WWW.YESMAGAZINE.ORG  Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions  PEACE & JUSTICE   PLANET     NEW ECONOMY   PEOPLE POWER   HAPPINESS  PEOPLE POWER   Majority Rule Alan Durning   |  Mar 18, 2010 How reforming the filibuster could pave the way to climate legislation, education funding, and health care reform.   MORE » PEACE & JUSTICE    Rachel Corrie and the Image of Israel Neve Gordon   |  Mar 18, 2010 Commentary: What can we learn from Israel’s response to the death of Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by a bulldozer while protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes in the Gaza strip?   MORE » PLANET   As Glaciers Melt, Bolivia Fights for the Good Life Jessica Camille Aguirre   |  Mar 18, 2010 Bolivia is watching its glaciers melt, early casualties of a changing climate. As communities struggle to adapt and the government tries to pioneer an alternative way forward, rural Bolivians believe the answer lies not in consumerist striving to live better, but in learning to live well.   MORE » Can a Video Game Teach Sustainability? Rik Langendoen   |  Mar 15, 2010 Designers of the new “City Rain” believe that it can.   MORE » NEW ECONOMY   The Growing Movement for Publicly Owned Banks Ellen Brown   |  Mar 17, 2010 We the people have given away our sovereign money-creating power to private, for-profit lending institutions, which have used it to siphon wealth from the productive economy. Some states are moving to take that power back.   MORE » HAPPINESS   Church in Our Times: Spirit and Security in the Face of Crisis AndrÉe Zaleska   |  Mar 15, 2010 Churches are rediscovering their role as community centers, helping to relocalize and revitalize struggling communities.   MORE » video of the week    Banking on Change Mar 18, 2010 With a briefcase and a motorcycle, a banker in India gets poor communities on their feet—and, in the process, blurs the lines between finance and community organizing.   MORE » YES! Magazine  ::  www.yesmagazine.org 284 Madrona Way NE, Suite 116, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-2870, USA CONTACT US VIA EMAIL  ::  Phone: 206-842-0216 / 1-800 937 4451 We never sell or share our email list. To remove yourself from this list, go back to your email and click the unsubscribe link at the top.  Please add yesnewsletters@yesmagazine.org to your email address book to ensure delivery.   If this email was forwarded to you, sign up for your own YES! Magazine newsletters Each quarter, YES! Magazine takes on today’s critical issues with a fresh and positive point of view. Our stories fuse powerful ideas and practical actions, and inspire people to create a better world. YES! is an independent, non-profit, ad-free magazine printed on 100% post-consumer-waste paper. SUBSCRIBE TODAY AT THIS SPECIAL RATE