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  • How Do You Clear a Pot Conviction From Your Record?

    November 27, 2017 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, California

    In light of recently passed laws to legalize the use of recreational marijuana, California legal clinics have set out to inform those with pot-related convictions that their convictions may be able to be reduced or expunged entirely thanks to a provision of Proposition 64. So far, over 4,000 petitions have been filed throughout the state to both reduce sentences of pot-related convictions and either eliminate or reclassify prior convictions as misdemeanors.

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  • Changing Course: A School Cooperative Aims To Remake Coal Communities

    November 25, 2017 |

    WOUB Public Media |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Stanville, Kentucky

    In the rural, rugged country of Appalachia, towns like Stanville face some of the country’s most profound economic and public health problems. Some of these communities, however, are making remarkable strides against these challenges with the help of the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative, which makes schools a central pillar with entrepreneurial, innovative curricula, provision of health care resources, and hope and opportunity are restored in the post-coal era.

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  • Take the Power Back

    November 22, 2017 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany, Cologne

    In the face of climate change as a result of increased CO2 emissions, millions of concerned citizens have grown frustrated at the lack of change from more traditional forms of civil engagement such as petitions, protests, and campaigns against the behemoths of the oil industry. But some have found hope in a growing movement that pushes governments and large corporations to leverage a more effective tool: divestment - or withdrawing financial support from the fossil fuel industry.

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  • How Internet Co-ops Can Protect Us From Net Neutrality Rollbacks

    November 22, 2017 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Tipton, Missouri

    Today, 23 million rural Americans can’t access broadband speed internet. As deregulation of net neutrality threatens to slow down internet speed even further, local internet co-ops are bringing higher-speed access to rural towns, Native American reservations, and even urban areas that do not currently have quality internet. Today, small internet service providers, spurred by local communities, are providing a real safeguard to net neutrality rollbacks.

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  • How Do I Protect My Students from Gun Violence?

    November 21, 2017 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Preventing school shootings is difficult, but there are basic strategies that can curtail them and lessen loss of life. Those include limiting school access and making all visitors check in, ensuring intercoms and other technology work, but also working to prevent suicide so someone doesn't engage in a shooting to get themselves killed. Schools also need procedures in place for any crisis to ensure everyone is communicating and coordinating and children are reunited with approved family members.

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  • The New Technologies That Could Slow the Slaughter of Sharks

    November 20, 2017 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Each year millions of sharks are inadvertently slaughtered by long-line fishing gear, and the decimation of top predator populations has detrimental effects on the greater ocean ecosystem. New tracking technology that allows researchers and institutions to follow the movements of sharks and overlay the data with that of commercial fishing boats is proving a promising way to help prevent bycatch as well as illegal fishing, and better protect shark populations.

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  • Yachters Are Sailing to the Rescue of Hurricane-Ravaged Islands

    November 16, 2017 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: Anguilla

    The 2017 hurricane season resulted in damage to the Caribbean. YachtAid and Superyacht Aid Coalition are comprised of people who volunteer their yachts to bring supplies and aid to these damaged regions.

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  • Hope through heartbreak - Farm and Dairy

    November 16, 2017 |

    Farm and Dairy |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Carroll County, Maryland

    Opioid overdose is a rising problem that is taking more and more lives, including Holly's. Holly's mother started 'Holly's Song of Hope' to help educate the public about drugs and addiction, to provide a support group where people can ask questions and support one another online, and to help make legislative changes.

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  • Armed, Anti-Racist ‘Rednecks' Take On White Supremacy

    November 16, 2017 |

    The Establishment |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    Millions of Americans, particularly the working class, LGBQT, minorities, and immigrants, feel left behind by the system, and in light of the revival of violence from white supremacists and the tumultuous debate on gun control, many feel that the only solution is to take the defense of their rights and needs into their own hands. The Redneck Revolt is an anti-racist, pro-gun organization that works to represent the working class - across race, sexual identity, and creed - and to protect their communities and interests from white supremacists and economic disparity alike.

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  • Rural schools unite to make college the rule, rather than the exception

    November 16, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    High school students in rural areas show lower rates of college degrees and have fewer opportunities such as not having a dual enrolment program that allows them to take college courses while in high school. Ohio Appalachian Collaborative involves rural schools working together to fight for grants and opportunities for the students in rural areas, and so far the statistics show that more students are going to college and are more engaged in high school.

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