PEOPLE POWER

How “we the people” decide what we want, and how we get it.

David Solnit Stands Up For Protest

posted Aug 29, 2007

David Solnit Stands Up For Protest

Debra Harry Stands Up For Native Knowledge

posted Aug 29, 2007

Debra Harry Stands Up For Native Knowledge

Taking on Corporate Power

posted Aug 20, 2007

The stories in YES! Magazine's Stand Up to Corporate Power about the peaceful revolutionaries who have stepped up to challenge corporate dominance.

Photo Essay: The First USSF in Atlanta, Ga.

posted Aug 14, 2007

Seeing Another World: U.S. Social Forum 2008

posted Aug 14, 2007

Instead of drawing crowds with superstar speakers and performers, the participants of the 2008 U.S. Social Forum were the stars. Those who are accustomed to being excluded were at the center, and those who were used to being silenced were heard.

Darn Right We're Keeping Score

by Zach Kyle

posted Aug 09, 2007

Historical Scorecard of Corporations vs People. Is the bill of rights as much for corporations as it is for real people?

The Progressive Majority

posted Jul 29, 2007

The media often tell us that Americans are fundamentally conservative. A new report, the product of carefully compiled statistics from the past several decades, proves this story incorrect.

How Powerful? :: Just the Facts

posted Jul 29, 2007

Just how powerful are corporations anyway? some quick facts

Commentary: Cooperators of the Prairies

by Jonathan Rowe

posted Jul 29, 2007

Few images loom larger in the American psyche than that of the Wild West. In contrast to the myth, it was the cooperators who really made the West.

Not Your Grandfather's SDS

by Joshua Kahn Russell

posted Jul 29, 2007

Students for a Democratic Society is reborn, working with veteran activists to build movements for today.

USSF: We Saw Another World in Atlanta

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Jul 29, 2007

Poor people, young people, people of color, gays and lesbians, and all manner of people who believe “another world is possible, another U.S. is necessary” joined together by the thousands in Atlanta for the first U.S. Social Forum.

Who's Standing Up?

posted Jul 29, 2007

Look who's standing up to corporate power. David Solnit, Debra Harry, Bill Moyers, Alexia Salvatierra, Leo Gerard, Paula Wolff, Ward Morehouse, and more.

Protecting Our Commons

by Sarah van Gelder, Doug Pibel

posted Jul 29, 2007

Keeping the air, the water, the Internet and other commons out of corporate hands and in our own. A YES! Magazine interactive graphic.

Beyond Campaign Finance Reform And More

by Charlie Cray

posted Jul 29, 2007

People across the country aren't waiting for action from politicians and judges. Here are the hot spots where activists are getting corporations out of government and elections.

Common Knowledge

by Jeff Kaplan

posted Jul 29, 2007

Whether the issue is water rights, big-box stores, meddling in local politics, or the taking of citizen's lands, almost every community in the United States - if not the world - is being harmed by excessive corporate power. Strategies of resistance need to invoke the people's right to exercise democratic power over corporations and governments.