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Economy
Why The Small Protests In Small Towns Across America Matter (sv)
All over the country, people are showing up — often for the first time in their lives — to protest police brutality and injustice. In tiny ag towns like Havre and Hermiston, Oregon, but also in midsize cities Topeka, Kansas, and Waco, Texas; on island hamlets (Friday Harbor, San Juan Island; Nantucket, Massachusetts; Bar Harbor, Maine); and in well-to-do suburbs (Lake Forest Park, Washington; Darien, Connecticut; Chagrin Falls, Ohio). They are showing up at the courthouse. They are kneeling and observing eight minutes of silence — a reference to how long Floyd was pinned to the ground in a knee chokehold by the Minneapolis police officer who was later charged with his murder.
Mutual Aid Groups Band Together to Feed Communities Through Crisis (sv)
Beevas’s and Reinharz’s efforts are just one example of a horizontal support system known as mutual aid. Mutual aid groups take a number of forms, but they are generally predicated on community members supporting each other, and aid that represents solidarity, not charity. While protests concentrate on police brutality against Black citizens, they have also channeled the energies of people in many cities to fight against a range of interrelated inequalities that affect communities of color, including food insecurity.
What public health experts want critics to know about why they support the protests (tmn)
“People are in the streets because they have to be,” Rhea Boyd, a pediatrician who works in California’s Bay Area, says. “Because that is how dire things are. Even in the setting of a pandemic, where it seems like being out there risks your life. There are so many risks on your life. You’ve got to be out there to try to protect it. People need, and black folks in particular, need a ton of changes to happen immediately.”
Missing a funeral is painful. Keeping a business closed is painful and causes real harm. No one doubts that. The question is: Can you live with the consequences?
Protests Spur Surge in Donations, Giving ActBlue Its Biggest Day of the Year (Jen H.)
One ActBlue page where supporters could split a donation across 37 different bail funds reported more than 20,000 donations worth about $1.5 million as of late Monday morning. Such funds help cover the costs of posting cash bail for those jailed before trials, and are seen as a way to support protesters who have been arrested.
So much money is flowing so fast it is hard to keep track.
NYC hits hopeful milestone: Zero confirmed coronavirus deaths for first day since March (Jen H.)
“This is great news,” said Freddi Goldstein, a spokeswoman for Mayor de Blasio.
It comes as the city continues to be racked with confrontations between police and civil rights protesters and looting. That chaos has made many political observers worry about the city’s plans to re-open some businesses on Monday.
Ireland reports no new coronavirus deaths for first time since March (Jen H.)
Ireland’s chief medical officer Tony Holohan said Monday that the declining number of new cases and reported deaths over the past week indicates that “we have suppressed Covid-19 as a country. It has taken strict measures to achieve this.”
Racism definition: Merriam-Webster to make update after request (tmn)
“I was just speaking on my social media about racism and just about how the things I was experiencing in my own school and my own college,” she said. “There were a lot of things that were racist but it wasn’t as blatant.”
PHOTOS: Brazilian Farmers Hatch A Plan To Send Healthy Food To The Favelas (sv)
Flavia Altenfelder, an organic farmer in a neighboring town, saw the post and reached out to Duckur. Together, they started Pertim, a network of farmers working to help families in the favelas in need of food — and to provide support for local agriculture. Pertim is Portuguese for “close,” because the group wants to bring farmers and families closer.
Gov. Jay Inslee Announces New COVID-19 Measures to Address Farmworker Safety (Jen H.)
Safety among farm workers in Washington has become a hot button issue in recent weeks, especially with the coming harvest season. In April, several labor organizations filed a lawsuit in Skagit County, urging Washington officials to immediately update its health and safety standards to protect agriculture workers. At the time, a report in the Seattle Times raised alarms about practices at several farms and warehouses in Central Washington, where workers labored in close proximity and sanitization measures seemed haphazard.
Shearing Sheep, and Hewing to Tradition, on an Island in Maine (tmn)
About a century ago, a 10-year-old girl named Jenny Cirone — the daughter of the lighthouse keeper on Little Nash Island — began raising sheep. She would go on to tend her flock for more than 80 years.
Alfie, Eleni and their daughters knew Jenny well. They lived next door to her and helped her care for the island and its sheep. They still understand this part of the world largely through Jenny and her stories.
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