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In this newsletter, a preview of the
new issue of YES!
Beyond Prisons
How to Stop Wasting Lives and Money
The United States locks up more people than any other country, but that hasn’t made us safer. The drug war jails thousands of nonviolent addicts. Taxpayers and poor communities lose as states slash social programs to pay for prisons. There’s a better way—compassion, not punishment; restoration, not isolation. It’s less costly, more humane—and it works.
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Susie’s Story
The Night I Forgave My Daughter’s Killer
We hoped this would be a once-in-a-lifetime family vacation—camping for a whole month in Montana. One night, at our first stop, our 7-year-old daughter Susie was kidnapped out of our tent.
My husband and dad drove to the next town and returned with the sheriff. A massive investigation ensued, while all we could do was to sit at the picnic table and watch, wait, and worry.
That was the day that I got in touch with my rage. That night, getting ready for bed, I said to my husband, “Even if the kidnapper were to bring Susie back, alive and well, I could kill him with my bare hands and a smile on my face.”
I knew the kidnapper could be liable for the death penalty, and I wanted him to hang high. However, I had always tried to live my faith with integrity, and my conscience was calling me to forgive my enemy. I realized if I gave myself to that desire for revenge, it would obsess and consume me. So, I promised to cooperate with whatever could move my heart from fury to forgiveness. One year to the minute after the kidnapper had taken Susie, he called me at my home in Michigan…
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The Locked Gate
Standing Up for My Brother on Death Row
My brother and I don’t always agree, but I know he’s innocent, and I’ll never walk out on him again.
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| Keeping a Family Connected… |
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THE YES! INTERVIEW:
Obama’s Sister: What Our Mother Taught Us
by Fran Korten
In 1984, YES! Publisher Fran Korten worked alongside Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Soetoro, at the Ford Foundation’s office in Jakarta, Indonesia. Ann’s daughter, Maya, who was 14 at the time, attended the Jakarta International School with Fran’s daughters, Alicia and Diana.
Maya was recently in Seattle preparing for the launch of her new children’s book, Ladder to the Moon, and Fran talked with her for the first time in 27 years, about the book, her life, and her reflections on her mother and her famous brother.
READ MORE…
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| Looking ahead to the Fall… |
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How Can We Solve the Jobs Crisis?
Targeting workers, the unemployed, and public services won’t do it. Help us find the solutions that will.
Our editorial team is already looking ahead to issue #59 of YES!, on the Jobs Crisis.
Yes, we’re still in an economic crisis. But no, the answer isn’t to throw public sector workers under the bus or abandon our schools, safety net, and environmental protections. The answer is to redeploy our many resources to build an economy that can work for everyone and sustain the ecological systems we depend on. This issue will explore realistic pathways to that economy.
How have you created livelihoods for yourself or your community in tough times?
What creative ideas would other YES! readers want to know about?
LEARN MORE…
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Highlights from the last newsletter:
:: 42 Ways to Not Make Trash
Taking what he learned from his experiment, Colin “No Impact Man” Beavan offers 42 tips to move toward a zero-waste lifestyle.
:: The Law of Mother Earth: Behind Bolivia’s Historic Bill
A new law expected to pass in Bolivia mandates a fundamental ecological reorientation of the nation’s economy and society.
:: What’s the Harm in Hunting?
It’s an expression of our most fundamental relationship with nature, but can you really be moral and be a hunter, too? Our intern headed into the wild to find out.
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:: INTERACTIVE MAP
My First Vote
“I was overjoyed when I got my voter registration card. I was a real citizen!” Ex-offenders on reclaiming the human right to vote.
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