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Tenants Unions Anticipate Housing Policy Gains After Progressives Win in Rhode Island
Reclaim Rhode Island demonstrates the power of tenant organizing to effect change in local politics.
California Is Home to 200 Billionaires. Organizers Say It’s Time to Tax Them.
If passed, California’s Proposition 40 would generate funding for health care, education, and food assistance programs.
New Mexico’s Challenges Hold Lessons for the Struggle for Universal Child Care
New Mexico is finding out that successfully providing universal child care requires giving teachers a living wage.
The World Is Burning—Does the YES! Approach Still Matter?
A Final Word from YES! Founding Editor on What We Hoped for and What Comes Next
Lessons From the Māori and Japanese Peoples on Grieving Pregnancy Loss
Abortion in a world where reproductive justice is realized means allowing each person full autonomy over their pregnancy decision.
St. Louis Says “Not Another Nickel” to Human Rights Violators
A new grassroots effort is challenging the city to strip companies such as Boeing and ICL of tax exemptions.
A Victory at Bad River
The Bad River Tribe has taken on a billion-dollar Canadian oil pipeline company to defend manoomin and the fresh waters that sustain it—and us all.
To Resist the Trump Regime, Look to Iran
For more than four decades, Iranians have resisted through underground clubs, labor strikes, and other everyday acts of defiance.
How Including People With Disabilities Benefits Everyone
The presence of employees with disabilities can make companies and organizations more collaborative, inclusive, and attractive to job seekers.
‘Patrice’ Captures the Fight for Marriage Equality for Disabled Couples
Disabled couples risk losing their benefits when they marry. A new documentary spotlights the fight to change that.
How Popular Resistance Constrained Trump in His First Term
If activists want to oppose Trump in his second term, then they must study the successful progressive movements of his first one.
Why Is It So Hard to Watch This Oscar-Winning Documentary?
“No Other Land” is running into the same barriers other Palestinian films have.
A Beautifully “Wicked” Approach to Disability
Despite being pitied for the color of their skin or wheelchair use, the film’s characters don’t let society define them—or their power.
Murmurations: Climate Solutions Require Black Ecology
Slavery and genocide fueled climate destruction. Black liberation will fuel regeneration.
7 Ways to Rise Up Against Trumpism 2.0
Grassroots movements, legal organizations, and nonprofits are leading the opposition.
A Return to Leftist Self-Defense
Communities targeted by escalating right-wing violence are learning from their own histories how to keep each other safe.
The Possibility of Noncitizen Voting Rights
Some localities are granting limited voting rights to noncitizens, especially on issues directly affecting them.
What If 16-Year-Olds Could Vote?
A growing number of U.S. municipalities are making it possible for minors to vote.
Newly Naturalized and Ready to Vote
New citizens—whose votes may prove pivotal in swing states—are considering myriad issues as they cast their first ballots in a presidential election.
Simple Steps to Make Voting Easier
From vote-by-mail to making Election Day a national holiday, voting rights advocates are engaged in myriad efforts to increase voting access.
Texas Teen Courts Keep Youth Out of Prison
El Paso’s Teen Court is a peer-driven, youth-led program that centers the well-being of teenagers, instead of condemning them to the destructive criminal justice system.
Unlearning Queerphobia
Schools are a powerful place to begin building an LGBTQ-affirming culture, as an antidote to fear and bigotry.
Happiness Swings Votes—But Not How You’d Expect
New findings challenge the political adage that youthful idealism gives way to conservative pragmatism with age.
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