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Hidden Homelessness - Van Living in the Silicon Valley

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Hidden Homelessness - Van Living in the Silicon Valley

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1) The primary concern that I am "seeing" in this video documentary is the unviable means for which people choose or are forced to live in the Silicon Valley with rent that has increased by 51% in the past few years. In other words, I am "seeing" a new form of Homelessness either chosen or forced which can be caused by the increased cost of living in particularly the Mountain View/Palo Alto area.
2) The majority of people who are impacted by the situation are those in the "gig" economy who are contracted out to for a temporary period of time. Often corporations or companies are taking advantage these people by creating situations where they take on multiple part time jobs to make ends meet, but then ending up working 2x more than full-time work without benefits or healthcare.
3) The people gaining include the corporations or companies themselves who cut costs by sacrificing the benefits of their blue-collared, part-time workers.
4) In this situation, people are being forced into inadequate means of housing and self-care including low energy van-living with minimal electric and water access.
5) This is happening because some groups of people in the Bay Area continue to reap the benefits of high-cost housing (like landlords and developers) and cheap labor (such minimum wage paid in the gig economy). Overall, the ignorance or complacency of the population who live in the Bay Area is causing this situation to remain here without improvement.

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“Australia’s deadly wildfires are showing no signs of stopping. Here’s what you need to know”
1) This article describes how there are massive wildfires destroying lives and homes of the people in Australia. This is the first time in decades that Australia has suffered from intense and destructive fires.
2) The people who live in Sydney and other cities are suffering from the fires along with the animals who live in the mountains
3) There is not a winner in a situation like this as people are dying and loosing their homes on a daily basis.
4) This situation is ruining lives and causing a massive environmental destruction in Australia and contributing to global warming.
5) This is happening due to man made fires that got blown by the high intensity winds in Australia. It is becoming harder to control due to the lack of water and high winds.

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australia wildfires: here's what you need to know about the deadly blazes - cnn

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What you need to know about Australia's deadly wildfires

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Australia is being ravaged by the worst wildfires seen in decades, with large swaths of the country devastated since the fire season began in July. Learn about the fire causes, locations and other information.

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1). The level of contamination in the San Francisco Bay Delta Watershed is increasing as a result of rapidly increasing population and demand for water. The level of pollution is endangering local wildlife, contributing to the decline of numerous species of fish, among other species.
2). Individuals living in close proximity to the Delta may risk losing their homes and businesses due to climate change-induced flooding, as well as harshly impacting fishermen in the Watershed area.
3). The San Francisco government has neglected the proper treatment of the Delta Watershed, favoring the transferral of funds towards more expensive and wealthy housing districts.
4). The situation has the potential to cripple those in flood danger, as well as possibly risk high levels of contamination in the water of the Bay Area.
5). This issue has been left to substantially increase as a result of the overlooking and neglect from government officials, and continues due to its difficulty to completely resolve.

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"SF District Attorney declines to file murder charges in Tenderloin shooting of mother"

1. The piece updates the action on a murder case of a 32 year old women in San Francisco.
2. The people involved are 2 men (17,18) and the 32 year old mother who was shot. This also includes SF investigators and the District Attorney.
3. The women who was killed clearly does not gain. The two boys who killed her kind of gain because murder charges are not being filed.
4. The people involved are fighting for their lives and for their rights as citizens.
5. This is happening because the women was a drug addict and was supposedly involved in an altercation with the boys before they acted in self-defense. Although, violence is never the way, so this is also happening due to violent action.

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The San Francisco District Attorney's Office declined to file murder charges against two suspects who were arrested this week in the killing of woman during an early morning dispute in the Tenderloin.

The suspects, a 17-year-old juvenile and 18-year-old Kevin Lopez-Figueroa, were hit with gun possession charges after being arrested last Friday on suspicion of killing 32-year-old Emma Hunt on Jan. 5.

The juvenile, who was not identified, was released from custody, while Lopez-Figueroa remains in San Francisco Jail pending a detention hearing Friday.

"The case remains under investigation," said Alex Bastian, a spokesman for the district attorney's office.

The San Francisco Police Department announced the arrests Monday following a gathering by community activists and two city supervisors at Larkin and O'Farrell streets, where Hunt was fatally shot.

The supervisors, Shamann Walton and Matt Haney, whose district includes the Tenderloin, were working to bring attention to Hunt's slaying along with the recent killings of two other black women in the city that have left 11 children without mothers.

This morning with Supervisor Haney and Black women leaders highlighting the fact that we need to do more to protect our women from violence. All deaths and homicides in SF are tragic, but we must bring attention to the violence that disproportionately affects women of color! pic.twitter.com/YSRts9u6T1
- Shamann Walton (@shamannwalton) January 13, 2020

Hunt got into an altercation shortly before 4 a.m. when a suspect pulled out a gun and shot her, officials said.

Police told Hunt's family that she had been swinging a crate before being shot. A source familiar with the investigation told The Chronicle she was also holding a knife.

"The people have the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant did not act in lawful self defense," Bastian said.

Hunt, a mother of two, grew up on the streets in Ethiopia before being adopted by a family in San Joaquin County. She recently struggled with drug addiction, her family said, and was planning to enter a residential treatment program.

Evan Sernoffsky is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: esernoffsky@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @EvanSernoffsky

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The San Francisco District Attorney's Office declined to file murder charges against two suspects who were arrested this week in the killing of woman during an early morning dispute in the Tenderloin. The suspects, a 17-year-old juvenile and 18-year-old Kevin Lopez-Figueroa, were hit with gun possession charges after being arrested last Friday on suspicion of killing 32-year-old Emma Hunt on Jan.

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"A ticket out of town"
1. The homeless population in SF has been skyrocketing the last few years. This article covers one initiative started to help fix that problem.
2. The people involved are the people living without stable housing in San Francisco.
3. It is hard to determine a winner or loser because the outcome of the initiative is very unpredictable.
4. Homelessness severely hurts all suffering from it. It can lead to serious mental and physical health issues. This initiative is trying to help the homeless by giving them a free bus ticket out of town to find family or other housing.
5. This is happening due to the thousands of homeless people in the city that don't have access to housing or shelter care because they are all so impacted.

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After years of being homeless in Iowa, 26-year-old Isaac Langford decided to give San Francisco a try. In San Francisco, he heard, social services are plentiful, anyone is welcome and the weather is pleasant.

A few years before, 18-year-old Wade Southwell came to San Francisco to live with his father after spending years bouncing around the country, back and forth between divorced parents who constantly moved. But Southwell ran away from his dad's home when he became addicted to drugs and soon found himself without a stable place to live.

Both men found being homeless in San Francisco was full of unrelenting challenges. Drugs, lots of them. No housing. Barely any shelter beds and seemingly endless waiting lists every night.

Their best shot at a better life? A one-way, city-funded bus ticket out of San Francisco.

For Langford, a three-day bus ride back to Iowa around 2014 ended with him being homeless again, just somewhere different and much cheaper, though now he's living in a trailer. But Southwell said the bus ticket to Missouri in 2012 may have saved his life, reconnecting him with his family, who gave him a place to live.

Despite their vastly different outcomes, though, San Francisco officially deemed both a success, designating them as two of the hundreds of people a year who "exited homelessness" through the city's Homeward Bound program.

As the city's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing looks to increase its use of Homeward Bound, several months of program data obtained by The Chronicle show the program clearly helps many people, but doesn't succeed all the time.

Within a month of leaving San Francisco, 56% of those who used the program from late 2018 to early 2019 said they were stably housed, according to the data. The rest couldn't be found or were struggling somewhere else. Some couldn't be tracked by the city, while others were in jail, homeless elsewhere or reported missing by their caretakers. A few returned to San Francisco, and one never left.

Homeward Bound officially follows up with those who use the program only within the first month after they boarded the bus. The city has limited knowledge of what happens to them long-term.

The data highlight a conundrum for San Francisco: As rents rise and the homeless population swells, it's much cheaper to give someone a bus ticket rather than try to house them here. But when they leave, how responsible is the city for making sure they find stability at the other end of their journey?

In the city's biennial homeless count, San Francisco officials categorize all Homeward Bound clients as having "exited homelessness," regardless of whether they did. City officials - including the mayor and head of the homelessness department - also often tout Homeward Bound as a success on par with other programs that place people into housing, such as permanent supportive housing and rental assistance.

From 2013 to 2018, the city says it helped 11,031 people "exit homelessness," according to the city data. A little more than half of those people were connected with permanent supportive housing or Rapid Re-Housing, a federal rental assistance program.

The rest boarded a Greyhound bus out of the city.

While the program has long been hailed as a lifeline for those who want out of San Francisco, some say it is misleading for the department to say it helped all its clients overcome homelessness.

The data obtained by the Chronicle - which cover September 2018 through March 2019 - include 262 bus tickets and show what happened to participants within a month of boarding the bus. Outcomes are based on three follow-up calls caseworkers make in that first month.

About 800 people use the Homeward Bound program every year. But the data provided to The Chronicle through a public records request span a time period when use of the program dipped significantly, and more homeless people were placed into permanent supportive housing.

While the 262 bus tickets analyzed by The Chronicle are just a snapshot of a program that has served thousands of people since it was created in 2005, that provides a window into a major portion of the city's homelessness response.

Nearly half the people who used Homeward Bound over those seven months - 125 - told caseworkers they were living with a caretaker, such as a family member, friend or significant other. An additional 24 said they were living on their own. That's 149 people who might otherwise have been living on San Francisco's streets or in its shelter system.

Outcomes for many others were far less positive.

Thirty-five people either never showed up at their destinations or disappeared from their caretaker within a month. Six ended up in jail, four were homeless elsewhere in the country, and six returned to San Francisco - where it's unclear whether they were homeless or housed. One never left.

Sixty-one other people who used the program and their caretakers didn't respond to the follow-up calls, so the city wasn't able to learn their fates.

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To Jeff Kositsky, director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, someone who reports being stably housed on the third follow-up call is considered successful in the program.

"People are dying on the streets, and if we can get them somewhere safe, that is great," Kositsky said. "Reconnecting people to their loved ones can be profoundly impactful."

He said it's not surprising that some people can't be reached by three follow-up calls. Many who use Homeward Bound and their caretakers are transient and low-income, so may not have a consistent phone number, he said.

But as for those who are either back on San Francisco's streets, in jail or homeless again somewhere else?

"I wouldn't consider that a success," he said. "That was not the intended outcome."

In the 14 years since the city created the Homeward Bound program under then-Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco's homeless crisis has indisputably worsened. San Francisco's homeless population grew by an estimated 17% over the past two years, despite the city building supportive housing and spending more than $285 million annually on the Department of Homelessness. About $1.2 million of that funding is spent on Homeward Bound each year.

The average bus ticket and $10 per diem given to someone for the journey costs the city about $270 per person - far less than what it would cost to shelter or house them. A bed at a Navigation Center costs the city about $100 a night.

According to the department, the city spends $25,000 annually to operate a single permanent supportive-housing unit; it costs about $700,000 to build one of those units.

Other cities around the country, including Seattle, Denver and New York, also provide homeless people bus tickets out of the city. But few follow up with clients to the extent San Francisco does. Seattle, for example, has no follow-up protocol in place, while Denver makes just one check-in 30 days after someone leaves.

Like Langford, the man from Iowa, many people on San Francisco's streets first became homeless somewhere else. According to city data, some of the city's homeless population say they first lost their housing somewhere else - either in a different city in California or in another state.

Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the advocacy group Coalition on Homelessness, said she supports giving people the option to take a bus home if they feel stuck. But, she said that should be "counted for what it is."

"It shouldn't be counted as a homeless exit," she said. "It's a bus ticket out of town."

Nan Roman, president and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, said it's nearly impossible for any social service program to ensure a 100% success rate. But because Homeward Bound accounts for much of the city's homeless response, she said it should be more diligent in tracking outcomes.

"We have so many unsheltered people that we can't be taking care of everyone who has ever been homeless forever," Roman said. "It seems to have worked well with 50%, so that's great. But that's still a lot of people where it's unknown, or it didn't work."

