WWW.YESMAGAZINE.ORG  Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions  PEACE & JUSTICE   PLANET     NEW ECONOMY   PEOPLE POWER   HAPPINESS  PEACE & JUSTICE   Human Trafficking Awareness Day: Let’s Take a Stand for Domestic Workers Tiffany Williams   |   Jan 11, 2013 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, it's time to recognize domestic labor as real work that should be protected.   MORE » In Rural Mexico, Student-Led Education Heals Old Wounds Mike Emiliani   |   Jan 11, 2013 Unitierra has no classrooms, no teachers, and no formal curriculum. Yet the school has successful helped local people learn practical skills for years.   MORE » PLANET   Welcome to Blockadia! Melanie Jae Martin, Jesse Fruhwirth   |   Jan 11, 2013 The corporate push to construct tar-sands pipelines is transforming the environmental movement across North America by increasing the involvement of local residents and normalizing the use of direct action.   MORE » PEOPLE POWER   Idle No More Rises to Defend Ancestral Lands—and the Planet Bill McKibben   |   Jan 10, 2013 Bill McKibben on the tradition of environmental activism he’s seen among members of First Nations, and the unique role of the Idle No More movement in the fight against climate change.   MORE » Why First Nations Movement Is Our Best Chance for Clean Land and Water Winona LaDuke   |   Jan 09, 2013 In an urgent pursuit for environmental justice and basic human rights, First Nations gather across North America under the banner of Idle No More.   MORE » Idle No More: Indigenous Uprising Sweeps North America Kristin Moe   |   Jan 09, 2013 Idle No More has organized the largest mass mobilizations of indigenous people in recent history. What sparked it off and what’s coming next?   MORE » A Feel-Good Movie about Fracking? YES! Interviews Producer of “Promised Land” Fran Korten   |   Jan 07, 2013 Chris Moore, who co-produced “Good Will Hunting,” has a new film starring Matt Damon as a corporate salesman trying to open up a small town to fracking. Here, YES! publisher Fran Korten gets Moore’s take on the ideas behind the film.   MORE » HAPPINESS   6 Habits of Highly Empathetic People Roman Krznaric   |   Jan 10, 2013 According to new research, empathy is a habit we can cultivate to improve the quality of our own lives. But what is empathy? And how can you expand your own empathetic potential?   MORE » NEW ECONOMY   Why Post-Sandy America Needs State Banks More than Ever Ellen Brown   |   Jan 07, 2013 If we the people want the sort of security in emergencies that is available to the owners of Wall Street banks, we need to own some banks ourselves.   MORE » VIDEO OF THE WEEK    Meet the Youngest Member of the Tiny House Movement Jan 11, 2013 This 16-year-old is building himself a future free from mortgage payments, not to mention college accommodations that are a bit homier your average dorm room.   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