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.

Eco-clean Homes

by Pam Chang

posted Mar 31, 2003

What if house cleaning weren’t a thankless, low-paid, toxic job? Mayda Iglesias co-founded a cooperative that does eco-friendly cleaning. Business is great, her clients are happy, her health has improved, and her leadership is widely recognized.

Seeds of Justice, Seeds of Hope

by Anna Marie Carter

posted Mar 31, 2003

"The Seed Lady of Watts" is getting fresh food into an area better known for its toxics and poverty

YES! But How? :: Off the Grid

posted Mar 31, 2003

Household hints and helps, living off the grid, sustainable burials, alternatives to plywood roof decking, greywater on gardens, and reusing envelopes.

Urban Peacemaker

posted Mar 31, 2003

Nane Alexandrez returned from Vietnam to a community struggling with drugs, violence, and poverty. Determined to reach young people with alternatives to violence, he started Barrios Unidos. but to succeed, he found he had to confront his own addiction.

Resources for Reflection and Action

posted Mar 10, 2003

Resources for Reflection and Action - Connecting with others to learn more and to make your views known

Is It Right?

posted Mar 10, 2003

What religous leaders, poets, veterans and others are saying about going to war with Iraq

War Costs

posted Mar 10, 2003

Bumper sticker by Dan Kowalski.

Saying Yes! to Peace

posted Mar 10, 2003

Voices from the YES! Magazine archives on War, Iraq, and Envisioning a Better Way

Waiting for War

by David Smith-Ferri

posted Mar 10, 2003

Do Iraqis want an American invasion to free them from Saddam Hussein?

From Empire to Earth Community

by David C. Korten

posted Mar 10, 2003

We can choose a path of patient and compassionate justice that respects life, the rights of the innocent, and the rule of law in a cooperative international effort to bring the guilty to justice, as we simultaneously work to bring justice to the world by creating a world that works for all.

More on What Is the Bush Doctrine

posted Mar 05, 2003

In September 2002, President Bush unveiled a new military strategy that supports US right to preemptive strikes.

More on What Would It Cost To Go To War?

by Carolyn McConnell

posted Mar 05, 2003

More on the cost of war. Human costs, military costs, environmental costs

More on Why Don’t Our Allies Support This War?

by Kim Corrigan

posted Mar 05, 2003

Prayers and Poems

posted Mar 05, 2003

A selection of prayers and poems on Iraq

There is no Basis for War

by Phyllis Bennis

posted Mar 05, 2003

Talking points created for United for Peace and Justice. We cannot accept the legitimacy of killing potentially hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to prevent an unknown speculative future threat.