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  • What Unions Are Doing to Protect American Democracy

    May 06, 2022 |

    The New Republic |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Unite Here, a 300,000-member labor union of hotel and restaurant workers, has organized mass protests to pass voting rights legislation. In 2020 they ran a huge door-knocking operation with 500 full-time paid canvassers. The weekly salary helped canvassers, many of whom were hotel workers that lost their jobs due to the pandemic. And the well-organized ground campaign that encouraged over 48,000 infrequent voters in Arizona to vote for Biden, likely helped push Biden to a narrow and surprising victory in that state.

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  • Una cocina que libera: las raíces de la gastronomía costarricense y sus productores

    May 06, 2022 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, San José

    Los cocineros y productores que conocen las tradiciones culinarias de los pueblos originarios en Costa Rica están creando nuevas cadenas de valor y, poco a poco, sensibilizando a más personas sobre esta herencia gastronómica. La iniciativa Sikwa Restaurante ha contribuido a ese proceso desde un barrio en la capital.

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  • A Night Market Creates Opportunity for Black Communities

    May 03, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    An evening market in Nashville provides a location for local Black business owners to sell goods and gain exposure.

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  • Disaggregation is essential to achieve data justice for Asian Americans

    May 02, 2022 |

    Prism |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Invisible No More campaign has fought to disaggregate data relating to public health and economic outcomes for Asian American and Pacific Islander groups, which include more than 40 different ethnic groups. Outreach to community-based partners and allies and political campaigning led to the passage of AB 6896, which requires state data be broken down for 14 Asian American and Pacific Islander ethnic groups.

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  • Moving Mississippi beyond Jim Crow one voter at a time

    April 29, 2022 |

    Scalawag |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Mississippi Votes has engaged tens of thousands of young voters as well as those who have not historically participated in the electoral process. The organization boosted their digital presence to reach younger voters, engaged people as young as 16 in different capacities, and has several paid fellowships to engage youth more intensively in conducting voter outreach, education, and registration. The organization has registered over 30,000 new voters since 2018.

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  • Zimbabwe's women-only rangers fight poachers and poverty

    April 25, 2022 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe

    Akashinga Unit, a woman-only rangers group, gives women in Zimbabwe the opportunity to earn a good salary and feel empowered while preventing poaching.

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  • Inside Nebraska's Surprisingly Effective Covid Strategy

    April 22, 2022 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Nebraska

    Although Nebraska’s governor never ordered a statewide shutdown, shuns mandates, and the state’s vaccination rate is not high, the state has had an efficient and effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nebraska has fared among the best in the country when it comes to health, economic, social, and educational factors. The success is due to a combination of solid pre-existing medical infrastructure, particularly in infectious disease, and efficient state government that allowed the state to function logistically without relying on the federal government.

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  • Could Utah children help shape the destiny of the ailing Great Salt Lake?

    April 20, 2022 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    The Nature Conservancy's Wings & Water program allows fourth graders to explore Utah's Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve with educators in an effort to teach them the value of protecting nature.

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  • Athens Area Diaper Bank

    April 20, 2022 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    The Athens Area Diaper Bank provides infant supplies to over twenty organizations that distribute goods directly to families. Since its inception it has supplied over half a million diapers throughout the local community.

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  • How independent map-drawing commissions are transforming redistricting

    April 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Many states are trying independent redistricting commissions to take politics out of the process and draw fair maps. The California Citizens Redistricting Commission has a rigorous process to select its 14 members and holds all commission deliberations during public hearings with lots of time for public comment built into the process. The state’s new election maps were unanimously approved and about one third of the new districts are Latino-majority.

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