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This New Bill Could Put 2,500 More People in Prison "Violence is not simply shooting people. Violence is also poverty. It's also incarceration—putting people in prison is incredibly violent." |
How I Got My Husband To Take Care of His Body If it takes being a "controlling wife" to get my husband to value his health, I'll do it |
We Know Who Stole the Economy—But Did You Know Who's Aiming to Take It Back? "Listen to and work with your base to create a shared, big-picture narrative." |
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"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. |
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8 Courageous Things Harry Potter Fans Did to Fight Real-Life Dark Forces If Harry Potter were 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. |
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"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." |
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There Are Still More Libraries Than McDonald’s Locations in the United States (and 24 other facts you should probably know). |
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Vandana Shiva On Resisting GMOs: "Saving Seeds Is a Political Act" Why the fight for biodiversity is about protecting life itself. |
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Artist's Dollar-Bill Collages Question the Meaning of Money "Anarchists are certain I'm an anarchist because I cut up a favorite tool of the oppressor," artist Mark Wagner says. "Capitalists think I'm a capitalist because I revel in it." |
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Bill de Blasio: A Mayor for the New Economy New York City's new mayor has laid out a radically inclusive economic agenda. A Year After Sandy, a Co-op Alliance Could Bring Jobs Back to the Rockaways Last year, Sandy massively disrupted of some of the East Coast’s neighborhood economies. But worker-owned cooperatives are creating jobs with real wealth and meaning. Can Eminent Domain Be Used to Avert a Foreclosure Mess? This California City Thinks So Governments usually use eminent domain powers to displace people. But one hardscrabble Bay Area city is going to the mat to do just the opposite—stabilize its economy and keep residents where they are. Nobel Prize? Meet the Economic Movement That Really Deserves Praise This week, the Nobel Prize for economics may have gone to three academics, but the real work of fixing our local economies was happening on the ground—as part of New Economy Week. |
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Money and Life: The Bright Side of the Money Crisis Is this “the most exciting time to be alive in human history”? The economists and scientists interviewed in this film think so, and the reasons are all about the chance to create a more fair and sustainable global economy. |
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James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade Sedat Pakay’s disarming photos of James Baldwin during his time in Turkey show a side of the great writer most of us have never seen. |
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... and other inspiration while putting together the Spring 2013 issue of YES! |
