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  • Dumplings Against Hate Audio icon

    April 20, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The NYC-based campaign, Dumplings Against Hate, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for Asian Americans for Equality’s Emergency Small Business Relief Fund by bringing together a virtual community of support. As the COVID-19 pandemic picked up in early 2020, Chinatown restaurants and businesses saw a decrease in revenue because of xenophobia and racism, inspiring the group’s creation. Since then, it’s acted as a model for similar groups across the country, and is creating a toolkit for cities to create their own campaigns.

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  • The translators giving indigenous migrants a voice

    April 20, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    The group, Promoters of Migrant Liberation, provides translation of indigenous Guatemalan, Maya, Mexican, and Afro-Caribbean languages for migrants in US detention centers. They help translate right from detention, throughout case preparation, and as migrants exit detention centers. The group is made up of only women translating for women migrants, but as detention centers see more migrants as a result of zero-tolerance policies, they’re going to expand to help children and men.

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  • California lessons from the 1918 pandemic: San Francisco dithered; Los Angeles acted and saved lives

    April 19, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Two of California’s major cities – Los Angeles and San Francisco – are learning from their history with the Spanish Influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic. The two cities had different approaches, with San Francisco strongly requiring masks, shutting down later, and opening up earlier and Los Angeles shutting down almost immediately and waiting an extra month to open up. Over one hundred years later, leaders are looking back to learn from mistakes to save lives.

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  • Long before coronavirus, Philly ran a quarantine center for another deadly contagion

    April 18, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    From 1802 until 1895, Philadelphia ran a quarantine center that required all in-bound ships to stop and all on-board to be quarantined until cleared of any possible infectious diseases. Although the center is no longer in use, it provides a unique history lesson for the current coronavirus pandemic of the success that can come by restricting movement to prevent further spread.

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  • One church's tale of two pandemics, 100 years apart

    April 15, 2020 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The quarantines and shelter-in-place orders that many cities in the United States are enacting today to combat the coronavirus pandemic can be compared to similar tactics taken in 1918 to stop the spread of influenza pandemic. However, with modern-day technology, churches in particular are finding that they are better able to safely reach their members through the use of video conferencing rather than door-to-door visits. For a Los Angeles church, this is part of a comprehensive approach that aims to abide by social distancing requirements while still helping those in need.

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  • Agrobiodiversity initiatives open women's horizons in Kerala

    April 15, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Palakkad, Kerala

    The Kudumbashree Mission aims to encourage agrobiodiversity projects in India and empower women farmers. These projects revive traditional and sustainable farming practices called “panchakrishi.” So far, there are 192 hamlets and over 840 hectares under this type of farming, producing pulses, tubers, paddy, millets, and vegetables. While climate change has caused a lower crop yield for some farmers, pancharkrishi has helped women diversify their crops and maintain nutritional security.

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  • What a Solidarity Economy Looks Like

    April 09, 2020 |

    Boston Review |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Maricá

    The local government in Maricá, a small municipality in Brazil, is being said to have initiated "the most ambitious city-level response to COVID-19 in Brazil, and one of the most notable in the world." Even before the coronavirus spread, the city worked on the premise of mutual aid, which included a universal basic income and a solidarity economy. In the context of the coronavirus, these proactive policies are now emerging as examples of how a democratized economy can result in a region being better positioned to withstand a public health crisis.

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  • Save the Words

    April 01, 2020 |

    The Believer |

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    Response Location: United States, Menominee, Wisconsin

    Efforts are underway on the Menominee Reservation in northeastern Wisconsin to preserve the at-risk language of Menominee. That looks like conducting school entirely in Menominee, printing Menominee-language books, updating the language with twenty-first-century terms, and poring over old texts and audio transcripts to transfer vocabulary into a database. There are many challenges facing this initiative and many of the workers are volunteers or poorly-compensated, but those doing the work feel a great sense of responsibility and duty to carry on.

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  • How Taiwan has become a COVID-19 success story

    April 01, 2020 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Taiwan

    Taiwan was expected to be inundated with COVID-19 cases, but that never happened at least in part due to the swift and aggressive actions enacted by the government. Integral to the approach was enhanced transparency from the government, which included text messages to those who were quarantined, as well as using lessons learned from the SARS outbreak.

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  • How some cities ‘flattened the curve' during the 1918 flu pandemic

    March 27, 2020 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: United States

    What can the 1918 Spanish Flu teach us about how we can effectively respond to the 2020 coronavirus? Researchers are comparing the death rates during the Spanish Flu in different U.S. cities to see which governments' methods were most effective at flattening the curve.

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