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  • Como pequenos agricultores e vaqueiros mantêm o Cerrado vivo na Bahia

    September 10, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Correntina, Bahia

    A reportagem mostra que pequenos agricultores preservam o cerrado na Bahia ao criar gado em terras de uso coletivo, coletar espécies nativas e ao plantar alimentos orgânicos. A preservação ambiental dos agricultores também ajudam a manter rios vivos.

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  • Por que o Uruguai tem tão poucos casos de covid-19

    September 10, 2020 |

    Nexo Jornal |

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    Response Location: Uruguay

    A reportagem é sobre como o Uruguai conseguiu ter o melhor resultado de enfrentamento contra a pandemia de Covid-19 na América Latina. Mostra que a estabilidade política, valorização da ciência e rastreamento de casos foram algumas das ações efetivas.

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  • NYPD Study: Implicit Bias Training Changes Minds, Not Necessarily Behavior

    September 10, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    After all 36,000 New York Police Department officers took required training in recognizing implicit racial bias, more officers understood how racism may increase officers' aggressiveness but there was no evidence that this awareness translated into a less racially disparate outcome in the numbers of people stopped and frisked. Since the protests of police bias that started in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, most states have imposed mandatory implicit-bias training on police. NYPD's study is a rare measurement of the effects such training can have.

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  • Portland's High Stakes Experiment to Shrink the Role of Police in Fighting Gun Violence

    September 10, 2020 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Two years after reorganizing a police gun-enforcement unit to focus it on an evidence-based approach to preventing retaliatory shootings, Portland city leaders abolished the unit in a round of police budget cuts and failed to reinvest that money in community-based alternatives that don't rely on the police. The result, criminologists say, is a worst-case scenario: a policing reform that creates a vacuum and could be to blame for an alarming spike in gun violence. The most effective solutions, they say, blend effective policing with proven community-based programs.

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  • ONG brinda apoyo psicológico a adultos que enfrentan estrés y ansiedad por desempleo en Guanacaste

    September 10, 2020 |

    La Voz de Guanacaste |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, Guanacaste

    Una organización que daba atención psicológica a niños y adolescentes de su comunidad decide redirigir el recurso hacia la atención de las personas adultas que sufren de ansiedad, estrés y disturbios del sueño, causadas por los efectos de la pandemia por COVID-19, en especial el desempleo.

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  • Future Mechanics Return To Class In Person

    September 10, 2020 |

    New Haven Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    Gateway Community College in New Haven, Connecticut is adapting a class that's pretty difficult to take online—automotive repair. Although 90 to 92% of the college's classes continue remotely, the automotive repair class has reduced class size from 18 to 12, instituted social distancing, frequent face shield disinfection, and open-air space for students to continue to get a hands-on education when it comes to fixing cars, and learning from mistakes.

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  • How a $3 billion USDA coronavirus program is helping feed S.C. families

    September 10, 2020 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Bluffton, South Carolina

    A new initiative from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is helping connect farmers with those who are facing food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic. The program, known as Farmers to Families, allocates monetary contracts to companies that go towards distributing boxes of produce to families. In South Carolina, one farm has been able to distribute over 5.2 million pounds of food throughout the southeast region of the state.

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  • Galería Mitotera comparte la vida y obra de artistas de Tucsón durante la cuarentena

    September 10, 2020 |

    La Estrella de Tucsón |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Dos artistas, quienes establecieron Galería Mitotera, adaptaron sus servicios durante la pandemia y entablaron un nuevo programa—Art Chats. A través del programa, el publico puede acceder de manera virtual a noches de pintura semanales, y charlas con artistas de los alrededores de Tucson.

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  • Cleveland startup makes masks a new way

    September 09, 2020 |

    The Land |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Two newly-formed companies in Ohio are the nation's first businesses to create a "fully automated production of woven, washable masks." The project became a reality thanks to partnerships and funding support between state agencies, the Ohio Hospital Association, and a nonprofit consulting group. While the masks aren't medical grade, they are "washable, snug, and easy to take on and off without touching the contaminated part."

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  • Online Art Keeps Bosnia's Isolated Seniors Connected in Pandemic

    September 09, 2020 |

    Balkan Insight |

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    Response Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Before the coronavirus pandemic, Our Bridge in Bosnia provided services to seniors to combat social isolation. Despite having to shut down in-person classes due to the pandemic, both groups now use online art and music classes to reach people who are isolated and at risk of depression. The group joined with the Serbian association, Art Aparat, to offer singing, art, and handicraft classes by video. In person connections are preferred and missed, but the group adapted to changing circumstances to provide even more isolated seniors with social connections, and the partnership allows for cultural exchanges.

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