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2 months ago | 
gwhatchet.com | Rory Quealy |Alexia Massoud
GW student groups and community organizations launched training sessions and educational programs in the wake of President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration executive orders to support refugees and prepare for potential raids.
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2 months ago | 
gwhatchet.com | Alexia Massoud
Members of GW’s music program are continuing to report temperature fluctuations in Phillips Hall that have disrupted classes and damaged instruments amid a three-year HVAC overhaul in the building. Seven faculty, staff and students said the building’s basement, which houses Corcoran School of the Arts & Design’s music program, has faced temperature irregularities for years that range between 40 and 90 degrees and render instruments off-key.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
gwhatchet.com | Alexia Massoud
More than a year after employees at the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum voted to unionize, workers are pushing in ongoing contract negotiations for pay that accounts for D.C.’s cost of living and their educational qualifications.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
planetforward.org | Alexia Massoud
On one side of a street in Congress Heights, a neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C., is an abandoned grocery store residents once relied on. On the other side sits Terry Hall’s store, an attempt by the 66-year-old man to bring essential household items to the the city’s Ward 8, one of its chronically underserved areas.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
planetforward.org | Alexia Massoud
The Well at Oxon Run is a one-acre community farm and wellness space located in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Anacostia, a designated food desert. The farm is open for the 2024 growing season, which is expected to be the best yet, according to The Well’s farm manager. The farm’s growing season lasts from March to October, during which the space is open and hosts a plethora of health and wellness activities for the community, said Charles Rominiyi, The Well’s Program Manager.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Alexia Massoud
Society The dinosaur, estimated to be over 230 million years old, is among the oldest and most complete fossils of its kind ever found. 4 min read In the aftermath of the severe flooding that ravaged Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state, a remarkable discovery was made.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Gustavo Ribeiro |Alexia Massoud
Aug 12, 2024 9:33 7 min read Good morning! This week, we talk about a major deal between meat giants Marfrig and Minerva. How female athletes were responsible for Brazil’s Paris 2024 success. And what to expect from Brazil’s soybean farms. â If you like our work and want to give us an extra boost, you can fill up our reporters’ coffee mugs. Supporters get exclusive perks! Find out more. Major meat industry deal close to completionMinerva meat plant in Barretos.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Alexia Massoud
2 min read Last week, it was Japan that was thwarting the efforts of Brazil’s Olympians at seemingly every turn. But as we reach the business end of the Paris Games, a new (and even more powerful) rival has emerged for Brazil: the U.S.Today, Brazil’s hotly tipped women’s volleyball team lost its semi-final against the Americans in a tie-breaker, just days after the U.S. dispatched Brazil’s men’s team.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Alexia Massoud
2 min read Even though Brazilians are glued to their screens, watching and cheering for their homegrown athletes at the Paris Olympics, politics is not taking a holiday. Shortly after gymnast Rebeca Andrade won her historic gold medal in the individual floor exercise final, right-wing profiles began spreading social media posts blaming President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for “taxing” the medals won by Brazil’s Olympians.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Alexia Massoud
3 min read Twenty-four years ago, Brazil’s athletes returned from the Sydney Olympics branded as underachievers, without a single gold medal — the first time that had happened since the 1976 Games. “Team Brazil saw Sydney 2000 as an opportunity to become a global Olympic power. It ended up not even being a South American power,” said one newspaper. In response, Brazil changed its investment policies, and the results followed.
