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  • ‘A Light for Me in the Darkness': For Migrant Detainees, a Bond Forged by Letter

    February 07, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    For migrant detainees in San Diego County's Otay Mesa Detention Center, a recent letter writing campaign from participants at nearby San Diego State University has brought a small form of hope and courage. The university library released hundreds of letters between detainees and university participants, which served to humanize the immigration debate. “In the U.S. our tendency is to really dehumanize migrants,” said Kate Swanson, another geography professor at San Diego State. “We put them in these concrete boxes. This helps them become visible.”

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  • Wiggin Street students learn through play

    February 07, 2019 |

    Mount Vernon News |

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    Response Location: United States, Mount Vernon, Ohio

    Global Play Day for schools is exactly what it sounds like: a full day of supervised but unstructured play. Teachers and scientists say that this kind of play encourages creativity and helps build social skills that kids need like problem-solving and flexibility. Students at Wiggins Street Elementary School play in all classes, including gym and music.

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  • St. Petersburg roaster Black Crow is first zero-waste coffee shop in Florida

    February 07, 2019 |

    Creative Loafing: Tampa Bay |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Petersburg, Florida

    Black Crow Coffee Co. is the first certified zero-waste business in the state of Florida, meaning that 90% of their waste does not go into the landfill. They achieved this after 6 months of dedication to the mission, including composting 15,000 lbs and recycling 1,820 lbs of organic waste, reusing rags, and phasing out single-use plastic cleaning products.

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  • Let's Talk Ideas For Ending Homelessness

    February 07, 2019 |

    KUNM |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Across New Mexico, organizations and local governments are working to address homelessness. This podcast outlines multiple initiatives, including ones to make a winter shelter open all year round and a program geared towards students experiencing homelessness.

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  • A Cry For Baby Cuddlers In San Antonio As Opioid Crisis Deepens

    February 07, 2019 |

    Texas Public Radio (KSTX) |

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    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    As the rates of infants born with opioid addictions rises, volunteer baby cuddlers are helping to fill the gap in overwhelmed neonatal units in Texas. Although there are still not enough hands to go around for the amount of babies being admitted, those that are able to receive an assigned baby cuddler are not just receiving comfort but are also able to ween off their addiction at a quicker rate.

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  • The Battle Over Teaching Chicago's Schools About Police Torture and Reparations

    February 07, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In response to the discovery that Chicago police officer Jon Burge led a "Midnight Crew" torturing mostly Black men to coerce criminal confessions, the city council's agreement to make cash reparations to the victims included a mandated curriculum in public schools to teach high school students the truth of what happened. Critics called the curriculum, "Reparations Won," anti-police propaganda. But a rare and lengthy observation of one class' experience showed its effects on youth. Not only did they learn the history, but they also learned the possibility of change in the face of systemic injustice.

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  • Making Room for Kids in the World's Toughest Neighborhoods

    February 07, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Bar Elias

    Designers around the world explore ideas and tactics to make inviting, safe, and engaging playgrounds for underserved children. From Lebanon to Belgium, engineers and builders work together to make play accessible and mobile.

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  • Punjab's marginalised communities struggle for their right to cultivate common lands

    February 07, 2019 |

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    Response Location: India, Punjab

    Balad Kalan’s Scheduled Castes, popularly called Dalits, collectively bid to win the rights to fertile common lands that big landlords had taken control of. Each family contributed what they could and, after protests due to the lack of transparency in the bidding process, won 53 hectares, or one-third of the common land, which was distributed among 145 families. Fifty other villages have since won collective land rights by replicating the joint bidding process. An 11-member cooperative manages the land in each village, which is distributed to families in proportion to their monetary contribution.

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  • Can old-fashioned journalism combat fake news?

    February 07, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Human-based fact checking offers a more dynamic and thorough way to determine the credibility of news outlets than the use of machine learning software. Although humans are still prone to implicit biases, NewsGuard’s model of employing a team of human fact-checkers to rate news websites pushes back against the tendency of algorithms to disseminate false or misleading content. A user-installed plug-in offers details about the credibility and transparency of over 2,000 websites.

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  • In Nigeria, documentary films spark social change

    February 07, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Port Harcourt

    A local, grass-roots art project in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, spreads awareness about and encourages action against government-sponsored evictions in the city's low-income communities. Cinematic films, music, and journalistic storytelling help spread the humanity and character of the communities to appeal to government entities to let people stay.

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