In Review: Books, Music, and Film

Books, Music, and Film

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!

Why the Most Powerful Thing in the World Is a Seed

by Abby Quillen

posted Apr 04, 2013

“The Seed Underground” is a love letter to the quiet revolutionaries who are saving our food heritage.

Film Review: Ken Burns’ Dust Bowl

by Valerie Schloredt

posted Feb 01, 2013

The new documentary will bring you inside one of the worst manmade disasters of all time in powerful detail.

Book Review: Inside Will Allen’s Good Food Revolution

by Laura Kaliebe

posted Jan 16, 2013

Like growing vegetables from seed to harvest, overhauling the country's food system takes time.

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.

Can a People’s Movement Ground U.S. Drones?

by Stuart Glascock

posted 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?

Pete Seeger: “You Stick Together ’Til It’s Won”

by Kim Ruehl

posted 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.

We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists

by Valerie Schloredt

posted Dec 04, 2012

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

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

by Corey Hill

posted 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.

Book Review: Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave

by Rebecca Leisher

posted 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.

Music Picks: Winter 2013

posted Nov 01, 2012

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

Book Review: “99 to 1” by Chuck Collins

by Scott Gast

posted Oct 09, 2012

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

YES! Music Picks: Fall 2012

posted Aug 01, 2012

Musical inspiration while putting out the Fall 2012 issue.

Bidder 70: The Tim DeChristopher Story

by Samantha Herndon

posted 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.

Inside America’s Worst Toxic Waste Cover-Up

by Valerie Schloredt

posted Jul 18, 2012

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