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  • Indians are crowdsourcing aid as covid surges

    April 28, 2021 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: India

    In India, citizen-led small-scale digital efforts are helping to connect Covid-19 patients with the resources, supplies, and medical equipment they need to survive. The citizen groups are largely using online platforms to crowdsource what they need, with some matching buyers and sellers and others "debunking inaccurate leads."

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  • These New York Neighbors Are Building Their Own Safety Net

    April 27, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Astoria, New York

    Neighborhoods throughout New York are banding together to create their own mutual aid networks to help their community members during the coronavirus pandemic. From grocery shopping to fundraising for resources such as diapers, these groups are filling gaps to help meet community needs.

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  • How mangrove forests helped stall environmental crime

    April 27, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Gazi

    A blue carbon credit scheme in Kenya is not only restoring mangrove forests, but it’s also reducing environmental crimes and providing a way for residents to make money. The Mikoko Pamoja carbon project is a partnership that encourages the protection of mangroves in exchange for selling carbon credits. Since the project launched 2013, each year it traps the equivalent carbon emissions of about 650 cars. While it’s not a perfect system, it has inspired other blue carbon programs in other villages.

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  • Undocumented but Unstoppable: The Undocumented Filmmakers Collective

    April 27, 2021 |

    Documentary Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Undocumented Filmmakers Collective provides a safe, inclusive, and non-competitive space for people to discuss issues they face in their careers. The nearly 40 members are spread out across the U.S. and use Zoom to form deep connections, share resources, and support one another. Navigating employment and funding issues within the filmmaking industry is a main priority, and members have collaborated on projects to bring attention to issues facing people without documentation in the film industry. Acting collective provides a louder and more powerful voice to help expand career opportunities for members.

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  • How Kenya turned the tide against ivory poachers

    April 27, 2021 |

    Financial Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nanyuki

    More and more park rangers, judges, prosecutors, and wildlife investigators are working together to stop poaching in Kenya. Through training and a new app that allows all parties to track wild animals in a protected conservation area, the number of poaching cases has decreased from 449 creatures killed illegally in 2021 to 93 in 2018. The number of court cases have also decreased in recent years.

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  • Cleveland's Black Churches Host Vaccine Clinics To Protect Their Flock

    April 23, 2021 |

    ideastream |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    Black churches in Cleveland are transforming into vaccine clinics during the coronavirus pandemic to help get shots into the arms of those who have had trouble accessing a vaccine appointment. The sites have largely reported that of the 2,700 people who have received their first dose through the initiative, the vast majority of the shots they've administered have gone to Black people.

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  • Why does the International Criminal Court not have more support?

    April 21, 2021 |

    The Economist |

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    Response Location: United States

    The International Criminal Court fulfilled a nearly century-old dream for a global tribunal to hear war crimes cases. In its nearly 20 years of existence, it has heard 30 cases and convicted nine people. While 123 nations recognize the court's jurisdiction, including all of Western Europe and South America, many large nations resist the court's power as an infringement on their sovereignty, including the U.S., Israel, Russia, China, India, and Indonesia. The Biden administration's stance is somewhat less hostile than the Trump administration's, but only marginally so.

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  • Community restores grasslands, makes village drought-resilient

    April 21, 2021 |

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    Response Location: India, Dhule, Maharashtra

    Lamakani, a small village in India, went barren and townspeople completely depended on water tankers after a drought in the 90s. One leader initiated a watershed movement. They applied a series of approaches which included things like watershed development, bans on grass grazing and tree falling, and collaborating with local artists to communicate messages of conservation. Now, the town is lush again.

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  • How one Chinatown curbs anti-Asian violence and unites a city

    April 20, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Anti-Asian hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic have sparked a movement nationwide to stand up against bias and to help protect those most vulnerable to attack, the elderly. In one of America's oldest Chinese enclaves, Oakland's Chinatown, Compassion in Oakland has attracted thousands of volunteers of all races and ethnicities to chaperone the elderly on their errands and to patrol the streets as additional eyes and ears for the police. Shopkeepers and residents feel safer. And, among the volunteer protectors, bridges are being built where tensions and rivalries have long existed.

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  • In a roiled Minneapolis, schools are testing new model for safety

    April 20, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Washburn High School in Minneapolis is taking a different approach for in-school safety, one that doesn't rely on a police presence. The school district ended its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department and replaces School Resource Officers with civilian safety specialists, who are not uniformed, armed, and have no power of arrest. Instead, the specialists provide more community-centered services to visiting students who were disconnected, aiding with food distribution, and evaluate school safety plans.

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