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.

Detentions Spark Protests
by Pramila Jayapal
Mar 31, 2003
Immigrant deportions, NSEERS, National Security Entry Exit Registration System, immigrant rights, Pramila Jayapal
Kids And Chemicals
by Elizabeth Guillette
Mar 31, 2003
In one village, kids grew up normally, but nearby, children had trouble catching a ball, drawing a picture, remembering a color. What made the difference?
Keeping the Balance
by Lisa Gale Garrigues
Mar 31, 2003
An indigenous people at the tip of South America reclaims health, culture, and the vitality of the land.
The Whispering Is Over
by Nancy Evans
Mar 31, 2003
women are mobilizing to find the causes of breast cancer, phase out chemicals that cause cancer, enforce environmental protection laws, eliminate the use of harmful chemicals. The Breast Cancer Fund.
This Is What Justice Looks Like
by Carol Estes
Mar 31, 2003
Until minutes before the deadline, no none knew if a proposed world criminal court could win needed support. It won by a landslide, and its creation opens new possibilities for the rule of law to replace the rule of fear and violence.
Discussion Guide :: Our Planet, Our Selves- environment and health
Mar 31, 2003
Questions like: Who in your own life has experienced serious illness? What has it been like for those close to that person? What obligation do we have to keep an environment clean for other people?
Eco-clean Homes
by Pam Chang
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
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
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
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
Mar 10, 2003
Resources for Reflection and Action - Connecting with others to learn more and to make your views known
Is It Right?
Mar 10, 2003
What religous leaders, poets, veterans and others are saying about going to war with Iraq
War Costs
Mar 10, 2003
Bumper sticker by Dan Kowalski.
Saying Yes! to Peace
Mar 10, 2003
Voices from the YES! Magazine archives on War, Iraq, and Envisioning a Better Way
Waiting for War
by David Smith-Ferri
Mar 10, 2003
Do Iraqis want an American invasion to free them from Saddam Hussein?