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  • Areas hard hit by B.C. drought now the target of bottled water corporations

    November 21, 2021 |

    The Narwhal |

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    Response Location: Canada, Merville, British Columbia

    The Merville Water Guardians, the Canadian Freshwater Alliance, and K’ómoks First Nation successfully prevented rezoning that would allow water to be drawn from shared aquifers, bottled, and sold for private profits. Protests at District board meetings, letter writing campaigns, petitions, and door-to-door campaigning led the District board to vote against the rezoning and sign an historic agreement to collaboratively manage and conserve water with the K’ómoks First Nation.

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  • When Reparations Grow from the Grassroots

    November 15, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    A racial justice nonprofit in Massachusetts is focusing on reparations, specifically to those experiencing racialized housing insecurity. The racial wealth gap in The United States stems from unequal access to land and home ownership, making it an important component of economic justice.

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  • Demeter's Developments working to provide a pathway to home ownership in Mansfield

    November 09, 2021 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    A pathway to homeownership for public housing recipients has been forged by Demeter’s Developments, an organization that aims to “turn a Section 8 tenant into a homeowner within a year.” The organization sets aside a part of each rent payment to return to the eventual home-owner and also provides a $5,000 Welcome Home Grant. The rent-to-own program is conditional upon financial literacy counseling and hopes to fight generational poverty.

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  • Home was a nightmare, then home was prison. Finally home is now a refuge.

    October 21, 2021 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Home Free is a small, transitional-housing program for women who served long prison sentences for crimes against or on behalf of their abusers. A population long neglected, the women are part of a community recovering from the trauma of prison and the trauma that put them there. Giving them autonomy, in ways typical re-entry programs do not, is key to their recovery. “Home Free is the culmination of a decades-long struggle by women to be seen and supported by a system that has condemned and ignored them.”

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  • Hello? This Is Colombia's Antimachismo Hotline.

    October 18, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    Bogotá’s city government started the Calm Line to give men a way to connect by telephone with psychologists trained in therapeutic responses to the machismo that leads to gender-based violence. Despite doubts that Colombian men would use the service, the line fields about a dozen calls a day. "Fear, shame and confusion pervade many of the conversations," but also can lead to breakthroughs in understanding the attitudes that oppress women. That understanding is the first step toward cultural change, the Calm Line's supporters believe.

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  • By boat, by motorbike, by foot

    October 12, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Colombia, La Giajira

    IPSI Palaima is working to vaccinate Indigenous families who live in hard-to-reach areas of La Guajira, where there are no paved roads, electricity, or running water and staff must use cars, boats, and motorbikes to reach them. A team of nursing assistants and a doctor spend 15 days at a time at a local outpost and travel by motorbike to surrounding communities, carrying vaccines in cooler bags. The organization was founded by an Indigenous woman who grew up in the area. Many of the staff members speak the local language, which can ease the communities’ vaccine hesitation and mistrust of authorities.

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  • Relief For Older Citizens In Enugu As Mobile Clinic Delivers Free Healthcare Service

    October 12, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    A mobile health clinic is bringing checkups to senior citizens living in remote parts of Nigeria. The free initiative provides doctors, physical therapy, nurses, a laboratory, and a pharmacy as well. Following medical treatment, each patient’s file is sent to a regional healthcare center so they can continue to receive care.

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  • Closing the Gaps

    October 01, 2021 |

    QNotes Carolinas |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Petersburg, Florida

    Black members of the LGBTQ community have benefitted from the wraparound services provided by Metro Inclusive Health. The nonprofit provides a model to nonprofits in Charlotte that are looking for a roadmap to provide economic mobility to this demographic. Services offered by Metro include both health and wellness outreach.

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  • Community-owned mobile parks keep eviction at bay. Can they work in North Carolina?

    September 30, 2021 |

    Southerly |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Some states and cities protect residents of mobile-home communities from eviction with opportunity-to-purchase laws, which require the corporations that rent the land beneath a mobile home to give residents a chance to buy a community when it's for sale. But most places in the U.S. lack such laws, and often zoning rules favor corporate owners. So organizations like ROC USA provide the financial leverage to help residents band together to own their communities, which are also called manufactured housing. ROC has helped 280 communities in 18 states make such purchases.

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  • How decades of stopping forest fires made them worse

    September 22, 2021 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States

    Prescribed burning or controlled burning is an ancestral indigenous practice in which specific sections of a forest are burned. Controlled burning also happens naturally like when lightning strikes a forest. Controlled burning is good for a forest, it gets rid of dead areas, leads to healthier soil by clearing the ground, and minimizes the strength of large fires. However, due to U.S. laws that criminalized controlled burns the practice was discouraged in the U.S. Now, due to climate change and larger fires, prescribed burning is making a come back.

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