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  • How water is helping to end 'the first climate change war'

    December 18, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Sudan, El Fasher

    Cooperation and collective action work not only to mitigate the effects of climate change, they can also build bridges to peace. In El Fasher, Sudan, farmers and pastoralists along the Wadi El Ku River have come together to prevent water shortages by building weirs. The community built weirs enable the land to retain more water, and have led to increased cooperation among groups that had former resorted to conflict over scarce water resources in the region.

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  • Why students with disabilities are going to school in classrooms that look like Staples and CVS

    December 18, 2019 |

    Chalkbeat New York |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A Brooklyn school for students with cognitive disabilities or special emotional needs combines in-class instruction with "learning labs" that prepare students for work in stores and other work environments. Some critics worry that the school, which serves mostly minority students, funnels students into lower-paying jobs.

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  • Wie NRW-Kommunen Alleinerziehenden eine Perspektive bieten

    December 18, 2019 |

    Deutschlandfunk |

    Radio Talk Show |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Ein Drittel aller Alleinerziehenden in Deutschland erhält Hartz IV. Ein bundesweit einzigartiges Modellprojekt im Kreis Recklinghausen ermöglicht ihnen den Einstieg in den Arbeitsmarkt – durch eine Ausbildung in Teilzeit.

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  • How They Did It: Investigating a Country with 2,000 Clandestine Graves

    December 17, 2019 |

    Global Investigative Journalism Network |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    A nearly two-year investigation of Mexicans who had gone missing, and presumably murdered, produced a series of stories based on the database of at least 2,000 graves across Mexico. A group of independent reporters and photographers called “¿A dónde van los desaparecidos?” (where do the disappeared go?) supplied victims' families with information that previous government and private efforts had not, and that fueled demands for definitive information on their loved ones' deaths. More than 40,000 people have been reported missing in Mexico since 2006 amid drug-related violence.

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  • Shouldering the Burden

    December 17, 2019 |

    Comstock's Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Guinda, California

    Drastic solutions to climate change tend not to pan out (like trying to get everyone to stop eating meat), but careful adaptation is making real progress. In California, many smaller-scale farms are trying out new methods of adapting to the new realities of climate change, including not tilling the land so that nutrients build up and the soil strengthens. This article covers a range of approaches that farmers take to protect their livelihood and conserve their resources.

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  • How a Stock Photography Project Is Confronting Fat Bias

    December 17, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    AllGo, a Portland-based organization is an app that aims to combat fat bias in the media by creating a collection of stock photos of exclusively plus-sized models. The app is a completely free resource that aims to offer another perspective in stock photography, which tends to err cis-gendered, able-bodied, and thin. Their photos now have more than 76,000 downloads and over 24 million views, and the creators and models look forward to shooting many more scenes as "an act of resistance."

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  • Reforesting the Ocean

    December 17, 2019 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Australia, Port Stephens

    In Australia, scientists have developed a method to seed the ocean floor with healthy plants as a way to regrow dying ocean forests vital to the ecosystem. They have also crowdsourced the process, with volunteers collecting healthy seagrass and depositing it in bins along the beach.

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  • The Future Is Male: Why California Needs More Male Teachers of Color

    December 17, 2019 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A program called Future Male Minority Teachers of California at California State University recruits men of color from local communities in California and provides financial and emotional support to students throughout the process of becoming and practicing as a teacher.

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  • Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Underground

    December 17, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    The passage of the 2018 Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act was meant to hold accountable the online platforms where sex trafficking and sex work took place, but a year into its existence, it has shown negative, unintended consequences. The legislation has effectively shown an impact in moving sex trafficking offline, but experts now say it has moved onto the street, making it harder to track and catch.

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  • Boone County Drug Court addresses racial disparities and trauma through grant

    December 17, 2019 |

    Columbia Missourian |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbia, Missouri

    In Boone County, Missouri the Habilitation Empowerment Accountability Therapy (HEAT) program offers young men an alternative to incarceration for drug-related offenses. The program works primarily with black men, many of whom bring issues of childhood and generational trauma, to work together toward their treatment plans, finding employment, and behavioral therapy. Fundamental to all of HEAT’s programming is the consideration of underlying factors like education, exposure to violence, and socioeconomic forces.

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