Al Jazeera
28 April 2020
Video / Under 3 Minutes
Dakar, Senegal
Senegal has largely been able to keep the coronavirus outbreak at manageable levels thanks to early detection strategies and the reliance on local research. Crediting lessons learned from past communicable disease outbreaks, the country was quick to implement restrictions and health protocols and is now working on developing a faster test.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/12/safe-happy-and-free-does-finland-have-all-the-answers
Jon Henley
The Guardian
12 February 2018
Text / 1500-3000 Words
In the past 150 years, Finland has gone from famine-ridden to renowned as one of the world’s strongest democracies with leading global rankings in health, education, and innovation. Culture is key to this transformation. Finns are both self-reliant and highly cooperative with a long history of putting independence, freedom, and opportunity for all people front and center in policymaking.
https://kerningcultures.com/reconciliation-a-tale-of-two-seas
Hebah Fisher
Razan Alzayani
Lilly Crown
Kerning Cultures
27 August 2016
Multi-Media / Over 15 Minutes
Sectarian conflict in Bahrain has torn friends and families apart, splitting the country into Sunni versus Shi’a. To soften the divisions, Bahrain Foundation for Reconciliation and Civil Discourse has hosted at least one event every month since its founding in 2012, inviting people from all ideologies to participate. These events include dialogue dinners, seminars, and even exchange trips to Northern Ireland and South Africa to learn about reconciliation experiences in those countries.
https://www.salon.com/2016/02/28/two_words_for_hillary_if_she_wants_to_connect_with_the_financially_struggling_postal_banking
Gail Cornwall
Salon
28 February 2016
Text / 800-1500 Words
Postal banking used to be the norm in the United States, just as it is throughout Europe, helping poor and immigrant families save money, transfer funds, and even get small loans. The model is ripe for a comeback. Today, check cashers and payday lenders slap big fees on services that could easily be provided - without a profit-seeking motive - through the postal system infrastructure.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2018/0605/Jordan-s-young-protesters-say-they-learned-from-Arab-Spring-mistakes
Taylor Luck
Christian Science Monitor
5 June 2018
Text / 1500-3000 Words
Protesters opposing a proposed income tax hike in Jordan stayed away from polarizing language and avoided proposing structural changes to the political system, a shift away from rhetoric used during the Arab Spring. “This is a Jordanian movement for the core causes that affect all Jordanians: taxes, unemployment, and corruption,” said Mohammed Hussein, a 26-year-old protester. “We do not want a group to hijack this movement for their own agendas.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html
Nathaniel Rich
The New York Times Magazine
1 August 2018
Multi-Media / Over 3000 Words
In the late 1970s to late 1980s, activists, scientists, and politicians began to address the climate change crisis. For a decade, they attempted to ask the U.S. to commit to an international agreement to reduce emissions, and they almost succeeded. “In a single decade, they turned a crisis that was studied by no more than several dozen scientists into the subject of Senate hearings, front-page headlines and the largest diplomatic negotiation in world history.”
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/border-trilogy-part-1
Matt Kielty
Latif Nasser
Tracie Hunte
Bethel Habte
WNYC
23 March 2018
Radio / Over 15 Minutes
In the 1980s the Mexican economy falls and a surge of undocumented immigrants begin crossing the Rio Grande river into El Paso, TX. Border Patrol agents begin stopping and questioning high school students near the border in Bowie High School. After one of the high school teachers finds out, the students began to organize, eventually suing border patrol for infringing on their constitutional rights. Ultimately, the high school students win a landmark civil rights case. “We couldn’t believe we took on the federal government and won.”
https://www.5280.com/2018/06/how-denvers-disability-activists-changed-the-city
Natasha Gardner
5280 - The Denver Magazine
1 July 2018
Text / Over 3000 Words
Disability activists have used nonviolent direct action for decades, including lying in the street to protest inaccessible public transit and crawling up the steps of the U.S. Capital to support the Americans with Disabilities Act. “We have never gone out a door that we do not have a solution for,” says ADAPT member Dawn Russell. “That’s ADAPT 101.”
https://hyperallergic.com/451616/jackie-mock-the-pencil-museum-richmond-terrace-staten-island
Allison Meier
Hyperallergic
13 August 2018
Text / Under 800 Words
Commemorating the nearly forgotten history of one of New York City’s first factories, Jackie Mock’s installation “The Pencil Museum” places items related to the history of Eberhard Faber’s pencil company in outdoor vitrines. This installation is part of Art In the Parks, a series of public art installations placed in parks that are often without cultural programming.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/native-language-schools-are-taking-back-education-20180419
Abaki Beck
Yes! Magazine
19 April 2018
Text / 800-1500 Words
One night Jessie Little Doe Baird had a dream. Her ancestors told her it was time to bring back the Wôpanâak language to her community. The dream helped launch the the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, which later led to the Mukayuhsak Weekuw preschool. 20 students are enrolled and the entire curriculum is in the Wôpanâak language.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-chicano-artists-challenge-remember-alamo
Josh Feola
Artsy
9 July 2018
Text / 800-1500 Words
A San Antonio art exhibition challenges the prevalent myth that the Alamo was a selfless Anglo sacrifice for independence by using historical records, past Chicano art, and contemporary art to show the battle was to protect slavery in Texas. The artwork celebrates Chicago justice and connects racism and xenophobia of the past with modern political narratives. The exhibit also elevates overlooked historical facts and underrepresented voices while confronting America’s history of racial and colonial oppression, a battle that is far from complete.
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