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Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions         June 2011  more highlights from the summer 2011 issue of YES! A Quieter Life Now In an exchange of letters with a dear friend, Wendell Berry explains why his writing is only a small part of the movement against greed and waste. YES! contributing editor Madhu Suri Prakash is a longtime friend of poet, essayist, novelist, activist, and farmer Wendell Berry. Inspired by changing attitudes among her college students, who were reading Berry, Madhu declared the Wendell Berry Era, and wrote to him, proposing that he write an open letter to President Obama calling for funding to establish new small farms. A correspondence ensued… READ THEIR LETTERS … :: SHARE THIS NEWSLETTER WITH YOUR FRIENDS    :: SPECIAL OFFER FOR EMAIL READERS: just $12 + FREE issue SUBSCRIBE TODAY! :: PEEK INSIDE THE NEW ISSUE :: WENDELL BERRY POSTER :: Wendell Berry’s 17 Rules for Sustainable Communities. If the members of a local community want their community to cohere, to flourish, and to last, these are some things they would do…   More from the Beyond Prisons Issue of YES! Magazine…   Recipes for Recovery In San Francisco, Delancey Street, now celebrating its 40th year, has quietly built a model program that has kept thousands of addicts and ex-offenders from landing back in prison. It isn’t just a treatment program—it’s an all-hands-on-deck community that recognizes that everyone, even an addict or ex-convict, has a skill to offer others. At Delancey Street, you don’t just go through treatment; you are put to work helping those around you rebuild their lives.    MORE ON THE PLACE WHERE EX-CONS SHOW EACH OTHER THE WAY OUT … Instead of Prison 2.3 million people behind bars. How to stop wasting lives and money. Sarah van Gelder’s introduction to the Summer issue of YES! Magazine, “Beyond Prisons.” Why Punish Pain? A hit of compassion could keep drugs from becoming a crime problem. Can Prison Be a Healing Place? Why the warden of Hawaii’s only women’s prison creates a sanctuary for its residents. Drug Warrior No More Seattle’s ex-police chief, Norm Stamper, now fights to end the war on drugs.   From the new issue of YES! Magazine…   Signs of Life Small Stories About Big Change Farming Careers for Young Veterans Soldiers returning to a bleak job market grow a new set of skills. :: READ MORE SIGNS OF LIFE :: Preventing Sexual Assault Freedom from harassment is part of a student’s right to an equal education. Closing Down Coal Plants Why shutting down 20 boilers nationwide could herald big changes for our energy future.   What’s New Online   Slower Living for a Rooted Future by John Cavanagh, Robin Broad Vermont is leading the way toward agricultural and economic change. What we can learn from the “Slow Living Summit” about building sustainable futures everywhere. How the Left and Right Can Unite by David Korten If we’d stop tearing each other apart, we might see an opportunity to win back our democracy from the rich and powerful. “America Has the Wealth to End the Despair” by Sarah Anderson, Marlee Blasenheim Nurses come face-to-face with the fallout of the financial crisis every day. Now they’ve joined the worldwide movement for a tax that would curb financial speculation —and help fill public needs. A Simple Idea to Transform the Life of Our Cities by Jay Walljasper Even a short stretch of car-free pavement empowers pedestrians to realize the road belongs to them, too. :: 6 STEPS TO RECLAIM    YOUR STREETS   Did you miss…   Highlights from the last newsletter: :: Think Outside the Bars How fixing a broken prison system can help build a new movement for justice. :: The Old Economy’s Not Coming Back. So What’s Next?    Meet the people and ideas on the cutting edge of the movement for a new economy. :: Renouncing, Reclaiming, Rebuilding: The 3 Steps of Radical Homemaking   Shannon Hayes on the process of replacing the “givens” of mainstream life with more resilient ways of living.   How to Get More YES!  $12 SUBSCRIPTION Get a year of YES! Magazine for just $12. + A BONUS ISSUE :: 63% OFF NONPROFIT. INDEPENDENT. SUBSCRIBER-SUPPORTED. GIVE THE GIFT OF YES! to a friend YES! KLEAN KANTEEN® Instant inspiration* (*Just add water) Support our work and support the planet too with the healthiest, safest bottle you can get.   Books  Diary of an Eco-Outlaw An Unreasonable Woman Breaks the Law for Mother Earth… YES! reviews the latest book from offbeat activist Diane Wilson.    :: LISTEN TO DIANE WILSON talk about trying to pull off a hunger strike in Texas, and the isolating experience of being in prison. :: MORE REVIEWS   Commentary  Two Points for the Tea Party. Now What? by David Korten We can all agree that we’ve got deficit and spending problems. But where do we go from here? :: MORE STRATEGIC THINKING:    YES! COMMENTARIES   Web Picks   VIDEO Complete Streets: It’s About More Than Bike Lanes How a few simple changes have transformed streets in New York City. Life in a Local Living Economy How Bellingham, Washington keeps it local.   Define American: Jose Antonio Vargas Tells His Story Pulitzer-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas opens up about his life as an undocumented immigrant —and the “underground railroad” that made it possible. FILM Egypt: Seeds of Change A video primer from Al Jazeera for would-be nonviolent revolutionaries everywhere. YES! is published by the nonprofit Positive Futures Network   ::  www.yesmagazine.org 284 Madrona Way NE, Suite 116, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-2870, USA  ::  Phone: 206-842-0216

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