YES! Magazine Weekly Digest | Friday 6 March 2015

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Can the Left and Right Unite to End Corporate Rule? An Interview with Ralph Nader and Daniel McCarthy

Partisan gridlock keeps the focus on the fight—but we might have some radical ideas in common.

“The Internet Is My Lifeline”: Hip-Hop Artist Jasiri X on the FCC’s Net Neutrality Vote

Women Over 65 Own Nearly a Third of Iowa’s Farmland—Can They Prevent the Next Dust Bowl?

Craigslist Saved 5M Tons of Stuff From Landfills—And 4 Other New Stats on Local Economies

What’s the True Impact of the Alternative Economy? Researchers Decide It’s Time to Find Out

When the Grandmothers Awoke

These Neighbors Got Together to Buy Vacant Buildings. Now They’re Renting to Bakers and Brewers

Though the model is new and small, it holds outsize potential for the many neighborhoods whose downtowns are controlled by faraway landlords or retail chains.

Forget Dystopian Fiction: This New Novel Explores Being a Modern Teenager Waiting for the End Times

We’re Young, Passionate, and Bent on Justice: Why #BlackLivesMatter Is Irresistible

Students for Economic Pluralism, Unite! How College Kids Are Taking on the “High Priests” of Money

These Cities Built Cheap, Fast, Community-Owned Broadband. Here’s What Net Neutrality Means For Them

Publicly owned broadband lets local communities from Iowa to Louisiana control a vital economic resource—rather than leaving it in the hands of a few monopolistic corporations. The outcome of this week’s FCC vote could either help or hinder the path forward.

From Warrior Cops to Community Police: A Former Chief on How We Can Turn Back the Tide of Militarization

The Largest Chinese Bike Share Program Is 12 Times the Size of NYC’s

“We’ve Known What Police Brutality Feels Like”: Pussy Riot’s Tribute Song to Eric Garner

FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE

Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten

What if we measured wealth in terms of life, and how well we serve it.

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Yes! Magazine Weekly Digest Friday, February 27, 2015

02.27.2015 PEACE & JUSTICE PLANET NEW ECONOMY PEOPLE POWER HAPPINESS yesmagazine.org A Conversation With David Korten In 1995, YES! co-founder David Korten wrote When Corporations Rule the World, followed by a series of books that helped birth the New Economy movement. Now, Korten is challenging readers to rethink their relationship with the natural world. In the new issue of YES! Korten talks with us about what it means to recognize Earth as a living being. P.S. We have two exciting internships open in online reporting and online graphic storytelling. If you know any new journalists interested in gigs that are heavy on research, writing, data, and fun, please let them know! Christa Hillstrom, web managing editor Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten What if we measured wealth in terms of life, and how well we serve it? READ MORE » Forget Dystopian Fiction: This New Novel Explores Being a Modern Teenager Waiting for the End Times In Bryan Bliss’ debut novel, 16-year-old Abigail’s family follows a charismatic preacher to San Francisco, where they live in a van to wait out the apocalypse. But if you believe completely that the world is coming to an end, what do you do when it doesn’t? READ MORE » Women Over 65 Own Nearly a Third of Iowa’s Farmland—Can They Prevent the Next Dust Bowl? So many older women are inheriting farms that some experts believe training them in land conservation may be society’s best bet in protecting the food supply. READ MORE » We’re Young, Passionate, and Bent on Justice: Why #BlackLivesMatter Is Irresistible The people dying are moms and dads, kids and teenagers, nerdy, quiet boys and girls. This movement is showing what wholeness looks like and demanding an uncompromised justice. READ MORE » These Neighbors Got Together to Buy Vacant Buildings. Now They’re Renting to Bakers and Brewers Though the model is new and small, it holds outsize potential for the many neighborhoods whose downtowns are controlled by faraway landlords or retail chains. READ MORE » These Cities Built Cheap, Fast, Community-Owned Broadband. Here’s What Net Neutrality Means For Them Publicly owned broadband lets local communities from Iowa to Louisiana control a vital economic resource—rather than leaving it in the hands of a few monopolistic corporations. The outcome of this week’s FCC vote could either help or hinder the path forward. READ MORE » How has the experience of seeing our planet from outer space changed the way we think about it? WATCH » Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten Reader Treeshare asked, “What if we created a currency that was only issued upon the creation of new natural wealth?” READ MORE »

