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  • Ciencia comunitaria hecha por mujeres para anticipar sequías, cuidar cultivos y alimentar familias

    June 05, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: El Salvador, Ahuachapán

    En Ahuachapán, un grupo de mujeres están liderando un espacio de ciencia comunitaria para proteger el medioambiente e informar a su comunidad cuando sembrar o proteger cultivos. Colocan pluviómetros, anotan datos cada mañana y, a través de grupos de WhatsApp, van informando a la comunidad sobre la cantidad de lluvia que ha caído; tambien envían los datos cada mañana al Ministerio de Medio Ambiente para que el gobierno sepa lo que pasa en el campo.

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  • How Shared Electric Cargo Bikes Are Changing Cities

    June 05, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Shared electric cargo bike programs like CargoB and Re:Ciclos offer affordable, sustainable transportation alternatives that can significantly reduce urban car dependency; however, their long-term success hinges on overcoming infrastructure, cultural, and economic barriers.

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  • How worker-ownership helped California Solar create good jobs

    June 01, 2025 |

    High Country News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Grass Valley, California

    At worker-owned cooperatives such as Cal Solar, a California-based solar company, the worker-owners shape company policies and report a greater sense of accountability, comraderie, and more resilience in the face of industry challenges, compared to their non-cooperative model peers.

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  • Las voces que faltan

    May 21, 2025 |

    Revista Elementos |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: El Salvador

    Lideresas indígenas—desde sus comunidades: los pueblos Lenca, Kakawira y Nahua-Pipil—decidieron organizarse y crear el Observatorio Nacional Sijsihuat Mejmetzaly, donde están aprendiendo a levantar datos desde sus propias realidades. Juntos, por la primera vez, han comenzado a nombrar las múltiples violencias que atraviesan a las mujeres indígenas en El Salvador.

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  • This Queer Couple Supports LGBTQ+ and BIPOC Farmers' Mental Health

    May 14, 2025 |

    Civil Eats |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Texas

    The South Side Queer Farmer Convergence provides culturally-affirming community gatherings that effectively reduce isolation, promote emotional healing, and foster mental wellbeing for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC farmers facing significant social stressors and discrimination.

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  • Why did this town stop eating manatees?

    May 14, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Brazil, Barra do Mamanguape

    Viva o Peixe-Boi Marinho (Long Live the Sea Manatee) was founded in 2013 in a fishing community on Brazil’s northeastern coast and facilitated the work of conservationists worked alongside fishermen to stop manatees hunting by transforming perceptions and turning former hunters into advocates.

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  • Networks of hope: women from Piura fight against gender violence

    May 08, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Peru, Piura

    The community networks of women defenders in Piura are organized structures that, since 2018, have provided accompaniment, training, and inter-institutional coordination to victims of gender-based violence, combining psychological support, legal pathways, and economic empowerment. Since their founding, more women have reported violence, coordination between public institutions such as police and prosecutor's offices have improved, and survivors have transformed into leaders who break cycles of violence in their communities. Read this story in Spanish here: https://solu.news/mvw1

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  • Bolivia's Trans Houses: group shelters that seek to change lives

    May 06, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Bolivia

    Trans Houses are community shelters created by and for trans women in Bolivia that offer comprehensive health services, psychological support, legal assistance, and entrepreneurship opportunities, evolving from basic assistance spaces into collective emancipation platforms that have served over 2,500 people across four cities and are expanding as a replicable model of social transformation. This story is available in Spanish here: https://solu.news/1qka

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  • Redes de esperanza: mujeres de Piura luchan contra la violencia de género

    May 03, 2025 |

    Norte Sostenible |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Peru, Piura

    Las redes comunitarias de mujeres defensoras de Piura son estructuras organizadas que, desde 2018, brindan acompañamiento, formación y articulación interinstitucional a víctimas de violencia de género, combinando apoyo psicológico, rutas legales y empoderamiento económico. Han logrado que más mujeres se atrevan a denunciar violencia, han mejorado la coordinación entre instituciones públicas como policía y fiscalías, y han transformado a sobrevivientes en lideresas que rompen ciclos de violencia en sus comunidades. Puedes leer este artículo en inglés aquí: https://solu.news/w0cx

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  • Las Casas Trans en Bolivia: un refugio colectivo que busca cambiar vidas

    April 27, 2025 |

    Red de periodismo Feminista de Bolivia |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Bolivia

    Las Casas Trans son refugios comunitarios creados por y para mujeres trans en Bolivia que ofrecen servicios integrales de salud, apoyo psicológico, asesoría legal y oportunidades de emprendimiento, evolucionando desde espacios de asistencia básica hasta plataformas de emancipación colectiva que han atendido a más de 2,500 personas en cuatro ciudades y se expanden como modelo replicable de transformación social. Puedes leer este artículo en ingles aquí: https://solu.news/nsr4

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