Signs of Life: A Fight for Tenant’s Rights
Tenants’ rights groups are taking action to protect renters from eviction when banks foreclose on property owners. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, renters make up an estimated
YES! Article archive
Pete Seeger at Home, a Photo Essay
This photo series by Michael Bowman for YES! Magazine shows folk-legend Pete Seeger at his home in Beacon, New York, overlooking the Hudson River, in December, 2007.
Photographer Michael Bowman is a historian by education, which he says explains his fascination with old buildings, cars and technology.
His work can be seen at www.desolateplaces.com. His flickr photo postings go under the moniker of DuffSuds.
No Foreclosures Here
With the housing crisis nationwide driving struggling families from their homes, Boston’s creative Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative shows how communities can hold their ground.
Blessings Revealed
Puanani Burgess tells the story of one student with a gift—a gift our schools are not cultivating.
Grief’s Hidden Gift
What I learned about happiness during my mom's last days with cancer.
Living Large in a Tiny House
Dee Williams doesn't need a big house to be happy. Instead she found happiness in a 84-square foot house on wheels.
Christmas with No Presents?
"No Impact Man" suspected the holidays would be just as merry without all the stuff.
Rescue the Planet
Stop this happiness! Before it’s too
late.
Having a Voice Makes People Happy
Most human beings are not couch potatoes and whiners. We are doers and creators. In fact, humans need to 'make a dent.'
Just the Facts: Who’s Happier?
A better economy doesn't necessarily mean a happier country.
10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy
Scientists can tell us how to be happy. Really. Here are 10 ways, with the research to prove it.
Food From the Grassroots
The food crisis is only getting worse. The answer involves a deep shift in the way our food comes to us. By making local governments pay attention to hunger, a range of organizations, working on everything from local food purchasing programs to farmers markets, are shaping the future of food.
The Battle for Reality
David Solnit was one of the Direct Action Network organizers for the 1999 WTO demonstrations in Seattle. He looks at what really happened in Seattle, what politicians and the mainstream media have done with the story, and what difference the new movie "Battle in Seattle" might make to public thinking about the 1999 demonstrations.
The Power of Food
Providing food for people in need – regardless of whether they are “deserving” is a central part of Sara Miles' spiritual journey. St Gregory's food pantry in San Francisco.
Why My Dad’s Going Green
Kate Sheppard recounts how she found common ground with her father, a conservative farmer. Environmental policies work for all.
Our Own Agenda: 10 Policies For a Better America
Large majorities of Americans agree on some of the most important issues of the day, from health care to war. "Ten Policies for a Better America" shows an agenda most of us can agree on—whether we think of ourselves as red, blue, or some other political color.
Just the Facts: How the Middle Class Got Stuck
Surging prices, stagnant wages, spiraling debt. This is what stuck feels like.
Seeing Red, Feeling Blue in Purple America
Americans are under increasing economic pressure, and many feel powerless to do anything about it. David Sirota travels coast to coast and finds the people who know the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction--and are joining a populist uprising to turn it around
Community Land Trust Keeps Prices Affordable—For Now And Forever
An agenda that puts people first.
An Interview with Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke on wild rice, wind power, Thunder Beings, self-reliance, and our covenant with the Creator.
What to Do with Your Money During Tough Times
First rule: Don’'t panic. How to weather an economic storm and help make the transition to a less crisis-prone future.
Commentary :: Don’t Be Nice—Be Kind
Niceness is often filled with falseness—it is a way to not tell the truth, or to obscure it. “Be nice!” is something many of us heard as children as a way of avoiding upsetting someone… it’s not effective in the long run as a way to come together to solve the myriad difficulties facing our communities, both local and global.
Life, Liberty, Water
As climate change and worldwide shortages loom, will people fight over water or join together to protect it? A global water justice movement is demanding a change in international law to ensure the universal right to clean water for all.
Mexico’s Grassroots Answer to NAFTA
NAFTA was sold as a win-win. After 14 years of losing, Mexican farmers are making their own trade rules—fair ones.
Make Us Safer and Save Billions
It’s called “defense” spending, but how much of it is actually about defense? Here’s how we could save billions, and still have billions left to make the U.S.
and the world more secure.
Help Fund Powerful Stories to Light the Way Forward
Donate to YES! today.