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  • How the Criminal Justice System Fails People With Mental Illness

    November 26, 2020 |

    The Intercept |

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    Response Location: United States, Tyler, Texas

    Crisis-intervention and de-escalation trainings for police were meant to reform the criminal justice system's handling of people suffering from mental illness. But a lack of rigorous standards in the training and use of these approaches means that they routinely fail as a means of diverting people from arrest and incarceration toward treatment. That failure, combined with a lack of adequate mental-health-care resources, maintains jails' and prisons' role as the nation's de facto mental health care hospitals, even though they lack the will and the means to help people heal.

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  • 'We help prepare migrants for the job market – and prepare Greek employers for diversity'

    November 26, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Greece

    Generation 2.0 empowers migrant job-seekers through career counseling, resume help, and interview prep. Additionally, it provides diversity workshops for employers who are unfamiliar with the bureaucratic aspects of hiring an asylum-seeker. The program has successfully helped refugees find work and navigate unfamiliar Greek systems to integrate into Greek society.

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  • This sacred bean saved an indigenous clan from climate calamity

    November 25, 2020 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Manaure

    A community gardening project growing the guajiro bean has allowed Wayuu farmers in the Colombian desert to achieve food security despite the effects of climate change and external pressures. While scaling this agricultural success to other Indigenous clans can be difficult, using a low-tech irrigation system and red earthworm compost has allowed one settlement to feed its community and make their soil fertile again.

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  • Biden victory in hand, Black church get-out-the-vote workers assess the future

    November 25, 2020 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Faith leaders from communities of color mobilized voters to support candidates and policies that empower Black and Brown people. Events such as “Souls to the Polls” and the coalition-run Black Church 75 initiative, registered new voters and urged them to the polls around issues such as police brutality and racial injustices. Support from Black church members is credited with helping elect Democratic candidates, including Democratic senators in Georgia, as well as passing ballot initiatives, such as Measure J in Los Angeles that would decrease police funding in favor of mental health and housing resources.

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  • Female climate activists using Instagram to fight for Earth's future

    November 25, 2020 |

    The 19th |

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    Response Location: United States

    A growing number of climate activists — mostly young women — are using social media to post about sustainability and encourage others to live a greener lifestyle. While climate activism can be a slow process, people are using Instagram to help make climate change feel more personal and energize followers to advocate for action at the local and national level.

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  • Ciência garante preservação da variabilidade genética do cajueiro para futuras gerações

    November 25, 2020 |

    Agência Eco Nordeste |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Fortaleza, Ceará

    A reportagem é sobre sementes de caju que germinaram ficarem guardadas por 20 anos em câmara fria. O processo de congelamento de sementes é importante para garantir com que a espécie não seja extinta por causa da crise ambiental.

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  • Transgender Pakistanis find solace in a church of their own Audio icon

    November 25, 2020 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Karachi

    Pakistan's only church for transgender Christians has given its members the safety, acceptance, and joy they are often denied in the conservative, predominantly Muslim country. Called the First Church of Eunuchs – the name, considered derogatory by some, echoes the term for transgender women in South Asia – was formed by the country's only transgender lawyer, herself a Muslim, as a refuge for transgender Christians, who are often shunned, bullied, and abused by others, including other churches. The government recognized transgender as a third gender, but that has not changed all attitudes.

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  • The Small Goat Breed That's a Star of Urban Farms Audio icon

    November 24, 2020 |

    Atlas Obscura |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Nigerian Dwarf goats can be a viable livestock option for people who want to engage in urban farming. Cities across the United States — like Phoenix, Austin, Pittsburgh, and San Diego — are making it easier to keep goats, which can provide financial boons for urban farmers through cheesemaking and even enhance the farm’s ecosystem by using its manure as fertilizer.

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  • An urban farm nourishes the poorest part of Philly as its growers fight to keep the land

    November 24, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The Life Do Grow Farm in Philadelphia, run by the nonprofit Urban Creators, is a two-acre plot that yields food needed to feed the community who might not be able to make ends meet. Since June, the farm has distributed 65,000 pounds of produce, along with free children’s meals. But the farm is also a community gathering space for artists and entrepreneurs. While the land’s lease runs out in 2022, the nonprofit hopes to own it and highlight it as a “reimagination of city land, a radical collaboration in the service of empowering Black and brown communities in North Central Philly,” said the farm manager.

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  • The NewsRun, a daily newsletter about Pakistan, cuts through the noise of a cluttered media market

    November 24, 2020 |

    Nieman Lab |

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    Response Location: United States

    The NewsRun is “a daily newsletter that summarizes Pakistan’s major stories of the day." It’s helping Pakistani people stay on top of the news. Some Pakistani people who live in the country get overwhelmed with the daily news cycle, while Pakistani’s living abroad might have a language barrier or lack the context to understand the news. The clear, direct language of the newsletter makes the news accessible. "The way it’s written is clear and it highlights all the key points I need to know." The newsletter has thousands of Instagram followers and a “20 to 30 percent daily open rate.”

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