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March-April 2021 Issue
Georgia, United States
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800-1500 Words
The domestic worker advocacy group, Care in Action, fell short in their goal to elect Stacey Abrams in 2018, which motivated them to mobilize an effective GOTV campaign in 2020. Over 250 of their members canvassed loc...
17 February 2021
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Under 800 Words
In the months after businesses covered their storefronts with plywood as cities erupted in social-justice protests, environmental and other community groups in many cities organized recycling campaigns to reuse the pl...
4 February 2021
New Delhi, India
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800-1500 Words
Because of internet shutdowns, six friends created a bilingual newspaper to document and record the farmer protests in India. Thousands of farmers have been protesting for weeks about the government’s new agricultural...
3 February 2021
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
Through its Creative CityMaking program, the city of Minneapolis pays artists to use their skills to promote healing and community-building in projects they design on their own. The program had existed for seven years...
3 February 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Chicago Black Drag Council launched after a series of protests that called on Chicago’s LGBTQ neighborhood to address racial discrimination and oppression. A handful of businesses quickly agreed to a live-streamed...
30 January 2021
Yukon, Canada
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1500-3000 Words
Under the structure of unique treaties called final agreements, Yukon First Nations are able to exercise the powers of self-governance over projects proposed on their land. Implementation of the agreements isn’t alway...
Energy News Network
Tom Perkins
29 January 2021
Michigan, United States
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Under 800 Words
The Michigan Advisory Council on Environmental Justice was created to advise Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on environmental justice issues related to pollution and energy access. In its first year, the 21-member council was i...
The Appeal
Manjeet Kaur
28 January 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
Since 2017, Seattle residents have had a direct say in how some city money is spent on neighborhood projects. It's a form of "participatory budgeting" that has been spreading from Brazil through many U.S. cities. Afte...
28 January 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Seattle spent nearly a decade reforming its police department and branding itself as an example of how to fix a broken system prone to violence and racial bias. Public trust improved and the use of force declined. But...
27 January 2021
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
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1500-3000 Words
51 for 51 is an advocacy group fighting for DC statehood by educating people about DC residents’ taxation without representation and training advocates in other states, mostly young people, to lobby their senators to ...
27 January 2021
Alaska, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
A viral campaign from Indigenous activists, TikTok creators, and documentary filmmakers led to about 6.3 million letters being sent to federal agencies encouraging them to halt fossil fuel development in the Arctic Na...
Next City
Maansi Shah
21 January 2021
Los Angeles County, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Vacant homes owned by the state of California were occupied in protest by activists in Los Angeles who want to bring attention to the homelessness crisis. Known as the Reclaim and Rebuild Our Community collective, the...
18 January 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Over 3000 Words
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 f...
16 January 2021
Indonesia
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800-1500 Words
CekFakta is a collaborative network that fights misinformation with around 6,000 fact-checkers from major Indonesian media organizations, citizens, and academics. The group holds training sessions to help journalists ...
15 January 2021
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Digital sleuths preserved a trove of evidence from the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by acting quickly to "scrape" and archive videos, images, and other data from social media. Investigative journalists ...
7 January 2021
United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
The story of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act starts with a young legal aide to Sen. Joe Biden who did not identify as a feminist and knew little about the issues, but whose methodical building of a coali...
6 January 2021
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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1500-3000 Words
When city planners rushed early in the pandemic to close streets to automobile traffic in order to give residents a safe space to roam outdoors, they ended up learning lessons entirely apart from their original goals ...
4 January 2021
New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
Landowners, residents, community leaders, and activist groups across New York state came together to halt several pipeline projects. By conducting research, holding public events, and building a multiracial coalition ...
3 January 2021
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
For 50 hours over five days, police and community members collaborated on the Brownsville Safety Alliance pilot project, which kept police officers away from a longtime crime hotspot so that community members could pr...
31 December 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
To promote the need to end intersex surgery, an organization launched a multi-pronged campaign that raised awareness about the potentially damaging impacts of the practice. The group used social media, created a petit...
30 December 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A team of young people helped Kirsten Harris-Talley win a seat in the Washington state legislature. The 63 young people, ages 12 to 22, did more than the traditional behind the scenes work, like phone banking and door...
30 December 2020
Somalia
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Durable Solutions Initiative (DSI) aims to create long-term solutions to help internally displaced people in under-resourced urban areas, many of whom fled climate-related disasters. DSI relies on ideas from the displ...
23 December 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
Multi-Media
3-5 Minutes
Organized groups of volunteers helped sustain over four months of Black Lives Matters protests, with centralized information sources keeping the public informed and essential support services provided. A network of ov...
23 December 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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800-1500 Words
Solitary Gardens is an art project that protests prisons' solitary confinement conditions. Incarcerated people connect with volunteers on the outside who plant flowers, vegetables, or herbs in beds matching the tiny d...
22 December 2020
Malden, Massachusetts, United States
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800-1500 Words
Violations of the Voting Rights Act during primary and local elections led the city of Malden, where 23% of its 60,000 residents are of Asian descent, to provide voting materials and information - including mail-in ba...
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