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Cave Trout 15 Mar 2013 | 12:05 pm
During a stop on a cross-country drive this year, I watched a crowd of long, pale fish erupt from the surface of the Lost Sea, the hemisphere’s largest underground lake. They were rainbowless rainbow ...
Rapper Brother Ali on Privilege, Hope, and Other People’s Stories 13 Mar 2013 | 08:31 am
In this exclusive interview, hip-hop artist Brother Ali talks to YES! about the personal transformations that have shaped his life and lyrics. Brother Ali is a politically outspoken hip-hop artist fro...
The “People’s Bailout” Was Just the Beginning: What’s Next for Strike Debt? 15 Dec 2012 | 08:45 am
Thomas Gokey helped create Occupy’s Rolling Jubilee, which is preparing to purchase and cancel $9 million of ordinary people’s medical debt. Here, he speaks about the project’s origins, methods, and f...
Occupy’s New Offshoot Set to Cancel Millions in Medical Debts 17 Nov 2012 | 07:21 am
Medical debt is the cause of 62 percent of bankruptcies, say organizers of Strike Debt, which threw last night’s offbeat fundraiser for their new “Rolling Jubilee.” Ordinary people donated enough mone...
McKibben Spearheads Plan to Hit Dirty Energy Where It Hurts 10 Nov 2012 | 08:54 am
Could 350.org’s aggressive new strategy bring an end to global warming? In a bold change of direction for the movement to stop climate change, environmentalist Bill McKibben and his global advocacy ne...
Unoccupied 7 Mar 2012 | 10:41 am
Robert Pace and Amy Smith address demonstrators outside Smith's shuttered home during an Avondale "Foreclosure Tour," the first public action organized by Occupy the Hood Cincinnati. A Madisonville c...
Breeding Ground 11 Feb 2012 | 11:13 am
Pebbles spent eight years bearing litters at a Minnesota puppymill, before being sold at the Ohio Dog Auction. Photo by Konstantin Vasserman. We’ve got three ‘02-model females,” the auctioneer began....
Sittenfeld’s Journey from Journalism to City Hall 8 Feb 2012 | 06:44 pm
Photo by Cameron Knight In preparing to interview newly elected Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, I was repeatedly visited by the temptation to ask him, “Are you as squeaky-clean as you see...
What the Frack? ~ opposition to “fracking” surges after tremors 27 Jan 2012 | 08:54 am
Illustration by Rebecca Sylvester for CityBeat A series of 12 unusual earthquakes in northern Ohio reached a 4.0 magnitude on New Year’s Eve, shaking homes in Youngstown and intensifying nationwide o...
Stopping Unnecessary Roughness ~ local group monitors national animal research 8 Dec 2011 | 07:01 am
Michael Budkie has lasted 15 years in a career most people wouldn’t touch with a pooper-scooper: He studies the day-to-day life stories of animals stuck in laboratory experiments. SAEN co-founders Ka...
