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  • What to Do With Piles of Plastic Waste?

    May 10, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Lilongwe

    From collecting plastic to transforming it into infrastructure, communities all over the world are implementing solutions to tackle the growing amount of plastic waste. In Malawi, women are separating garbage from plastic and creating new products like fire briquettes, doormats, and organic compost that they can sell to others. A town in Tasmania turned their plastic waste into a road made of recycled asphalt that is expected to last 15 percent longer than regular asphalt. And Zimbabwe is employing youth to recycle plastic into eco-friendly construction materials.

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  • Taharka Bros: Ice cream with a side of worker ownership

    May 06, 2021 |

    The Real News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Baltimore ice cream maker Taharka Brothers is six Black men, worker-owners, who lost most of their business accounts at the start of the pandemic. They saved their business, and their jobs, by starting home delivery and tapping into collectives that help worker-owned cooperatives with financing and business advice. Gratitude for a decent job, good working conditions, and pride of ownership help sustain such a business through tumultuous times.

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  • They answer the call when people are in crisis

    April 29, 2021 |

    City Newspaper (Rochester) |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    Following the death of Daniel Prude in Rochester police custody, the city consulted with the operators of Eugene's CAHOOTS program to craft its own version of a team of unarmed responders to help resolve mental health or substance abuse crises without the use of violence. Rochester's Person In Crisis (PIC) team has averaged about 21 calls per day since January. All calls are made with the police in tandem, unlike CAHOOTS' model. Some violent incidents in Rochester have raised questions about PIC's ability to defuse conflict. But the operators say they have begun to make a positive difference.

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  • Vegas Stronger Starts by Asking Businesses to Call Them, Not Police

    April 29, 2021 |

    What's Next Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Las Vegas, Nevada

    When Las Vegas' restrictions on encampments pushed unhoused people into a shopping center outside the restricted zone, Vegas Stronger worked with business owners and the police to intervene without the need for arrests and jail. Although only two months old, the nonprofit has helped about 30 people through the network of services it has arranged. Services include housing, mental health and substance abuse treatment, and other connections to services people need to stay healthy and off the streets. Police welcome the interventions because they are relieved of handling non-criminal matters.

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  • Indigenous Women Politicians Defy Odds – and Tradition

    April 22, 2021 |

    Global Press Journal |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Ixtlán de Juárez, Oaxaca

    The Mexican Constitution began in 2016 to require all municipalities in the country to elect or nominate at least one woman for local office. But, in Zapotec Indigenous communities in Oaxaca, where "customary law" held sway, male-dominated tradition marginalized or excluded female officeholders. Espiral por la Vida (Spiral for Life) stepped in to train women in the art of politics and governing. While the culture didn't change overnight, all Oaxaca municipalities had complied with the law, female officeholders felt better prepared, and some men had turned more accepting.

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  • A Fatal Police Shooting in Lents Was the Nightmare Portland Officials Tried to Prevent

    April 21, 2021 |

    Willamette Week |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    After the U.S. Justice Department found that Portland police used excessive force too often when dealing with people in mental health crises, the city formed an unarmed mobile crisis team and a team of police officers with extra training in such cases. Neither team was used when a man with a history of mental illness, armed with what turned out to be a toy gun, was shot to death by a police officer. The Portland Street Response team was not called because the incident occurred outside its limited working hours during the team's pilot phase.

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  • Could a Citizens' Assembly Help Fix Your Democracy?

    April 19, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: France

    France is among a growing number of countries piloting "citizens assemblies," in which a randomly-selected sample of citizens is tasked with reviewing and recommending potential responses to a pressing societal issue. The country's assembly on climate change resulted in more than 100 proposals for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, but because they were nonbinding, only about 40 percent of the recommendations were forwarded to parliament.

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  • 4 Clever Ways We're Getting More Shots into Arms

    April 16, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    In the race to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people, innovators in certain places have excelled at getting shots into arms, including in hard-to-reach or vaccine-reluctant populations. West Virginia broke from the herd using national pharmacy chains, working instead with local shops that had a head start in nursing homes. Alaska's Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation, serving indigenous and remote villages, got creative in how it shipped vaccine to roadless outposts. And UK's private and public teams worked closely with immigrant faith communities to overcome vaccine resistance.

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  • Trolley Times newsletter gives voice to protesting farmers in India

    April 15, 2021 |

    IJNet |

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    Response Location: India, Delhi

    India's protesting farmers objected to the news media's coverage of their protests, seeing it as too pro-government. Trolley Times became the grassroots response: a startup newsletter about the protests, often written by the protesters themselves, along with articles by academics and economists. To appeal to its older audience, who have rural traditions of sharing the news in their communities, the newsletter is printed and distributed at four protest sites in three languages. It also has a global audience online, which has offered the protesters and the newsletter support.

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  • The Mexican women who kicked out the cartels

    April 15, 2021 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Cherán, Michoacan

    Ten years after the women of Cherán, an indigenous town in Michoacán, took up arms to lead an uprising against criminal cartels, their town is an "oasis" of low crime in a region otherwise beset with violence. The town declared itself autonomous and women now belong to the community police force that patrols the town and its surroundings. The cartels' illegal logging and extortion of businesses had corrupted local politicians and threatened a way of life. The town's men did nothing about it, so the women led the uprising that established order and kept the crime at bay.

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