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Will the 99% Outbid the Billionaires Trying to Buy the LA Times?
A new player has joined the high-stakes bidding war over the Tribune Company, which owns some of America’s largest newspapers: the people of the United States.
Posted May 16, 2013
A new player has joined the high-stakes bidding war over the Tribune Company, which owns some of America’s largest newspapers: the people of the United States.
Posted May 16, 2013
Big City Farmers Take to the Rooftops
Space is expensive in Brooklyn, so Gotham Greens built their urban farm on a rooftop.
Posted Apr 18, 2013
Space is expensive in Brooklyn, so Gotham Greens built their urban farm on a rooftop.
Posted Apr 18, 2013
Offshore Tax Havens Democratized on “Art Hack” Website
Today is April 15, and that means that taxes are due ... at least for most of us. Artist and hacker Paolo Cirio tracked down authors and activists who study tax havens and asked them about the details.
Posted Apr 15, 2013
Today is April 15, and that means that taxes are due ... at least for most of us. Artist and hacker Paolo Cirio tracked down authors and activists who study tax havens and asked them about the details.
Posted Apr 15, 2013
A Portlandia Sendup of Tiny House Living
Portlandia’s Kumail Nanjiani visits a tiny house and asks some of the questions on everybody’s mind.
Posted Apr 11, 2013
Portlandia’s Kumail Nanjiani visits a tiny house and asks some of the questions on everybody’s mind.
Posted Apr 11, 2013
Florida Farmworkers March 200 Miles for a Fairer Tomato
After marching halfway across the state of Florida, members of the Immokalee Coalition of Farmworkers got fired up at a rally in front of Publix headquarters in Lakeland, Fla. Here’s some of what they had to say.
Posted Apr 03, 2013
After marching halfway across the state of Florida, members of the Immokalee Coalition of Farmworkers got fired up at a rally in front of Publix headquarters in Lakeland, Fla. Here’s some of what they had to say.
Posted Apr 03, 2013
Remembering Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s Master Storyteller
The great Nigerian author and essayist Chinua Achebe died on Thursday in Boston. In this interview with Bill Moyers, first broadcast in 1988, he explains why “The storyteller has a different agenda from the emperor.”
Posted Mar 22, 2013
The great Nigerian author and essayist Chinua Achebe died on Thursday in Boston. In this interview with Bill Moyers, first broadcast in 1988, he explains why “The storyteller has a different agenda from the emperor.”
Posted Mar 22, 2013
Oakland Youth Swap Fast Food for Fresh Food
Video: A group of young people in West Oakland are taking control of what they eat and using pedal power to bring local groceries to produce-strapped communities.
Posted Feb 12, 2013
Video: A group of young people in West Oakland are taking control of what they eat and using pedal power to bring local groceries to produce-strapped communities.
Posted Feb 12, 2013
How to Reset Your Home Page
Setting your home page to yesmagazine.org will keep you up-to-date with all of the new ideas being created by our writers–and by readers like you. In case you’re not sure how to do it, here’s how.
Posted Feb 13, 2012
Setting your home page to yesmagazine.org will keep you up-to-date with all of the new ideas being created by our writers–and by readers like you. In case you’re not sure how to do it, here’s how.
Posted Feb 13, 2012
#BarackTalk: The People’s Take on the State of the Union
From 5:00 to 10:00 EST, a diverse group of students, environmentalists, activists, and community members will present their own take on the state of the union, and then respond to the president’s speech.
Posted Feb 12, 2012
From 5:00 to 10:00 EST, a diverse group of students, environmentalists, activists, and community members will present their own take on the state of the union, and then respond to the president’s speech.
Posted Feb 12, 2012
Live Coverage of Inauguration from Democracy Now!
Beginning at 8:00 a.m. eastern standard time and continuing until 1 p.m., Democracy Now! will cover the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. Watch it here at YES!
Posted Jan 21, 2012
Beginning at 8:00 a.m. eastern standard time and continuing until 1 p.m., Democracy Now! will cover the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. Watch it here at YES!
Posted Jan 21, 2012
