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Houston’s Most Polluted Area Says No to Pipeline If the Keystone XL pipeline is approved, 90 percent of the tar sands crude that flows through it will be processed near an embattled Houston neighborhood called Manchester. Residents are joining up to demand a healthier future. |
Rights, Not Riots: What Seattle’s May Day Was All About The largest march on May Day in Seattle was about immigrant families and their supporters standing together for human rights. Not to be confused with the rowdiness that took place later in the day. |
Tim DeChristopher Returns to a Movement Transformed by Courage Tim DeChristopher, who was just released from federal custody, is best known as the man who disrupted an auction of pristine public lands. But there’s more to his story than his role as “Bidder 70.”
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No More Steubenvilles: How To Raise Boys to be Kind Men What can we do to help young men respect women, recognize consent, and have healthy sexual relationships? Teach them kindness to others—and the courage to go against the crowd. |
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Dancing the World into Being: A Conversation with Idle No More’s Leanne Simpson Naomi Klein speaks with writer, spoken-word artist, and indigenous academic Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about “extractivism,” memories of the land, and what’s next for Idle No More.
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Rapper Brother Ali on Privilege and Hope In this exclusive interview, hip-hop artist Brother Ali talks to YES! about the personal transformations that have shaped his life and lyrics. |
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Building a Solar Economy: 4 Lessons from Hawaii Hawaii generates more of its power from the sun than any other state. Here’s what the rest of us can learn from the obstacles that came up along the way and and what’s being done to overcome them. |
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Why Canada's Indigenous Uprising Is About All of Us When a new law paved the way for tar sands pipelines and other fossil fuel development on native lands, four women swore to be “idle no more.” The idea took off.
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Could Our Deepest Fears Hold the Key to Ending Violence? Feelings of fear and powerlessness are driving the cycle of violence that surrounds us. To change that, we need to recognize that we need each other to thrive as individuals.
Argentina Takes on Vulture Funds in “Debt Trial of the Century” For years, "vulture funds" have preyed on struggling nations by purchasing their debt for a pittance. Could an upcoming U.S. court decision put an end to the extortion of poor countries?
“World’s Greenest Office Building” Makes Net-Zero Look Easy It’s a commercial office space equipped with composting toilets, rainwater showers, and a stairway designed to be so beautiful that no one ever takes the elevator. |
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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! |
