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  • The Courage to Listen

    October 15, 2020 |

    Jackson Hole Community Radio (KHOL) |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

    Following a series of public controversies over sexual assault, Jackson's Community Safety Network convened a series of training seminars to foster a response that no amount of legislation or criminal prosecutions could offer: to cultivate culture change based on greater understanding and empathy about what survivors go through. The seminars capitalized on a surge in public interest, and misunderstandings, surrounding sexual assault allegations against a public official and other public officials' behavior. One survivor who was encouraged to go public praised the community effort.

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  • New app helps Inuit adapt to changing climate: ‘It's time for the harpoon and computer to work together'

    October 15, 2020 |

    The World |

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    Response Location: Canada, Flaherty Island, Nunavut

    The Arctic Eider Society, an environmental and social justice organization based in Nunavut, developed an app called SIKU that allows users to enter real-time data on conditions in the arctic. Inuktitut hunters use the app to alert others to hazardous ice conditions and observations about wildlife and vegetation. The app is funded by private foundations as well as federal and indigenous governments and has over 6,000 users. Users maintain intellectual property rights of their data and the app respects traditional knowledge by encouraging indigenous communities to merge old ways with new technologies.

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  • We Hear You

    October 15, 2020 |

    Self Evident |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Early in the pandemic, APIENC, a community organization led by trans, non-binary, and queer Asian and Pacific Islanders in San Francisco, started a phone tree to offer help to people: getting groceries or meals, providing emotional support, or whatever else was needed in a community experiencing racial and other forms of bias on top of pandemic stresses. Only one person took the help – until the group held workshops on how to ask for help. Dozens of requests for help could then be met. This is the middle segment in the third in a series on anti-Asian racism during the pandemic.

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  • Un village Alzheimer

    October 15, 2020 |

    France Culture |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: France, Dax, Landes

    Le premier village Alzheimer français a ouvert ses portes en 2020 à Dax, dans les Landes. Il accueille actuellement 90 résidents sur les 120 prévus. Beaucoup de lien social et pas de blouses blanches et une sécurisation douce, c’est le secret de ce projet pilote, inspiré d’un modèle hollandais. Conçu comme un vrai village, il accueillira 120 professionnels, 120 bénévoles et 120 résidents répartis dans 16 maisons.

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  • In San Diego, Black Muslims are working to expand voting access in jails

    October 14, 2020 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Pillars of the Community hires people incarcerated in local California jails to register new incarcerated voters and conduct civic engagement education behind bars. Pillars, a faith-based criminal justice advocacy group led by Black Muslims, registers hundreds every year, many of whom did not know they were eligible to vote and did not know how to register on their own. Those voting in 2020 will be able to vote on state referenda concerning expanding voting rights for people with felony convictions and on ending cash bail.

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  • This police officer has made it her mission to end domestic violence

    October 14, 2020 |

    NBC News |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Thibodaux, Louisiana

    In southern Louisiana's Lafourche Parish, sheriff's deputy Valerie Martinez Jordan used her history as a domestic violence victim to create a countywide program to legally seize the guns of people convicted of domestic violence or whose gun rights are suspended under a protective order. The program, since expanded statewide by legislation she inspired, took more than 200 guns out of circulation in her parish alone since last year and is credited with preventing any domestic homicides by people disarmed through her program's efforts.

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  • Doctor Offices In Wisconsin Step In To Help Register Voters

    October 14, 2020 |

    NPR |

    Podcast |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    VotERdoctors partners with doctors, clinics, community centers, and hospitals to register voters. Staff can wear badges with a QR code that patients can scan with their cellphone, which takes them to a webpage that offers information about how to register to vote, including a live help line if the patient gets stuck. Some facilities, such as Progressive Community Health Centers in Milwaukee, send monthly text messages to their patients to remind them to register. VotER is being used by more than 300 U.S. hospitals and about 40,000 patients have gotten help registering or requesting ballots.

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  • 'It's on the writers': How The Correspondent drives interaction between members and its journalists Audio icon

    October 14, 2020 |

    Digiday |

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    Response Location: United States

    To entice paying subscribers to its ad-free news site, and to spark informed discourse in its comments section, The Correspondent promotes an unusual degree of interaction between its journalists and readers and actively seeds discussions with experts’ comments. Unlike often-toxic discussion forums on other news sites, The Correspondents' forums foster collaborations between writers and readers on prospective articles and in analyses after publication. While it's too soon to tell if the strategy will retain and expand subscriber rolls, the forums show an unusual level of quality and civility.

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  • Acesso à saúde mental na Maré: luta que vem de dentro

    October 14, 2020 |

    openDemocracy |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

    A reportagem mostra a existência de projetos com voluntários para oferecer tratamentos de saúde mental no complexo de favelas da Maré, no Rio de Janeiro. A iniciativa já foi replicada no Alemão e na Rocinha, outros grandes complexos de favelas do Rio de Janeiro.

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  • San Francisco Doula Program Tackles Birth Equity and Economic Justice in One Fell Swoop

    October 14, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    A doula program in San Francisco is helping to create jobs and build equity in maternal health, especially for Black mothers. Training is free for the client as well as for the doulas, with trainees also receiving mentorship and full benefits. To date, the organization has raised nearly $1 million for operational expenses from a variety of channels including "foundations, a city-managed health plan, and revenue from a local sugary drinks tax."

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