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Poder latino

Natalia Mesa

October 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Washington

Varias organizaciones latinas progresistas formaron la Coalición Latinx del Valle de Yakima para motivar al voto. Juntos pudieron intensificar sus esfuerzos de participación y educación electoral en Sunnyside, tocando puertas y organizando fiestas de votación y sesiones de escucha comunitarias, a menudo en español.

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La falla fatal en las operaciones de rescate de la Patrulla Fronteriza

Tanvi Misra

September 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States

Muchos creen que la Patrulla Fronteriza debería tener la responsabilidad principal por los rescates y la recuperación de migrantes. La agencia forma parte de CBP, la que a su vez es parte del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, con recursos muchas veces mayores que los de los equipos de emergencia locales y de organizaciones sin fines de lucro. Pero varios trabajadores humanitarios e investigadores fronterizos ven un conflicto de intereses entre el mandato principal de la agencia de detener y deportar a los migrantes, y el objetivo humanitario de salvar sus vidas.

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After historic floods, the safety net failed small farmers

Sarah Trent

August 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, California

Two-thirds of California’s farms are considered small, cultivating less than 50 acres, and they play a critical role in food security and climate resilience for the whole country. As climate change makes extreme weather more unpredictable, these farms have to rely on government disaster relief and crop insurance to get back on their feet.

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How the Nez Perce are using an energy transition to save salmon

Emily Senkosky

July 01, 2024 |

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Response Location: Nez Perce Reservation, United States, Lapwai, Idaho

The Nez Perce Tribe is installing solar panels on homes and community buildings across their reservation with the goal of producing enough energy to replace the hydroelectric dams on the Snake River responsible for the diminishing salmon and steelhead populations.

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This Montana school solved its teacher shortage by opening a day care

Susan Shain

May 28, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Dutton, Montana

To help fill open teaching positions, Dutton-Brady Public Schools opened Little Diamondbacks Daycare to provide subsidized child care for school staff who often struggle to find open, affordable slots for their kids. The center also helps fill a need in the community, with some families who don’t work at the school driving from up to 40 miles away to use the daycare center.

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When school lunch is free

Susan Shain

May 21, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Butte, Montana

In 2010, Congress passed the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), which made it easier for public schools to serve free meals to students. Now, more than 21 million American youths attend schools that offer free meals to all students. Free school lunches help combat food insecurity and connect students with healthy food options. Studies have also found that well-fed students learn better and see improved test scores, attendance, and behavior.

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Managing predators from the sky

Kylie Mohr

April 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Montana

Researchers and livestock farmers in Montana are using drones with speakers that play human voices to scare off predators and mitigate conflict between the animals.

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Underground seed banks hold promise for ecological restoration

Josephine Woolington

March 01, 2024 |

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Response Location: United States, Oregon

Indigenous peoples across the western United States are bringing back native plants that disappeared many years ago by practicing natural regeneration. By slowly bringing ecosystems that were disrupted by human activity back to their natural state over time, the seeds and roots preserved underground are given the chance to flourish.

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The New Mexico co-op breaking up with fossil fuels

Mary Catherine O'Connor

January 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, New Mexico

After years of community outreach and searching for alternate energy suppliers that didn’t rely on fossil fuels, the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative now distributes electricity from renewable energy to households and businesses in rural New Mexico.

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How a mobile-home park saved its community from a corporate buyout

Kirbie Bennett Jamie Wanzek

August 04, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States, Durango, Colorado

When the Westside Mobile Home Park went up for sale, it brought the threat of displacement to those who lived there. So, the Elevation Community Land Trust partnered with the residents of the Durango, Colorado, community to form a housing cooperative. Now, the park's land is owned by a community land trust that offers each resident 99-year leases for significantly cheaper than if the park was attached to the real estate market.

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