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  • Latinx 'promotores' lead the way for environmental action

    September 15, 2020 |

    Bay Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Langley Park, Maryland

    A leadership program in the Chesapeake Bay region gives members of the Latinx community to become change makers in the environmental movement. Since 2016, Chispa Maryland has produced more than 100 graduates from its “promotores” program, where they learn the basics of climate justice, advocacy, and community organizing. While the work is difficult and the COVID-19 pandemic has affected operations, the promotores have seen some success in organizing community gardens and lobbying the county to purchase electric school buses.

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  • How One Pacific Islander Community Is Responding To The Pandemic

    September 11, 2020 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Pacific Islander communities in Hawaii have formed their own Covid-19 task forces to stop the virus’ spread, rather than wait for the government to respond. Despite a lack of resources, the task forces conduct community outreach providing protective gear and food and have partnered with community groups, recognizing the role of active community engagement and participation to achieve success. The task forces use a model that recognizes the significance of cultural nuances and language challenges, which has added to its success in keeping the infection rate among Pacific Islander communities relatively low.

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  • How the Lebanese Diaspora Is Mobilizing Against Food Insecurity at Home

    September 08, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

    Volunteer-run organizations are helping those facing food insecurity throughout Beirut by preparing and delivery food on a daily basis. Although the food system in the country remains heavily strained, the grassroots network of organizations are relying on one another for support which has resulted in diverting aid and strategically funneling resources where they're most needed.

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  • Forged By AIDS, Storied NYC Residence Boosts Aging In Place

    September 08, 2020 |

    Health Affairs |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Two community living facilities have played integral roles in combatting the spread of diseases throughout New York's history by relying on mutual aid models. In the 1980's the Manhattan Plaza residence started the AIDS Project, which "assigned care partners to every person who got sick and deployed volunteers to deliver meals and get people to doctors." Now, as the COVID-19 pandemic poses a threat, similar efforts are underway by a younger generation at the Manhattan Plaza as well as at Penn South where the focus has been on keeping senior citizens safe.

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  • Africa declared free of wild polio in 'milestone'

    August 25, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    After decades of trying to contain polio, collaborative efforts have resulted in the eradication of the disease from Africa. Although there is still no known cure, vaccination campaigns and collective action from polio survivors have helped to achieve widespread immunization for children across the country.

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  • In India, an ancient grain is revived for the modern era

    August 25, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: India, Thottampatti, Tamil Nadu

    The Women’s Collective is a nonprofit that works with more than 10,000 subsistence farmers in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to promote food security using millets, a crop resilient to drought and climate change. For Pavitra, one of those farmers, she began cultivating the ancient grains in 2015 and now has more than enough food to feed her family year-round. However, there’s a lack of public investment in millet production and machinery. And there’s no unified effort to create demand for millets: Some state governments lead the charge and in other states, it’s led by grassroots organizations.

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  • Amazon ‘women warriors' show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand

    August 21, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Maranhão

    Women “warriors” of the indigenous Guajajara people in Brazil use drones to patrol their territory of the Amazon rainforest in an effort to prevent deforestation. Because of their work, they have been able to cut deforestation down to just 63 hectares in 2018 compared with 2,000 hectares in 2016. While the work can be dangerous and difficult at times, the women are committed to protecting the forests as a way to combat climate change. “If we don’t act, there would be no forest standing,” says one of the women warriors.

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  • Pandemic Thwarts In-Person Census Outreach, But Santa Barbara County Response Rates Rally

    August 19, 2020 |

    Noozhawk |

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    Response Location: United States, Goleta, California

    Althought the coronavirus pandemic thwarted the planned efforts originally intended to increase census participation in the city of Goleta, California, county census workers have found ways to still successfully reach community members. From door-to-door visits and car parades to lawn signs and educational campaigns, the city's efforts have "resulted in the highest local self-response so far."

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  • Gun Violence Left a Mark on His Childhood. He Says People Like Him Should Lead Efforts to Reduce It.

    August 13, 2020 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The South Central Leadership Academy was started in Los Angeles by a college student who believes that gun violence survivors like him should lead the community response in finding solutions to violence. Its first year of paying more than a dozen student survivors to learn community organizing skills succeeded in attracting funding to expand to Nashville, Baltimore, and Atlanta. COVID-19 put the latter two expansions on hold, but LA and Nashville continued with well-attended classes learning remotely. Founder Marco Vargas hopes to turn this startup into a national network of youth leadership academies.

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  • The old-school organizers who got it done on Zoom

    August 06, 2020 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The Industrial Areas Foundation, the country’s oldest community organizing group, adapted to coronavirus restrictions by using technology to win relief for immigrants without legal documentation in California. Organizing a diverse coalition over zoom had many challenges, but they successfully won the expansion of the California Earned Income Tax Credit to include people who file taxes using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN, rather than a Social Security number. This applies to about one-tenth of California’s workforce who mainly work in hard-hit service and agriculture industries.

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