It's been a busy year.
Where were you a year ago? We were digesting the election results and hoping that the Trump presidency wouldn’t be based on the same hateful ideas that made up much of his campaign. By February, we had stopped hoping and were hard at work trying to protect Rhode Island’s immigrant communities. And that was just the beginning of what has been a challenging year for our founding principles. We have been VERY busy – both challenging federal threats to our rights, and working to safeguard and expand justice in the Ocean State in response to those threats. Here’s a look at a sample month-by-month snippet of what we have been up to in resisting the Trump anti-civil rights agenda: