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Six Great IPN magazines to choose from…

As we've communicated over these four years, funding an independent press is a daily challenge, with every penny received covering an essential current expense. As such, we made an appeal to the Independent Press Network (IPN), and six fine indy publishers stepped forward to offer their magazines to fulfill the outstanding issues in your subscription. Their contact information is posted below, to assist you in your selection. We are tremendously grateful for the support we have received from the member titles of the IPN over the years, and it is our hope that you'll be inspired to continue on with one of these unique magazines.

Please respond by May 15, 2008, and let us know:
— No: I do not choose to have my remaining subscription issues fulfilled.*
— Yes: I'd like to select a magazine below to fulfill my remaining subscription issues.
*Note: We welcome your response/comments. We also understand your busy lives. A lack of reply will be recorded as a "No."

Six Great IPN magazines to choose from:
Please make your choice of one of the magazines below with which your remaining subscription issues of The Polishing Stone will be fulfilled. The number of issues you will receive is noted in the Expire section of your address label from the letter mailed to you. (You can estimate yourself based on your expire issue, counting from #19 as 1.)

YES! is a quarterly magazine, published by Positive Futures Network, an independent, nonprofit organization supporting people's active engagement in creating a just, sustainable, and compassionate world. PFN invites readers to be part of a global community of change makers. Each issue of Yes! focuses on a theme, showing the possibilities and practical steps that can lead us all to a more positive future. In each issue you also find book reviews, practical advice for living more sustainably, "the page that counts," special features, columns, and short "indicators." www.yesmagazine.org, 206.842.0216

Sea Kayaker Magazine: Experience the world's waterways through this bimonthly magazine, full of inspiration, information and adventure. www.seakayakermag.com , 206.789.9536

Sacred Fire, The Modern Voice of Ancient Tradition, is a quarterly magazine for the "eco-spiritual" reader. At Sacred Fire, we believe the next "new thing" is the "old thing" — living simply and in "right relationship" with all of creation. We feature the wisdom, humor, stories and lifeways of spiritual elders, healers, tradition holders and everyday people who experience life in close connection with nature and Divine. Through our beautifully illustrated interviews, articles, essays, poetry and art, readers re-discover a worldview that offers solid footing in troubled times. Sacred Fire re-awakens the indigenous heart in all of us, so we can find healing, create loving relationships and build sustainable communities that honor and celebrate the Divine energies alive and at play in the world. www.sacredfiremagazine.com, 831.466.0872

Progressive Populist: is a twice-monthly journal, published in tabloid newspaper format, that reports on issues of interest to workers, small businesses and family farmers and ranchers. Our columnists include Jim Hightower, Amy Goodman, Jesse Jackson, Margot Ford McMillen, Garrison Keillor, Joan Retsinas, Alexander Cockburn, Arianna Huffington, Gene Lyons, Froma Harrop, David Sirota, Joyce Marcel, Norman Solomon and other plutocrat pluckers who believe that people are more important than corporations. We consider ourselves a progressive populist antidote to the corporate daily news. You can find samples of our work at www.populist.com, 712.732.4991

Greater Good: is published quarterly by The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. It is a new voice of compassion, hope, and inspiration. Four times a year, it highlights ground breaking scientific research into the roots of altruistic human relationships, and fuses this research with inspiring stories of compassion in action. In the process, it provides a bridge between social scientists and parents, educators, community leaders, and policy makers. Its underlying goal is to highlight the strides we're making (and obstacles we're encountering) toward becoming a more benevolent society. Each issue includes a series of essays on the same general theme, such as forgiveness, moral inspiration, and everyday ethics. They offer practical, research-tested tools for tackling important social, moral, and educational issues and show how ordinary people in their own communities can help build a more peaceful world. In its first year, Greater Good was named one of the best new publications in the country by Utne magazine. www.greatergoodmag.org, 510.643.8965

Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture: Published by B-Word Worldwide, a nonprofit, independent, feminist media organization, it is a print magazine devoted to feminist analysis and media criticism. Bitch features critiques of TV, movies, magazines, advertising, and other elements of pop culture. We also interview feminist pop culture makers, review new books and music, and lots more. We're in the process of evolving into a multimedia organization, starting with our website. We seek to be a fresh, revitalizing voice for feminism, one that welcomes complex arguments, showcases witty and whip-smart critiques of popular culture, and refuses to ignore the contradictory and sometimes uncomfortable details that constitute the realities of life in an unequivocally gendered world. We seek to forge connections between the sociocultural messages we get and the commercial agendas of who's behind them. It's about creating a dialogue — making people aware that the dissenting views they hold are, in fact, shared by many. It's about asking ourselves and each other questions: Where are the places in the mass media that don't insult our intelligence? How can we get more of them? We're about saying, We can make them. www.bitchmagazine.org, 877.212.4824

Two easy ways to respond:

1. Email us with your choice of the magazines below. If you are willing, we'd also welcome your comments and suggestions and any support you may be inspired to offer while we regroup.
2. Fill out and return the letter we mailed to you — or jot us a note — and mail it to: Polishing Stone Foundation, 20104 87th Street SE, Snohomish, WA 98290.

Yes, I'd like to help Polishing Stone Foundation continue to share positive and practical, earth-friendly information...
Many who have contacted us recently have asked how to support the possibility of The Polishing Stone resuming publication. We would gratefully receive your tax-deductible donations and purchases of back-issue sets for yourself, friends, or local community hubs — we're told they are lasting gifts of life-enhancing information and inspiration. If you aren't sure where best to send a set, consider a donation through our CornerStones program, and we'll find a community in need of a lift. We welcome your support while we regroup...

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