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  • Year of racial awakening may topple Richmond's last Confederate statue

    December 02, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Richmond’s Robert E. Lee statue has become an example of American protest art as protesters have covered it in graffiti demanding racial justice and surrounded it with basketball hoops, gardens, tents, lawn chairs, and a grill for community gatherings. The site has become a symbol, a place of local pilgrimage, to collectively create a public space of belonging and protest racial injustices and systemic racism. The Lee statue is likely to be taken down soon, as all other confederate statues on "monument row" have been, because a judge recently struck down the legal challenges to the state’s plan to remove it.

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  • A Philly jobs program lost six to a year of violence. Can it still help young people thrive?

    December 02, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    PowerCorpsPHL and Mural Arts' Guild have notched impressive results in job placements of young people with criminal records. The programs' employment training, paid apprenticeships, and art therapy classes have all been disrupted by 2020's pandemic, social unrest, and street violence. Private grants have largely made up for budget cuts from the city of Philadelphia. But the lack of face to face training and counseling has been disruptive. Both programs and their trainees are persevering despite longer odds, with workarounds that keep the programs afloat in difficult times.

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  • How Madison's Latino community is pulling together to survive COVID

    December 02, 2020 |

    The Cap Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    In Madison, Wisconsin, the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately impacting the Latino population, but the local community has joined together to advocate for better access to care and information. The efforts have included pop-up testing sites equipped with Spanish speakers, better-targeted messages, and non-medical support like food boxes.

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  • This teen tutor turns computer science into kids' stuff

    December 02, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    CS Remastered is a nonprofit that provides free individualized coding classes to students. The kind of one-on-one tutoring they might not get at school. The nonprofit was started by 17-year-old, Samvit Agarwal, who got the idea after he started tutoring kids from his neighborhood. “The entire idea is to make it as flexible or as adaptable to each student as possible,” Samvit says. Since its launch, the nonprofit has expanded to include 250 volunteers who service 300 students. “CS Remastered has opened four chapters in the U.S., one in India, and one in China.”

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  • A sustainable refocus helps a historic Chicago community rebuild

    December 02, 2020 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Green developement has breathed new life into a once-declining town that suffered from the exodus of manufacturers. A comprehensive 10-year plan revitalized the local economy of Pullman, creating jobs and bringing new manufacturers into its abandoned buildings. Housing, transportation, public safety, and recreation were also part of the plan which was funded by tax increment financing in addition to federal funding and investments from companies located there.

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  • How To Feed The World Without Destroying It

    December 01, 2020 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the fragility of the U.S. food supply chain, yet for indigenous led-operations there has been little interruption thanks to practices that rely on shorter supply chains that "work with local ecosystems, not against them." In Virginia, one farmer is using the lessons from this traditional knowledge to create a small-scale farming collective.

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  • The Radical Idea of Making Sure Everybody Has Enough Money to Live On

    December 01, 2020 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    The results of a universal basic income (UBI) program in Kenya show the positive ripple effect of giving everyone money on a consistent basis over the course of several years. Recipients have been able to lift themselves out of poverty, start businesses, and invest in communal projects such as plumbing and better housing. Improved mental and physical health was also a major outcome of the initiative.

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  • Cleveland's historic Legal Aid Society surges with the pandemic

    December 01, 2020 |

    The Land |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland is helping low-income people facing legal hardships and civil issues obtain fair representation and access to services and aid. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the organization has struggled to keep pace with the need, but has still been able to provide services to nearly half of those who have requested and connect many of the others with partner organizations.

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  • An oft-tried plan to curb violent crime in Baltimore resurfaces. City leaders say better leadership will bring better results.

    December 01, 2020 |

    The Baltimore Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    In the 1990s and again in 2014, when Baltimore used a strategy called focused deterrence to reduce street violence, it showed initial promise but then failed. Those failures can be tied to how the program was managed, and to changes in leadership, not to the approach itself. The strategy offers help to people at risk of shooting others or being shot, but threatens them with prosecution if they reject the help and commit violence. The revived Group Violence Reduction Strategy has worked well in many cities, including New Orleans, where Baltimore's current police chief came from.

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  • Heat Waves Kill More People Than Any Other Weather Disaster. These Cities Have A Plan.

    December 01, 2020 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: India, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

    With rising temperatures occurring all over the world, cities are implementing plans to combat heat waves and protect its residents. The city of Ahmedabad in India has been a model for heat resiliency after it created its first heat action plan that centered around “community-focused social measures.” Because of the plan, a 2015 heat wave resulted in fewer than 20 fatalities compared with thousands of deaths in previous years. Other cities like New York City are also participating in heat resiliency efforts aimed at protecting all of its residents.

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