) toys that they will give to local children in the community. Location: Lower Level, 175 Eddie Dowling Hwy, North Smithfield, RI 02896

Tuesday 12/6 and 12/8 @ 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. Location: Barus & Holley Café, 184 Hope St, Providence RI 02912

Monday 12/12 @ 6:30PM: Rhode Island Create Homes Act

Reclaim Rhode Island, a progressive advocacy group, will be hosting their second meeting in a series of two Create Homes Act teach-ins. The Create Homes Act, introduced by Senator Meghan Kallman, would make Rhode Island the first state in the nation to have a state-level public housing developer. While the first meeting in this series took place on November 28th, attend this virtual session to learn about the history of public housing and how the act will benefit our community. Location: Virtual, Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CreateHomesAct -zoomlink

Saturday 12/17 @ 7-10PM: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

COYOTE RI (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics Rhode Island), a non-profit organization advocating for policies that promote the health and safety of people involved in the sex industry, is hosting a virtual memorial and awareness event about violence against sex workers. Location: Virtual, Zoom link: tinyurl.com/COYOTE-zoomlink

Tuesday 1/3: Day One of Advocating for Equality in Abortion Coverage Act’s Passage

The Womxn Project is a statewide organization aimed at embodying the principles of reproductive justice, cultivating innovation, and advancing real and lasting change. Join them in supporting the EACA (Equality in Abortion Coverage Act)’s passage. The EACA will eliminate the policy that withholds health coverage for abortion in the state Medicaid program and associated plans and halt the denial of coverage for abortion in the health plan used by state employees. The Womxn Project is pledging to show up on January 3rd and every session day (Tuesdays/Wednesdays/ Thursdays) in great numbers until the EACA is enacted! The Womxn Project will provide materials and support from their staff and board members. Fill out this form if you are interested and want to receive more information: tinyurl.com/womxnproject-passeaca. Location: Rhode Island State House, 82 Smith St, Providence, RI 02903

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 12/3 @ 12-4PM: Providence Art Club Holiday Block Party

Free and open to the public, attend the Providence Art Club’s Holiday block party to appreciate art, listen to live music, eat food, and participate in much more fun activities! Location: 11 Thomas 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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