The department recently started checking city records six months after people use the program to see if they returned to San Francisco and applied for public benefits. For the future, Kositsky said his department is working on ways to be more transparent about the program's results. He also wants the department to look at the demographics of those who aren't successful to try to figure out how the city could better help them.

But now, he said, his department is stymied by understaffing.

"Not 100% of the folks are successful. ... Every one of our programs has people who return to homelessness, whether it's permanent housing or rapid rehousing," he said. "No program is perfect, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't do it."

Southwell, who's now 29, said he would still be stuck on San Francisco's streets - or maybe dead - if it weren't for the bus ticket to Missouri he got in 2012.

He said he lived with drug dealers and was in and our of rehab for years in San Francisco. At 22, he said, he desperately tried to quit drugs but couldn't. Somehow, he said, he found Homeward Bound and took the first bus ticket he could get to Missouri to reconnect with his father, who had moved there.

By "being in a new place where I didn't have any of the drug connections, I sobered up and got a clear head pretty quickly," he said. "Then I started school within a few months, and it turns out I was pretty good at it."

Over the spring, Southwell graduated from a special program at Yale University for students whose education was interrupted for five or more years. Now, he said he's getting ready to start Johns Hopkins University's business school.

Others found success via Homeward Bound in smaller ways: A woman in Illinois, for example, told The Chronicle that her uncle, who had lost touch with her family for 14 years as he slept on San Francisco's streets, has been safely living with her for the past few years.

But others are like Langford, still struggling to get back on his feet several years later. He said it was unfair for the city to count him as someone who exited homelessness because of Homeward Bound.

Langford, now 32, said he ended up back on the streets as soon as he got to Iowa and spent a few months cycling in and out of the shelter system. A few months later, he even returned to San Francisco - where he volunteered for the Coalition on Homelessness - to give the city one more shot when Iowa wasn't working out for him either.

Nothing seemed to have changed in San Francisco, he said. He found himself in a shelter for another few weeks before deciding to go back to Des Moines again. That time, he said, he borrowed money from a friend to pay for his own bus ticket.

Now Langford, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, said he saved up enough money to move into a "raggedy trailer" in Des Moines. He pays the $650 a month rent with Social Security Disability Insurance.

The city "needs to figure out a solution instead of shipping people out," he said. "People want housing. They don't always want to go back to their cities."

Trisha Thadani is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: tthadani@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @TrishaThadani

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In 2019, the Amazonian basin experienced the worst fires ever to hit in over a decade. The amazon is twice the size of India and is shared by eight countries (Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname). However, 60% of the amazon is located within Brazil, thus the political situation in Brazil has a large impact on the region. The amazon rainforest is home to 30% of the world’s known species and approximately 390 billion trees. Moreover, in a 2010 IBGE census, 817,000 Brazilians classified themselves as indigenous. These people were mostly affected and have lost a lot due to land-use changes related to deforestation, urbanization and forest fires.  Most fires within the Amazon tropical rainforest are anthropogenic rather than biogenic. Humans are responsible for illegal logging, deforestation efforts, agricultural burning, etc. Workers will cut the trees and leave them to dry and will set fire to them. When there is no transport or roads, timber cannot be sold and burning is the easiest way to clear the land. In recent years, budget cuts hav been made to the Brazilian Environmental Agency which have resulted in less manpower and resources to enforce the regions that are most affected.

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“There are Better Ways to Help Women Than the Equal Rights Amendment”
1) This article goes in depth in the ways that the ERA is having a newfound following. There are women speaking out on the wage gap, pink tax and abortion rights.
2) The entire state is involved in a movement like this because it effects everyone. It is unlikely the Supreme Court would make rash rules such as making gender-specific bathrooms unconstitutional but changing around some laws can affect all of the United States regardless of race.
3) Women will be able to gain from this situation as hopefully the gap between men and women will vanish. Depending on a persons point of view, there could be several people who would find this change upsetting or not fair.
4) The situation is giving the people a way to speak out on issues that bother them. Women are voicing their opinions and are being heard.
5) This is happening because women are finding more and more flaws in the way men and women are treated. The more we learn about ourselves, the government, and eachother, the more women want to speak out and find a way to prevent any more unfair treatment from happening. This continues because not enough change is being done to satisfy those who are speaking out.

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And they're a lot less prone to generating backlash.

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Ms. Williams is a professor of law.

Eileen Filler-Corn, speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, center; Delegate Hala Ayala, left; and Toni Van Pelt, president of the National Organization for Women, celebrated the Equal Rights Amendment before the start of the session on Wednesday. Credit... Julia Rendleman for The New York Times

A growing excitement surrounds Virginia's vote this week to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, guaranteeing equal legal rights for all United States citizens regardless of sex. Virginia is the 38th state to ratify the E.R.A., pushing the country over the three-quarters threshold required for a constitutional amendment - assuming that the decisions of five states to rescind their ratification over the years don't cont.

Why is the E.R.A. gaining newfound momentum decades after the ratification deadline passed and initial momentum fizzled? Perhaps in the face of #MeToo and a misogynous president, we want an insurance policy, a stopgap for rights that seem to be constantly eroding. Understandable, no doubt. But as someone who has worked for equal rights for women for nearly 40 years and has tried to provide a clear description of the ways bias impacts women's lives, I wonder whether the E.R.A. is the best fight to pick right now. Because make no mistake - it would be a battle. President Trump's Department of Justice has already issued a 38-page opinion declaring the E.R.A. dead, dead, dead.

And this time around, it's not clear that the concrete gains would be worth the political backlash.

For one thing, Congress imposed a deadline for states' ratification of the E.R.A. - 1982. Was that binding? Who would decide? Most likely, the Supreme Court. But Mr. Trump has tilted the court sharply to the right, and there's no guarantee it would second-guess Congress's decision.

But the deeper problem is that it would be the same Supreme Court that would interpret the Equal Rights Amendment. Do we really believe that this Supreme Court will take a bold view of the E.R.A.'s vague promises? Not likely, particularly since - both in the 1970s and today - considering what many social conservatives think about when they think of the E.R.A.

They think of bathrooms. Would the E.R.A. make gender-specific bathrooms unconstitutional? I doubt it, but that doesn't mean that a long, drawn-out fight wouldn't give conservatives a chance to use this as a galvanizing issue. According to an influential study of the successful campaign to persuade the North Carolina legislature not to ratify the E.R.A. by Jane De Hart and Donald Mathews, the bathrooms issue played a central role. Anti-ratificationists played on people's anxiety by equating gender-neutral bathrooms with the "forced mixing" of desegregation.

In the 1970s, Phyllis Schlafly used her campaign against the E.R.A. to fuel the culture wars that have driven American politics ever since. Ms. De Hart and two scholars who have studied fights for abortion rights, Kristin Luker and Faye Ginsburg, found that the fights over both issues pitted less-educated women against those more educated. Ms. De Hart also found that in North Carolina, advocates of the E.R.A. typically were highly educated women who considered it the key to opening up high-stakes, high-status, traditionally male professions. High-school-educated women were less work identified, more family identified, more likely to hold traditionalist views of men's and women's roles, and less likely to support the E.R.A. Even today, feminism is associated with class: Only 22 percent of adults with a high school diploma or less education identify as "feminist," compared with 48 percent of those with postgraduate degrees.

Phyllis Schafly, the Stop E.R.A. national chairman, in 1976. Credit... Bettmann, via Getty Images

Supporters of the E.R.A. marching in Springfield, Ill., in 1976. Credit... Associated Press

The working-class mantra "Family comes first" reflects what I have called the " class culture gap." Professional women see good jobs as their path to social power and dignity. Middle-skilled women do not, because the jobs available to them remain sharply divided into pink-collar jobs held by women and blue-collar jobs held by men. Pink-collar jobs typically have low wages and status. That helps to explain why nonelite women tend to romanticize motherhood and traditional gender roles more than elite women do.

Class scholars have documented that non-elites hold more traditional views than elites, including on "family values." That's why the culture wars express class conflict: Elites embrace political issues associated with their felt entitlement to self-development (such as the right to express oneself sexually, through L.G.B.T.Q. and abortion rights). Non-elites typically put a higher value on self-discipline and respect for traditional institutions that advance self-discipline - religion, the military and family values - shaping the politics of what used to be called "values voters."

Does all this still hold in the age of President Trump? Sure does. Roughly 80 percent of evangelicals voted for Mr. Trump because they hoped he would deliver the Supreme Court, and he did. Aren't they outraged by his behavior? Not really, because they view politics as an arena where compromise is made with people unlike themselves in exchange for wins on issues that are central to their identity. They rely on church, not politics, as the arena for forming a virtuous sense of self.

My crowd, lacking church, has displaced virtue signaling onto politics. Which brings us back to the E.R.A. My fear is that a drawn-out, complicated legal fight over the E.R.A. will enhance conservatives' ability to mobilize in 2020 the very groups that delivered the White House to Mr. Trump in 2016: evangelicals and working-class whites in the Rust Belt states.

Given today's Supreme Court, the E.R.A. is likely to accomplish little. That's what drives my conclusion that feminists should focus their fervor and funds on campaigns that promise concrete results in women's lives: for example, enacting legislation such as a Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act that would give pregnant women the right to the accommodations needed to keep their jobs while pregnant and breastfeeding, or amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act to expand the coverage of the Affordable Care Act's guarantee of reasonable break time and a clean place to pump milk at work.

The current preoccupation with the E.R.A. is just one expression of elites' obsession with using politics to enact their virtue. My advice? Use religion for that. Use politics to shape the law to make concrete improvements in women's lives. That's the path to gender equality.

Joan C. Williams is a professor of law and director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.
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Opinion | There Are Better Ways to Help Women Than the Equal Rights Amendment

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“'Restore their lives': DHS elevates human trafficking to priority level of immigration and border security“
1. There’s an estimated 25 million victims of human trafficking in the U.S.
2. Those involved are the Dept of Homeland Security and victims of trafficking, which include children, women, men, and more.
3. The only ones who gain from the situation are those who sell/traffic the victims. Those who lose are those who are trafficked and the people who must help them.
4. It is putting the people involved through suffering and hard work for those who try to stop all trafficking operations.
5. It is happening because people take advantage of those who cannot fight back and use their power over them to oppress and exploit them. It continues because these activities are so widespread and covertly done because they are illegal.

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The Department of Homeland Security is surging resources across its agencies to stomp out human trafficking in the United States, giving the issue a stature similar to that of immigration and border security.

"DHS has developed a first-of-its-kind strategy to leverage all of our authority and resources in this fight," said acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf. "Let me be clear: The strategy isn't just about leveraging resources. It's about ending human trafficking and child sexual exploitation." Wolf, who spoke Wednesday in Washington, said the new effort would likely require additional funding.

The "Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking, the Importation of Goods Produced with Forced Labor, and Child Sexual Exploitation" lists 40 steps the department intends to take in the next five years to stomp out human trafficking, which it defines as the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. Sex trafficking can include escort services, pornography, illegal massage parlors, brothels, and prostitution. In the labor market, victims may be working in the agriculture or retail industries, restaurants, homes, and traveling shows, such as carnivals.

Kim Holmes, executive vice president at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, said nearly 25 million people have been identified as human trafficking victims. "It affects every region of the world, and it even takes place, of course, in our own backyard. It does not require the crossing of a border to be considered trafficking. It merely requires that one person exploit another for the purpose of profit."

Human trafficking has been at the center of several major headlines in recent months, including allegations that deceased billionaire Jeffrey Epstein trafficked underage girls to have sex with famous male celebrities and politicians.

The DHS plan is broken into five goals: preventing crime, protecting victims, investigating and prosecuting perpetrators, partnering with other law enforcement, and enabling DHS through organizational improvements.

Samantha Vardaman, vice president of Shared Hope International, a Washington nonprofit organization focused on helping sex-trafficking victims, said DHS was right to focus on helping victims.

"Too often, trafficking victims are perceived as criminals and, as a result, they are denied access to services needed to restore their lives," Vardaman wrote in an email. "Shared Hope is especially pleased to see the Strategy emphasize the importance of victim-centered policies and programs and expanding access to victim assistance."

