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  • When Shootings Erupt, These Moms, Pastors And Neighbors Step In To Defuse Tension

    Jasmine Garsd

    August 14, 2021 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Rock Safe Streets in the Red Fern Public Houses of Far Rockaway, Queens, ramped up its violence interrupter work starting in 2020 as gun violence increased. Red Fern then went nearly a year without a single shooting. Violence interrupters work apart from the police, banking on the community's trust in formerly incarcerated counselors to mediate disputes before they turn violent. Success is measured in daily increments, and many other factors influence community violence. But the residents do what they can to influence those driving the violence.

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  • How a sweatshop raid in an LA suburb changed the American garment industry

    Jasmine Garsd Andrea Crossan

    December 05, 2017 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In 1995 El Monte, a US sweatshop in California that housed workers without paying them, was raided. “The El Monte raid changed the garment industry.” After the raid, former president Bill Clinton created a sweatshop taskforce. “The El Monte raid was a very important point in the history of labor standards in this country.”

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  • Meet the women combing through Puerto Rico, searching for veterans in need

    Jasmine Garsd Andrea Crossan

    October 12, 2017 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Puerto Rico

    One group of women roams shelters searching for Puerto Rican vets after Hurricane Maria, where there are “around 75,000 US Army veterans living.” “This is Americans helping Americans. These veterans were stationed in the US, went to war with the US. I think that’s the thing that people forget.”

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  • Schools help Colombians remember what it means to forgive

    Jasmine Garsd

    November 03, 2016 |

    Public Radio International |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Colombia

    Around 2 million Columbians are enrolled in a government funded program aimed at helping people forgive one another. Former guerilla fighters, militants, and victims of violence get together to talk to each other. “I started feeling less rage. I started feeling this pain.”

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