Advocates gathered to protest Gov. Dan McKee’s State of the State speech on Tuesday to protest state officials’ inaction on homelessness and high energy prices. (Rob Smith/ecoRI News)
PROVIDENCE — The temperature had already dropped below freezing Tuesday night by the time the protesters had gathered in the Bell Room of the State House.
State officials and notables were seated upstairs, in the House chamber, readying for Gov. Dan McKee’s State of the State speech. Barred from entering the rotunda as originally planned, housing and utility justice advocates, unhoused residents and immigrants shared their experiences of being down and out in Rhode Island with all who came to listen…