In Review: Books, Music, and Film
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How Two Plant Geeks Grew a Permaculture Oasis in an Ordinary Backyard
by Abby Quillenposted May 30, 2013 - In “Paradise Lot,” two residents of an inner city write about how they transformed less than an acre of their blighted yard into a thriving food forest full of mushrooms, gooseberries, silkworms, and more.
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YES! Music Picks: Summer 2013
posted Apr 22, 2013
- Pete Seeger, Steve Earle, Melodeego, and other inspiration while putting together the Summer 2013 issue of YES!
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Why the Most Powerful Thing in the World Is a Seed
by Abby Quillenposted Apr 04, 2013 - “The Seed Underground” is a love letter to the quiet revolutionaries who are saving our food heritage.
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Film Review: Ken Burns’ Dust Bowl
by Valerie Schloredtposted Feb 01, 2013 - The new documentary will bring you inside one of the worst manmade disasters of all time in powerful detail.
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Book Review: Inside Will Allen’s Good Food Revolution
by Laura Kaliebeposted Jan 16, 2013 - Like growing vegetables from seed to harvest, overhauling the country's food system takes time.
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Music Picks: Spring 2013
posted Jan 01, 2013 - Hurricane Sandy relief, benefits for U.S.-Mexico border crossers, and other musical inspiration while putting together the Spring 2013 issue.
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Can a People’s Movement Ground U.S. Drones?
by Stuart Glascockposted Dec 18, 2012 - Book Review: Killing by remote control is no game, peace activist Medea Benjamin argues in “Drone Warfare.” We know that drones kill civilians and inflame hatred against the United States—but can we stop them?
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Pete Seeger: “You Stick Together ’Til It’s Won”
by Kim Ruehlposted Dec 04, 2012 - Book Review: Gleaned from letters, essays, and articles, “Pete Seeger: In His Own Words” reveals how the celebrated folk singer has considered, at every turn, what it means to sing out in a world where the din of injustice is deafening.
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We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
by Valerie Schloredtposted Dec 04, 2012 - Film Review: Whether you think the cyberactivists of Anonymous are hooligans or heroes, “We Are Legion” is required viewing.
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Book Review: “A is for Activist” by Innosanto Nagara
by Corey Hillposted Nov 14, 2012 - From Activist to Zapatista, this “children’s book for the 99 percent” infuses the alphabet with the energy and consciousness of Occupy Wall Street.
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Book Review: Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave
by Rebecca Leisherposted Nov 12, 2012 - 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.
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Music Picks: Winter 2013
posted Nov 01, 2012 - Anna Ternheim, Jerry Jeff Walker, and other inspiration while putting together the Winter 2013 issue.
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Book Review: “99 to 1” by Chuck Collins
by Scott Gastposted Oct 09, 2012 - Inside the wealth gap that’s wrecking the world—and what we can do about it.
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YES! Music Picks: Fall 2012
posted Aug 01, 2012 - Musical inspiration while putting out the Fall 2012 issue.
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Bidder 70: The Tim DeChristopher Story
by Samantha Herndonposted Aug 01, 2012 - 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.
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