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  • Hong Kong Protests, Silenced on the Streets, Surface in Artworks

    May 20, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Hong Kong

    Even though police silenced the 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, artists, writers, and filmmakers are producing work about the protests in more abstract and ambiguous ways to evade authorities. For example, the Goethe-Institut’s Hong Kong branch hosted a mixed show that included photographs of the 2019 protests that the artist had punched, ripped, or cut in order to hide protestors’ identities. Even though Chinese law criminalizes anything that the government deems as promoting “secession, subversion, or collusion with foreign powers,” several other exhibits are also featuring protest art.

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  • The Pandemic Proved Hospitals Can Deliver Care To Seriously Ill Patients At Home

    May 20, 2021 |

    KFF Health News |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, California

    To reduce the overcrowding of hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic, some hospitals in California introduced the practice of at-home hospital care. Although not available to every patient, for those where this model of care has worked, studies suggest it can provide "better outcomes for patients and costs less to provide than traditional inpatient care."

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  • Here's how people in the Delta are working to overcome COVID-19 vaccine transportation barriers

    May 20, 2021 |

    Mississippi Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Transit operations have been repurposed to increase access to COVID-19 vaccines among underserved communities in the Delta. A fleet of transit buses that were sitting unused at Mississippi Valley State University now provide rides to and from vaccine sites. Community activists, local transportation agencies, and philanthropic groups have worked together to arrange similar no-cost vaccination transportation for people who need it. The Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi made an initial contribution to support the efforts, though limited advertising has also limited the reach of the programs.

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  • These co-op restaurants didn't need to open indoor dining to survive the pandemic

    May 20, 2021 |

    The Real News Network |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Two Baltimore restaurants, Red Emma's and Joe Squared, show how running or starting as worker-owned cooperatives gave them pandemic-survival skills in a business climate that killed many other small businesses. By tapping into larger networks providing financing on favorable terms and other expertise, these co-ops used their workers' ingenuity to offer services that didn't depend on sit-down dining. Like many co-ops, they were able to survive the pandemic and preserve jobs where so many traditionally run businesses were not.

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  • How Alameda County addresses mental-health crisis response

    May 20, 2021 |

    Santa Cruz Local |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Alameda and Santa Cruz counties have fielded their own mobile teams to respond to mental health crises as alternatives to police-only responses. Aimed at reducing conflicts with police, overuse of hospitals and jails, and involuntarily commitments for short-term emergency mental health care, the services' limited hours and resources mean that the police still handle the majority of such calls. Alameda's pilot, begun in July 2020, is able to provide help to about one-third of the four dozen monthly calls it gets. Santa Cruz's volume is higher. Impacts on involuntary commitments unclear.

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  • How Social Media Fact-Checking Limits, But Can't Eliminate, Online Disinformation

    May 20, 2021 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States

    Social media companies are using artificial intelligence to help identify misinformation. Once identified, human fact checkers will verify the posts. Facebook uses 60 partnered fact-checking organizations as well as SimSearchNet++ image-recognition system that can identify image manipulation and slight changes to misinformation. Hundreds of millions of posts are flagged every year and those that are identified as “false” or “altered” are labeled with warnings and distribution is reduced.

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  • The other SNL: New York City's athletic approach to curbing rising gun violence

    May 20, 2021 |

    FastCompany |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Saturday Night Lights is run by the DA’s office and aims to reduce gun violence by providing organized sports for school-aged kids on weekend nights, when crime often goes up. Active in 20 locations across the city, SNL has served over 20,000 kids in 10 years. Partners must open on Saturday nights, for at least 46 weeks per year, and provide high quality coaching. There is no formal sign-up process or eligibility requirements apart from age and participants can join on any given night. As a response to surging crime rates in 2020, the mayor’s office has committed $5 million a year to expand to 100 locations.

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  • Can crowd funding save the media from France's billionaire press monopoly?

    May 20, 2021 |

    Roar News |

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    Response Location: France

    One solution to the increasing monopolization of news media outlets by a few wealthy individuals is crowd funding. In France, Julia Cagé created Un bout du Monde to raise money to intervene in the shareholding of Le Monde Group. Each person, for a donation of €5, receives one vote in the general assembly of participating press titles. Reaching the goal of providing diverse management of the media has been slow, and results are expected once more money is raised. So far, 2,170 people have donated to raise more than €155,821, a substantial amount but a long way from the millions needed to make a difference.

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  • Chiredzi-Mwenezi rural communities burn biogas to save trees

    May 19, 2021 |

    The Chronicle |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe, Chiredzi

    Rural communities in Bandama and Dungwe villages in Chiredzi and Mwenezi are using biogas technology to cook instead of cutting down trees for firewood. The technology relies on fermenting cow dung and using the material in biogas-specific stoves.

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  • Rad für die Welt

    May 19, 2021 |

    Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin |

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    Response Location: Malawi

    In Ländern wie Malawi können Fahrräder lebenswichtig sein: Sie vereinfacht den Zugang zu Wasser, Bildung, Märkten und medizinischer Versorgung. Nur besitzen die meisten Menschen keine. Eine NGO verteilt deshalb zehntausende Räder pro Jahr – und bildet nebenher Mechaniker aus.

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