The plan has been in the works for two years, and the idea came out of former Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's tenure at DHS, Wolf said. The announcement was made in the middle of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Month and weeks ahead of the Super Bowl LIV in Miami, an event that historically sees an influx of arrests for prostitution and similar incidents.

"The timing of this conversation is important. This year, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which made human trafficking a federal crime," said Wolf. But some Trump administration officials called for major changes to it during the migrant surge at the southern border last year, saying it gave unaccompanied children who showed up at the border protection from being immediately deported because they may be trafficking victims. The law was never amended, despite demands from some Republicans.

"Human trafficking and child sexual exploitation are not something we often talk about," Wolf said. "We, as a nation, don't talk about this enough."

The National Human Trafficking Hotline reported more than 41,000 reports of potential cases in 2018, more than one-quarter of which were confirmed. The hotline at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received more than 18.4 million tips of exploited child incidents in 2019, the most in one year.

Wolf said even with 10% of agents at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations branch investigating these types of incidents, they must choose the most egregious cases to pursue due to the overwhelming number of incidents. "Sometimes, we're the only agents. We're the only ones civilly and criminally enforcing a prohibition on the importation of goods with forced labor. We are at a point now that we need to prioritize these issues within the department so that future budgets will provide for top-of-the-line law enforcement and state-of-the-art resources in this fight."

The department will release a plan for how to implement the strategy in July.

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The Department of Homeland Security is surging resources across its agencies to stomp out human trafficking in the United States, giving the issue a stature similar to that of immigration and border security. "DHS has developed a first-of-its-kind strategy to leverage all of our authority and resources in this fight," said acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf.

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*Trump voters motivated by racism may be violating the Constitution. Can they be stopped?

1. What is happening? What do you see?

*people are on trumps side becasue they are motivated by racism. they want the wall to be finished

2. Who are the people involved?

*trump and trump supporters

3. Who gains from the situation? Who loses?

*trump and his supporters

*those who are being discriminated against

4. What is the situation doing to the people involved?

*causing a gap

*racism/hatred

5. Why is this happening? Why does it continue?

*people continue to discriminate against others and our society can’t help but feed off of this.

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* https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/24-immigrants-have-died-ice-custody-during-trump-administration-n1015291

* 24 immigrants have died in ICE custody during the Trump administration

1. What is happening? What do you see?

*people are dying in these ICE camps and nothing serios is being done

2. Who are the people involved?

*trump

*ice officers

*detainees

3. Who gains from the situation? Who loses?

*trump and his supporters

*the detainees

4. What is the situation doing to the people involved?

*those who are detained are being treated unfairly and the conditions they are in are in humane

5. Why is this happening? Why does it continue?

*people are dying in these camps

*many more people are being detained

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Gender violence
Summary: A women named Carla Stefaniak travelled to Costa Rica alone to celebrate her 36th birthday. She rented an Airbnb villa close to the airport. It was gated, in a safe neighborhood, and even had a security guard. The night before she was going to fly home she had a FaceTime call with her best friend who was going to pick her up at the airport the next day. When Carla’s friend came to pick her up she found out that Carla never made the flight. A week later Carla’s body was found near the Airbnb and the security guard was arrested. This situation left many questions like is it safe for a women to travel alone?
1. What is happening? Unsafe for women to travel alone because it has become easy for women to be taken a vantage of.
2.  Who are the people involved? I have only scene cases of men.
3. Who gains from the situation? In this case no one because the man that did this to this women went to jail.
4. What is the situation doing to the people involved? Women are being killed or very traumatized.
5. Why is it happening? Why does it continue? I feel like some men want/feel more powerful than women. I hope this doesn’t continue but we can’t control other people’s actions. Women sadly have to be carful of there surroundings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/travel/solo-female-travel.html

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Hundreds trek to Virginia Capitol to support environmental bills

https://www.whsv.com/content/news/Hundreds-trek-to-Virginia-Capitol-to-support-environmental-bills-567076851.html

1.Hundreds of clean energy supporters went to the State Capitol this week demanding Virginia move away from reliance on carbon-based energy and invest in alternative energy supplies and lower rates for customers.
2. At the rally, hosted by the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund and other environmental organizations.
3. No one really loses they just want Virginia to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, an effort to cap and reduce carbon emissions from the power sector.
4. If they pass the law it would reduce their environments carbon emissions significantly and produce better living conditions and cleaner air.
5. Most of the environmental impacts, not only of climate change but also with coal ash and pipelines, are in the most vulnerable communities. So far, none of the bills supported by clean energy advocates have passed committee which is why they have seen no changes.

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New Battle Over School Segregation Roils Little Rock

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2019-09-25/new-battle-over-school-segregation-roils-little-rock

1. Sixty-two years since segregation was ended in the Arkansas city, some people say education officials are turning back to their old ways. They are arguing that Little Rock will return back into an era of school segregation by establishing separate governing structures for majority white schools and majority black schools.
2. Parents, educators and community leaders are furious about the state's plan to relinquish only partial control of the city's schools.
3. Little Rock wins because they will get to control the schools system and the educators, students and parents lose because they don’t get a say in anything.
4. What is the situation doing to the people involved?
It’s dividing people because some are afraid that segregation will affect them and there will be discrimination and injustice in the schools again. The former members of the State Board of Education, state legislators, community activists and educators describe the decision as a slap in the face to the citizens of a city where the Little Rock Nine are memorialized permanently at the foot of the Statehouse
5. Nearly 80% of the 25,000 students enrolled in Little Rock public schools are students of color – black students account for 62% percent and Hispanic students account for 15% – compared to 19% of students who are white. But white students account for more than 50% of enrollment in the city's highest-performing schools. That means that under the newly approved system, there is a high probability that the majority white schools in a majority black school district will be the ones under local control.

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“Australia's biggest forest fire ever rages on near Sydney”
1. What is happening? What do you see?
Catastrophic fire conditions are as bad as it gets, landscapes are with so much active fire burning, it is very serious concern and very dangerous.

2. Who are the people involved?
Australia citizens, firefighters, government
3. Who gains from the situation? Who loses?
No one really gain from this situation, lots of people lost their homes and life

4. What is the situation doing to the people involved?
Firefighters are working their best to put out fire, 23 firefighters and several police have suffered injuries.

5. Why is this happening? Why does it continue?
Climate change, global warming, the fire is spreading to fast, took a long time to fix the situation.

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1. What is happening? What do you see?
Tech companies are protesting against the Trump’s policy to expel the low income immigrants.

2. Who are the people involved?
Tech companies like Twitter, Microsoft, and other companies; government

3. Who gains from the situation? Who loses?
No side has gains from the situation yet, but it definitely targets against the immigrants.

4. What is the situation doing to the people involved?
It hurts the immigration community and causes the public misconception of them.

5. Why is this happening? Why does it continue?
it is happening because the misconception toward the immigrants.
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/16/21069827/twitter-microsoft-linkedin-public-charge-trump-immigration-tech-companies

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https://theecologist.org/2020/jan/14/embracing-tension-non-violent-uprising

1. What is happening? What do you see?
Due to the dynamic nature of nonviolent uprisings, tension inevitably arises between different members, groups or fractions taking part.

2. Who are the people involved?
Different people who support non violence climate movement through campaigns, petitions or marches.

3. Who gains from the situation? Who loses?
We all gain from this situation, because Earth is important to all living things

4.What is the situation doing to the people involved?
It is difficult to predict how the actions will plan out.

5. Why is this happening? Why does it continue?
To make people notice and realise the intensity of the issue at hand.

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1. What is happening? What do you see?
Climate change is worsening

2. Who are the people involved?
Law making officials

3. Who gains from the situation? Who loses?
No one gains from the situation. Air pollution and climate change is worsened in these three years, and every species on the earth will be influenced.

4. What is the situation doing to the people involved?
More lives could been saved if more policies are proposed to save the planet.

5. Why is this happening? Why does it continue?
Government is not supporting the laws that protect wild animals and limit the influence of climate change.

https://earthjustice.org/features/inside-trump-administration-public-health-environment

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/us/california-homeless-newsom-trump.html

1.California governor wants truce with Trump in homelessness fight.

2. Mr. Newsom ; Trump;

3. The California government, Trump government, homelessness

4.half of the homelessness are in California, the governor does not have much policy to due with it.

5.Its happening because the uncleless of the government.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/climate/juliana-climate-case.html?searchResultPosition=1

1. The courts refuse to take climate action in court because they feel it is not in their constitutional duties.

2. Youth activists, Trump administration, Judges, and Lawyers.

3. The court has relieved themselves of the responsibility, but it is then put on the shoulders of others to initiate a strive towards repairing the environment.

4. Law officials are now trying to appeal to the courts again and old suits are being resurfaced to improve climate conditions.

5. Government officials feel that it does not fall under their constitutional responsibilities to take action in this way and thus decided not to get involved in the climate change lawsuit.

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* https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/u-s-impose-visas-restrictions-pregnant-women-n1120706

* U.S. to impose visa restrictions for pregnant women

1. What is happening? What do you see?

*women will have stricter regulations if they want to come to the US while they are pregnant

*the trump administration has been restricting all forms of immigration

2. Who are the people involved?

*women

*trump

3. Who gains from the situation? Who loses?

*trump and his supporters gain

*pregnant women who want/need a tourism visa

4. What is the situation doing to the people involved?

*restricting them from coming to the US because they think their intentions are just to birth their children here

*making those feel as if they are a threat/unwanted

5. Why is this happening? Why does it continue?

*because trump doesnt want more immigrant women to have their children in the US becasue then they would have a coveted US passport

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Oakland bans tenant criminal background checks -Kristen D

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1. The city of Oakland banned landlords from checking the criminal history on potential renters in hopes of improvement on people in the community having a home.
2. Landlords and renters
3. The renters get a better chance of finding a home and the landlords don’t get to know much about there renters
4. For the renters that are often not getting to rent apartments or homes because of there criminal history this is a good thing so they won’t get pushed away. For the landlords this is not so good because often times they would like to know if there renters have done crimes or other illegal things
5. Hopefully this will be a good thing so that less people would be living on the streets and getting a second chance in life
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article239516333.html

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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/march-for-life-president-mancini-right-to-life

The author of this article ties the initial goals of the original suffragists to why abortion violates these goals.

1. The journalist of this article seems to have a narrow-minded outlook on the reproductive rights of women and is trying to convince the audience that the pro-life mindset is in line with what the original suffragists were trying to accomplish.

2. Those involved in reproductive movement and women's rights, particularly those in favor of pro-life.

3. If people heed what the author is trying to convey, the pro-life side of the issue gains more followers. If this happens, women's rights to have the freedom to their own bodies are violated and in danger of being taken away.

4. The March For Life is giving pro-lifers the chance to protest, but endanger the autonomy of women and their bodily freedom.

5. Pro-lifers tend to see abortion as immoral and heinous, but seem to do so out of a significant lack of understanding or refusal to understand that they don't know what each woman has gone through that led her to this point.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00173-7

*researchers started an attribution study to determine how much global warming has influenced the crisis bush fires in Australia*

1. Over the past month or so, Australia has been experiencing a increasing number of bush fires spreading across the country. The fires keep getting worse and gaining more ground.

2. Residents in Australia have had to leave their homes and personal belongings behind to the fires; researchers have begun a study to see how much global warming is involved in the fires.

3. No one is gaining from this situation, residents in Australia have lost their homes, and the effects of the Australia fires are hurting our atmosphere which effects everyone.

4. The situation has forced people to move out of their homes and jobs. This situation has shown researches how much global warming is effecting our world

5. Researchers have found that the state of the bush fires is caused from increase temperatures due to global warming; the amount of bushfires and the force behind them have made it extremely hard to get a handle on .

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/us/what-is-equal-rights-amendment.html
*the equal rights amendment has come back to life with a new fire*
1. Both houses of the Virginia Legislature approves the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment; this is the 38th state to ratify it.

