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  • Coletivo da Maré espalha informações sobre coronavírus e tenta evitar contaminação ainda maior na favela

    June 15, 2020 |

    O Dia |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    A reportagem é sobre ações de moradores do Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, para minimizar a contaminação de Covid-19. Os moradores investiram em grafite, faixas e carro de som para alertar a vizinhança sobre os riscos da doença.

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  • Vouchers helping mothers get antenatal care under lockdown

    June 15, 2020 |

    New Vision |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Uganda

    To help pregnant women during the COVID-10 pandemic, the government in Uganda sold travel and private hospital care vouchers to those in their third trimester to ensure the women had access to the care they would need. The program connected the women with health resources in their own areas and also guaranteed that they get routine services such as antenatal and postnatul checkups.

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  • La escuela en la radio: Fe y Alegría hace la tarea para educar a distancia

    June 14, 2020 |

    El Estímulo |

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    Response Location: Venezuela

    El reportaje analiza cómo una escuela venezolana llamada Fe y Alegría tuvo la inciativa de dar clases por radio para solucionar el corto lectivo por la pandemia del COVID-19. Además, este esfuerzo mejora al programa oficial del gobierno venezolano que apunta a dar clases por televisión. La publicación analiza por qué el programa oficial es insuficiente, y detalla cómo funciona la respuesta que Fe y Alegría encontró en la radio.

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  • The Doctor Healing Wounds of War in Basilan

    June 14, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Lamitan City, Basilan

    By fostering dialog between the military and rebel soldiers in a region long afflicted with violence, a physician whose clinic exposed her to children’s severe PTSD has helped heal the effects of trauma and the scars of war. Save the Children of War in Basilan has gone beyond its focus on child health and welfare to broker reconciliation talks between rebel groups and the military, in large part by getting both sides to see their opponents’ motives through a new lens. Kidnappings, once rampant, have been nonexistent since 2016.

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  • How Massachusetts v. EPA Forced the U.S. Government to Take On Climate Change

    June 13, 2020 |

    New Hampshire Public Radio |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    In order to get the U.S. government to take action on climate change, 30 environmental groups and 12 state governments joined forces to sue the Environmental Protection Agency arguing that it was required to regulate greenhouse gas emissions according to the Clean Air Act. While the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in their favor in the landmark Massachusetts v. EPA case in 2007, the justices’ decision didn’t specify how to reduce that pollution and future lawsuits could challenge the government’s requirement to reign in those emissions.

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  • Two Countries Dismantled Their Police to Start Fresh. It Worked—Up to a Point.

    June 13, 2020 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: Ukraine

    Georgia and Ukraine offer cautionary advice to Americans whose mass protests seek structural changes in policing, even abolishing entire police forces. The same was true in those two countries. But, in both cases, initial successes at replacing corrupt police forces ended up reversed or at least limited by backsliding, as other parts of government and society resisted the changes.

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  • The Camden Police Department Is Not A Model For Policing In The Post-George Floyd Era

    June 12, 2020 |

    The Appeal |

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    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    Hailed as an example of a successful, radical makeover of a police department, Camden's policing actually represents only a slight shift, from mass incarceration to its close cousin, mass supervision through surveillance and a continued reliance on broken-windows-style over-policing. Much of the city's reform consists of slick rebranding; for example, hot spots policing turns into "guardian zones," but the effect on residents is similar. Policing and conditions have improved, but not for the reasons that police reformers would like to think.

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  • What voting by mail looks like when it works

    June 12, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Vote-by-mail in Colorado makes voting easier. Citizens are automatically registered to vote by the DMV when they get a license. Voter data is updated monthly by the post office to increase voter roll accuracy. Voters get an email or text when their ballot is sent out and unique bar codes allow ballots to be tracked with a Postal Service app. Ballots can be returned by mail, with postage covered if needed, or at an official drop-off location and signatures on the back of the envelope are matched to DMV records. For transparency, voters can watch officials process ballots in person or on a live stream.

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  • Why a small town in Washington is printing its own currency during the pandemic

    June 12, 2020 |

    The Hustle |

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    Response Location: United States, Tenino, Washington

    The town of Tenino, Washington has begun to print their own unique money during the coronavirus pandemic to both ward of the economic fallout and help those who are facing financial insecurity. Similar to efforts from the city's past as well as that of other small towns, the locally-printed wooden dollars can only be spent at local businesses and for basic needs, with the mayor explaining, "Amazon will not be accepting wooden dollars.”

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  • The City that Really Did Abolish the Police Audio icon

    June 12, 2020 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    A decade after Camden crime and police relations hit bottom, and five years after President Obama lauded its new police department as a model for reform, the city's successful reboot of its police force offers both encouragement and cautionary notes for a radical makeover of a police department. Excessive force rates and homicides have both dropped. A toothless disciplinary system has been replaced. But, while residents agree conditions have improved, they point to a number of changes still needed after the entire department was replaced.

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