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  • These co-op restaurants didn't need to open indoor dining to survive the pandemic

    May 20, 2021 |

    The Real News Network |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Two Baltimore restaurants, Red Emma's and Joe Squared, show how running or starting as worker-owned cooperatives gave them pandemic-survival skills in a business climate that killed many other small businesses. By tapping into larger networks providing financing on favorable terms and other expertise, these co-ops used their workers' ingenuity to offer services that didn't depend on sit-down dining. Like many co-ops, they were able to survive the pandemic and preserve jobs where so many traditionally run businesses were not.

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  • Gérer son stress, développer l'empathie… Quand le collège enseigne aux ados le bien-être mental

    May 20, 2021 |

    Télérama |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: France, Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine

    Grâce au déploiement d’ateliers de “compétences psychosociales”, des collégiens apprennent à exprimer leurs émotions, développer de l'empathie, gérer leur stress...

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  • Here's how people in the Delta are working to overcome COVID-19 vaccine transportation barriers

    May 20, 2021 |

    Mississippi Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Transit operations have been repurposed to increase access to COVID-19 vaccines among underserved communities in the Delta. A fleet of transit buses that were sitting unused at Mississippi Valley State University now provide rides to and from vaccine sites. Community activists, local transportation agencies, and philanthropic groups have worked together to arrange similar no-cost vaccination transportation for people who need it. The Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi made an initial contribution to support the efforts, though limited advertising has also limited the reach of the programs.

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  • Philly mothers of gun violence victims work to solve their children's murders

    May 20, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia police fail to solve most of the city's growing number of homicides, in part because of the no-snitching street code, a byproduct of the community's lack of trust in police. But the streets do sometimes talk when the mothers of murder victims do their own detective work. A number of cases were solved because mothers turned their grief into a resolve to hunt down evidence that they turned over to the police. Their work grows out of the many support groups they have formed to help each other, and from a YouTube channel that helps them draw attention to unsolved murders.

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  • Baltimore's top cop in demand as cities seek consent decree advice; some locally criticize cost, pace of reform here

    May 20, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    The Baltimore Police Department was the last agency to enter into a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice during the Trump administration. This is a process by which a troubled police department submits to federal oversight as a way to reform its practices and culture. Now that the Biden administration has signaled a willingness to use this tool more, police are looking to Baltimore as a model. A federal monitor cites multiple signs of progress in Baltimore. But local activists are frustrated with the slow pace of change and high costs of federal monitoring.

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  • How Oakland's Street Level Health Project navigated the pandemic year

    May 20, 2021 |

    The Oaklandside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Residents in Oakland can access grocery distribution, hot meals, hand sanitizers, and vaccine coordination through the Street Level Health Project. Most of the community members who have used the service are Latinx day laborers.

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  • The other SNL: New York City's athletic approach to curbing rising gun violence

    May 20, 2021 |

    FastCompany |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Saturday Night Lights is run by the DA’s office and aims to reduce gun violence by providing organized sports for school-aged kids on weekend nights, when crime often goes up. Active in 20 locations across the city, SNL has served over 20,000 kids in 10 years. Partners must open on Saturday nights, for at least 46 weeks per year, and provide high quality coaching. There is no formal sign-up process or eligibility requirements apart from age and participants can join on any given night. As a response to surging crime rates in 2020, the mayor’s office has committed $5 million a year to expand to 100 locations.

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  • Hong Kong Protests, Silenced on the Streets, Surface in Artworks

    May 20, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Hong Kong

    Even though police silenced the 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, artists, writers, and filmmakers are producing work about the protests in more abstract and ambiguous ways to evade authorities. For example, the Goethe-Institut’s Hong Kong branch hosted a mixed show that included photographs of the 2019 protests that the artist had punched, ripped, or cut in order to hide protestors’ identities. Even though Chinese law criminalizes anything that the government deems as promoting “secession, subversion, or collusion with foreign powers,” several other exhibits are also featuring protest art.

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  • How Social Media Fact-Checking Limits, But Can't Eliminate, Online Disinformation

    May 20, 2021 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Social media companies are using artificial intelligence to help identify misinformation. Once identified, human fact checkers will verify the posts. Facebook uses 60 partnered fact-checking organizations as well as SimSearchNet++ image-recognition system that can identify image manipulation and slight changes to misinformation. Hundreds of millions of posts are flagged every year and those that are identified as “false” or “altered” are labeled with warnings and distribution is reduced.

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  • How Alameda County addresses mental-health crisis response

    May 20, 2021 |

    Santa Cruz Local |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Alameda and Santa Cruz counties have fielded their own mobile teams to respond to mental health crises as alternatives to police-only responses. Aimed at reducing conflicts with police, overuse of hospitals and jails, and involuntarily commitments for short-term emergency mental health care, the services' limited hours and resources mean that the police still handle the majority of such calls. Alameda's pilot, begun in July 2020, is able to provide help to about one-third of the four dozen monthly calls it gets. Santa Cruz's volume is higher. Impacts on involuntary commitments unclear.

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