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  • Organizing for Help in a Pandemic

    June 16, 2020 |

    Inside Higher Ed |

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    Response Location: United States

    Graduate students at several major universities organized to secure benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic. For example, the University of Illinois Graduate Employees Organization fought for and won the expansion of mental health services and summer health care coverage, as well as free summer housing for international graduate students who cannot return home due to travel restrictions. After graduate students at the University of Texas Austin demonstrated and 1,400 signed a petition, the dean granted expanded funding opportunities and a commitment to finding a healthcare plan that ensures no coverage gap.

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  • Teaching during a pandemic: Island educators use innovative methods to keep students engaged

    June 16, 2020 |

    Staten Island Advance |

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    Response Location: United States, Staten Island, New York

    Although the pandemic has set a serious tone, teachers in Staten Island are helping their students cope with at-home learning through laughter and unconventional methods. Two teachers recorded videos of themselves while wearing wigs and did their best Jersey accent to deliver grammar lessons. A biology teacher used Zoom to guide students through a dissection lesson on chicken legs. These teachers are proving that despite the challenges of teaching through a pandemic, there are also novel opportunities to seize.

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  • Turning manure into money

    June 16, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Dairy farmers in Massachusetts are working with Vanguard Renewables, a food waste energy company, and Dominion Energy, an electric utility company, to capture manure methane gas from cows and convert it into natural gas. They are also adding food waste to the manure from manufacturers and retailers to increase energy output and increase income for farmers. The partnership has expanded to dairy farms in other states who are looking to lower their greenhouse gas emissions.

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  • Youth Are Flipping an Abandoned North Carolina Prison into a Sustainable Farm

    June 15, 2020 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Wagram, North Carolina

    A former North Carolina prison has been reclaimed by the nonprofit Growing Change to teach sustainable farming to youth who otherwise might be doomed to their own prison terms without an effective intervention. The 9-year-old program, while small, is meant to serve as a model for reusing many other shuttered prisons as the nation’s incarceration numbers fall. Boasting positive effects on recidivism, the program’s focus is the racially diverse youth of the rural, impoverished eastern part of the state – the same people who disproportionately get imprisoned.

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  • Coletivo da Maré espalha informações sobre coronavírus e tenta evitar contaminação ainda maior na favela

    June 15, 2020 |

    O Dia |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    A reportagem é sobre ações de moradores do Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, para minimizar a contaminação de Covid-19. Os moradores investiram em grafite, faixas e carro de som para alertar a vizinhança sobre os riscos da doença.

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  • Vouchers helping mothers get antenatal care under lockdown

    June 15, 2020 |

    New Vision |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Uganda

    To help pregnant women during the COVID-10 pandemic, the government in Uganda sold travel and private hospital care vouchers to those in their third trimester to ensure the women had access to the care they would need. The program connected the women with health resources in their own areas and also guaranteed that they get routine services such as antenatal and postnatul checkups.

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  • Can implicit bias training help cops overcome racism?

    June 15, 2020 |

    Popular Science |

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    Response Location: United States

    Implicit racial bias has solid scientific grounding, and training programs to make police officers aware of it and overcome its effects in their work have been widely embraced. But it is hard to measure whether such training reduces police brutality and racially disparate law enforcement. And there are many ways in which such programs fail, in part by force-feeding entire police departments a message they resist. There are ways to cure these flaws, including by making it voluntary and letting its lessons ripple out more organically in a police department.

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  • The Doctor Healing Wounds of War in Basilan

    June 14, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Lamitan City, Basilan

    By fostering dialog between the military and rebel soldiers in a region long afflicted with violence, a physician whose clinic exposed her to children’s severe PTSD has helped heal the effects of trauma and the scars of war. Save the Children of War in Basilan has gone beyond its focus on child health and welfare to broker reconciliation talks between rebel groups and the military, in large part by getting both sides to see their opponents’ motives through a new lens. Kidnappings, once rampant, have been nonexistent since 2016.

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  • La escuela en la radio: Fe y Alegría hace la tarea para educar a distancia

    June 14, 2020 |

    El Estímulo |

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    Response Location: Venezuela

    El reportaje analiza cómo una escuela venezolana llamada Fe y Alegría tuvo la inciativa de dar clases por radio para solucionar el corto lectivo por la pandemia del COVID-19. Además, este esfuerzo mejora al programa oficial del gobierno venezolano que apunta a dar clases por televisión. La publicación analiza por qué el programa oficial es insuficiente, y detalla cómo funciona la respuesta que Fe y Alegría encontró en la radio.

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  • How Massachusetts v. EPA Forced the U.S. Government to Take On Climate Change

    June 13, 2020 |

    New Hampshire Public Radio |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    In order to get the U.S. government to take action on climate change, 30 environmental groups and 12 state governments joined forces to sue the Environmental Protection Agency arguing that it was required to regulate greenhouse gas emissions according to the Clean Air Act. While the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in their favor in the landmark Massachusetts v. EPA case in 2007, the justices’ decision didn’t specify how to reduce that pollution and future lawsuits could challenge the government’s requirement to reign in those emissions.

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