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  • How Your Local Election Clerk Is Fighting Global Disinformation

    July 20, 2020 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States

    Many entities are working with social media companies to flag election-related disinformation. The California Secretary of State emails voters about how to report false information so the state can flag it and the Arizona Secretary of State verifies official accounts with social media companies. In the private sector, the startup VineSite uses artificial intelligence to identify and flag false information and the nonprofit Mitre has an app used by 160 election officials to report social media disinformation. Officials have a good relationship with social media companies, but there is room for improvement.

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  • How Immokalee-based Mision Peniel has had to adapt amid COVID-19 regulations

    July 20, 2020 |

    Naples Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Immokalee, Florida

    When the coronavirus threatened the economic well-being and health of the immigrant farmworkers in Florida's agricultural hub in Collier County, faith-based organizations that could no longer serve free hot meals pivoted to a weekly distribution of donated food and homemade masks. Immokalee's Mision Peniel and area churches served an average of 400 people per week since the early days of the outbreak, focusing on financially struggling families, with bags of vegetables, meat, and other staples.

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  • Alimenta la Solidaridad les cambia la vida a niños venezolanos

    July 19, 2020 |

    HispanoPost |

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    Response Location: Venezuela, Caracas

    Los comedores comunitarios Alimenta la Solidaridad en Venezuela nacen en el 2016 como una forma de mitigar la desnutrición infantil pero a la vez crear empoderamiento en las comunidades y sus mujeres de Caracas. En el 2020 permitía que cada día 13.300 niños reciban un almuerzo en sus 53 comedores. El artículo y video explican el detalle cómo funcionan estos comedores, desde la operación hasta el financiamiento.

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  • The hidden hand that uses money to reform troubled police departments

    July 19, 2020 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States

    Smaller cities that cannot afford costly payouts for civil settlements in police misconduct cases rely on liability insurance, which can act as a regulator when insurers demand reforms up to and including disbanding troubled departments. While police killings have decreased in large cities over the past six years, they have increased in the suburban and rural areas served by the vast majority of police departments. “Loss prevention” measures that require policy and personnel changes have been proven to work, but insurance that fails to police the police can also shield cities from accountability.

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  • Amistad ‘online' para supervivientes de violencia machista en la pandemia

    July 19, 2020 |

    El País |

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    Response Location: India

    En India, debido a la epidemia de coronavirus, la plataforma Safe City reportó un aumento en los casos de mujeres víctimas de violencia en el entorno doméstico, mientras que la Comisión Nacional para las Mujeres reportó una disminución en las denuncias. Activistas de ese país han organizado encuentros digitales para dar apoyo a supervivientes de violencia de género en la pareja y de violencia doméstica.

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  • How sports institutions have overhauled their images in the past

    July 18, 2020 |

    CBS News |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Renaming the Washington Redskins to remove a racist name and logo will require a difficult and delicate process juggling a host of issues that other professional and college sports franchises have successfully navigated in the past. Often a years-long process, rebranding involves choosing a name and color scheme that replace the harmful imagery with a positive name that passes trademark tests, wins fan support, maintains brand equity and continuity built over decades, and can be reduced to a simple logo that looks good on helmets and in all media, from TV screens to smartphones.

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  • What the Coronavirus Proved About Homelessness

    July 18, 2020 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, England

    Britain's response to curbing the spread of coronavirus included the "Bring everyone in" operation which brought people experiencing homelessness off the streets and into accommodation - typically empty hotel rooms. Temporary shelter proved effective with only 16 deaths among those who were brought indoors. People were also given services that could lead to a life off the streets. The success demonstrated the ability of the government to quickly house people when political will and money were put toward solving the problem.

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  • O invento que mudou a dieta do sertão

    July 17, 2020 |

    El País |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Pedra Branca, Ceará

    O programa de implantação de cisternas para coletar água na estação chuvosa no semiárido brasileiro permitiu que as famílias pudessem ter uma maior variedade de alimentos para comer e vender. Em Pedra Branca, por exemplo, uma família conhecia o espinafre apenas somente pela televisão, mas com a disponibilidade da água pode plantar esse e outros vegetais.

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  • How a Coalition of New York Activists Revealed Police-Department Secrets

    July 17, 2020 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    When New York legislators abolished a state law that had long shielded police officers’ disciplinary records from public scrutiny, they were not just responding to recent protests but also to activism over many years by reform advocates and families of victims of police violence. Long-running legal challenges had failed to pry the records loose. But activists – opposed by police unions and their allies – had used public testimony, publicity, and their families’ stories to lay the groundwork for changes that then came quickly after George Floyd’s death sparked nationwide protests of police brutality.

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  • Aparar toda a água da chuva e tirar o sustento dessa terra seca

    July 17, 2020 |

    El País |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Quixadá, Ceará

    O artigo faz parte de uma série sobre o programa de cisternas para armazenar água da chuva no semiárido brasileiro. Dessa vez, a repórter fala sobre uma mulher que tem a cisterna e viaja para ensinar outras pessoas a como usar bem a pouca água disponível. Ela ensina, por exemplo, técnicas de gotejamento para regar as plantações economizando água.

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