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  • How They Did It: Exposing Police Violence Against the Yellow Vests

    May 28, 2019 |

    Global Investigative Journalism Network |

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    Response Location: France

    In what started as a series of posts on Twitter and evolved into a public database published by an investigative media outlet, Mediapart, a lone reporter documented police violence against France's Yellow Vest protesters in an act of accountability that had been neglected by other journalists and the government. David Dufresne's “Allô Place Beauvau” (a "hello" to France's interior ministry) documented 800 cases of police violence or misbehavior. Many of the cases came to Dufresne as tips from the public, which he then verified. His work was cited by French and international authorities.

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  • How a new district attorney is shaking up the justice system in midcoast Maine

    May 28, 2019 |

    Bangor Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Knox, Maine

    The newly-elected district attorney in Maine, Natasha Irving, has started implementing restorative justice practices into the area’s criminal justice system. The use of restorative justice in this case includes offering mental health and substance abuse treatment, amongst other supportive services, and using prison as a last resort. There has been some pushback from law enforcement, but a willingness to try the new approach aimed at reducing recidivism in the region.

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  • ‘You can't unhurt a young person.' But you can help them thrive.

    May 23, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    Founded in 2000, Hopeworks provides coding and computer training combined with connections to internship and job opportunities to youth in Camden. The larger aim of the organization is to cultivate "'a positive, healing atmosphere' capable of helping participants break the cycle of poverty and violence."

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  • How Stockholm became the city of work-life balance

    May 22, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    Stockholm, Sweden is known as the best city in the world for work-life balance, as it boasts flexible work hours and nearly two years' parental leave per child for each parent. While raising a child with a full-time career still poses challenges, the norm for businesses in Stockholm is to cater to working parents' busy schedules in order to support equal childcare between mothers and fathers.

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  • Stuck in detention: For immigrants without lawyers, justice is hard to find

    May 19, 2019 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    In Dane County, Wisconsin, one of 13 sites in the nation served by a program to give immigrants held in detention access to free legal help, attorneys greatly increase the odds that their clients can successfully fight deportation by winning their release pending a final court ruling in their cases. Immigrants represented by counsel, who also are reunited with their families and can continue working, are more than six times as likely to be allowed to stay in the U.S. as those who lack legal representation.

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  • How free is ‘free college'?

    May 16, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Politicians and education advocates are increasingly using terms like "free college" and "college promise." As the model gains traction as a solution to the nation's overwhelming student debt, Stacy Teicher Khadaroo explores what it actually means in practice and how lack of information and confusing terms can still leave students with unexpected fees.

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  • Virginia solar installer partners with city to train and diversify workforce

    May 16, 2019 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlottesville, Virginia

    Sun Tribe Solar, based in Charlottesville, Virginia, collaborated with the city on a curriculum that is helping previously underemployed individuals join an insular industry, especially those who are underrepresented in the field. The cohorts are small and recieve the necessary certifications and learn from classes designed in partnership with Sun Tribe Solar; the program is another way for the city to create a pipeline to good jobs for all residents.

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  • City with a female face: how modern Vienna was shaped by women

    May 14, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Austria, Vienna

    Vienna, Austria uses a tactic called "gender mainstreaming" to ensure that urban planning equally takes into account lives of women and men around the city. While architecture and urban planning have traditionally been male-dominated industries, Vienna actively incorporates alternative opinions and lifestyles into their city infrastructure. The Austrian capital has been pioneering ‘gender mainstreaming’ for nearly 30 years. How did the city come to be so far ahead – and could its gains be lost?

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  • How to build a feminist city

    May 13, 2019 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: India, Delhi

    Recent efforts to bring a gender perspective, especially a feminist one, to urban planning are making cities safer and more inclusive. One Indian app called SafetiPin crowdsources ratings of public spaces based on various safety criteria like lighting, visibility, and transportation. Elsewhere, city planners and researchers are defining what a feminist city would look like. In Sweden, buses are incorporating "night stops" between regular stops to decrease the amount of walking at night needed.

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  • Housing authority fills gap, removes barriers with new preschool

    May 12, 2019 |

    Seacoast Online |

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    Response Location: United States, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

    Recognizing the barriers posed by lack of access to adequate transportation, a preschool in Portsmouth opened a second location next to the Housing Authority's Gosling Meadows neighborhood. “If you build it, they will come,” one teacher said. “Well we built it, and they came.”

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