Most Recent Articles - YES!

YES! has a positive solution-oriented focus. We reframe issues, reflect diverse human-scale stories, and offer tools for people to use and to pass along. Here are our most recent articles and blogs.

Worker Owned and Local Businesses

by Dan Swinney

posted Mar 31, 2001

Downsized? Stuck in a cubicle? Here is how some people are creating a livelihood and also building the foundations of a life-sustaining economy.

Martin Luther King's Movement-Building Legacy

by Grace Lee Boggs

posted Mar 31, 2001

The struggle goes far beyond race and rights. We are in the early stages of a new democratic revolutionary movement.

Why Work?

by Bob Black

posted Mar 31, 2001

Bob Black, Why Work? Examines the stultifying impact of work and jobs and advocates the abolition of most production and the tranformation of work to play.

The Year of Global Protest - "We withdraw our consent!"

by Walden Bello

posted Mar 31, 2001

The Year of Global Protest: "We withdraw our consent!" by Walden Bello. Reviews anti-globalization protests and activism following the Seattle WTO demonstrations and considers the process of deligitimization of the institutions of global capitalism.

Dear Doug & Annie :: Follow-ups on Diesel Trucks

by Annie Berthold-Bond, Doug Pibel

posted Mar 31, 2001

Truck vs trailer, Bio-diesel vs petroleum, Alternatives to Bleach, No Mothballs, Bath Oil and Plant Cuttings

Letter from the Editor

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Oct 27, 2000

What if instead of pointing fingers, we did some soul searching about how to include in our democratic debates issues that are central to so many people but left out by both parties?

The Page That Counts :: Winter 2001

posted Oct 27, 2000

Decrease in the average working vocabulary of a 14-year-old over the last 50 years, and more...

Book Review - Against All Odds by John Rensenbrink

by Patrick Mazza

posted Oct 27, 2000

Book Review - Against All Odds by John Rensenbrink

Book Review - Derailing Democracy: the America the media doesn't want you to see

by Matt Struckmeyer

posted Oct 27, 2000

Book Review - Derailing Democracy: the America the media doesn't want you to see by Dan McGowan

Review - Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks

by Russell Mokhiber

posted Oct 27, 2000

Russel Mokhiber reviews Bobos in Paradise: the Upper Class and How They Got There

The Nexxt Revolutionaries

by Shannon Service

posted Oct 27, 2000

the nexxt revolutionaries, by Shannon Service. Stories of youth activists and their campaigns for the earth, for justice, and against globalization.

Veterans of Hope: Ruby Sales

by Ruby Sales

posted Oct 27, 2000

In this Veterans of Hope interview, Ruby Sales tells of her release from prison in Haneyville, Alabama, where she and Jonathan Daniels, a white seminarian, had been registering people to vote.

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Veteran of Hope

by Bernice Johnson Reagon

posted Oct 27, 2000

Freedon's Sacred Dance by Rosemarie Freeney Harding and Vincent Harding, veterans of hope, Bernice Johnson Reagon. The founder of the well-known acappella group, "Sweet Honey in the Rock," tells of finding her voice, in this Veterans of Hope interview.

A Culture Gets Creative

by Sarah van Gelder, Paul Ray

posted Oct 27, 2000

Cultural Creatives, by Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson, interview by Sarah van Gelder. Market research and opinion polling by Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson uncover what they call the Cultural Creatives, people committed to a common set of earth-centered values.

Love With Claws And Jaws

by Carolyn Raffensberger

posted Oct 27, 2000

love with claws and jaws by Carolyn Raffensperger. Exploration of the many meanings of power and the power of love.