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  • In a Philippine indigenous stronghold, traditions keep COVID-19 at bay

    April 21, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Cordillera Administrative Region

    To combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, provinces in the northern Philippines have implemented a tengao, an indigenous version of a lockdown. Since community elders invoked the lockdown, the region has recorded few cases of infection. Government officials said these practices, including other indigenous rituals, have complemented quarantine orders enforced by the national government.

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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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  • “Ladies First!”: Women fight against solid waste dumping in this Himachal Pradesh village

    April 13, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Sudher, Himachal Pradesh

    A group of women volunteers, known as the Mahila Mandal, from Sudher in India are fighting against the dumping of garbage in their village and the pollution and potential negative health effects that come with it. Despite daily household and farm work, the group has been pressuring authorities through demonstrations and protests to clean up the solid waste dumping site.

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  • Minneapolis Funding Its Parks With an Eye to Equity

    April 09, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has approved a new scoring system to prioritize parks that are most in need of an investment, from the limited funds available, based on equity measures such as race, income, population density, and crime. This data-driven system is used in conjunction with the park board's judgment of a park's infrastructure and has pinpointed parks which were not typically on the park board's radar for renovation.

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  • The Precisionists pairs people with autism in jobs in which they'll thrive

    April 06, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Wilmington, Delaware

    A technology service company based in Wilmington, DE hires neurodiverse employees, people with developmental disabilities, to fulfill roles that they may typically be overlooked for despite their skillsets. TPI avoids the typical hiring practices that include interviews, small talk, or eye contact. Instead, they are tested through complicated LEGO kits, allowing potential employees to shine within their comfort zones. TPI's hiring practices have been so successful that they are in the process of scaling their business to other cities in order to tap into this typically overlooked pool of candidates.

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  • A New Tactic To Fight Coronavirus: Send The Homeless From Jails To Hotels Audio icon

    April 06, 2020 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    California’s governor signed an executive order allocating $50 million to lease hotel rooms for those experiencing homelessness after being released from prison as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. While the hotel business is at a standstill, it provides shelter and the needed self-isolation to one of the most vulnerable populations. So far, 7,000 hotel rooms have been reserved for these individuals.

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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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  • Coronavirus: Groups reopen 805 Undocufund to help undocumented immigrants during pandemic

    March 31, 2020 |

    Ventura County Star |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The collaborators behind a relief fund that is normally used for natural disasters is pivoting its purpose to be redistributed to undocumented immigrants who have been financially impacted by the coronavirus. Although the application is not yet live and will not solve systemic problems such as barriers to receiving unemployment insurance, the program has in the past proven helpful to thousands of families by providing short-term financial stability.

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  • Coronavirus is generating a surge of interest in voting by mail in the 2020 presidential election. It's not a panacea

    March 29, 2020 |

    Tampa Bay Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    The Covid-19 pandemic has increased interest in and use of alternative voting methods in Florida. Among Democrats in the 2020 primary, where most of the primary action took place, voting by mail was up 33% from 2016 and early voting at regional sites was up 20%, while in-person voting on primary day was down about 25%. Offering voting alternatives is not a panacea, there are some drawbacks including a greater percentage of rejected ballots among certain demographic groups, however it can help ease concerns among voters about voting in person during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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  • As pandemic spreads, nonprofit is on a mission to clear out Twin Cities jails, one bail bond at a time

    March 27, 2020 |

    Minnesota Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The Minnesota Freedom Fund has ramped up its spending to pay bail for people with low-level charges. The COVID-19 threat has added urgency to this increasingly popular response to the cash bail system. With jails and prisons posing a great threat to inmates during a pandemic, there have been increased calls to release non-violent inmates to slow the spread and protect those experiencing incarceration.

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