Yes! Magazine This Week September 5, 2014

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PEACE & JUSTICE PLANET NEW ECONOMY PEOPLE POWER HAPPINESS yesmagazine.org Farmers Connect to Save Family Farming Our country’s small-scale family farms, once the core of many communities, are in jeopardy. Older farmers are retiring, but the high cost of land makes it tough for young ones to take their place.This week, we explore intergenerational projects providing help through apprenticeships and succession planning so that farmers—old and new—can connect with each other. Cooperation across the generations may be the key to keeping family farms prosperous for years to come. Liz Pleasant, web assistant To Save Family Farms from Corporate Buyout, Retiring Farmers Connect with a New Generation In the next 20 years, many American family farmers are likely to retire—putting enormous amounts of land on the market. Here’s how they’re connecting with young farmers to make sure the family farm survives. READ MORE » Beyond the CSA: Four Ways Communities Support Everything From Books to Beer You know the model: Consumers purchase a share of the season’s harvest upfront and get a box of fresh produce each week from the farm. Now you can get your medicine that way too. READ MORE » Obamacare Closed a Loophole for CEO Pay—And Won Taxpayers $72M The savings from 2013 alone could pay for dental care for 262,000 Americans for an entire year. READ MORE » The Radical Homemaker’s Guide to Friendship and Chocolate Cake Sure, life goes on even if it is devoid of buttercream. But when it is there, life just seems so perfect—even if you only get to eat buttercream once or twice in a year. READ MORE » The Enchanted Land Where Community College Is Free? Welcome to Tennessee in 2015 A new bill provides two years of tuition at a community college for participating high school grads who might otherwise face a 7.5 percent unemployment rate—and other states are already following suit. READ MORE » The Antidote to Mansplaining: Rebecca Solnit on Everyday Sexism and What We Can Do About It Useful as it may be as journalistic shorthand, “mansplaining” is cultural bubblegum in comparison to Solnit’s actual body of work. READ MORE » For Walkers and Cyclists, A Swedish Road-Planning Strategy Helps Save Lives Utah, Minnesota, and Washington have seen traffic fatalities decline by 40 percent. Here’s how they did it. READ MORE » 6 Ways to Bring More Empathy to the Internet We asked psychologists, user experience designers, and writers what web users could to do to promote more empathic interaction in online places. Here’s what they said. READ MORE » More than 400 workers and supporters were arrested on Thursday amid a nationwide wave of walkouts and demonstrations. WATCH » Should Your Town Have the Right to Ban Fracking? These Laws Will Have to Change First Reader Cindy Kudlik writes, “Yeah, mob rule … scary! Unlike corporate rule, right? Mob rule, as you have defined it, is what gave women and freed slaves the vote. It’s what this country was founded on!” READ MORE »

YES! This Week :: Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions

The Rise of Women Farmers

This week, my team looked over the preliminary numbers from the most recent census of agriculture. While the overall picture is something of a mixed bag, we noticed that women now represent 14 percent of primary farm operators and are more likely to farm organically and own their own farms. They’re helping to create a more sustainable food system, and we’re happy to bring you their story.

James Trimarco, web editor

Think You Know What a Farmer Looks Like? Think Again. Preliminary results from the 2012 Census of Agriculture show the increasing role of women in U.S. agriculture—especially on organic and small-scale farms. READ MORE »

Protecting Classrooms From Corporate Takeover: What Families Can Learn from Teachers’ Unions Teachers are fighting the privatization wave by connecting with families right where they live. READ MORE »

The Underground Railroad Was One of America’s First Co-ops: A Black History Tour of Cooperative Economics From slavery to Jim Crow to cities today, African-Americans have been leading the cooperative movement. READ MORE »

They Started by Blockading a Bus Full of Detainees—And Went on to Shake Up the Immigration Debate A look at the growing influence of undocumented voices in the movement for immigrant rights. READ MORE »

Don’t Leave BitCoin to the Libertarians! (Or, Why Your Movement Needs Open Source Money) Movements for economic justice and equality are rarely flush with cash. But “cryptocurrencies” like Bitcoin might stand to change the rules in their favor. READ MORE »

Work Less, Live More Working fewer hours could help save our economy, our sanity, and the planet. READ MORE »

Why did an elementary school math problem go viral? It has to do with a new set of federal education standards known as the Common Core. WATCH » The Myth Behind Public School Failure Reader Annette Magjuka writes, “There has been a tremendous loss of bright women teachers. Starting in the late 70s, women could get higher paying jobs in many more fields. Previous to this, women were secretaries, nurses, or teachers.” READ MORE »

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Yes! Magazine Weekly Roundup November 22, 2013

Reclaiming the Joy of Real Food

How did junk food displace the nourishing, seasonal, local traditions of cooking and eating? Just in time for Thanksgiving, the new issue of YES! is about reclaiming food—for our health and for ecological health. You’ll find slow food, shared food, food carts, fermented food, indigenous food, and reasons to get down and dirty. Rediscover the joy of great eating, spiced with love and tradition.

