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Watch the Beautiful One-Minute Ad Asking the Washington Football Team to Change Its Name
by Liz Pleasantposted Jun 10, 2014 - With the owner of the team vowing "NEVER" to change its name, Native American tribes around the country launch a national campaign to do just that.
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Meet the Solutionaries: Kids Skip Scary Climate Coverage to Focus on Local Changemakers
by Molly Ruskposted Jun 10, 2014 - These high school students created a series of podcasts to tell the stories of inspiring people in their community.
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Meet the Tenacious Gardeners Putting Down Roots in "America's Most Desperate Town"
by Kristin Moeposted Jun 09, 2014 - They're not always optimistic about the future of Camden, N.J. But they're committed to it anyway, and they've created one of the nation's fastest growing networks of urban farms.
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Talking Cows Take on Factory Farms—Matrix Style
by Jonah Sachsposted Jun 04, 2014 - The viral success of "The Meatrix" shows how a good story trumps a mountain of facts.
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Language Matters: How #YesAllWomen Named a Problem With No Name
by Rebecca Solnitposted Jun 04, 2014 - If you lack words for a phenomenon, an emotion, a situation, you can’t talk about it—which means that you can’t come together to change it.
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Bangkok Protestors Strike Back at Coup—With Forbidden Hunger Games Salute
by Christopher Zumski Finkeposted Jun 03, 2014 - Thai protestors borrow a sign of solidarity from Hollywood's silver screen to fight new national curfew and banned public gatherings.
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Seattle Wins $15 Minimum Wage—Will Your Town Be Next?
by YES! Editorsposted Jun 03, 2014 - Activists built support for the ordinance by demonstrating that it would reduce poverty in the city.
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The Boomers "Failed" Us: Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher on Anger, Love, and Sacrifice
by Sarah van Gelderposted May 30, 2014 - First the anger, then the love—overcoming generational anger to find the courage required for the difficult work ahead.
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Tennessee Tied Teachers' Jobs to Standardized Test Scores. Here's How They Pushed Back—And Won.
by Molly Ruskposted May 30, 2014 - The teachers found their careers at risk when an erratic statistical tool became a key measure of their success.
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Everyone Still Loves "Reading Rainbow" (And This New Kickstarter Proves It)
by Christopher Zumski Finkeposted May 28, 2014 - The PBS classic, which taught a love of books to generations of kids, will be coming back in an online version.
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Fear of a Brown Planet: Watch This Stand-Up Comedian Explain 'Reverse Racism'
by Kali Swensonposted May 27, 2014 - Bullying, police brutality, and everyday insensitivities are regularly lampooned with Australians Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain's weapon of choice: comedy.
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From Stand-up to Twitter, A New Generation’s Fresh Take on Storytelling
by Sarah van Gelderposted May 23, 2014 - Today's storytellers show that each of us can be part of something more powerful, diverse, and creative than we might have imagined.
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How Stories Shape Our World
by Sarah van Gelderposted May 23, 2014 - This issue of YES! looks at the ways new voices are being heard, and at how their stories are transforming our culture.
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Meet 6 Nutrition Blogger Moms Who Crashed the McDonald's Shareholder Meeting
by YES! Editorsposted May 22, 2014 - Current trends suggest one in three kids will develop Type 2 diabetes as adults. These moms told McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson what they think about the fast food industry targeting their kids.
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That Book About Inequality That's Sold Out of Bookstores? Here's What It Means for 2016
by John Fefferposted May 22, 2014 - The popularity of a new book by French economist Thomas Piketty should be a wake-up call for politicians. If inequality sells in the stores, it will sell at the polls as well.
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