2. Women and those apart of the Virginia Legislature

3. Women gain because this ratification bring new hope that we are one step closer to the equal rights amendment being placed in the constitution

4. This situation has given advocated for womens equal rights new drive and hope in [lpacing it in the constitution

5. Virginia Legislation houses have ratified the equal rights amendment; it continues because women are driven and never give up hope for equal rights

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Women in some counties still deal with sexual harassment as a commonality that people brush off.
1) In this article and video it describes a new law being put in place that takes charges off men who have committed statutory rape, in that they must marry their victim. The age difference is still being decided upon.
2) This is a crime and disrespect to all women and all victims of rape. Having no say in your husband is already an issue in some places, but if your betrothed is also your rapist. The person is being put through extreme mental distress, to see the person who violated your body everyday.  This is important to bring to attention.
3) Those charged with rape will have their charges lifted, while the woman now have to go through the fear, and anger, and sadness of the event everyday.
4) Thus tak4s away a humans right to live their life in their own way, and to be respected physically and emotionally.
5) this law was removed in 2002 but has now come back, and Turkey takes a step back as most the women say.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/turkey-marry-your-rapist-bill-law-statutory-rape-a9298906.html

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“Patient refuses caregivers help because of her race”
1) A white patient had fallen in Plainfield’s Healthcare Center nursing home, so a caregiver came to give assistance, but was turned down because of her race. So the nurse is suing as picking and choosing a caregiver based on race and gender is against her civil rights as an employee
2) the African American nurse was discriminated against because of her race as a nurse.
3) it aids employees who have been stripped of their civil rights over a patients closed mindedness.
4) It will hopefully allow the caregivers to not be decided on by what they look like, and their culture. But by their qualifications and best fit for each patient.
5) most of the patients are older, and grew up around a more closed mindset in society, and are also ignorant to the rights of all human beings and equality and why it’s important and reasonable.
https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/rights/info-09-2010/outrage_patient_refuses_caregivers_help_because_of_race.html

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1. There are wildfires all over Australia, that are burning parts of the country.

2. It is effecting the lives of people who live there and the wildlife.

3. People are losing their homes, and national parks are also being effected. It also has effected the big cities and other bushland and wooded areas.

4. It is effecting their lives and jobs, and the wildlife there is being misplaced and dying.

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Australia is being ravaged by the worst wildfires seen in decades, with large swaths of the country devastated since the fire season began in July. Learn about the fire causes, locations and other information.

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1. There is a very big homeless crisis in the bay area.

2. The people that are involved are the people living in mobile homes along the streets of the bay area and all the other people living without a home.

3. No one gains from this situation and a lot of people lose, not just the homeless people.

4. This is happening because of increased living cost in the bay area and will continue to happen as bigger companies create campus in the bay area. There are a lot of companies and non profits and other people trying help.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. -The first thing locals mention are the homeless who line the streets of densely populated city blocks. They sleep restlessly in RVs; in vast encampments under the freeway; in tents in front of artisan coffee shops; on scraps of cardboard and discarded mattresses; on subway car seats that lurch from one end of town to another.

This is the Bay Area in 2020, infamous for its homelessness crisis and rising inequality, where the gulf between the rich and the poor can be seen every day on the street. Tents are propped up in front of swanky restaurants and boutique gyms; the impoverished pick through techies' trash; misery laps up against luxury, all while the elements rage - fires, earthquakes, drought.

I finally returned to this place, where I was born and bred, as a journalist last June, after spending years away reporting in North Carolina, Washington, D.C., Honduras, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina.

Yet my homecoming was fraught. Just a few months before I moved back, I lost my best friend to a traumatic and unexpected death. When I got there, I was overwhelmed by my grief and terrified of what I would find in a place built on 28 years of our shared history, from our local Thai haunts to Berkeley's Tilden Park and the campgrounds of Big Sur.

Imposing geography, crushing poverty

But quickly the Bay Area itself demanded my attention. Spread across nine Pacific coast counties, it commands an immense physical space and, as home to Silicon Valley, it has a particular weight in the popular imagination.

It still looked the same to me as when I left in 2006, with its glorious ocean vistas, winding hills and abundant gardens, but it was profoundly different. Skyrocketing rents, homelessness, rising inequality, a migrating creative class - these are the concerns foremost on many local minds. Local and national news outlets debate whether San Francisco could be fixed at all - or claimed the city was irrevocably broken.
Report for America: How many women in Puerto Rico must die before there's change? Women are done waiting.
My job brings me into close contact with all of these problems, reacquainting me with my hometown through the occasional fog of grief. As I reported in my early months on the beat, the gap between the haves and have-nots in California is growing ever larger, with the top 5% of households in places like San Francisco County earning an average of $808,105 a year, compared with $16,184 for the lowest 20%.

More than half of Latinos, who make up nearly 40% of the state population, struggle to make ends meet at all.

Meanwhile, homelessness is on the rise. From 2017 to 2019, it increased by 47% in Oakland; in Sunnyvale, it surged by 147% over the same time period. The housing crisis is creating a new breed of supercommuters, who spend hours navigating the region's maze of highways each day.

Given such challenges, I decided to focus my reporting on the creative solutions people were developing to live, survive and thrive here.

Rebuilding our home

I met people like Adelle Amador, who has spent the past few years living in cars and motels with her husband and children because they can't find stable housing. They benefited from a program I profiled that provides the simple necessity of a mailing address to homeless people in the high-tech hub of San Jose, so they can receive updates on housing, jobs and other programs.
Report for America: I grew up amid addiction, abuse. Now I report on similar stories so no one is forgotten.
After the story ran on the front page of The Mercury News, similar programs across the country sprung up to fill the same void.

In Santa Cruz County, I spoke to Ernestina Solorio, a single mother struggling to make ends meet on her farmworker salary. She stopped by an underground food bank for farm workers living in poverty who were too scared to go to public food banks for fear of immigration raids. I met her in an alleyway and spent the day talking to farmworkers who couldn't afford to eat the food they harvest. One farmworker who volunteers with the food bank told me she has trouble surviving on her salary, stretching her paychecks between rent, her children, food and her mother back in Mexico. She knows what it's like to earn so little, so she helps others.

Farther down the coast, in Half Moon Bay, I covered the city as it rallied behind nearly 200 farmworkers who were losing their jobs at a beloved Japanese American flower company in the face of an increasingly global, competitive flower market and changing regional economy. People who had been at the company for decades were helping their colleagues find hope and new jobs. They have to move forward, one worker told me.
Erica Hellerstein is a Report for America corps member, covering the Bay Area for The Mercury News. This dispatch is part of a series called "On the Ground," supported by The GroundTruth Project. Follow her on Twitter: @E_Hellerstein
Sometimes, I imagine sharing these conversations with my friend, adding what I suspect would be her witty, idiosyncratic insight into the question of the Bay Area's fate. I imagine she would have been moved by the stories in the pages of our newspaper.

Many of these conversations have eased my mourning, reminding me that the Bay Area is more than a place of grief and abandoned memories. It's a place straddling the edge of a precipice - breaking, rebuilding and surviving.

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I returned home to report on poverty in California. We're strained, but not broken.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. -The first thing locals mention are the homeless who line the streets of densely populated city blocks. They sleep restlessly in RVs; in vast encampments under the freeway; in tents in front of artisan coffee shops; on scraps of cardboard and discarded mattresses; on subway car seats that lurch from one end of town to another.

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Four killed in shooting at San Francisco UPS facility, including gunman

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Four killed in shooting at San Francisco UPS facility, including gunman

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1 and 2.) A gunman shot and killed three people at a United Parcel Service facility in San Francisco on Wednesday morning before fatally shooting himself in front of police officers, authorities said.
3.) The families who were affected by the shooting and the police officers in charge of public safety lose.
4.) Creating a loss in the lives of the affected families.
5.) The gun distribution process is extremely complex.

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A gunman shot and killed three people at a United Parcel Service facility in San Francisco on Wednesday morning before fatally shooting himself in front of police officers, authorities said.

Two others were wounded by gunfire, according to San Francisco police, and five had injuries that were probably sustained during the rush to evacuate.

The lone gunman, identified by police as Jimmy Lam, 38, shot himself in the head, Assistant Chief Toney Chaplin said. Two guns were recovered at the scene.

Authorities said the incident was not believed to be connected to terrorism. Police Chief William Scott told The Times that investigators were uncertain about Lam's motive.

Police were still conducting "a very active investigation on what may have caused this as well as [the gunman's] background," Scott said.

UPS spokesman Steve Gaut said Lam was a driver who was wearing his uniform when he opened fire inside the four-story shipping facility. At the time, workers were gathering for their morning meeting before departing to deliver parcels, he said.

Lam, a resident of San Francisco, had filed a grievance in March complaining about excessive overtime, Joseph Cilia, a Teamsters Union official, told the Associated Press. The Teamsters local represents UPS workers in San Francisco.

Cilia said the gunman seemed to have targeted the three drivers who were fatally wounded.

"I never knew Jimmy to not get along with people," Cilia said. "Jimmy wasn't a big complainer."

The names of the three people who died were not released. A UPS official said the package service was working with law enforcement to notify the workers' families.

Family and friends identified one of the victims as Mike Lefiti, a longtime UPS driver.

His cousin, Mack Toia, told KGO-TV Channel 7, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco, that he arrived to pick up Lefiti, a married father of five.

"I came out of the van, I walked up toward the gate and I looked over and I saw my cousin sprawled out on the concrete," Toia told the news station. He ran over toward Lefiti but was pushed away by arriving first responders.

"I got to touch him, but I couldn't hug him," Toia said.

The gunfire began about 8:55 a.m. and it prompted police to issue a shelter-in-place alert to residents near the UPS building, located at the border of the Mission District and the Potrero Hill neighborhoods.

A Twitter user across the street from the building wrote that he heard seven or eight gunshots and saw employees standing on the building's rooftop parking lot with their hands up.

When police arrived, they encountered numerous victims and evacuated them, Chaplin said. Officers learned that the gunman was still inside the cavernous facility and actively targeting people.

A team entered the building, found Lam and saw him turn his weapon on himself, Chaplin said.

"The officers did what they were trained to do, and that is when we have an active shooter we engage an active shooter to stop the shooting, and the officers did that," Chaplin said. "This person took their life because our officers confronted him."

Officers did not fire at the gunman, authorities said.

Police announced that the building was secure shortly after 10:30 a.m. Meanwhile, officers continued searching the premises for witnesses and additional victims.

Officers found two bodies outside the facility; others were inside, Chaplin said.

"This was a frightful scene, and we just wanted to make sure someone wasn't so terrified that they were hiding and we didn't know they were inside the facility," Chaplin said.

Gaut, the UPS spokesman, said the facility processes packages for delivery in the San Francisco area and has 350 workers. It is unknown how many employees were in the facility at the time of the shooting, company officials said.

Relatives of workers began arriving to reunite with their loved ones, who were being interviewed by police.

Maria Olmedo, 42, rushed to the area when she learned of the shooting. Her 21-year-old son is a loader and wasn't responding to her panicked texts, she said.

"It's a scary situation, I'm a mom," Olmedo said, standing about a block away from a church where police had relocated employees.

One of her son's co-workers sent Olmedo a text message, assuring her that he was fine.

Condolences began to flow in through social media after word spread that the rampage was over and the gunman was dead.

As investigators continued to process the crime scene Wednesday afternoon, motorcycle officers escorted a black van from the facility. In the passenger seat, a woman sobbed and held her head in her hands.

At an afternoon news conference, Mayor Ed Lee reassured UPS workers and the families of those killed that they would be taken care of.

"They are happy and hardworking people," Lee said. "We know them in every single neighborhood in the city."

In days to come, city officials will review the incident to determine if any safety improvements can be made.

Rosemary Turner, president of UPS North California District, said counselors would be on hand to provide support.

"Please keep UPS-ers in your prayers," she said.

(Raoul Ranoa / Los Angeles Times)

joseph.serna@latimes.com veronica.rocha@latimes.com maura.dolan@latimes.com Times staff writers Matt Hamilton and Richard Winton contributed to this report. Dolan reported from San Francisco, Serna and Rocha from Los Angeles. ALSO L.A. mayor thinks a monorail over the 405 Freeway could tame traffic gridlock Signs of past California 'mega-quakes' show danger of the Big One on San Andreas fault Column: Dying malls offer a chance to build something better - and address how our lives are changing UPDATES:
10:15 p.m.: This article was updated with the age of the gunman.

