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Sarah van Gelder
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Lifelong activist and founding editor of YES! Magazine, writing about "How We Rise" at substack.com/@howwerise Also a mom, author of The Revolution Where You Live, keynote speaker, and strategic facilitator.
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How Trump’s $40 billion handout for failed Argentinian dictator could be better spent in America
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Your longer piece on Today Explained makes it sound like this is a political/cultural game, great for creating online belonging. Maybe you could contextualize this racist and antisemitic content, and the GOP leaders who condone it, and note the horrific violence that historically goes with it.
GALVANIZING POWER THROUGH JOYFUL, LOCAL ACTION
What life would look like if we centered love and interdependence as the sources of power.
Honored to be featured on @Nonviolence Radio this week. You can find the transcript at my Substack, How We Rise
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Galvanizing power through joyful, local action
What life would look like if we centered love and interdependence as the sources of power.
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When we organize together, we win.

This fight has always been about more than one comedian, it’s about contesting fascist control of media & their white supremacist demands to take away our freedom of speech and silence anyone who doesn't look, live, or love like them from speaking truth to power.
How did GOP voter manipulation result in a Trump win in 2024? How can we avoid a 2026 repeat? Thanks to @thom_hartmann for the latest in his Democracy series, excerpted here on “How We Rise” open.substack.com/pub/howweris...
The Heist of Democracy
How America’s voting rights were stolen in 2024 and how we can prevent the same fate in 2026, with Thom Hartmann
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Unpacking after beautiful days of paddling in this year’s tribal canoe journey in spite of tsunami warnings and some tough wind and chop. www.facebook.com/share/16uVVy...
I love your work on belonging and agency, and I love that you quoted Grace Lee Boggs, one of my mentors. We need to hear more from you post-election!
Your work is amazing. We need to hear your thoughts post-election! PS I love that you quoted Grace Lee Boggs, one of my mentors.
Well here’s some good news.
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If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.

We will hold this administration accountable.
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
“If this how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers,” he said, appearing to briefly be overcome with emotion. -NY Times coverage of Sen Padilla taken to the floor at press conf.
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✨ As YES! nears its final days, we’re honored to share Founding Editor @sarahvangelder.bsky.social 's personal reflections on 30 years of solutions journalism — and the vision, values & imagination that shaped YES!

Read her farewell essay: shorturl.at/2tIv9

#ThankYouYES #KeepSayingYES
YES! Magazine will be closing, just short of 30 years after we founded it in 1996. Feeling gratitude for what we were able to accomplish, for the support and collaboration, and for the other media who continue the work. Also feeling sad for the many ways independent media is under attack.
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Trump honoring the troops? You mean the guy who faked bone spurs, mocked POWs, insulted Gold Star families, skipped memorials for weather, and called our fallen “suckers”? Yeah, his $100M bday parade isn’t for them—it’s a vanity project for a coward craving applause.

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Nearly 7,000 troops, tanks and parachute jumps: Army confirms military parade coinciding with Trump's birthday
The Army is planning a historic parade through the streets of Washington on June 14 that will coincide with and be part of the Army's long-planned 250th celebration.
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Happy spring! Every so often, my weedy yard delivers. 😊
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@DoNotTurnOnUs: Organizing civilians, veterans and active duty military to refuse fascist orders
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