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  • What Happened After California Revolutionized Sex Ed

    October 25, 2017 |

    Broadly |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California does well when it comes to healthy teen sex behaviours, but the Healthy Youth Act has pushed this even further. This act provides a more comprehensive education including LGBTQ relationships, medical accuracy etc.

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  • In New Mexico, demographic shifts have helped job growth

    October 24, 2017 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Luna County, New Mexico

    Historically there has been stigma and pushback to bilingual and immigrant programs, but some counties are starting to embrace diversity as key to economic development. Greater diversity spurs innovation, entrepreneurship, and population growth in rural areas, recognition of these benefits has eased the stigma and encouraged more immigrant programs.

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  • An Abandoned Roman Salami Factory Becomes an Illegal, Inhabited Museum

    October 24, 2017 |

    Atlas Obscura |

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    Response Location: Italy, Rome

    About 200 people from around the world, most of whom were homeless, occupied a former meat factory where they cleaned the space and set up homes. An Italian artist worked with residents to create a unique venue that exhibits murals, paintings, and installations of over 300 artists from around the world. The museum does not have a budget, the artists donate their works, and it operates on a democratic concept where artists from different backgrounds and styles work together. Despite not occupying the space legally, residents believe that the value the art offers to society prevented them from being evicted.

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  • How a Temple professor and a prison inmate started an international movement

    October 23, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In the Inside-Out Exchange program half of the students are college students, and the other half are prison inmates. The program has “expanded to about 150 correctional institutions across the globe” but the biggest takeaway is the effect it has on people. Students were “ engaged in a way they never had been in the classroom. For the inmates, suddenly their opinions mattered.”

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  • Philly activists raising money to bail poor defendants out of jail

    October 23, 2017 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    For many low-income people who are arrested, coming up with even a small amount of bail money is nearly impossible, leaving them to languish for months before their cases are ever adjudicated. That means lost jobs and housing and sometimes custody of their kids. In Philadelphia, a number of groups have banded together and raised funds to bail out inmates, following examples in other cities, as a temporary measure until policymakers can enact long-term bail reform.

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  • Hospital Beats Federal Bureaucracy to Offer Local Traditional Foods

    October 11, 2017 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    The siglaug, is an Inupiaq word for ice cellar. It is also how the Inupiaq people are preserving a part of their culture. The siglaug, opened after the Farm Bill was passed, which allowed for the opening of a food processing center. Prior to that, elders staying at the local hospital ward could only eat federally approved foods like spaghetti. “Since 2015, the sigluaq has provided a facility for Harris and others to process donated meat, fish, and fowl according to government regulations so they can be served to elders in the long-term care.”

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  • Science, Interrupted

    October 04, 2017 |

    Discover Magazine |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Thousands of researchers across the world have been displaced by war. They struggle to resume their work as refugees in a foreign country. Yet, numerous organizations are trying to help at risk scholars by offering fellowships to help them continue their work.

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  • US immigration arrests rise — and neighbors sign up to witness ICE operations

    October 02, 2017 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Jose, California

    Volunteers, hotlines, community supporting families, these are the basic principles of rapid response networks. A rapid response network is a community led, volunteer response to immigration crackdowns that is being replicated in cities around the country. When people are getting detained, the rapid response networks are activated, volunteers receive a text that a neary neighbor is getting deported and they rush to the house. They take notes, and record with their cellphones. “I feel hopeful that there’s something I can do rather than sitting worried and angry, and I feel like I can be part of something that

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  • Green movement pivots toward minorities

    September 26, 2017 |

    Great Lakes Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    The largely homogenous demographic of those working in conservation contributes to disparities in representation, which in turn can lead to issues like the Flint water crises. Now several organizations, including the Alliance for the Great Lakes in Cleveland and the Environmental Fellows program at the University of Michigan, are working to include the diverse voices of different races, ages, and backgrounds in the conversation.

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  • Group Therapy Is Saving Lives in Chicago

    September 21, 2017 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Young individuals who have lost loved ones to violence and live in violent areas are likely to perpetuate these trends. 'Becoming a Man' and 'Working on Womanhood' are programs that involve mentorship, behavioral therapy, and other skill development in order to help teenagers find a healthier path.

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