9:20 p.m.: This article was updated throughout with comments from union officials, Chief William Scott and the identity of one of the victims.

4:10 p.m.: This article was updated with comments from Chaplin.

2:10 p.m.: This article was updated with comments from Lee and Turner.

1:30 p.m.: This article was updated with a comment from a UPS worker.

12:50 p.m.: This article was updated with comments from employees' families.

12 p.m.: This article was updated with comments from the San Francisco mayor.

11:40 a.m.: This article was updated with comments from San Francisco police.

10:45 a.m.: This article was updated with additional comments from a UPS spokesman.

10:20 a.m.: This article was updated with comments from a hospital spokesman and San Francisco police.

10 a.m.: This article was updated with comments from a UPS spokesman.

9:40 a.m.: This article was updated with comments from the city's Department of Emergency Management.
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1.) There is an overuse of plastic that is killing the animals in the ocean.
2.) All of the US population and the fish in the see
3.) Ocean wildlife
4.) it is harming the wildlife and the ecosystem
5.) We are using too much plastic

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The people involved are immigrants who make up roughly 17% percent of the U.S. workforce in 2014. Donald J. Trump. Trump has signed several executive orders affecting immigration policy. The first, which focused on border security, instructed federal agencies to construct a physical wall “to obtain complete operational control” of the U.S. border with Mexico. Additionally, it called for an end to what it calls “catch and release” practices, in which certain unauthorized immigrants who were captured at the border would be allowed into the United States while they await court hearings. The second executive order focused on prioritizing deportation for unauthorized immigrants. In July 2019, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general reported overcrowding and prolonged detentions [PDF] at CBP facilities, and investigators found that detainees, including children, were sometimes held without access to beds, showers, or clean clothes for weeks.

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“With California Ablaze, Firefighters Strain to Keep Up”
1.) A chaotic fire has erupted in West LA area. I see firefighters struggling to keep up with the rapid growing flames.
2.) The article talks about the houses and lives of normal citizens effected and that many firefighters have been sent to help, putting their normal lives on hold for others.
3.) Homeowners in the area lose homes and property, sometimes even animals. They loose most personal belongings. Firefighters lose time with family and time to do typical daily things, but also gain satisfaction and money from putting in extra time.
4.) The situation is damaging the earth and taking away large parts of people’s lives.
5.) It is said that fires like these are becoming common due to a change in climate. As climate change continues to progress, wildfires will become more and more likely.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/22/california-highway-freeway-shootings-bay-area

1). What Do You See?
Gun violence on highways in the Bay Area has increased due to possible gang-related conflicts.
2). Who are the People Involved?
The victims “are disproportionately Black and Latino”.
3). Who gains/loses?
The victims are often targeted as a result of gang violence, which is addition caused by displacement due to increasing rent prices in the surrounding cities. In this case, both the victims and attackers are negatively affected in overarching ways.
4). What is the Situation doing to the People Involved?
Individuals are at risk on highways due to the increased chances of gun violence.
5). Why is this happening?
Raising rent prices in gang-affiliated and lower-income neighborhoods is speculated to have contributed to the rise in violence and highway crimes.

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1. President Donald Trump proposed a Middle East plan that he claimed was a "realistic two-state solution" but caters to nearly every major Israeli demand and was immediately rejected by Palestinians

2. Trumps & Israeli gov

3. Isreal wins, and Palestinian loses

4. By how trumps determining the territories, Israel is going to gain more benefits than does Palestinian, which is unfair to the latter.

5. Trump is trumping to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-trump-netanyahu-middle-east-peace-plan-israel

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1. A new study exploring the attitudes toward nonheterosexual men and women in 23 Western and non-Western countries found lesbians are more accepted than gay men around the world.

2. Everyone

3. Anti-gay groups

4. People prefer lesbian over gay mainly because of their traditional masculinity ideology

5. Their first guide to issues specific to men and boys warned that “traditional masculinity ideology” — what some characterized as “toxic masculinity” — “has been shown to limit males’ psychological development, constrain their behavior, result in gender role strain and gender role conflict and negatively influence mental health and physical health” and linked it to  homophobia and misogyny.https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lesbians-more-accepted-gay-men-around-world-study-finds-n1118121

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The Australia fires portend a future of climate apartheid
1. What is happening? What do you see?
The climate denialism of the rich and powerful is increasing the suffering of the poor and marginalized communities.
2. Who are the people involved?
All people in Australia
3. Who gains from the situation? Who loses?
The rich gain and the poor lose.
4. What is the situation doing to the people involved?
The poor will bear the brunt of climate change and have the least capacity to protect themselves.
5. Why is this happening? Why does it continue?
The fires have caused very bad climate change but it has been starting to rain and clear up the smoke and bad air so hopefully it will not continue.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/australia-fires-portend-future-climate-apartheid-200126155118129.html

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Latin America’s Radical Feminism Is Spreading
1. What is happening? What do you see?
Women in Chile, Brazil, Argentina and other Latin countries are stopping violence against women with politics and power.
2. Who are the people involved?
Women in Latin America
3. Who gains from the situation? Who loses?
Women are gaining because they are fighting for rights. No one is losing.
4. What is the situation doing to the people involved?
It is giving them rights and they are fighting for themselves to live freely.
5. Why is this happening? Why does it continue?
Women not just in Latin America but in many different countries deserve rights. It continues because we still have men in the world who are sexist but women now are fighting and showing men that equality is important.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/opinion/latin-america-feminism.html

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“Share of Americans with Health Insurance Declined in 2018”
1.) More and more U.S. citizens are getting ride of health care due to high costs. At the same time, more and more citizens are exceeding the poverty line.
2.) The people involved are the government, the United States citizens, and the health insurance agencies.
3.) The government loses money from this, yet they gain money as well because some are willing to pay lots of money for health care. The citizens who can not pay are losing health care and endangering their lives slightly more.
4.) The situation is causing more opposition to the healthcare system and less support to the government by the people.
5.) This is happening because the Trump administration is disregarding basic human need and focusing more on obtainment of money. It continues because some citizens are still willing to pay crazy amounts of money for health care.
https://apple.news/A1-WAKtBxTl2M0PnRr1tIhg

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"Coronavirus live updates: Airlines start suspending China flights, US raises travel warning"

1. China outbreaks a severe contagious disease called Coronavirus, and within 15 days, most than 9500 Chinese people got this disease, and it is still spreading. So many countries, including Singapore and the UK, banned Chinese or suspend the flights from China.

2. Mostly Chinese mainlanders, but also people who care about those people and people outside China, worry the disease would spread internationally.

3. Who gains Other counties that don’t have such disease yet. Who loses: Chinese who want to escape from the current situation.

4. It would stop the disease from further spreading as it minimizing the direct contact of those suspicious of the disease and others.

5. It is happening because, currently, there’s no other way to cure the disease, so separation is the best way to transport the virus to others.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-latest-updates.html

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1. A critical concern under the women’s category that I have been focusing on recently is abortion. Many unborn humans being killed 99% of the time for the convenience of women and people.

2. the people involved are women, men, and unborn.

3. women gain from this situation. also people that believe that abortion is a way to regulate population. other people who gain are those who are racist being able to choose what race their abortion donatation will go to. people who will lose include unborn beings and minorities who are less educated on abortion and also peoples of low income.

4. Abortion is allowing for women to abort their babies in any kind of circumstance with state resctrictions. it is killing unborn beings including women.

5. this is happening because society considers abortion a women’s right becasue it it “ her body , her choice”. it continues because many people are not educated and only follow their own media or they just believe it is morally right.

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“Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows”
1) This article explains how rising sea levels will begin to affect our country along with the people who live there. There are maps that show what coastal cities look like now vs in 2050.
2)The people that are involved are the coastal city locals since they are being directly influenced by the rising sea levels. Climate change will begin to affect how they live and other financial issues.
3) No one gains from this situation since it comes from the earth. However, as  people who live on this Earth, we are loosing from this situation. People who live on the coast are loosing their homes and we are loosing respect for our Earth the more we are harming it.
4) The situation is causing people to move and/or have damages to their homes.
5) The is happening because humans are contributing to global warming. The heat that gets trapped in the atmosphere reflects back on our Earth and melts ice caps and other glaciers. The water from these glaciers go into the water causing the sea levels to rise.

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Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world's great coastal cities.

The authors of a paper published Tuesday developed a more accurate way of calculating land elevation based on satellite readings, a standard way of estimating the effects of sea level rise over large areas, and found that the previous numbers were far too optimistic. The new research shows that some 150 million people are now living on land that will be below the high-tide line by midcentury.

Southern Vietnam could all but disappear.

The first map shows earlier expectations of submerged land by 2050. But the new outlook, the second map, indicates that the bottom part of the country will be underwater at high tide.

More than 20 million people in Vietnam, almost one-quarter of the population, live on land that will be inundated.

Much of Ho Chi Minh City, the nation's economic center, would disappear with it, according to the research, which was produced by Climate Central, a science organization based in New Jersey, and published in the journal Nature Communications. The projections don't account for future population growth or land lost to coastal erosion.

Standard elevation measurements using satellites struggle to differentiate the true ground level from the tops of trees or buildings, said Scott A. Kulp, a researcher at Climate Central and one of the paper's authors. So he and Benjamin Strauss, Climate Central's chief executive, used artificial intelligence to determine the error rate and correct for it.

In Thailand, more than 10 percent of citizens now live on land that is likely to be inundated by 2050, compared with just 1 percent according to the earlier technique. The political and commercial capital, Bangkok, is particularly imperiled.

Climate change will put pressure on cities in multiple ways, said Loretta Hieber Girardet, a Bangkok resident and United Nations disaster risk-reduction official. Even as global warming floods more places, it will also push poor farmers off the land to seek work in cities.

"It is a dire formula," she said.

In Shanghai, one of Asia's most important economic engines, water threatens to consume the heart of the city and many other cities around it.

The findings don't have to spell the end of those areas. The new data shows that 110 million people already live in places that are below the high tide line, which Mr. Strauss attributes to protective measures like seawalls and other barriers. Cities must invest vastly greater sums in such defenses, Mr. Strauss said, and they must do it quickly.

But even if that investment happens, defensive measures can go only so far. Mr. Strauss offered the example of New Orleans, a city below sea level that was devastated in 2005 when its extensive levees and other protections failed during Hurricane Katrina. "How deep a bowl do we want to live in"? he asked.

The new projections suggest that much of Mumbai, India's financial capital and one of the largest cities in the world, is at risk of being wiped out. Built on what was once a series of islands, the city's historic downtown core is particularly vulnerable.

Over all, the research shows that countries should start preparing now for more citizens to relocate internally, according to Dina Ionesco of the International Organization for Migration, an intergovernmental group that coordinates action on migrants and development.

"We've been trying to ring the alarm bells," Ms. Ionesco said. "We know that it's coming." There is little modern precedent for this scale of population movement, she added.

The disappearance of cultural heritage could bring its own kind of devastation. Alexandria, Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great around 330 B.C., could be lost to rising waters.

In other places, the migration caused by rising seas could trigger or exacerbate regional conflicts.

Basra, the second-largest city in Iraq, could be mostly underwater by 2050. If that happens, the effects could be felt well beyond Iraq's borders, according to John Castellaw, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant general who was chief of staff for United States Central Command during the Iraq War.

Further loss of land to rising waters there "threatens to drive further social and political instability in the region, which could reignite armed conflict and increase the likelihood of terrorism," said General Castellaw, who is now on the advisory board of the Center for Climate and Security, a research and advocacy group in Washington.

"So this is far more than an environmental problem," he said. "It's a humanitarian, security and possibly military problem too."

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Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows

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Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world's great coastal cities.

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https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2020/0106/Women-s-rights-religious-sensibilities.-Can-Israel-respect-both

1). Gender segregation in Israel as a result of strict religious practices cause women’s voices to be silenced in the Israeli government.
2). Women are being discriminated against and targeted, caused by the prevalent and clashing orthodox religious beliefs.
3). Devoutly religious members of the community.
4). Women in the Israeli government have no representation among the population of strictly-orthodox Jewish members of the community.
5).  The suppression of women’s rights makes it extremely difficult for change to occur.

