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Billy Bragg. Photo by Betty Udesen for YES! Magazine
 BILLY BRAGG LIVE
Billy Bragg performs “Waiting for the
Great Leap Forward” and “A Reckoning.”
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THE YES! INTERVIEW:
Rocking the Cynical World
In the mid-1990s, when Nora Guthrie, Woody Guthrie’s daughter, was looking for someone to set some of her father’s unpublished lyrics to music, she passed over the obvious choices—such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, or Woody’s old traveling companion, Pete Seeger …
She turned instead to British icon Billy Bragg, whose song-writing and activism are as relevant to today’s predicaments—soaring economic inequality, Tea Parties, Glenn Beck, and racism—as Guthrie’s were to the Great Depression.
On a damp Seattle Saturday in September, a YES! photographer and I met him at a coffee shop. He was milder and more personable than I had expected, smiling at us as if we were old friends. I asked him to explain how a singer can help change an election, reach millions of young people, and use music to fight the fear and cynicism that is undermining the democratic process in both of our countries.
READ ON …
Madeline Ostrander
Senior Editor, YES! Magazine
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7 Ways to Transform Banking
by Fran Korten
Are you as outraged as I am by Wall Street bankers with their fat bonuses, shoddy mortgages, and financial shenanigans? With the gridlock in Washington, I wanted to know what “we the people” can do to turn our fury into constructive action.
Here are seven things I’ve learned that we can each do to build a resilient financial system that will serve real people in real communities. MORE …
Tell us what you’ve done and add your own ideas in the comment section for this article.
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Reaching for Resilience
10 ways that one rural ecovillage is building strong foundations for coming times.
BUILDING A HANDMADE COB HOUSE
See how Brian Liloia turned a mixture of straw, clay, and sand into a uniquely cozy place to live …
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Signs of Sanity (and/or Fear)
Who knew that reasonableness could be so entertaining? Sure, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart were there, but the clever (and moderate) signs were the best part of the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
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Raising Eyebrows
In his new book, Dal LaMagna offers advice on creating an honest business. Read YES! board member Jill Bamburg’s review.
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