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When It Comes to Voting in Jail, the Devil Is in the Details

Alexandra Arriaga

November 04, 2022 |

The Marshall Project |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

To help eligible voters behind bars participate in elections, civic and volunteer groups visit jails such as the Vernon C. Bain Center with registration packets and absentee ballot request forms. The volunteers also answer questions about issues, candidates, and the voting process, and about 300 people in New York jails have registered to vote since January.

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States, tribes work to increase access to Native American healing

Laura Bargfeld, Natalie Skowlund

November 04, 2022 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

Multi-Media |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Houck, Arizona

It’s becoming more common for hospitals and medical facilities to employ traditional healers. Traditional services are free for Native Americans at facilities operated by the Indian Health Service and other tribal health centers that allocate money from their budget to provide the necessary infrastructure and staff for onsite traditional healing, but there are several groups and individuals rallying for traditional healing to be reimbursable through Medicaid to make it more accessible.

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Why Arabic ballots are now being offered in Michigan and what this means for voter access in the U.S.

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

November 04, 2022 |

PBS NewsHour |

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Response Location: United States, Dearborn, Michigan

Because Arabic-speakers are not entitled to translated election materials under the Voting Rights Act, Michigan organizers in Dearborn and Hamtramck instead took the issue to their city councils and were able to secure local legislation requiring the communities to provide Arabic-language ballots. The new resource was available for the first time during the August primary.

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Indianapolis libraries lead the way across the digital divide

Sydney Dauphinais

November 03, 2022 |

WFYI Public Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis Public Libraries are teaching residents computer literacy and providing access to computers and wifi to help bridge the digital divide for those who don’t have access to their own.

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Shey you sabi? The project sabi initiative engaging with men to curb GBV

Shade Mary-Ann Olaoye

November 03, 2022 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu

The Project Sabi Initiative organizes town hall meetings, training, sensitization programs, and school-based clubs aimed at educating men and boys about the harms of gender-based violence. The program has engaged more than 2,000 men and boys so far and set up clubs at 81 schools.

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‘We depend on each other': A community driven to vote

Jingnan Peng

November 03, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Decatur, Georgia

Disability rights activist Zan Thornton organizes a network of volunteer drivers in Georgia to help voters with disabilities get accessible rides to the polls. In 2021, they organized free transportation for more than 150 people and have helped more than 50 so far for the 2022 midterms.

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In Cameroon, epilepsy myths fuel stigma but a nonprofit is changing the narrative

Promise Eze

November 03, 2022 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Cameroon, Bamenda

The Epilepsy Awareness, Aid, and Research Foundation is a nonprofit that fights to reduce stigma and discrimination against people living with epilepsy. The Foundation provides free basic healthcare, anti-epileptic medications, and even has a program that trains youth to raise awareness of epilepsy and the stigma surrounding it within their communities.

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Navajo voters in one Arizona County see their ballots rejected more frequently. Here's what would fix that.

Jen Fifield, Carrie Levine

November 03, 2022 |

Votebeat Arizona |

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Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Arizona

Some Arizona counties that include parts of the Navajo Nation have set up voting centers, central locations where residents can come to vote in-person regardless of what precinct they are assigned to. The centers have helped reduce the number of provisional ballots cast on the reservation, which faces significant voting barriers due to distance, transportation access, and spotty mail and internet service, and other counties with reservation land are now pushing to establish their own voting centers.

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Cannabis cloud kitchen helps entrepreneurs break into the industry

Carrie Graham

November 02, 2022 |

el Don |

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Response Location: United States, Santa Ana, California

My Green Network is a “cannabis cloud kitchen” that offers a shared-use facility for those looking to enter the cannabis industry launch their small businesses. It also provides business needs like legal advice, meeting space, storage, distribution and help applying for state and local permits.

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This is how Mondays in Lanesborough became 'salad day' for some lucky seniors

Aina de Lapparent Alvarez

November 01, 2022 |

The Berkshire Eagle |

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Response Location: United States, Lanesborough, Massachusetts

The Community Produce Program is a weekly produce delivery that serves local seniors in need of fresh produce. Not only does the program helps with issues of food security, but it also fosters community between the volunteers and the local elders and helps reduce waste.

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