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Summary: As of 2013 when it rains all the trash, oil, pesticides, fertilizers, chemicals, and other toxic substances get washed into the bay. The bay doesn’t get treated or filled when this happens. All the garbage on streets gets into the gutters when it rains and travels into the bay. Today in SF needles and waste from the homeless are getting into the ocean and Trump administration has issued an environmental violation to San Francisco.
1. What is happening? Due to people littering mixed with stormy days, the San Francisco bay is getting polluted.
2. Who are the people involved? Everyone
3. Who gains who loses? No one gains and all the sea life and people that enjoy the bay are losing.
4.what is the situation doing to the people involved? The pollution can impact plants, animals, and people.
5.why is it happening and why does it continue? It’s happening because some people don’t care or don’t know that this problem can effect so many living things. I feel like since people are not getting that effected by it, they see it as not a big deal but the animals that we love to eat or pet at aquariums are being affected. I think it continues because the lack of knowledge on the subject and the great impact it has.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/02/san-francisco-epa-water-pollution-trump
https://baykeeper.org/our-work/controlling-urban-storm-water-pollution

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“I’ll Never Be Ashamed of My Abortion” by Yolanda Gault
1) This article goes into detail about a woman getting an abortion and how she is proud of her decision and the power she has over her body. The article explains the Roe V Wade decision that guaranteed “women’s freedom to obtain an abortion without undue government resitriction...”
2) The people involved in this situation are women all around the US, the government, and prospective people with opinions on abortions (religions as well). Decisions like this affect loads of people as they all have different beliefs of what we should do. However at the end of the day the decision belongs to the women who is/is not getting an abortion.
3) Women are able to gain from this situation as the story of an inspired and confident women can give hope to those struggling with the same situation. Those who disagree and feel abortions are unjust would loose in this situation because their opinions are not asked for or needed regarding someone who has no tie to them.
4) Getting an abortion for this lady helped her create a better more successful further for herself. After her abortion, several years later she was able to give birth to two children who are healthy and educated on the topic. She feels she has nothing to hide and wants her kids to know how much she loves them.
5) Abortions can happen when someone was raped, sick, or not ready to raise a baby. This continues because some women are not able to afford contraception and/or suffer from rapists actions. It will continue because every women has a right to her body and can make a choice for her life. Others should not decide for her especially if it does not directly affect them in any way.

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I want my daughters to have the same agency over their bodies as I did. I'm worried they won't.

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Ms. Gault is an executive at Planned Parenthood and the author of "Child, Please."

Abortion rights supporters near the Washington Monument in 1989. Credit... Andrew Holbrooke/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Images

I am medium-brown-skinned - neither rich dark chocolate nor creamy cafe au lait. I am a B cup and have, for a black girl, a barely there butt. I have flat feet and oily skin. And like so many American women of reproductive age, I've had an abortion.

I, and I alone, made the decision to terminate a pregnancy more than a decade ago so that I could be the best mother I could be to the two children I already had.

The Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, guaranteeing a woman's freedom to obtain an abortion without undue government restriction, was issued 47 years ago Wednesday. A 47th anniversary may not seem like a huge milestone. But it is critical at this moment in history. It is a call for deliberate action to safeguard the most basic and ordinary right of all: to control your own body.

Despite what some politicians would have us believe, most Americans support that right. There is no state in the country where the majority favors an outright ban on abortion. Seven in 10 Americans, across party lines, say they do not want to see Roe v. Wade overturned. Nearly a half-century after Roe, we must not allow some warped, anti-feminist ideology to take away our freedom.

That means we all have to speak up. Shouting is O.K., if that's your thing. What's most important is that we stand together and stand up against the beat-down on sexual and reproductive health in this country.

Just last week, the Supreme Court agreed to consider whether employers can limit women's access to free birth control under the Affordable Care Act because of moral or religious objections. Last summer the Trump administration forced Planned Parenthood and other providers out of Title X, the federal program that ensures people struggling to get by can afford birth control, cancer screenings, and testing for H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted infections.

In the past year alone, legislators in 47 states filed more than 300 bills to restrict abortion access. This administration, at a lightning pace, has appointed more than 180 judges, many with records showing them blatantly hostile to reproductive rights, to lifetime posts on the federal courts. And in the coming months, the Supreme Court will review an abortion case from Louisiana that could further erode the protections of Roe - or worse, overturn it.

If our constitutional right to safe, legal abortion is not upheld, more than 25 million Americans of reproductive age could lose the freedom to decide when and if to have a child. What I took for granted - the freedom to have agency over my body and life choices - is a right my daughters and their daughters may well be denied.

Roe has never been perfect. The right to safe, legal abortion didn't mean equal access to it. In communities where people have low incomes and in many areas where black and brown people live, the cost of abortion often makes it out of reach.

So this anniversary should be about protecting and expanding the health and freedom of all people - regardless of their race, income, gender identity, sexual orientation, abilities or immigration status.

In a new short documentary film, " Ours to Tell," which will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival next week, we see how access to abortion should play out. The movie depicts four people: myself, another black woman, a nonbinary trans person and a Latina. It celebrates the full and empowered lives each of us is now able to live because we had agency.

This is not complicated or political. When you have bodily autonomy and the freedom to get the health care you want, need and deserve, your whole world changes and you are able to thrive.

Nearly 15 years after my abortion, I am at peace. I now have three children, ages 12 to 20. The most important gift I can give them is the best me I can be. My daughters and my son know I had an abortion just as they know I have a mole on one side of my face, and dimples.

My abortion is a part of me, my story. And I have no shame that I made the best decision for myself, my family and our future.

Whether they yell it from the rooftops or not, many other people have experiences like mine. Research shows the most common post-abortion feeling is relief. Ninety-five percent of us do not regret our decision.

This anniversary of Roe v. Wade isn't golden or even silver, but it should spur us to redouble our efforts to make access to sexual and reproductive health care a reality for everyone.

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Opinion | I'll Never Be Ashamed of My Abortion

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I want my daughters to have the same agency over their bodies as I did. I'm worried they won't. By Ms. Gault is an executive at Planned Parenthood and the author of "Child, Please." I am medium-brown-skinned - neither rich dark chocolate nor creamy cafe au lait.

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Naming a Street after MLK is Easier Said Than Done
1) There is a large debate in white rural business areas that are fighting the use of MLKs name for street signs as it will stigmatize the neighborhood.
2) White business and property owners and those trying to publicly honor MLK.
3) Those trying to keep the area neutral win if they do not approve the naming of the streets.
4) A sense of dishonor and disrespect is being taken to those who are attempting to honor the teachings and movements of Martin Luther King.
5) A sense of racism is still present especially in southern urban and rural areas, as it was extremely prevalent in history and it is hard to erase the habits of ancestors.

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Naming a Street After MLK Is Easier Said Than Done

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Opponents of naming streets after King tend to be white business and property owners on affected roads.

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‘Whistleblowers’ working as asylum officers have begun to provide overviews of administrations crackdowns on migrants seeking asylum in the United States and how they are attempting to curb migration to the southern border.

1. Asylum administrations are begining to manipulate policies that keep immigrants in Mexico during their immigration process.

2. Trump is directing asylum administrators to make these changes, and the immigrants who are desperately trying to get into the United States are involved as well.

3. Trump gains from the situation considering the fact that we all know he has been against immigrants coming into the United States from the begining, it is no surprise that these new ‘policies’ are just ways he can manipulate the process and make it harder for immigrants to gain access tot he United States. Immigrants lose from this situation, most immigrants are seeking asylum because their home is either unsafe or at war and the risk of death and injury is severe.

4. The situation is putting immigrants lives at risk while waiting for access to citizenship.

5. It is happening because trump wants to limit the amount of immigrants coming into the united state, in an email it is stated that the administrations policies are “clearly designed to further this administrations racist agenda of keeping Hispanic and Latino populations from entering the United States.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/politics/merkley-asylum-report/index.html

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Chinese Doctor Who Tried to Warn of Outbreak Is Near Death From Coronavirus

1) The Coronavirus Outbreak has migrated to different countries and is threatening the lives of many, including the doctor who initially warned of the virus outbreak.
2) The population as a whole, but mainly those affected and attempting to contain and fight the disease.
3) No one necessarily gains from this situation, but moving forward it will serve as a learning experience for the medical teams, as they will now know how to handle the contamination.
4) Coronaviruses are types of viruses that typically affect the respiratory tract of mammals, including humans. They are associated with the common cold, pneumonia, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and can also affect the gut.
5) It is unclear how the outbreak initially started and it continues to this day because there is no vaccination or clear cure for this disease.

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Doctor Who Tried to Warn of Outbreak Near Death from Coronavirus

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Li Wenliang, a doctor who was among the first to warn about the coronavirus outbreak, was reported to be critically ill from the infection.

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-  fear of coronavirus fuels racist sentiment targeting Asian people

1. The outbreak of the corona virus has caused a panic, but because it began in china people are beginning to stigmatize Asian people and make racist remarks.

2.  People with Asian backgrounds are being attacked and are becoming victims of xenophobia, the people who have developed this fear and anger towards Asian people are verbally and physically attacking them for no reason.

3. No one is gaining from this situation; Asian people are losing in this situation because they are facing racism and anger just because of their race.

4. This situation is making people feel unsafe, and putting people in dangers way. It separating us as a society because of fear, and that fear is begining to turn into xenophobia and anti-China sentiment.

5. This is happening because the corona virus began in a market place in China a few months ago. Ever since then, a panic has taken hold of those living in the United States, because of this fear and this panic and feeling of helplessness, people want something to blame and something to give them reassurance. Xenophobia has caused American people to stigmatize the corona virus with the Asian People, but this fear has also caused anti-China sentiment and has escalated to racist remarks, and violent actions against innocent people.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-03/fear-panic-around-the-coronavirus-fuels-racist-sentiment

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British women ‘being forced into polygamous relationships’ because law lets them down

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nasreen-akhter-mohammed-khan-case-marriage-divorce-a9212731.html

1. British women of Muslim and other minority groups are increasingly being pressured into polygamous relationships or left without child support when relationships break up because UK law does not offer adequate protection to spouses in religious marriages, campaigners have warned.
2. Women are being left to go through religious courts, which make rulings that force them to stay with their partners even when they are unhappy, or rule them unable to claim money or property from their de facto husbands after marriages dissolve.
3. The men who are forcing these relationships and refusing to legally register the unions are winning. And the women who are forced into these relationships are losing.
4. It’s leaving women in unhappy in relationships where they feel they are not valued and disrespected by their “spouses”. Also they are being manipulated into these relationships as well.
5. When women go to sharia courts or religious ‘courts’, they often make rulings to the detriment of women and try and force women to stay in marriages. These institutions are misogynistic, patriarchal and anti-democratic. These institutions are more and more governing women’s rights. If the law goes against them, it will lock women out of the civil justice system.

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'Black hole' of medical records contributes to deaths, mistreatment at the border

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/01/medical-records-border-immigration-074507

1. The Department of Homeland Security's inadequate medical technology and record-management for the thousands of migrants who pass through its custody are contributing to poor care and even deaths. They are failing to properly document patient care or scribbling documentation in the margins of forms.
2. This is effecting immigrants who are staying at the Customs and Border Patrol who need medical care or are being checked to see if they need it or have health problems.
3. Border Patrol is gaining from the situation because they don’t have to worry about filling in the documentation correctly and will not be punished for doing so. The immigrants are losing because they aren’t getting the proper medical attention they need and are getting mistreated through the process soft documentation.
4. Patients suffer from “delays in medical care, refusals to accommodate disabilities, and nearly constant isolation”. Conditions in detention are so brutal that many people are forced to abandon viable claims for immigration relief and accept deportation out of a desperate desire to escape the torture they are enduring in detention on U.S. soil.
5. This is happening because of Border controls inability and lack of respect for the immigrants and their medical needs. They don’t complete medical records adequately because they don’t care and don’t understand why the documentation process is so vital to the immigrants survival.

