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  • How Mass Bird Death In Philadelphia Catalyzed A Local Lights-out Program

    March 16, 2023 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A light pollution mitigation pledge in Philadephia called Lights Out Philly asks building managers to agree to turn off their lights late at night during bird migration periods to decrease bird collisions with windows.

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  • Shootings Remain High in Philly, But City-Funded Violence Interruption Shows Promise

    March 14, 2023 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia’s city-funded Group Violence Intervention program identifies people who commit crimes together and offers them help to get a job, GED, or whatever assistance they need. The program brings together a variety of community members to conduct outreach, offer social services, and warn them of the consequences of continuing to participate in crimes.

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  • Reproductive justice organization shifts culture in a new film

    March 14, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    A full-length feature film made by a reproductive justice organization in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is helping to destigmatize and humanize substance dependency and substance abuse recovery during parenthood. The film is based on conversations with women in recovery.

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  • Tenants Empowering Tenants

    March 13, 2023 |

    DÍG en Español |

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    Response Location: United States, Long Beach, California

    Tenant advocacy group Long Beach Residents Empowered (LIBRE) works with renters and helps them advocate for themselves against tenant harassment, unsafe living conditions and unjust evictions. LIBRE is divided into various campaigns, each with a different focus, like neighborhood organizing or training others about how to fight for tenant protection and advocate for policy change.

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  • Mutually Assured Survival: New Orleans groups are rethinking disaster aid from the grassroots up

    March 12, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Groups like the Mutual Aid – New Orleans Facebook group take a community-focused approach to disaster response and gather volunteers to deliver supplies to those in need in the aftermath of disasters like hurricanes and flooding. Frustrated by slow and oftentimes nonexistent government aid, these communities are taking matters into their own hands to effectively provide relief to fellow residents when disaster strikes.

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  • Independent, locally focused unions are expanding workers' rights

    March 08, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States

    As unionization efforts have ramped up in corporate workplaces, employees in less traditional industries have also begun to form independent unions to advocate for their rights. For example, unionization efforts at video game company ZeniMax helped workers secure a pay adjustment, while an independent union formed at the Art Institute of Chicago secured the right for employees to have union representation in disciplinary meetings.

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  • How Home-Based Care Could Fix the Rural Childcare Drought

    March 07, 2023 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Leaders in North Carolina’s Transylvania County are investing in home-based childcare by creating a network of caregivers and providing them with financial and technical assistance. The program gives parents affordable options in a rural community where it can be hard to find openings at childcare facilities.

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  • New program trains South High students to become teachers

    March 06, 2023 |

    Sahan Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    A Minnesota high school's "Grow-Your-Own" program gives students of color the opportunity to earn college credit, learn culturally-relevant history, and explore careers in education while still working toward their high school diplomas. The students create their own lesson plans within an ethnic studies framework and volunteer at elementary schools mentoring younger kids.

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  • Little Tokyo Nutrition Services Is Taking Food Insecurity Off the Menu

    March 04, 2023 |

    Rafu Shimpo |

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    Response Location: United States, Boyle Heights, California

    To combat food insecurity, the nonprofit Little Tokyo Senior Nutrition Services delivers free, nutritious meals to Japanese seniors in local residential communities, Boyle Heights, and East Los Angeles.

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  • Deconstruction: women+ group unbuilds old houses for reuse

    March 03, 2023 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Savannah, Georgia

    Re:purpose Savannah is a women and non-binary-led group that saves old buildings from landfills through deconstruction, a less wasteful alternative to demolition, and then salvaging useful materials to be used in future builds and community projects. Re:purpose Savannah harvests 50-90% of a house for reuse and then recycles the rest. The salvaged materials for reuse are then sold to locals in the area

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