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  • These farmworkers created America's strongest workplace heat rules

    February 17, 2024 |

    The Washington Post |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Immokalee, Florida

    To fight for safer working conditions, a coalition of farmworkers staged protests and led boycotts of corporations such as McDonald’s and Taco Bell, which helped persuade the companies to join their push for better treatment. This led to the creation of the Fair Food Program, an initiative that certifies farms that comply with strict safety standards and gives them access to some of the largest buyers of produce. Farms in 10 states now participate in the program, providing protections for roughly 20,000 workers.

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  • Reclaiming Our Homes

    February 09, 2024 |

    Latino USA |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Moms for Housing reclaim vacant homes owned by investors to provide a place for single mothers to live. Advocating for housing as a human right, 13 organizers are currently living in these unoccupied houses and through civil disobedience, managed to negotiate temporary housing as they continue fighting for permanent solutions to the area’s housing crisis.

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  • From inspiration to action: young Nigerians take charge of their communities

    February 07, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Jigawa

    Turnup Jigawa is a leadership program that provides mentorship around advocacy and communication with the goal of training young people to engage with lawmakers and community stakeholders. Students go on to spearhead projects in their own communities, such as one participant’s awareness campaign around environmental hygiene and another’s initiative to provide college and career counseling to secondary students.

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  • NM endowment offers perpetual funding source for rural libraries

    January 26, 2024 |

    Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    The New Mexico Rural Library Initiative advocated for an endowment fund to create a perpetual funding source for a group of community libraries in small, low-income towns. The money in the fund is invested, and the interest earned is distributed to the libraries each year.

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  • Taiwan Learned You Can't Fight Fake News by Making It Illegal

    January 16, 2024 |

    Foreign Policy |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Taiwan

    Ahead of its 2020 presidential election, Taiwan tried to fight disinformation from Chinese actors in the courts, prosecuting citizens who were paid to disseminate fake news and fining pro-China news stations accused of broadcasting false information. But the tactics proved ineffective and raised concerns around free speech, leading the country to take a different approach during the onset of the pandemic and leading up to its latest election by making accurate information more widely available and bolstering its network of civic fact-checking organizations.

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  • Activists Win a Battle for Women's Reproductive Healthcare in a Rural Colorado Town

    January 16, 2024 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Cortez, Colorado

    Local activists are joining together to protest the potential closure of Southwest Memorial Hospital’s birthing center, advocating and organizing to ensure the hospital stays open and locals can access the care they need in rural areas.

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  • Can City Government Change Itself?

    January 09, 2024 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia’s Innovation Fund and Innovation Management Team provide support for municipal departments to help them better serve residents. The initiative, which includes an Innovation Academy that trains city workers to apply design thinking and creative problem solving, has supported projects ranging from the development of multilingual voter guides to free pantries for menstrual products.

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  • In the Scar of New Mexico's Largest Wildfire, a Legal Battle Is Brewing: What Is Victims' Suffering Worth?

    January 04, 2024 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    New Mexico law would allow wildfire victims to seek compensation for noneconomic damages. But the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency said the federal law that established a compensation fund for a wildfire accidentally started by the U.S. Forest Service limits payments to tangible losses. Now, victims are suing the agency, claiming it improperly denied them compensation that they need to rebuild.

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  • How a new way to vote is gaining traction in states — and could transform US politics

    December 28, 2023 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Some states are combining ranked choice voting, which asks voters to rank candidates by order of preference, with Final Five primaries where multiple candidates advance to the general election, rather than one candidate from each major party. After implementing both reforms, Alaska saw more women run for office than in the five previous elections, and an analysis of the system found it improved representation by giving voters more choice and encouraging candidates to appeal to a wider demographic.

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  • How Amazon Workers Got a Raise Before a Union

    December 22, 2023 |

    Capital & Main |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Bernardino, California

    In the absence of an official union, workers at an Amazon air hub formed an organizing committee to advocate for better conditions, circulating petitions and staging walk-outs to protest low pay and unsafe heat levels. The workers succeeded in persuading the company to change its policy around unpaid holiday closures and have also won incremental wage increases and improved heat protections.

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