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  • “Vieques is our home”: 24 years of the Vieques Women's Alliance

    May 21, 2023 |

    9 Millones |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Puerto Rico, Vieques

    The Viequense Women’s Alliance combines the knowledge from community youth and experienced advocacy mentors to develop community leaders who are educated on current issues and technology. Women of all ages join together to advocate for their human rights.

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  • Portland group works to make wealth redistribution a reality through real estate

    May 18, 2023 |

    Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Volunteers of the PDX Housing Solidarity Project are working to redistribute generational wealth through homeownership in Portland. The project connects people with ample resources to Black and Indigenous homebuyers and helps facilitate cash gifts, no-interest loans, or other ways to assist throughout the process.

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  • High school students collaborate to foster cross-campus mental health

    May 12, 2023 |

    WCAX-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, South Burlington, Vermont

    Students at two local high schools with mental health awareness clubs collaborated to host a Mental Health Awareness Fun Run to bring the community together and support local mental health organizations following the COVID-19 pandemic, when several students experienced strong feelings of isolation.

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  • ‘Mommunes': Mothers Are Living Single Together

    May 12, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Jacksonville, Florida

    Women around the world are coming together to form “mommunes,” which are communes for single mothers to live under the same roof and share the load of child care, bills and housework. There are even platforms, like CoAbode, which have emerged to make finding other single mothers to live with much easier. CoAbode alone has had about 300,000 single mothers create profiles on the platform to find a home-share match.

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  • A Perfect Storm: How the deadly 2022 Durban floods hold crucial lessons for the future of the city and others like it

    May 10, 2023 |

    Daily Maverick |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: South Africa, Durb

    A community-based, early-warning system for flooding in Durban, South Africa, gave community members an early enough evacuation order so that no lives were lost. The system uses information from Weather Service reports to know when and where to monitor real-time local conditions. When a community member or member of the disaster management unit sees the conditions are becoming dangerous, they use messaging apps to warn the community.

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  • Indigenous-led farm, Tea Creek, leads the way in food sovereignty

    May 09, 2023 |

    Keremeos Review |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Tsimshian Nation, Canada

    Tea Creek is a holistic approach to food sovereignty and economic development that provides community, trades training and land preservation, with an emphasis on reaching indigenous people. Tea Creek also provides a Food Sovereignty Training Program that includes courses in horticulture, carpentry, first aid, and more that graduated 108 people in 2021.

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  • With 1.6M followers, TikTok influencer Miriam Ezagui teaches the masses about her Orthodox lifestyle

    May 09, 2023 |

    Jewish Telegraphic Agency |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Miriam Ezaugi is a Brooklyn-based labor and delivery nurse who shares videos about her life as an Orthodox Jew with her 1.6 million TikTok followers. Her content varies from sharing her day-to-day life to explainers on Orthodox customs. All with the goal of educating more people with information directly from a Jewish person.

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  • Fortified with Coconuts, 'Living' Shorelines Are Stopping Coastal Erosion

    May 05, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    Shredded coconut husk, known as Coir, is becoming a popular material for shoreline restoration projects. It’s typically used to trap sediment while protecting vegetation and wildlife from the force of waves. Once the vegetation has several years to flourish, the natural coconut fibers will have decomposed.

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  • The Deliveristas

    May 02, 2023 |

    Radio Ambulante |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Deliveristas Unidos started as a WhatsApp group for local delivery workers to connect, but over time it turned into a mobilized organization of thousands of delivery workers ready to take to the streets to protect their rights as workers. Through their organizing, the group managed to get a legislative package passed that enacted several laws that guaranteed their rights and protections, including access to bathrooms in restaurants across the city, transparent communication with delivery apps about tips, as well as hourly pay.

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  • How a South Sudanese neighbourhood embraced community policing to reduce crime

    May 01, 2023 |

    Aidóni |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: South Sudan, Juba

    In 2019, a South Sudan chief organized and empowered local “vigilante groups” (networks of households tasked with supporting each other), and since then, the community has transformed from a sparsely populated and violent neighborhood into a crowded but safe place where markets can stay open later at night. This community policing tactic has since spread to other South Sudanese areas and relies on collaboration between various authorities and ethnic groups to succeed.

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