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The WPA-inspired, living wage program for artists offering much needed stability and support

Makeda Easter

May 08, 2024 |

The Art Rebellion |

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Response Location: United States

The workforce resilience program Artists at Work is helping artists continue focusing on their practice by providing them with a stipend, benefits, and stability. Participants are required to log their working hours, which must include working with a local social impact organization for about a third of their week alongside their own projects.

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Meet Students at 4 Colleges Where Gaza Protests Win Concessions, Incl. Considering Israel Divestment

Amy Goodman

May 08, 2024 |

Democracy Now! |

Broadcast TV Talk Show |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New Brunswick, New Jersey

To advocate for divestment from companies supporting Israel’s war on Gaza, students have mounted protest encampments at universities across the United States, including Rutgers University in New Jersey. Though Rutgers students were not able to achieve full divestment, the administration agreed to begin discussing divestment and met their demands to welcome more Gazan students to the school, hire additional professors of Palestinian studies, and establish an Arab cultural center on campus.

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Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity

Brad Plumer Nadja Popovich

May 07, 2024 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, California

California and Texas are among the states in the U.S. installing giant lithium-ion batteries to store renewable energy to use when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. These batteries are reducing the use of fossil fuels as a backup energy source when demand is high.

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How Mexico's Abortion Activists Care for Each Other—and Themselves

Chantal Flores

May 06, 2024 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: Mexico, Monterrey

Necesito Abortar is a group of 20 “acompañantes” (companions) who provide support and education throughout the abortion process. The group provides counseling, in-person and virtual accompaniment and follow-up care for people seeking at-home abortions. The group also works to take care of its volunteers by hosting annual meetings for volunteers to connect, and encouraging them to make time for self care.

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A Peruvian river with rights: the defenders of the Marañón

Silvia Viñas Eliezer Budasoff

May 04, 2024 |

El Hilo |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Peru

A group of Kukama women, a native community of the Peruvian Amazon, worked with lawyers from the Legal Defense Institute to sue the Peruvian State. The lawsuit was intended prevent and clean up oil spills and pollution in the Marañón River that they’d been fighting against for years. In a historic ruling, the judge recognized that the river has rights and must be protected.

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At Monroe prison, dog training reshapes lives of humans, canines alike

Sophia Gates

May 04, 2024 |

The Everett Daily Herald (HeraldNet) |

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Response Location: United States, Monroe, Washington

A nonprofit that provides service animals to people with disabilities for free works with people who are incarcerated in Washington to train the dogs, giving them a positive way to spend their time and gain useful skills. Trainers help them teach the dogs new tasks every week.

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Crowdfunding and suitcases full of cash: How Gazans are paying to escape war

Yasmine Salam Tavleen Tarrant

May 02, 2024 |

NBC News |

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Response Location: Palestine, Rafah

Palestinians trying to cross the border into Egypt to escape the war are starting crowdfunding campaigns with the help of strangers from other countries on social media to afford the rising cost of doing so.

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Could a Landfill Power Your Home?

Miranda Lipton

May 02, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States

Landfills in the United States are capturing a potent greenhouse gas, methane, that would otherwise be released into the air and converting it to electricity or natural gas.

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How a Rural County in Texas Solved Its Broadband Problem

Carl Smith

May 02, 2024 |

Governing |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Wise County, Texas

A rural county in Texas brought broadband access to locals with the help of internet service provider Nextlink, the Citizens Broadband Radio Service and Tarana Wireless. Following a $2.6 million investment, over seven months, the partners built infrastructure that offers download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 megabits per second.

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How today's antiwar protests stack up against major student movements in history

Nicole Narea

May 01, 2024 |

Vox |

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Response Location: United States

As tensions surrounding the war in Gaza mount, university student protests have the power enact change, much like the anti-apartheid protests of the 1980s. Following student protests of the South African apartheid, 155 universities divested from firms that supported or profited from the apartheid and in 1986 the U.S. government enacted a divestment policy.

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