WWW.YESMAGAZINE.ORG  Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions  PEACE & JUSTICE   PLANET     NEW ECONOMY   PEOPLE POWER   HAPPINESS  FROM THE NEW ISSUE OF YES! MAGAZINE In New Orleans, Kindness Trumped Chaos Rebecca Solnit   |   Aug 27, 2010 Lessons of dedication, solidarity, love, and recovery, five years after Katrina.   MORE » TABLE OF CONTENTS   |  BUY THIS ISSUE   |   SUBSCRIBE PEOPLE POWER   Lessons from the Gulf: How Can We Better Prepare for Disasters? Chris Kromm   |   Aug 27, 2010 Poverty and inequality magnified Hurricane Katrina’s effect on the Gulf. A resilient New Orleans means addressing these social issues first.   MORE » A Crisis of Democracy: Real Solutions to the BP Oil Spill Brooke Jarvis   |   Aug 23, 2010 For Gulf residents, the BP oil spill has made the problem of unchecked corporate power painfully clear. Exxon Valdez survivor Riki Ott on why this may be the moment to overcome our political divides and take back our democracy.   MORE » NEW ECONOMY   Home-Grown Businesses: The Role of Grassroots Financing Stacy Mitchell   |   Aug 26, 2010 Local investors for local businesses—how businesses are turning to their neighbors for funding.   MORE » HAPPINESS   6 Ways to Start Sharing Stephanie Smith   |   Aug 25, 2010 What do you do when you want to start sharing resources, but your community’s not into it?   MORE » PLANET   A Month Without Monsanto April DÁvila   |   Aug 24, 2010 April Dávila wondered what it would take to cut the GMO giant out of her family’s life. She found that it was far more entrenched than she’d ever realized.   MORE » PEACE & JUSTICE   Waging Peace from Afar: Divestment and Israeli Occupation Phyllis Bennis   |   Aug 20, 2010 A growing grassroots movement is using the techniques of the anti-apartheid movement to challenge U.S. support for Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.   MORE » PHOTO ESSAY OF THE WEEK    Banksy Street Art Aug 13, 2010 Photo Essay: British street artist, Banksy, makes his mark in New Orleans.   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