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  • 'Black At' Instagram accounts put campus racism on display Audio icon

    July 06, 2020 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    Students at colleges across the U.S. are taking to social media to confront racism and biases at their campuses. Over 40 "Black at" Instagram accounts were launched in June on which students share their personal stories of racism on campus, educate interested parties through reading lists, and share resources for those wanting to confront their biases and be actively antiracist. Many of the accounts have garnered large followings, and some have even raised thousands of dollars to support defense funds and community centers.

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  • Baltimore Hits Pause on Gun Violence Command Centers

    July 06, 2020 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    A strategy to improve the intelligence that steers policing and violence-intervention efforts has worked in Chicago and shown promising early signs in Baltimore. But plans to expand Strategic Decision Support Centers in Baltimore ran into political opposition, based on sentiment in favor of diverting police resources to other strategies. Chicago’s SDSC program is credited with a much greater reduction in shootings than in untargeted areas of the city. Baltimore likewise has seen homicides decline where SDSCs help police and violence interrupters decide where and on whom to focus their interventions.

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  • Could alternative, transition scheduling help the unemployed re-enter the workforce?

    July 06, 2020 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    A pilot program has successfully launched an alternative-schedule employment initiative that eliminates barriers for employees who are kept out of the workforce because they are unable to work full time. Obstacles such as affordable childcare or access to reliable transportation are often reasons that people are unable to commit to a full workweek, making them harder to employ. Temp2Higher, the agency running the pilot, provided coaching to help participants manage barriers to full-time employment. The pilot program had a 30 percent success rate, which was considered a success for temp-to-hire employment.

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  • Paradise Lockdown: How Thailand's Phuket Island flattened its coronavirus curve

    July 06, 2020 |

    Asia Sentinel |

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    Response Location: Thailand, Phuket

    Despite devastating economic consequences, Thailand’s quick and hardline response to early signs of COVID-19 spread contained the virus and within weeks limited the country’s infections to just over 3,000 as of July 1, a far better record than nearby countries. Tourism-dependent Phuket Island was Thailand’s only province to impose a total lockdown for more than one month. Thanks to aggressive travel restrictions, contact tracing, and quarantines of possibly infected residents and travelers, the stringent measures paid off as restaurants and shops began reopening in early May.

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  • They envisioned a world without police. Inside Seattle's CHOP zone, protesters struggled to make it real

    July 06, 2020 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The police-free zone that emerged during Seattle's protests in June 2020 was meant to demonstrate how safety could be provided by the community itself. But the six-square-block area, called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) and then Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), devolved into chaos and deadly violence thanks in part to the inability of organizers and their security team to keep armed people from committing violence. When fistfights turned into multiple shootings, and an ambulance crew could not reach a shooting victim, who died, police finally moved in and cleared the area.

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  • Minnesota 'crisis mode chaplains' seek to heal trauma of George Floyd's death

    July 06, 2020 |

    Minnesota Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    In Minnesota, volunteer chaplains are attending community events at the request of the participants to provide counsel and support to anyone who may be experiencing symptoms of trauma. Before attending any event to lend help, the volunteer "clergy, spiritual leaders and mental health leaders" first undergo a virtual cultural sensitivity and trauma training. During the events, the interfaith chaplains often perform volunteer duties, but also wear orange shirts to be easily identifiable for those who would like to share.

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  • This town of 170,000 replaced some cops with medics and mental health workers. It's worked for over 30 years

    July 05, 2020 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    The CAHOOTS crisis-response program saves its city money and its people living on the streets a great deal of unwanted police contact – contact that in other places is a common cause of excessive force and arrests that solve nothing. And, while less than 1% of its calls require police backup, the resource-thin agency cautions that it is a partner with police, not an antagonistic replacement, and that its model cannot simply be copied wholesale regardless of where it's used.

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  • How one Seattle teacher kept his kindergartners engaged through the coronavirus closures Audio icon

    July 04, 2020 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    When many schools across the U.S. suspended in-person school and switched to virtual learning, a teacher was able to successfully keep his students motivated and hopeful despite the drastic decrease in physical interaction. Kevin Gallagher, a kindergarten teacher, recorded his lessons and uploaded them to YouTube where his students could watch at their convenience, and engaged his students through the use of fun props, as well as talking to them about the realities of living through the pandemic.

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  • Pescadores de Guanacaste venden por primera vez en ferias del agricultor

    July 03, 2020 |

    La Voz de Guanacaste |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, Guanacaste

    La iniciativa Arroz y Frijoles está ayudando a los pescadores de Guanacaste, Costa Rica a sobrevivir los efectos economicos de la pandemia sobre el turismo y sus ingresos. La iniciativa fue iniciada por la Cámara de Pescadores de Guanacaste al empezar la pandemia, y opera de tal manera que el producto de los pescadores se compra a un precio fijo, y luego se vende en un mercado de agricultores. Desde que empezo la iniciativa, la CPG ha comprado 21.600 kilos de producto.

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  • The problem with Facebook's plan to sign up 4 million voters

    July 03, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    In the past decade, Facebook's US voter engagement campaigns included registration and election-day reminders for its 61 million 18+ users and sharing friends’ voting behavior. One study attributes hundreds of thousands of more votes to these election campaigns, with friends’ voting behavior the strongest influencer. The California Secretary of State credits the 4th highest voter registration daily total to Facebook’s same day reminder. Criticisms include not releasing data for independent review and negative aspects of its influence like potential liberal biases and the 2016 Russian disinformation campaign.

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