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  • How unemployed Californians launched new careers in a pandemic with 9 weeks of training

    February 02, 2021 |

    Sacramento Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Digital Upskill Sacramento is providing 9-week paid training sessions to participants who want to enter the tech industry. The program is allowing people who didn’t have the time, resources, or opportunity before to get hands-on training in addition to potential employment opportunities. This initiative is a result of a collaboration between several organizations and funding from the city. The funds were allotted for job training in growing industries, especially as the pandemic resulted in the loss of many jobs.

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  • 'Changing the game': Black in Technology works to support Black students in computer science

    February 02, 2021 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United Arab Emirates, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    Black in Technology was created to support Black students in STEM at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The organization has planned numerous events for its members related to mentorship, recruitment, and community building on campus in the STEM and technology industry, and successfully helped them receive internships and job opportunities, while raising the visibility of Black and Latinx students in technology fields.

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  • On the Columbia River, something stirs beyond the dams

    February 02, 2021 |

    Crosscut |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Colville Indian Reservation, Washington

    The Grand Coulee, a 500-foot-tall dam on the Columbia River, nearly eradicated the salmon population that the Colville Tribes relied on, but the Indigenous community initiated a restoration effort to save the fish. They released by hand 100 adult Chinook salmon and scientists were able to confirm that the species was spawning on the upper part of the dam for the first time in 80 years.

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  • How New York Quietly Ended Its Street Drug War

    February 01, 2021 |

    Vice |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    From 2009 through 2019, street arrests for drug possession and sales fell by 80% in New York City, sparing hundreds of thousands of people harsh incarceration terms while defying warnings that more lenient enforcement of low-level drug crimes would wreak havoc on the city. The reforms came about because of persistent advocacy by groups opposed to racially disparate enforcement and its social harms, as well as legislative and court-imposed limits on punishment and stop-and-frisk policing. Now ticketing rather than arrest is used far more often for all types of drugs.

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  • Curing the ‘colonial hangover': how Yukon First Nations became trailblazers of Indigenous governance

    January 30, 2021 |

    The Narwhal |

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    Response Location: Yukon First Nations, Canada, Yukon

    Under the structure of unique treaties called final agreements, Yukon First Nations are able to exercise the powers of self-governance over projects proposed on their land. Implementation of the agreements isn’t always smooth, but 11 of the 14 First Nations have entered into these creative accords with the territorial and federal governments, which aims to foster participation and grant decision-making authority in these Indigenous communities.

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  • El camino por delante

    January 30, 2021 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Costa Rica logró mejorar las condiciones sanitarias y monitoreo de bienestar de migrantes de Nicaragua y Panamá que vienen al país para la cosecha del café. Se logró mediante la implementación interinstitucional de una tarjeta binacional de migración durante la pandemia causada por el COVID-19.

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  • Indigenous Elders Are at Risk of Freezing to Death Because Wood Is So Expensive

    January 29, 2021 |

    Slate |

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    Response Location: United States, Navajo Nation, Arizona

    A collaborative experiment between Indigenous community activists, tribal officials, loggers, nonprofits, and the U.S. Forest Service is delivering firewood to residents who need it for heating and cooking. The program, called Wood for Life, also doubles as a forest management initiative to thin out Arizona’s forests to prevent deadly wildfires. The shuttering of a local coal mine and the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this home heating crisis and group members in 2020 delivered a total of 650 cords of wood to several Indigenous nations.

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  • Michigan group helping to keep justice on the state's environmental agenda

    January 29, 2021 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    The Michigan Advisory Council on Environmental Justice was created to advise Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on environmental justice issues related to pollution and energy access. In its first year, the 21-member council was influential in moratoriums on water shut-offs and provided input on the state’s latest climate plan. Some members would like the council to have “more teeth” in policy decisions, but other say they are poised to take up more issues, like injustices related to electric utilities, in their second year.

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  • "We're not just relics of the past": How #NativeTikTok is preserving Indigenous cultures and inspiring a younger generation

    January 28, 2021 |

    CBS News |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States

    Native and Indigenous individuals are using TikTok to share aspects of their traditions, challenge stereotypes, and empower young people to be proud of their culture. The videos range from instructional, teaching people indigenous languages or dance, to putting a "cultural spin" on trending content. The hashtag #NativeTikTok has over 1.3 billion views and users comment that the videos help them feel more connected to and proud of their cultures. The videos follow the tradition of preserving culture through storytelling and offer positive representations of Native and Indigenous people and their cultures.

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  • SC law enforcement agencies are supposed to report info on traffic stops, but most are not

    January 28, 2021 |

    The Greenville News |

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    Response Location: United States, South Carolina

    After the South Carolina legislature in 2005 began requiring police to enforce a seat-belt law with traffic stops, it imposed on all police departments a duty to track and report traffic-stop data on drivers' race. The law was meant as a way to prevent biased policing, through public disclosure of disparities. But only about one-third of the state's law enforcement agencies have consistently complied with the law, and some never have. Some blame ignorance of how the system should work. But another explanation is the state has done little or nothing to enforce the law.

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