Sarah van Gelder, executive editor

A Peek Inside

TPP Protestors to Foreign Negotiators: “Don’t Let U.S. Bully You” Negotiators from Latin American and Asian countries said they were “doing their best” to stand up to the U.S. Trade Representative. READ MORE »

“Cowboys and Indians” Camp Together to Build Alliance Against Keystone XL At the Ponca Trail of Tears Spiritual Camp, tribal members and their ranchers are learning to understand each other as never before. READ MORE »

Forget the Food Industry: Rediscover the Pleasure of Buying, Cooking, and Eating Real Food Junk food may have captured the American palate, but a few simple ingredients and techniques can win it back. READ MORE »

8 Courageous Things Harry Potter Fans Did to Fight Real-Life Dark Forces If Harry Potter was a real person, he’d fight child labor, voter suppression, and poverty. Here are our favorite ways Harry’s fans have taken his values from the page to the real world. READ MORE »

The Hunger Games Are Real: Teenage Fans Remind the World What Katniss Is Really Fighting For What if we used fantasy not as an escape from our world, but an invitation to look deeper into it? How teenage fans are fighting injustice—in real life. READ MORE »

Why the UN Climate Negotiations Give Me Hope (In Spite of Everything) It’s possible to find hope for action In the new generation’s determination and clarity—even after 19 years of stalled negotiations. READ MORE »

“Beauty Feeds a Different Kind of Hunger”: An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams “I used to ask the question, ‘Am I an activist or a writer?’ I don’t ask that anymore. I am simply a human being engaged.” READ MORE »

How To Eat Like Our Lives Depend On It: Rediscovering the Many Joys of Food It’s time to reclaim the well-being and exuberance that is part of healthy food culture. READ MORE »

World Governments: If You Won’t Take the Lead on Climate Change, Then the People Will If governments fail to listen to mounting protests demanding clean energy, people’s movements will put their futures in question. READ MORE »

Lian Pin Koh shows us how drones can be used for animal conservation, and keep an eye on poachers in the process. WATCH » Monsanto May Have Won the Battle, But the Future of Food Is Not Lost Reader Tad Veltrop writes, “The right to know what is in our food is a modest initiative, but its a start to curb a dangerous food system.” READ MORE »

Yes! Magazine Weekly Highlights November 8, 2013

Grandmothers Leading the Way

What’s one radical way to change the world right now? Ask your grandmother. From Joan Southgate, who walked 1,000 miles to trace the Underground Railroad to Moyoni Olive, who became a solar engineer even though she’d never been to school, grandmothers know what’s up. They have deep roots in our communities and the foresight to plan for generations to come. In this YES! Newsletter, we feature grandmothers because we understand that by empowering grandmothers, we empower entire villages.

Katrina Rabeler, editorial intern

Monsanto May Have Won the Battle for I-522, But the Future of Food Is Not Lost As final results come in for Initiative 522, advocates of GMO labeling are saying we need to change the system, not just the supermarket. READ MORE »

Why Is It So Hard to Find Films Where Women Actually Talk to Each Other? How Sweden’s Making It Easier Four Stockholm cinemas are adopting a system that rates films on how deeply their female characters are developed—and how much they interact. It could radically change the way we see movies. READ MORE »

Dear Michelle Obama: If We Want to Curb Childhood Obesity, Sesame Street Is Not Going to Cut It Can a licensing deal between Sesame Street and the Produce Marketing Association truly improve childhood health? Maybe, but grassroots solutions already exist. READ MORE »

21-Day Gratitude Challenge: I’m Grateful I Can Honor the Child I Lost By Being More Open to Love Today A moving sampling of participants’ reflections from the first two days of the Gratitude Challenge. READ MORE »

Hey, NY Times, Want Fairness in Pacific Trade Deal? Then Advocates Must Get Seat at the Table A recent editorial in the The New York Times argued that the Trans Pacific Partnership should strengthen environmental and labor regulations. But that won’t happen unless we change the process. READ MORE »

Bill de Blasio: A Mayor for the New Economy New York City’s new mayor has laid out a radically inclusive economic agenda. READ MORE »

How the Voters of One Small County May Have Stopped 48 Million Tons of Coal In a council election unlike any other in the history of Whatcom County, voters sided with representatives believed to be against a proposed coal export facility. READ MORE »

Four Signs that Regular Folks Can Still Win (and One That Shows the Power of Money) Here are four cases in yesterday’s election where people power won out over corporate interests. And one that went the other way. READ MORE »

“Anonymous” Hacktivists to Government: “You Can’t Arrest Us All” In new video, the hacker collective vows to stand by those targeted by what it deems “corrupt governments.” READ MORE »

Frustrated with Monsanto’s latest triumph over the grassroots movement to label genetically modified foods? Stephen Colbert lets you laugh about it. WATCH » Madeline Ostrander on Adapting Climate Change Reader Malagodi writes: “In many places, focusing on adaptation is the prudent thing. But in Miami … low-lying parts will be underwater in a few years, regardless of how much we spend to protect them. Meanwhile, those …” READ MORE »

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