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  • For Indigenous Zapotec Families, Spinning Becomes a Lifeline

    June 17, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Oaxaca

    Mark Brown has brought Ghandian economic principles of economic justice and local autonomy to the Mexican countryside to form a farm-to-garment textile business that employs villagers who once made woolen textiles until the industrial clothing era started producing cheap synthetic clothing and rendered their craft unprofitable. Khadi Oaxaca aims to regenerate the village way of life in a sustainable way and employs several hundred villagers who grow the cotton, spin the thread, design the clothing and bring it to market for tourists - bringing a previously economically depressed village out of poverty.

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  • These Black Students Have Fought Over-Policing In Schools for Years

    June 17, 2020 |

    Teen Vogue |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The Minneapolis school board’s vote to remove police from public schools arose not only from protests over the police killing of George Floyd, but also from a long-term advocacy project to end the so-called school-to-prison pipeline. Local youth activists for years have piggybacked on a national movement to stop the racially disparate practice of criminalizing student misbehavior. A coalition of groups, nationally and in Minneapolis, marshaled evidence of the racial inequity of such policing and the benefits of reinvesting the money saved on police in restorative justice programs and other services.

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  • Ventiladores mecánicos: ¿qué debe tener para mantener con vida a un paciente?

    June 16, 2020 |

    Animal Político |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    Esta publicación explica cómo debe ser un ventilador pulmonar mecánico para ayudar durante la pandemia del COVID-19. En México, al igual que en la gran mayoría de países del mundo, el sistema de salud no contaba con suficientes ventiladores para esta emergencia, entonces diferentes miembros de la sociedad civil juntaron esfuerzos y comenzaron a desarrollar sus propias máquinas de sanidad. Este reportaje presenta cómo una familia creó un ventilador que puede venderse en $700 para ayudar a la respuesta nacional de la pandemia.

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  • 3 lessons from how schools responded to the 1918 pandemic worth heeding today

    June 16, 2020 |

    The Conversation |

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    Response Location: United States

    The pandemic of 2020 bears a heavy resemblance to the pandemic of 1918, and the U.S. can learn from the successes of the past. Investing heavily in school nurses, fostering cross-sector and public/private partnerships, and creating “large, clean, airy school buildings” to continue serving families and children—decisions made over a hundred years ago that are still just as relevant today.

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  • When coronavirus closed schools, some Detroit students went missing from class. These educators had to find them.

    June 16, 2020 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    After the pandemic forced schools to close, educators in Detroit had to take on the role of "detectives" in order to track down missing students and help them stay on-track. After realizing the extent of the impact the coronavirus had on students and their families, educators resorted to persistent follow-ups, food deliveries, tracking families based on need, and providing grief counseling to help them cope with family losses and their changing environments.

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  • How nonprofits are getting people out of metro Detroit jails during COVID-19 pandemic

    June 16, 2020 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Nonprofit bail funds, which use donated money to pay the bail of low-income people held in jail on pending charges, have won the release of about 55 people in Detroit during the COVID-19 crisis. Beyond the immediate need to free more people from an environment that makes social distancing difficult, the bail funds are part of a larger movement challenging a system that disproportionately affects people of color. The combination of bail payments, bond reductions, and administrative releases have reduced Wayne County's jail population by almost half.

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  • This Seattle protest zone is police-free. So volunteers are stepping up to provide security.

    June 16, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In Seattle's police-free street encampment that sprang up during protests over policing abuses, a mostly unarmed group of volunteer "sentinels" has defused a number of potential problems while largely avoiding the use of force. Trained in de-escalation and mediation tactics, the sentinels have used listening techniques to understand people's anger or mental state. Among the incidents they have addressed: fights, attempted vandalism of storefronts, visits from armed people who wanted to confront a supposed leftist threat, and the attempted arson of a police precinct building.

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  • How Sweden's new consent law led to a 75% rise in rape convictions

    June 16, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Sweden

    In the nearly two years since Sweden broadened the definition of rape offenses to include cases in which a victim fails to signal consent, both the reports of alleged rapes and convictions have risen. During that time, 76 convictions were in cases that previously would not have been classified as rape because they lacked evidence of force, threat, or sex with an incapacitated victim. Rapes still go largely unreported to police and there's still no evidence that the new law will achieve the ultimate goal of reducing the incidence of rape.

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  • How Decades Of Bans On Police Chokeholds Have Fallen Short

    June 16, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States

    One of the key police reforms sought after the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, bans on chokeholds and other neck restraints, has failed to curb abuses in some of the nation’s largest police departments because of lax enforcement and easily found loopholes in such policies. Despite existing bans, some as old as 30-40 years, multiple people in those cities have died when neck restraints were used during their arrests with few repercussions. Lack of effective training and disagreements over such tactics’ efficacy are among other reasons experts say the practice persists.

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  • La ventilación mécanica: una esperanza de alto riesgo para pacientes COVID

    June 16, 2020 |

    Animal Político |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    Este artículo explica en qué medida los sistemas de ventilación pulmonar mecánicos para medicina son soluciones ante una pandemia por enfermedad respiratoria como el COVID-19, pero en un país con altos porcentajes de población diabética, hipertensa y con obesidad, esta respuesta médica a la enfermedad también puede representar un riesgo.

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