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Cynthia Mendes
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Former RI Senator & 2022 Dem candidate for Lt. Governor, Poet, Activist, Mom, Afro-Latina 🇨🇻 🇵🇷 DEI leader & Community organizer.
East Providence, RIlinktr.ee/CynthiaMendesRIJoined June 2019

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According to the the median rents in #Pawtucket in the 02860 zip code rose from ~ $800 to ~ $1,600 in the past year...perhaps in anticipation of the new station... providencejournal.com/story/news/loc
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Rhode Island is number 8 for states where residents pay a high percentage of income on rent. @RISpeaker @junespeakman @SenatorRuggerio @GovDanMcKee @UpriseRI
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You’re not only closer to homelessness than being a billionaire. You’re closer to homelessness than to buying any home in many major cities. You’re closer to homelessness than being able to ever actually retire. When you see it that way, the crisis is impossible to ignore.
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Wow. Just wow.
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Eyebrows have been raised state-wide by the McKee administration's hire of Wayne Salisbury as Director of the Dept of Corrections. Read why in our latest piece on this strange development... upriseri.com/mckees-new-hea
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A gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a ballroom dance club in Monterey Park, California, following a Lunar New Year celebration, setting off a manhunt for the suspect in the fifth mass killing in the U.S. this month.
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If you know, you know. I'm with you. I see you. 🔥
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Replying to @RepEpps and @elisabethepps
Ppl underestimate the toll it takes on us (marginalized ppl-esp Blk women) to take on the very systems, institutions & traditions actively harming us from inside the belly of the beast And in many places, the lonliness of the fight there Solidarity sister, always happy to talk
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Question How have you seen arts being used in real and tangible ways in the movement for racial, environmental and economic justice??? Comment/tag/shout out the group, artist, or org that is doing it!⤵️
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“72% of Americans disapproved of #MLK when he was shot—as well as 50% of Black Americans. We should never forget that. We all love him now that the worms got his body. But when he was speaking the truth, he was radically unsettling folk.” — Cornel West
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“Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.” MLK
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It’s not about stoves, it’s about childhood asthma rates. It’s not about stoves, it’s about childhood asthma rates. It’s not about stoves, it’s about childhood asthma rates. It’s not about stoves, it’s about childhood asthma rates.
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If anyone wants a guide in your decolonization journey and/or help identifying colonizer behavior ... Follow 👏🏾 She will change your whole dang life and probably some of your relationships.
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Reconciliation requires both parties to consent and participate, it's not a one way relationship. Notice who claims reconciliation has happened, notice who hasn't consented.
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Apparently Rhode Island Mayors like and their teams are following ’s example on treatment of folks who are homeless. Wow. Just wow.
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Woonsocket’s Director of Public Works responds to last night’s City Council meeting where he was asked to apologize to the unhoused people whose belongings he destroyed. @UpriseRI @mayorLBH @RebuildWoon @margauxmor @rihomeless @CCare_RI
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This is terrifying!
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1. Beginning today, workers' right to strike is on trial before the U.S. Supreme Court. If wealthy corporations get their way, companies would be able to sue workers for the cost of a strike — like spoiled food, lost revenue, and more. Here's what's happening:
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The Speaker of the House makes $223,500/year, has healthcare, and unlimited paid leave. Meanwhile, the minimum wage is *still* $7.25/hour and we don’t have universal healthcare or paid sick leave.
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Good. 👏🏾Start with Medicare for all. 👏🏾Then make equal quality education guarantee for every child. 👏🏾Then shut down the fossil fuel industry in the port of providence and open access to our beautiful shoreline to everyone.
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It’s Rhode Island’s turn to lead and we’re going to do it, together.
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Excellent coverage by on the City of Woonsocket’s wildly vicious attack against unhoused people!
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Warwick and Woonsocket homeless encampments destroyed: 'It creates a crisis' advocates say providencejournal.com/story/news/loc via @projo
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This. This is the video to watch about leadership votes! hits the nail on the head.
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"While Democrats are bending over backward to pretend that the force the vote strategy is emblematic of a Republican pty in disarray, what this moment really shows is how fully controlled by the corporate Democratic party progressive Democrats really are" youtube.com/watch?v=8pZKZj
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