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The Southwest Stories Initiative
The Southwest Stories initiative
The Southwest Stories initiative:Read their articles below, and visit The Journal of the Plague Year to learn more about—and perhaps contribute your story—to this online archive about what how people around the U.S. and the world are experiencing life under the pandemic.
- is a partnership between the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and The Journal of the Plague Year (hosted by the School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies)
- employs students and journalists who lost their employment due to the pandemic in documenting and preserving stories about life under the pandemic for vulnerable individuals and communities who have, in many ways, been most impacted by the virus
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Migrants and I.C.E. detainees:
COVID-19 threatens migrant, officer safety at cramped ICE detention centers
Jessica Myers
AUG 2020
This article also appears in KTAR News, Pinal Central News, & Informed Comment
Incarcerated persons:
‘They’re scared’: A look inside the COVID-19 crisis
in Arizona prisons'
Katelyn Keenehan
JUL 2020
This article also appears in MSN News, The Copper Courier, the Tucson Sentinel, Tucson Weekly, & Daily Independent News Media
Agricultural workers:
'As pandemic rages, farmworkers say employers are ‘prioritizing production over…lives’
Jessica Myers
JUL 2020
Article also appears in Arizona Big Media, Tucson Local Media, Tucson Weekly, & The Wenatchee World
Arizona dairy farms pivot from restaurants to food banks as COVID-19 shifts demand
Sarandon Raboin
JUL 2020
Article also appears in Prescott eNews, Tucson Weekly, & the Tucson Sentinel