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  • New solutions unveiled to curtail L.A. County's Black infant and maternal death rates

    October 23, 2022 |

    Daily Kos |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Universal Basic Income programs like LA County’s “Breathe” provide monthly funds to people in need, some of which include expectant mothers. The state is currently in the process of rolling out more UBI programs aimed specifically at pregnant people to help improve rates of infant and maternal mortality among people of color.

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  • In Croatia, a hotel trying to heal war wounds

    October 22, 2022 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Croatia

    A hotel in a small Croatian village near the Bosnia-Herzegovina border has invested in regenerating and bringing together the community that is still scarred from the Balkans war in the 1990s. Hotel owners have refurbished 10 buildings in town, provide guests with firsthand accounts from village residents to learn about the region’s history, and follow staffing policies aimed at bringing together the ethnically diverse community by hiring equal numbers of individuals from the region's ethnic groups.

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  • Indigenous activists look to Rights of Nature laws to stop fracking

    October 20, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Ponca Nation, United States

    Indigenous tribes are protecting natural resources and land from harmful practices by passing Rights of Nature laws. These laws set the framework to file legal claims to hold those violating the protections accountable.

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  • Cleveland voter advocacy groups get access to jails for first time in years, push for clear policies

    October 19, 2022 |

    The Land |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    After a few years of virtual outreach due to the pandemic, Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates held an in-person drive in the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center to help people incarcerated there get registered to vote and request mail-in ballots. Over two days, the organization added 69 inmates to the county's voter rolls and helped 75 request ballots.

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  • US midterm elections: Why Bolivia's lawmakers are 50% women

    October 19, 2022 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Bolivia

    As the result of an electoral law introduced in the late '90s and later added to the country's constitution, roughly half of Bolivian lawmakers at every level of government are women. Though the country outperforms many others, including the United States, on gender parity in the legislature, women are still underrepresented in executive positions.

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  • Thousands of eligible Wisconsin voters face ballot barriers in jail

    October 18, 2022 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Jails in Illinois and Texas have improved voting access for people who are incarcerated by coordinating with voting rights advocacy groups and bringing the polls on-site. In June, voter turnout at the Cook County Jail in Illinois exceeded that of the city of Chicago as a whole, and the Harris County Jail in Texas saw 96 people vote in-person in November 2021 and about 200 cast ballots in the March primary.

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  • These women are defying tradition—by flying

    October 14, 2022 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Cuetzalán

    Women in Cuetzalan, Mexico, taking part in the danza de los voladores, an Indigenous ritual performed to ask for good harvests and rain, are called voladoras. By partaking in a tradition initially performed by only men, they are laying a path for other women to follow and showing it is unnecessary to exclude them.

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  • How Angwan Gwuragwu, FCT women are earning while keeping community

    October 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Angwan Gwuragwu, Abuja

    In an effort to address issues of waste disposal, the Women Recyclers Empowerment Initiative empowers women in local communities by paying them to recycle plastics. Not only does the initiative address waste issues, but it also allows women to become financially independent. So far, 40 women have participated in the initiative.

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  • Putting a face to a movement: Trader Joe's unionization

    October 12, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Trader Joe’s stores across the United States are pushing for unionization with mixed results. While some stores have seen success, others have faced union-busting tactics and, in one scenario, an abrupt store closure.

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  • Putting a stop to labor trafficking!

    October 11, 2022 |

    Solutionaries |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The Equal Justice Center helps people who have experienced issues in the workplace like wage theft, labor trafficking and discrimination get justice against their employers.

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