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  • With women-only transport, South African city tackles sexual abuse

    January 18, 2021 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

    To combat high rates of sexual violence in the Cape Flats neighborhood, an entrepreneur steeped in activism founded a women-only driving school. Hundreds of women have learned to drive without having to fend off assaults or harassment from male instructors, while gaining a skill that frees them from the risks inherent in taking public transportation or taxis. To tackle the latter risk, the same entrepreneur, Joanie Fredericks, recently started Ladies Own Transport, an all-female taxi service.

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  • In the age of social distancing, Sudanese open their homes to Ethiopian refugees

    January 18, 2021 |

    The National |

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    Response Location: Sudan, Hamdiyet

    Tens of thousands of Ethiopian refugees fleeing to Sudan to escape the war in their home region ended up in the border town of Hamdiyet, where a refugee camp and its supplies were quickly overwhelmed. So local residents, despite the pandemic, opened their homes to the refugees, housing and feeding at least 16,000 in the town of 6,000 over a two-month period. So far, COVID-19 has remained under control. Even though thousands of refugees have eventually transferred to camps elsewhere, hundreds more arrive every day.

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  • This L.A. project shows that homeless housing can be done quickly and cheaply

    January 18, 2021 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    A housing complex in Los Angeles was approved and constructed with unprecedented speed and at a much lower cost than traditional homeless housing projects. Using up-cycled shipping containers, the project will include amenities such as bathrooms and refrigerators for each room. Teamwork and collective action from the county’s public works department resulted in the successful project.

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  • How Solar Panels Could Help Save Struggling Farms

    January 18, 2021 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    As the amount of farmland decreases in the United States and climate change brings hotter and drier conditions, many farmers are turning to agrivoltaics — growing crops and installing solar panels on the same land — as a way to make ends meet. Research on a garden in Arizona showed that certain crops like tomatoes and chiltepin peppers were able to thrive under the shade of solar panels, while also improving the solar panels’ productivity. “It’s a very unique positive feedback,” said one of the researchers.

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  • More Dayton residents have conflict during COVID-19. Mediation comes to the rescue.

    January 18, 2021 |

    Dayton Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dayton, Ohio

    In Dayton, neighbor disputes and other conflicts ended up in mediation far more often in 2020, thanks to the Dayton Mediation Center's online services at a time when local court operations were limited by the pandemic. A 23% increase in cases can be seen as both bad news and good: more conflicts among people frustrated by social distancing, but more willingness to address conflicts constructively through dialogue mediated by trained volunteers. Dayton police, who are often called to intervene in neighborhood and domestic spats, will be trained to refer cases to the free mediation center in 2021.

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  • A Thin Green Line With Global Impact

    January 18, 2021 |

    InvestigateWest |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    For over a decade, environmentalists, Indigenous tribes, ranchers, politicians, scientists, and fishers in the Pacific Northwest have been able to defeat more than 20 proposals from coal and oil firms to ship fossil fuels from their ports. Through protests, public hearings, and petitions to government agencies, activists blacked almost every fossil fuel effort in the region between 2004 and 2017.

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  • Black people no longer disproportionately affected by COVID-19 in Flint, health officials say

    January 17, 2021 |

    Flint Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

    At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials in Flint, Michigan began tracking the demographics of those who were testing positive for the virus in order to better align the county's public health action and outreach. In doing so, officials realized that a lack of access to testing in predominately Black neighborhoods was a contributing factor and decided to launch mobile testing, barrier-free sites, and other interventions at the state level.

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  • Albuquerque's vision for non-police first responders comes down to earth

    January 17, 2021 |

    New Mexico In Depth |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    In response to the 2020 policing protests, Albuquerque was among the first cities to embrace a major change in handling mental-health-crisis calls to 911. But its new Community Safety Department has foundered in its first year, a victim of inadequate planning and resources. The plan to send unarmed first responders on such calls, to reduce the risk of a violent over-reaction by the police, depended on reassigning city workers from other agencies, none of whom were mental health professionals. City councilors have sent the planners back to rethink the latest in a history of failed responses.

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  • By backing Raphael Warnock against Kelly Loeffler, Sue Bird and the WNBA helped flip the Senate

    January 16, 2021 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    During her bid for reelection, former senator Kelly Loeffler, also co-owner of a WNBA team, publicly fought with the league for dedicating its season to Black Lives Matters and fighting for racial justice. Players decided collectively to stop talking publicly about Loeffler to limit her media attention. Next, after carefully vetting candidates they decided Raphael Warnock best represented their interests. In a public endorsement, players across the league wore VOTE WARNOCK shirts to nationally televised games. Within days, Warnock gained 4,000 Twitter followers, raised over $250,000, and gained in the polls.

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  • How British Scientists Found the More Infectious Coronavirus Variant

    January 16, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Cambridge

    In March when fewer than 100 coronavirus infections had been found in the U.K, researchers in Cambridge decided to begin sequencing coronavirus samples as part of an "unparalleled surveillance system for Covid" that could identify and track possible mutations or the virus. This effort – which involves labs sending leftover material from testing swabs to the researcher's genomics lab where they are stored and analyzed – has culminated in hundreds of thousands of genome sequences and "sounded an alarm for the world" about the new fast-spreading variant.

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