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Crédito: Agencia Uno. El Gobierno activó nuevamente el  ‘Código Azul’ para acudir en ayuda de personas en situación de calle debido a las bajas temperaturas pronosticadas para esta noche. La medida regirá desde este viernes en toda la  Región Metropolitana y en las comunas de  Los Andes y Los Ángeles. Existen dos posibles escenarios bajo los cuales se activa el Código Azul: precipitaciones medias-intensas con una temperatura de ci...

George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died May 25 after a Minneapolis police officer placed his knee on Floyd’s neck while apprehending him until Floyd couldn’t breathe. Floyd’s death motivated Mike Padden, NIU alumnus and civil rights attorney, to write a book on a lawsuit he finished representing just two months before Floyd’s death: the...

European docs dominate the programme of the Krakow Film Festival The Red Ring by Joonas Berhall As Poland is slowly reopening after weeks of lockdown, with cinemas scheduled to be operating again no later than 29 May, the Krakow Film Festival, celebrating its 61st edition this spring, has announced its selection. This year, the gathering will take place both in physical form and virtually, hopefully inaugurating an entire offline festival season in Poland. Due to the pandemic, the programme of ...

European docs dominate the programme of the Krakow Film Festival The Red Ring by Joonas Berhall As Poland is slowly reopening after weeks of lockdown, with cinemas scheduled to be operating again no later than 29 May, the Krakow Film Festival, celebrating its 61st edition this spring, has announced its selection. This year, the gathering will take place both in physical form and virtually, hopefully inaugurating an entire offline festival season in Poland. Due to the pandemic, the programme of ...

Image: Maropeng, the Cradle of Humankind, is one of the Google Arts & Culture/ SA Tourism online exhibition Throughout history, after every global crisis such as the one we’re experiencing, a new era of thinking and living begins. How we shop, learn and play has evolved, with some changes brought on by the pandemic, and others brought on by technology’s acceleration. We’ve rounded up interesting insights from industry executives around new transformations, experiences and offerings in th...

If you’re black and disabled, you’re even more vulnerable. Specifically, what we’re dealing with today is a skewed shoot-to-kill mindset in which police, trained to view themselves as warriors or soldiers in a war, whether against drugs, or terror, or crime, must “get” the bad guys—i.e., anyone who is a potential target—before the bad guys get them. This nationwide epidemic of court-sanctioned police violence carried out with impunity against individuals posing little or no real t...

Feb 25, 2021 Stellenbosch-based Clevva and UK-based Blue Prism have announced a partnership that combines Clevva’s front-office solutions with Blue Prism’s back-office solutions to deliver an end-to-end customer service offering. Under the partnership, Blue Prism will sell Clevva’s digital experts through its global digital exchange and partner network that already makes use of its digital workers. Clevva’s low-code web platform lets companies easily create and deploy their own front-en...

Thomas ONeil-White / WBFO News The criminal justice system is a key part of America’s race problem, according to panelists during a virtual session sponsored Thursday evening by Erie Community College’s Anti-Racism Task Force. The topic was "Black and Blue: Policing Communities of Color." For the speakers, the topic has changed considerably because of the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 by a mainly white mob. One speaker said the riot would have ended far differently if the mob had b...

We need to be doing systemic proactive reforring. >> i want to underline that. i think thats not a small point. that it becomes overwhelmingly easy to look at the person who is the shooter, right, not that there isnt responsibility there. but the ways in which we have all of these that create these bad acts but often not walking back up the chain and saying where do these incentives come from, what kind of messages are people getting and quite honestly this idea of good officers but still part o...

>> father, do you think the superintendent being asked to step down, will that make a difference? >> i think its only a step. the body is sick of the police department. you can take off the head but youve still got the same sick body. we go into that whole community of blue code. youre talking about a police department that keeps talking about communitys got to come forward, communitys got to talk, communitys got to be honest. even if youre afraid, tell the truth. >> report crimes that you see? ...