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‘Extortion’: N.Y. Assails Trump Administration Over Traveler Programs
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/nyregion/green-light-law-global-entry.html?searchResultPosition=8
1. Trump recently passed a ban on programs that New York travelers use to get through airports faster. This was done with the intent to slow travelers in response to New York’s new law allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver’s license which supposedly put the country’s safety at risk.
2. Trump is involved, as well as Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
3. Trump gains power and the thousands of travelers and immigrants in New York lose.
4. The situation is hindering the speedy travel routines of thousands of people in NY.
5. This is happening because the president is upholding his immigration policy beliefs. It continues because he is the president.

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In a Long History of Sexist Ads and Outrage, It’s the Apology That’s New
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/business/media/kfc-commercial-sexist.html?searchResultPosition=3
1. KFC recently aired an ad in Australia that had little to do with chicken. It simply used sex to sell, and people were outraged on the media, causing the company to apologize.
2. KFC is involved.
3. Nobody really gains because it’s offensive to people everywhere and KFC got backlash for it. Everyone loses in a way.
4. The situation is calling attention to the new era of commercial advertising as a new wave of feminism and awareness has arisen.
5. It is happening still because not everyone is aware of the conditions women have faced throughout history, arrogance feeds bad publicity.

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-03/fear-panic-around-the-coronavirus-fuels-racist-sentiment

1). What do you see
Fear of the spread of Coronavirus is sparking xenophobia against Asian countries and individuals.

2). Who are the people involved
Asian-Americans are in fear of becoming publicly harassed and discriminated against as a result of the spike in xenophobic and racist ideas associated with the spread of the Coronavirus.

3). Who gains/loses
Many racist individuals and their actions are becoming more or less excused, when in fact their actions are actively encouraging racist and anti-asian mindsets.

4). What is the situation doing to the people involved
Asian people and their cultures are being attacked and suspected, as numerous false claims and nebulous information is being spread around online, as well as a sharp increase in both online, school-based, and social degradation as a resurgence of racist stereotypes.

5). Why is it happening?
The widespread fear and panic is allowing racist mindsets to gain traction, with many people assuming their actions and comments regarding these connotations are harmless, when in fact their beliefs are actively harming the community.

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1. I have been interested in issues of a category that many do not cease to realize but actually ignore— The Unrealistic and Stereotypical Portrayals of men in the Media and the Culture.

2. The people who are involved are men.

3. People who lose from this situation are men who have the pressure of looking a certain way for a woman. It is true because women expect men to look a certain way, mostly in our generation. This affects mns mental health and confidence. Others gain from the situation particularly being ignored because keeping one issue under the radar brings the spot light to other issues which is not necessarily a bad thing but others do gain.

4. This is harming the mental health of our men and it is bringing the standard too high for which a man lose confidence and is judged by women way more than men judge how women look.

5. This is happening because it is the culture of women mostly teenagers. It is unrealistic to have a perfect man and we are always trying to look for that without necessarily going for personality. As women we know that it is difficult to have a certain body type or skin but in the study of the link below it shows data to support this.

https://www.livescience.com/58607-mens-looks-may-matter-more-than-personality.html

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Melanie Gagucas

On Dec. 3, 2019 a 20 year old woman was stabbed twice and died. Ceren Ozdemir was a 20 year old ballerina teacher for children at a school in Ordu. As she was opening the door to her home and man walked up behind her, asked a question to grab her attention and attacked. The people involved are the victim, her family, the attacker and the women of Turkey. The attacker Mr. Arduc, the attacker, was sentenced to 45 years in prison. Ceren Ozdemir is one of 474 femicides. These are murders of women by men because they are women, as the WHO defines it. According to a We Will End Femicide Platform, a women’s rights group, the murders of women in Turkey have increased in the past decade. Between 2008 and 2017, 2,025 women were murdered by men in Turkey.  Within the past two decades, Turkey urbanized rapidly which gave great opportunities to women for work, leisure and social mobility. However, many Turkish men failed to accept the possibilities and prominence in the public space that the economic and social transformation were offering women. Most women were killed by their husbands, fathers or brothers because they insisted on their own choices in marriage, work, clothing and appearance. In 2011, Turkey led the ratification fo the Istanbul Convention. The country followed it up by passing a law to protect women in 2012. After Ms. Ozdemir’s murder, the interior ministry introduced a ruling that required training security forces and the confiscation of ;incensed guns from men accused of domestic violence. According to Turkish law, applications of women seeking protection from violence are to be handled within 24 hours. A woman and her children may be settled in a shelter affiliated with the government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/opinion/turkey-women-murders.html

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On November 25, 2019 the French government unveiled new measures to combat domestic violence in light of growing awareness of the sometimes deadly toll it has taken on women in France. However, the proposal lacked funding to truly be effect. Thousands of people marched in paris and other cities to protest gender-based violence in France, last year 121 women were killed by surrender or former partners. Participants wore purple, held up the names, pictures and ages of victims around the country and has also warned of an epidemic of ‘femicide.” Th people affected are women. An estimated 219,000 aged 18-75 are targets of physical or sexual violence.  The prime minister said that the government will increase efforts in schools to raise awareness of gender-based violence, open a round-the-clock domestic violence hotline, hire more specialized workers in police stations and increase treatment of violent partners to avoid repeat offenses. The prime minister also stated that the government would change the law to recognize that victims of abuse can be under the psychological control fo their abusers, unable to act independently. The government will also act with doctors to ease confidentiality restrictions in cases where ther is n “immediate danger” of renewed violence against the victims.  France’s lower house of Parliament has also adopted legislation to increase the use of electronic bracelets to help judges and police officers enforce restraining orders. Advocacy groups have allowed a surge in awareness of domestic violence. However, it is said that next year the government would spend 360 million euros, or nearly $400 million, on the fight against domestic violence and A report last year from the High Council for Gender Equality, a governmental advisory body, estimated that it would take at least 500 million euros annually to effectively reduce domestic violence. Women lose in this situation and the government gain with the money they have not spent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/world/europe/france-domestic-violence.html?searchResultPosition=16

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https://www.npr.org/2020/02/07/803661806/white-house-says-al-qaida-leader-qassim-al-rimi-killed-in-u-s-operation
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White House Says Al-Qaida Leader Qassim Al-Rimi Killed In U.S. Operation"

1) Trump on Thursday announced a successful U.S. counterterrorism operation that killed Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of a Yemen-based al-Qaida affiliate who claimed responsibility for last year's deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida. Al-Rimi has been accused of attacks on U.S. targets dating back to 2008 and the State Department was offering $10 million for information on his whereabouts. He was seen as a top recruiter for al-Qaida and considered a possible successor to al-Zawahiri.
2 Trump and Qassim al-Rimi

3.US and other countries that has previous attacked by Qassim al-Rim army are gaining from this situation

4.It eliminate potential threat to US soldiers and weaken the power of Yemen-based al-Qaida affiliate

5.It is happening because Yemen-based al-Qaida affiliate keeps attacking us solder in Middle East. In 2017, A U.S. Navy SEAL and 23 civilians were killed and a $90 million Osprey aircraft destroyed in the raid in Yemen.

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“Chile Abusers will be PUBLICLY hanged in Pakistan”
1.) Pakistani parliament passed a new law saying that all child abusers who murder their victims will face hanging, but in public. Although Pakistan enforces the death penalty because the Quran says all child abusers and murderers should be hanged, the government does not actually sponsor the public act.
2.) The people involved include the accused, the victims and their families, the government, and the Pakistani people. The people going from this situation are those who feel they need justice for deaths of children, yet not many people gain anything from public hangings. Obviously the killers will lose because their lives will be taken away, but the government also looses in a way because it shows their promotion of violence to solve a problem, which could result in future issues in society.
3.) This continues because the Islamic state abides by the Quran, which promotes the hanging of child murderers. However, those who are angry about the deaths of children enable the public hangings because they strive for justice for the victim.
4.) Child abusers and murderers, according to the Quran, deserve to be hanged and some government workers believe that families will obtain justice by watching it happen.
https://apple.news/AiIuFyBA4TnuuPifZN0oHSg

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“Eight men are jailed for two years for ‘imitating women’ at a party”
1.) Eight men have been convicted of 'committing indecent acts' and 'inciting debauchery' in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania after a video of them dancing at a party, originally thought to be a gay wedding, was shared on social media.
2.) The people involved are the Mauritanian government and the men arrested. The government and the men actually lose in this case because the men are jailed for two years and the government now faces backlash from the LGBT community.
3.) This is happening because some countries still refuse to accept gay marriage and this will continue to happen until they do so.
4.) The world is changing, yet some countries refuse to accept change. Men who appear to be more flamboyant in certain countries are seen to be dangerous because they do not preserve tradition. In reality, traditions are changed all the time so we can have fresh and diverse experiences.
https://apple.news/Anav-Q8ZdTmqGA2mLDR7Ijw

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He Spoke About Racism His Kids Had Faced in Michigan Schools During a Community Meeting. ‘Then Why Didn’t You Stay in Mexico?' a Heckler Asked

What is happening? What do you see?
The different racism situation happened toward the people of Color. A Latino parent shared a story about his child who is bullied in school because of race with other parents and school administrators. In the middle of the speech a man behind him spoke out "Then why didn't you stay in Mexico?" There are many other children suffer from racism, people need to acknowledge this issue.
Who are the people involved? School, government, parents, people of different colour.
Who is gaining and who is losing? Those who abuse others might get the pressure of being superior, but this is based on other’s dignity and beliefs.
Why is it happening? Why does it continue?
Racism has been existed for so long, it is a complex problem, related to history and religion. It keeps continue because the belief of equality is not strong enough.
How can we fix the problem?
Improve our education toward equality, spread the belief of all human are equal

https://time.com/5777363/saline-michigan-schools-racism-mexico-heckler/

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India's Women Find Their Own Voices in Protests

What is happening? What do you see?
Women have been at the forefront of protests in India against a new law, the Citizenship Amendment Act, with some women literally sitting on the streets day in and day out for more than a month. It is great to see women are now participating and expressing their thoughts in politics.

Who are the people involved? Indian, government, Hindu and Muslim
Who is gaining and who is losing? Indian young women step out and be part of a political movement. Some religious minorities might not be able to obtain citizenship.
Why is it happening? Why does it continue?

The protest continues day and night, women understand their desire to break free of the rigid hierarchy of their family is not unique to their family. It is part of a larger structural pattern of Indian society. And they understand that the Constitution is the tool to address those structural hierarchies.
How can we fix the problem?
This is a turning point in the way in which Muslim women are participating in Indian politics. They are their own leaders and they have an agenda which is much larger than themselves. The agenda is the defense of democracy in India, the defense of plurality in India, and the defense of the Indian Constitution.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-02-06/women-take-prominent-role-in-indias-nationwide-protests

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1) Those Berber women who are working to extract the oil from early mornings until events are paid less than $221 for a month, which is below Morocco’s recommended national minimum wage.
2) Those 80 women who extract Arian oil and deserved to pay fairly is not being treated with respect.
3) Cosmetic companies are gaining from the situation.
4) Women are not being fairly paid, even toward the minimum wage standard.
5) This is happening because currently, Arian oil is extracted by a large scale, in which drives down the prices of the product. As a result, the companies. will pay less wages for women in the production line. There is also less care for women in the industry line.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51370010

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1) Because of the fear of coronavirus, people are redirected their hatred toward Asian people. There is a enlarging wave of xenophobia. Even UC Berkeley Health Service tried to comfort students who are developing xenophobic thoughts, stating that it is normal.
2) Asian people are being picked out from the population. Currently, Western countries are creating racist stereotypes against them.
3) Nobody is gaining from the situation.
4) People are targeting Asian people for the coronavirus. It is continued and agitated because the coronavirus is spreading, and people are freak out by that.
5) It is easily for people to associate the disease with Asian people because the disease originates from China. However, it is important to remember that it is all about disease not race. Disease is not targeting a single race, and every one can be affected by it. It is important to remember solidarity at this point of the crisis.
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/7/21126758/coronavirus-xenophobia-racism-china-asians

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/who-killed-their-children-black-mothers-are-determined-break-culture-n1132021

The family members of victims of gun violence are going out of their way to raise awareness and collect information as a unified support group in order to bring justice to their family.

