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A Divided Neighborhood Comes Together under an Elevated Expressway

Katy Reckdahl

August 20, 2018 |

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Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

Community organizing may be the key to a comeback along New Orleans’ Claiborne Avenue. Once home to a booming block of African American-owned businesses, many left once a new expressway demolished the street in the 1960s. Now, community input is essential in rebuilding. A new master plan included 11 meetings with residents to share their priorities. The painted murals, live jazz performances, and local gatherings still happening show that the Claiborne Corridor will remain home to its long-time residents, even in a new format.

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A Huge Win for Keeping Water Systems under Public Control

Dharna Noor

August 17, 2018 |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Voting to approve the prohibition of privatizing the city water system was just the most recent success in Baltimore's history of keeping the water system under public ownership. Through efforts pioneered by the city's various communities coming together, the city itself has turned into a model for others to learn from.

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How One Kid Stopped the Contamination of a River

Nicole Javorsky

August 16, 2018 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: Canada, Nova Scotia

After discovering that raw sewage was flowing into Nova Scotia's LaHave River at alarming rates, an 11-year-old in the community decided study the issue for her science project. After testing the levels of the water and relating the cause of the issue to a certain type of sewage system, she publicized the results through social media, prompting the community to organize around change.

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Water Protectors Take Action to Keep Pipeline Out of Black and Indigenous Communities

Jen Marlowe

August 14, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Rayne, Louisiana

When construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana was slated to begin, local citizens formed the L’Eau Est La Vie (“Water Is Life”) camp to establish a course of action to halt the process. Although their main goal is to have an evacuation route planned, the organization is also providing room for the voices of those that will be impacted the most - predominantly indigenous and low-income Black residents.

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Grassroots Organizations Are Leading the Way on Criminal Justice Reform

Danielle Ziegelheim

August 14, 2018 |

Pacific Standard |

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Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

Local groups in cities like St. Louis and New York are organizing to reform the criminal justice system, pushing for policies that reinstate voting rights for formerly incarcerated people, changing punishments for non-violent crimes, and in some cases, eliminating jails altogether. The local know-how and pressure is creating results, and that, along with the funding and assistance that national organizations can bring, is a model for how advocates for criminal justice reform can change the system.

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Chicago Segregation Mapping Project Makes Real-Life Connections

Audrey F. Henderson

August 14, 2018 |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Photographer Tonika Lewis Johnson created a “Map Twins” project to bring together people from often strictly segregated sections of Chicago. Connecting people who live on the same number block of the north and south sides of a similar street, Johnson’s project makes visible the impact of neighborhood environment, people’s connections to their community, and the outlines of poverty in underserved parts of the city.

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How This Community Fought for $70 Million in Cleanup Funds — and Won

Johnny Magdaleno

August 13, 2018 |

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Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

Fresno sits in right in the middle of the Central Valley of California. The region is known for its vast agriculture and farming communities, but to locals, it's also known for its horrid air quality. This is especially true in the southwest territory of Fresno, where some of the most economically disadvantaged also reside. After a series of failed attempts by local government, the community took matters into their own hands, joining forces and fighting for the right to design their own plan for better air quality.

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Paradise lost? What happened to Ireland's model eco-village

Killian Fox

August 10, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Ireland, Cloughjordan

Admittedly by no definition perfect, members of Ireland's model eco-village have learned many lessons since the community first came into existence and are vowing to use these lessons to improve. Over the last ten years, the Cloughjordan village has built 55 houses on the settlement as well as "a working farm, an array of well-tended polytunnels and a bakery" which offers those living there food year-round.

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Despite spike in shootings, a Chicago community gets a handle on violence

Nissa Rhee

August 08, 2018 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Chicago has seen a decline in violence, and one neighborhood in particular has led the way, nearly halving its shootings and homicides. Police in Englewood have changed how they work with the community and where they send officers, focusing on the places and people experiencing the most violence, informed by data and surveillance systems. Community organizations are also providing job training, services and counseling to those most likely to be caught up in the violence.

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Tomato Canning as Protest: How a Community Resisted Corporate Farming

Margot Ford McMillen

August 07, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Missouri

Production agriculture has put many small town, local farmers out of business, changing the landscape of the communities they've been pushed out of. One town in Missouri is fighting against this by joining together to preserve the importance of local control by nurturing a tradition of canning tomatoes.

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