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School Behind Bars: How College Kids and Incarcerated Youth Benefit From Learning Together by Nur Lalji — YES! Magazine
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School Behind Bars: How College Kids and Incarcerated Youth Benefit From Learning Together. Graduates of an Inside-Out program in Oregon say that the experience transformed the way they see the prison system and themselves. The students from Deb Arthur’s Inside-Out class. Arthur is fifth from left. Photo by C.J. Drake. Posted Aug 12, 2015. On July 8, several young men from the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility were tear-gassed by police. Most people have no conception of what prison is like. Arthur’s ...
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The Rad History Book Every Girl (and Boy) Should Have on Their Bookshelf by Lindsey Weedston — YES! Magazine
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The Rad History Book Every Girl (and Boy) Should Have on Their Bookshelf. A new feminist children's book honors 26 awesome women who changed the world. Rad American Women A-Z. Posted Aug 11, 2015. Three Iron Man movies. Five Spider Man movies. Eight Batman movies. Nine Superman movies. Movies starring Daredevil, the Hulk, Ant-Man, Captain America, Thor, Green Lantern, and Ghost Rider. Meanwhile millions of girls are left to wonder if there will ever be a Black Widow movie. In 2014, only 12 percent. The b...
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What’s a Death Midwife? Inside the Alternative Death Care Movement by Jennifer Luxton — YES! Magazine
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What’s a Death Midwife? Inside the Alternative Death Care Movement. From funeral cooperatives to green burials, there's a kinder, gentler, less expensive way to die. Illustration by Jennifer Luxton. Posted Sep 03, 2015. Char Barrett walked into a quaint cafe in Seattle with business in mind. As 20th century consumerism took hold and people were more likely to die in a hospital than at home, death receded from public consciousness. It’s really the way we used to do it, says Barrett. A History of Death.
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Planet — YES! Magazine
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Why Standing Rock Is a Test for Obama And All Climate Choices Ahead. Paris agreements take effect November 4, and the climate change math shows we need a managed decline of fossil fuels in the U.S. That means no Dakota Access pipeline. Oct 06, 2016. Why Standing Rock Is a Test for Obama And All Climate Choices Ahead. Paris agreements take effect November 4, and the climate change math shows we need a managed decline of fossil fuels in the U.S. That means no Dakota Access pipeline. Oct 06, 2016. Labor Lea...
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The Indigenous Rituals That Heal Us by Patricia St. Onge — YES! Magazine
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The Indigenous Rituals That Heal Us. How the Medicine Wheel can guide us to transform communities that have suffered from racial injustice. Illustration by Julie Notarianni. Patricia St. Onge. Posted Aug 03, 2015. I asked. They won’t play with me ’cause I’m brown, she said. My heart stopped. Then tears spilled out from my eyes, and my heart broke open. What happens when the pain of the world breaks into our lives? More from this issue:. In the East, the direction of Spirit, the work is to reimagine the w...
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After 20 Years Reporting on Solutions, I’m Going on a Journey to Find Where Hope Lies Now by Sarah van Gelder — YES! Magazine
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After 20 Years Reporting on Solutions, I’m Going on a Journey to Find Where Hope Lies Now. Co-founder Sarah van Gelder sets out on a road trip to find the edge of change. Posted Aug 13, 2015. My name is Sarah van Gelder. I’m co-founder of YES! Beginning in August 2015, I’m taking a road trip with a set of questions that have been building in my mind until I can no longer ignore them. Questions about the climate crisis: Is there still time before irreversible changes kick in? I am proud of the solutions-o...
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The Debt Issue — YES! Magazine
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For many of us, debt plays such a negative role in our lives that it can be difficult to imagine what a positive relationship to debt might look like. This issue considers how our collective debts can be a source of solidarity to change an unfair economic system. Working together we can create lending and borrowing systems that enrich our communities. Don’t Owe. Won’t Pay. Everything You’ve Been Told About Debt Is Wrong. Aug 20, 2015. Aug 20, 2015. Sep 07, 2015. Sep 14, 2015. For a quarter of the nation’...
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Pardon the Interruption, Bernie: Why Black Lives Matter Is in Politics to Stay by Marcus Harrison Green — YES! Magazine
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Pardon the Interruption, Bernie: Why Black Lives Matter Is in Politics to Stay. The criticism aimed at Marissa Johnson and Mara Willaford has ranged from the deeply piercing to the explicitly racist. But what they did was necessary, a welcome harbinger of more direct disruption. Posted Aug 14, 2015. America is a racist nation. Look at this country’s true history. Look at its foundations. It was founded on the genocide of Native Americans and the continued enslavement of black Americans. Not just any whit...
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What If Teachers Got Million-Dollar Deals Instead of Athletes? In Key and Peele's World, They Do by Christopher Zumski Finke — YES! Magazine
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What If Teachers Got Million-Dollar Deals Instead of Athletes? In Key and Peele's World, They Do. The comedy duo's SportsCenter spoof is the most exciting look yet at how awesome things would be if we made teaching a priority. Posted Aug 05, 2015. Just for kicks, let’s imagine that teachers were treated like professional athletes. The media celebrates and scrutinizes athletes, while teachers toil away in classrooms in relative anonymity. What would it look like if those roles were reversed? Which has mad...
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New David Foster Wallace Movie Shows a Regular Guy Who Happens to Be a Genius—That’s Why It Works by Christopher Zumski Finke — YES! Magazine
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New David Foster Wallace Movie Shows a Regular Guy Who Happens to Be a Genius That’s Why It Works. Jason Segel steers away from his usual funny guy persona in "The End of the Tour," and plays the late "Infinite Jest" author David Foster Wallace. Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace in. The End of the Tour. Posted Aug 07, 2015. When the author David Foster Wallace was 34, he visited the Mall of America on the last stop of his book tour. It was 1996, and Wallace had just released. The End of the Tour. A yea...
