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In Review: Books, Music, and Film

Books, Music, and Film

We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists

Film Review: Whether you think the cyberactivists of Anonymous are hooligans or heroes, “We Are Legion” is required viewing.

Valerie Schloredt Nov 15, 2012

Book Review: “A is for Activist” by Innosanto Nagara

From Activist to Zapatista, this “children’s book for the 99 percent” infuses the alphabet with the energy and consciousness of Occupy Wall Street.

Corey Hill Nov 12, 2012

Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo W.W. Norton & Co., 2012, 169 pages, $24.95

Book Review: Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave

Native American poet Joy Harjo declares, "I was not brave." But her memoir is a gift that urges us to enlist our own crazy bravery to step through the doorways in our lives.

Rebecca Leisher Aug 14, 2012

Music Picks: Winter 2013

Anna Ternheim, Jerry Jeff Walker, and other inspiration while putting together the Winter 2013 issue.

Nov 15, 2012

99 To 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It by Chuck Collins and Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich Berret-Koehler Publishers, 2012, 144 pages, $14.95

Book Review: “99 to 1” by Chuck Collins

Inside the wealth gap that’s wrecking the world—and what we can do about it.

Scott Gast Aug 14, 2012

Bidder 70: The Tim DeChristopher Story

Last year, climate activist Tim DeChristopher went to jail for bidding $1.7 million (that he didn't have) to save 22,000 acres of public land from corporate extraction.

Samantha Herndon Aug 14, 2012

YES! Music Picks: Fall 2012

Musical inspiration while putting out the Fall 2012 issue.

Aug 14, 2012

Inside America’s Worst Toxic Waste Cover-Up

Film Review: The Big Fix exposes BP’s efforts to minimize awareness of North America’s biggest oil spill.

Valerie Schloredt May 03, 2012

Religion Gone Astray: What We Found at the Heart of Interfaith by Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon, and Imam Jamal Rahman Skylight Paths, 2011, 170 pages, $16.99

A Pastor, a Rabbi, and an Imam Walk Into a Book ...

In "Religion Gone Astray," three leaders—and friends—from different religions take on violence, exclusivity, gender inequality, and homophobia in some of their scriptures' most controversial verses. What they discovered surprised them.

Jenn Carreto May 03, 2012

Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition by Dan McKanan Beacon Press, 2011, 320 pages, $34.95

Radical Religion, an American Tradition

Book Review: “Prophetic Encounters” reminds us that we are part of a long and rich tradition that is more than a series of isolated movements for social change.

Rev. Wendy Bell May 02, 2012

Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy Melville House, 2011, 200 pages, $16.95

The Achilles' Heel of the American Dream

Book Review: “Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power” profiles the radical, working-class movements of the '60s and '70s—a guide for transformation today.

Sean Burns May 03, 2012

YES! Music Picks: Summer 2012

Musical inspiration while putting together the Summer 2012 issue.

May 03, 2012

Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life by Diane Wilson Borealis Books, 2011, 225 pages, $24.95.

A Dakota Way of Life

Diane Wilson’s new book asks, how do you raise beloved children and break the cycle of self-destruction in native communities?

Kris Kolb Feb 01, 2012

At her home in Detroit, Grace Boggs is surrounded by reminders of her days fighting for social justice alongside her husband Jimmy Boggs.

Bring On the Next American Revolution

Book Review: At 96, Grace Boggs gives us a new handbook for transformation—from victims to empowered citizens.

Larry Gabriel Feb 01, 2012

Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living by Rachel Kaplan with K. Ruby Blume Skyhorse Publishing, 2011, 292 pages, $16.95

Book Review: Urban Homesteading

Heirloom skills for sustainable living.

Oliver Lazenby Jan 27, 2012