1. The family, particularly the mothers, of gun violence victims are taking a hands-on approach to bringing justice to their relatives by working together and reaching out to the neighborhood.
2. The support group, Purpose Over Pain.
3. The family gains when they are able to gain more information about their sons cases of gun violence, but they lose when they are not being heard out.
4. They are gaining support from each other as a group and allowing them to come closer to receiving "closure"
5. This is happening because of the increase in gun misusage and continues because of lack of regulation.

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/guatemalan-family-seeking-asylum-reunited-suing-feds-68829147?cid=clicksource_4380645_2_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed

A family from Guatemala has just been reunited after being separated at the Mexican border when trying to seek asylum following a violent incident that the father had to go through.

1. Because of Trump's "Remain in Mexico" asylum process, the father and 9 year old son of a Guatemalan family were separated from the mother and three daughters when trying to enter the US.
2. The family who was seeking asylum and the ACLU.
3. The family gains from eventually being allowed into the US, but also lose because of their separation and uncertainty that the father and son would be allowed in.
4. On top of not being sure that the two would be allowed into the US, the family as a whole was not certain to be granted asylum.
5. This is happening because of the controversial processes put into action by the Trump administration.

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By Summary: last February the ACLU sued the Trump administration because of the cruel and illegal separation of children and there parents. On June 26th the U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw issued a preliminary injunction that ordered the government to return all children under five years old to their parents within 14 days and within 30 days of rest.
1. What is happening? At least 2,654 immigrant children were separated from their parents because of the Trump administration.
2.who are the people involved? Government, Trump, and immigrants.
3.who is gaining who is loosing? Immigrants are loosing and there children. Not sure who gains from this situation
4. What is happening to the people involved? Tearing families apart. Children are being separated from their parents. There parents are being sent back to their homelands.
5.why is it happening why does it continue? It’s happing because of the government and Trump. It continues because we need to protest more and put a stop to this. There has been action to resolve the situation already. https://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrants-rights/immigrants-rights-and-detention/family-separation

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* https://seaturtles.org/dugong-defenders-to-rally-monday-at-s-f-hearing-on-u-s-airbases-threat-to-endangered-animals/

* Dugong Defenders to Rally Monday at S.F. Hearing on U.S. Airbase’s Threat to Endangered Animals

1. What is happening? What do you see?

*there are protests against the construction of a new US military base in Okinawa, Japan because it could wipe out the Okinawa dugong, one of Earth’s most endangered marine mammals.

2. Who are the people involved?

*the mammals, the protesters, those who are trying to have the base built

3. Who gains from the situation? Who loses?

*the military

*the mammals

4. What is the situation doing to the people involved?

*protesting and trying to pass a lawsuit

5. Why is this happening? Why does it continue?

*needs a new base and it’s currently trying to be stopped

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“Parent heckled at school meeting about racism”
1) A community meeting, meant to promote diversity at Saline Area Schools in Michigan, ended in tension after a parent was heckled while describing his children's experiences.
2) the people that are Involved are the parents and children of the saline area school district.
3) The meeting was held after "offensive and inappropriate racist comments using derogatory terms about African Americans". It is still happening because there are still many racist people in the world who are not willing to change their thoughts.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/us/racial-comment-in-school-diversity-meeting-trnd/index.html

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1. Thousands of retail workers nationwide have lost their jobs— in many instances—without severance pay or end of employment benefits due to retailers having massive shut downs and layoffs.

2. Large retailers (companies) and their employees

3. Retailers/employers lose employees and their company, but can come away with less damage if provided with bankruptcy relief. Retail employees and their families/people they support lose (their jobs and source of income)

4. It leaves former employees with little to no job security and no source of income, while they are left unemployed while in between search for other jobs

5. Retailers have been put out of businesses by major changes in how people shop, as they no longer buy from individual retailers and shop online from massive sellers like Amazon. This recent trend in buyer methods will not be changing anytime soon since online shopping has taken on such a large role in the market,

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Retail Workers Are Trying to Escape the 'Merry-Go-Round'

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As store chains close shops and jobs disappear, sales workers are looking for ways to escape the retail "merry-go-round."

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“Judge permanently blocks another Trump immigration policy”

1) A federal judge issued a permanent nationwide injunction Thursday against yet another Trump administration immigration policy: a move to make it harder for foreigners to remain in the U.S. after their legal status runs out.
2) immigrants all over the world who want to come to the US
3) it is happening because trump doesn’t want immigrants to come into the US, yet they need a place to stay since their countries are not working for them.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/06/judge-blocks-another-trump-immigration-policy-111705

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“Global Warming is Speeding Up Earth’s Massive Ocean Currents”

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/global-warming-speeding-earth-s-massive-ocean-currents

what is happening? What do you see is an injustice or potentially “bad”  or harmful situation? Paint the situation so we don't have to read the article.

In the Article “Global Warming is Speeding Up Earth’s Massive Ocean Currents”, Scientists claim that form 1990 to 2013, the Ocean’s current energy has increased by about 15% per decade. “If the acceleration is real, it could affect jet streams, weather patterns, and the amount of heat stored in the oceans depths”. The authors of the article are stating that scientists and oceanographers believe global warming is to blame for the change in the oceans currents.

Who are the people involved? Who is gaining from the situation? Who is losing?

Humans are involved in this because our current lifestyles leave a large eco footprint and affect our Earth’s climate. Nobody is really gaining from this situation since both humans and animals will be affected but animals are currently taking the brunt of the suffering.

What is happening? Why does it continue?

The Ocean’s currents are speeding up creating a large shift in the ecosystem which will affect most of the earth in the long run. The amount of Heat the oceans store, will change moving animals to migrate or die because their habitats are uninhabitable for them. It will continue because humans are not making drastic enough changes to lessen their green house gasses or eco foot print.

Why is it happening? Why does it continue?

Climates naturally change but animals and humans are given enough of a grace period that they would evolve with the earth as it changes but due to our large use and dependence on fossil fuels and toxic nonrenewable resources, we are rapidly accelerating the warming of the earth and it will kill lots of animals and cause intense weather patterns. This will continue until the earth is uninhabitable for life unless we change our lifestyles and the way our societies function.

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1. A concern with the environment is that one of two large icebergs are now floating away from antártica

2. The people involved are polar bears and people on the coast

3. The people affected are the people on the coast who are most vulnerable to the quickly rising sea levels. Also polar bears are being affected.

4. This is going to be some of the worst effects for our planet rising sea level wise.

5.  This is happening because of how we use energy and oil. We should be able to move away from use of carbon that create carbon emissions and use renewable energy because that is what is causing the rising sea levels and glaciers parting.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/two-giant-icebergs-broke-antarctica-here-s-what-means-continent-n1138821

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The Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon has been deforested to fit in ranches and agriculture,  over 80% of the Amazon is cattle and farms. Commercial fishing is the main source of food for Amazonians and it leads to overfishing. Logging has also taken so much of the forests in the Amazon territories, which happens to be one of the entire earths greatest oxygen sources considering the mass of plants producing it. Getting rid of it will be a threat to all, including since the increase of smog and pollution rises.

https://www.rainforestcruises.com/jungle-blog/threats-facing-the-amazon-rainforest

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Travel ban

On February 21st, the Trump Adminstarion has extended its ‘travel-ban’ covering Nigeria, Eritrea, Tanzania, Sudan, Kyrgyzstan, and Myanmar.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-travel-ban-expanded-muslims-africa-visas-a9345861.html
1) The primary concern is its restrictions of issuing immigrant and non-immigrant visa’s Which has been happening since 2018
2) it mainly effects those who are seeking refuge and just any immigrant or non-immigrant wanting to enter this country from any of the restricted places. And those who are anti-immigration at this point gain from this decision.
3)This isn’t a set law so it can be reversed and we should work towards that as the voting season comes into play.

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Mass shooting in Seattle
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/22/seattle-shooting-one-person-dead-as-six-people-shot-in-downtown
January 22nd,  shooting in Seattle left one dead and 7 people injured, outside a coffee shop. The victim was heard to have fled the scene. And a worker from the coffee shop heard no shots but people starting dropping tot he found and taking cover. After awhile he went outside and saw to people who had been shot but were still alive.
1) the primary concern is the suspect having a gun and how they acquired it, and if they were given a strict or background check.
2) those effected were the entire community in Seattle and especially those injured or at the scene. Those who gain unfortunately are those who now have more evidence for 4th efanger of guns in the hands of citizens
3) voters should ,make sure gun control is at least under their radar and that it is a known issue throughout

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5 older female anchors fired to bering in fresh looking talent on channel NY1 News
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/media/ny1-gender-discrimination-lawsuit/index.html

In 2019, 5 former news anchors were fired to brin in younger and “appealing” looking talent onto the station for viewer increase. These women pleaded to have been discriminated against as women and as older people.

1) This effects older women in media everywhere, as they become “less appealing” to audiences  and are pushed aside to bring in less experienced employees. And effects all women as it is basing what we watch in how others look and not their abilities or worth ethic.
2) all women suffer a loss and hopefully have gotten s good settlement in the lawsuit.

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Naming a street after MLK harder than expected

Based on the specific neighborhood or city, it can take weeks or years to name a street after the infamous Dr. Martin Luther King, who had brought great change and solidarity to the US in ditfficult times. So to name a street after him is the least we can do.

1) I can see that some white areas don’t see the need for another street named after him or are against it in the first place. Yet having his name all around us will remind of us the work he did and the work we must all continue.
2) it affects the African American communities everywhere as they deserve to have a representation of their pride and worth around like every other culture and race should have. And it gains for white community memebers as they can just keep denying the right for his name to be on our street signs.
3)This happens because even though it’s been years and years there are still people out there who believe other races especially regarding black people in American that they are not equal to others such as white people. And breaking down the facts we can see they are people, and the mistakes we use as 4xcuses are because of the labels and hardship white people place on them.

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1. Asian people are being blamed for the spread of coronavirus. As the virus spreads around the world more and more asian people are being harassed and attacked for the spread of the disease.

2. Asian people and communities all over the world are being affected by this.

3. No one gains anything from this situation

4. The people involved are being attacked because people are afraid that since they are asian they have coronavirus

5. This issue continues as coronavirus continues to spread to different countries.

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As Coronavirus Spreads, So Does Xenophobia and Anti-Asian Racism

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Coronavirus has infected people in at least 83 countries. Two new incidents of racism related to the outbreak have been reported in the U.K.

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1. Women all over the world are marching for equal rights. Sunday was women’s day so there events all over the world.

2. The people involved are mostly women and they are trying to get a lot of the things men receive and women do not.

3. No one loses

4. Women are being treated like they are less then men and one of the main things is that women are payed less then men

5. Women have been treated like they are less then men since forever and it continues as people don’t fully realize what is happening.

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International Women's Day

Marches to raise awareness of discrimination against women are taking place in cities around the world to mark International Women's Day.
The protests have been widespread and well-attended despite concerns about the coronavirus.

People around the world have been marking 8 March as a special day for women for more than a century.

It grew out of the labour movement to become a UN-recognised annual event.

Women at Turkey's border with Greece held a demonstration demanding they be permitted to cross during International Women's Day. There have been fierce clashes between migrants and Greek border security as the former seek access to the EU

Bangladeshi women played basketball on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka, in a match organised for International Women's Day

In Pakistan marches took place in several cities in the face of violent threats and legal petitions. Here, supporters of the Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami march in Karachi.

Pakistan on knife edge over women's march

In the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek police detained dozens of women's rights activists shortly after masked men reportedly attacked marchers. Activists say women's rights are deteriorating in the country.

In Belarus women took part in a "beauty run" to mark the day. Here, women warm up ahead of the run.

Women in the Spanish capital Madrid's Sol Square shouted and bashed pots and pans together to mark the start of the International Women's Day.

More of our coverage of International Women's Day:

A guide: History, strikes and celebrations

Hidden women: Fighting the online gender gap

Eight ways the world is not designed for women

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In pictures: Women worldwide march for equality

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International Women's Day Marches to raise awareness of discrimination against women are taking place in cities around the world to mark International Women's Day. The protests have been widespread and well-attended despite concerns about the coronavirus. People around the world have been marking 8 March as a special day for women for more than a century.