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  • 3 lessons from how schools responded to the 1918 pandemic worth heeding today

    June 16, 2020 |

    The Conversation |

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    Response Location: United States

    The pandemic of 2020 bears a heavy resemblance to the pandemic of 1918, and the U.S. can learn from the successes of the past. Investing heavily in school nurses, fostering cross-sector and public/private partnerships, and creating “large, clean, airy school buildings” to continue serving families and children—decisions made over a hundred years ago that are still just as relevant today.

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  • La ventilación mécanica: una esperanza de alto riesgo para pacientes COVID

    June 16, 2020 |

    Animal Político |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    Este artículo explica en qué medida los sistemas de ventilación pulmonar mecánicos para medicina son soluciones ante una pandemia por enfermedad respiratoria como el COVID-19, pero en un país con altos porcentajes de población diabética, hipertensa y con obesidad, esta respuesta médica a la enfermedad también puede representar un riesgo.

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  • This Seattle protest zone is police-free. So volunteers are stepping up to provide security.

    June 16, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In Seattle's police-free street encampment that sprang up during protests over policing abuses, a mostly unarmed group of volunteer "sentinels" has defused a number of potential problems while largely avoiding the use of force. Trained in de-escalation and mediation tactics, the sentinels have used listening techniques to understand people's anger or mental state. Among the incidents they have addressed: fights, attempted vandalism of storefronts, visits from armed people who wanted to confront a supposed leftist threat, and the attempted arson of a police precinct building.

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  • How Violence Interrupters Brokered An End To Anti-Black Attacks In A Latino Neighborhood Audio icon

    June 16, 2020 |

    Block Club Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    When protests against police violence turned into looting and anti-Black violence in some Latinx neighborhoods, violence interrupters from groups such as UCAN, EnLace, and Chicago CRED brokered a peace agreement that almost immediately ended that violence. The outreach workers’ years-long relationships and training in dispute mediation gave them credibility to address historic racial tensions among gangs in Lawndale and Little Village. The violence could have escalated, but three days of negotiation – and a sense of common cause against racism in policing – united the neighborhoods.

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  • How Bangor drug court participants are getting help staying sober during the pandemic

    June 16, 2020 |

    Bangor Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Bangor, Maine

    Bangor drug court in Maine has turned to the use of Zoom to keep in contact with program participants during the Covid-19 pandemic. Although meeting via video call can disguise some physical symptoms of drug use, this new process has so far seen success with all participants still enrolled and one even graduating from the program.

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  • Organizing for Help in a Pandemic

    June 16, 2020 |

    Inside Higher Ed |

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    Response Location: United States

    Graduate students at several major universities organized to secure benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic. For example, the University of Illinois Graduate Employees Organization fought for and won the expansion of mental health services and summer health care coverage, as well as free summer housing for international graduate students who cannot return home due to travel restrictions. After graduate students at the University of Texas Austin demonstrated and 1,400 signed a petition, the dean granted expanded funding opportunities and a commitment to finding a healthcare plan that ensures no coverage gap.

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  • How Decades Of Bans On Police Chokeholds Have Fallen Short

    June 16, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States

    One of the key police reforms sought after the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, bans on chokeholds and other neck restraints, has failed to curb abuses in some of the nation’s largest police departments because of lax enforcement and easily found loopholes in such policies. Despite existing bans, some as old as 30-40 years, multiple people in those cities have died when neck restraints were used during their arrests with few repercussions. Lack of effective training and disagreements over such tactics’ efficacy are among other reasons experts say the practice persists.

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  • Can implicit bias training help cops overcome racism?

    June 15, 2020 |

    Popular Science |

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    Response Location: United States

    Implicit racial bias has solid scientific grounding, and training programs to make police officers aware of it and overcome its effects in their work have been widely embraced. But it is hard to measure whether such training reduces police brutality and racially disparate law enforcement. And there are many ways in which such programs fail, in part by force-feeding entire police departments a message they resist. There are ways to cure these flaws, including by making it voluntary and letting its lessons ripple out more organically in a police department.

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  • Coletivo da Maré espalha informações sobre coronavírus e tenta evitar contaminação ainda maior na favela

    June 15, 2020 |

    O Dia |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    A reportagem é sobre ações de moradores do Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, para minimizar a contaminação de Covid-19. Os moradores investiram em grafite, faixas e carro de som para alertar a vizinhança sobre os riscos da doença.

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  • Youth Are Flipping an Abandoned North Carolina Prison into a Sustainable Farm

    June 15, 2020 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Wagram, North Carolina

    A former North Carolina prison has been reclaimed by the nonprofit Growing Change to teach sustainable farming to youth who otherwise might be doomed to their own prison terms without an effective intervention. The 9-year-old program, while small, is meant to serve as a model for reusing many other shuttered prisons as the nation’s incarceration numbers fall. Boasting positive effects on recidivism, the program’s focus is the racially diverse youth of the rural, impoverished eastern part of the state – the same people who disproportionately get imprisoned.

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