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President Obama Calls for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
by David Kriegerposted Apr 07, 2009 - President Obama’s speech in Prague was a world-changing moment, a promise of unprecedented historical change on the most profoundly dangerous issue confronting not only America but the world.
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YES! Recommends: Food For Everyone
posted Mar 11, 2009 - Raising youth: growing food, justice, and leadership in your classroom. These articles from the Food For Everyone issue of YES! Magazine embody the possibilities when we take our health and our food into our own hands.
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Signs of Life :: Elections/Campaign Finance Pledge
by Brooke Jarvisposted Feb 24, 2009 - More than 1,500 voters have pledged "not to donate to any federal candidate unless they support legislation making congressional elections citizen-funded, not special-interest funded."
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How to Get Involved in Food Policy Councils
by Mark Winneposted Feb 14, 2009 - Here are seven tips for local food citizens interested in organizing food policy councils.
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Call for Mass Civil Disobedience Against Coal
by Bill McKibben, Wendell Berryposted Feb 14, 2009 - This is an open letter from Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben.
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Growing Power in an Urban Food Desert
by Roger Bybeeposted Feb 13, 2009 - Will Allen’s farm offers fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, and a taste of the delicious possibilities of farming the urban food deserts.
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Update :: Americans Really Mean It: We Want Universal Health Care
posted Feb 13, 2009 - Americans Really Mean It: We Want Universal Health Care.
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People We Love :: America Bracho
posted Feb 13, 2009 - Profile of America Bracho, who fights for health care by and for the people in Orange County, California.
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People We Love :: Tom Steinberg
posted Feb 13, 2009 - Profile of mySociety.org founder Tom Steinberg.
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Health Care By and For the People
by Sarah van Gelderposted Dec 19, 2008 - The Obama transition team is asking you to help create a new health care policy. Really. This may be more important than it sounds. The key dividing lines over how to fix our country's broken health care system are becoming clear.
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Uniting and Building Movements
by Van Jones, Sarah van Gelderposted Dec 10, 2008 - Van Jones has been a critical bridge between the environmental and social justice worlds through his call for green collar jobs. Sarah van Gelder asked him what it was like for him to act as that bridge.
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Van Jones: "We Need More Friends"
by Van Jones, Sarah van Gelderposted Dec 10, 2008 - Van Jones has advocated a change in how we practice activism. Sarah van Gelder asked him what he means when he says we need to make more friends and less enemies.
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With Obama in Power, What is Next?
by Van Jones, Sarah van Gelderposted Nov 17, 2008 - Van Jones' leadership has been especially important in bridging the environmental and social justice worlds through his call for green collar jobs. This is one of the key promises of the Obama campaign, so in this interview, conducted on November 12, 2008, I asked him whether he now planned to join the Obama administration.
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Obama: No Human Being is Illegal
by Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguezposted Nov 14, 2008 - Sen. Barack Obama's resounding victory is a generational victory. As one friend told me, it is 400 years in the making. In that sense, that explains the tears and the dancing in the streets across the nation and across the suddenly very small world we live in...
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Update :: Gandhian-Style Revolution
posted Oct 31, 2008 - 11 years ago in YES! we wrote about a visit to the headquarters of the Sri Lankan Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement. Today … we report on how the movement has grown: Sarvodaya is now the largest micro-credit organization in Sri Lanka.
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