Heather and I were like oil and water. We made polite conversation but couldn’t find a single thing in common. But slowly over time, a friendship has grown.
The peoples of earlier times prospered from the guidance of simple stories that offered answers to their deepest questions. We need those now more than ever.
A newly formed company based in Seattle makes it easy to put your money to work in the local economy.
The statement, by the Black Youth Project, conveys profound sorrow along with a commitment to hold on to hope.
Our Seattle Town Hall was a great success! We're grateful for everyone who attended. Here are some pictures from the event.
Your community is the perfect place to begin healing the wounds of racism.
Larry Bogad is an author and cofounder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army. In this video, he explains how civil rights leaders made their work look good, and how we can use the same principals today.
We could all see the sky as our ancestors once saw it just by turning off the lights, according to the International Dark Sky Association.
The Indian leader saw nonviolence as an active and powerful thing—not just the absence of war.
Modern westerners often see indigenous people as weird or exotic. A look at history shows why they’re not the strange ones.
For a few short days at the Allied Media Conference, change makers immerse themselves in the world they’d like to live in.
The AFL-CIO’s community affiliate, Working America, is expanding its work online and off.
Wearing a sunhat and a cape because you want to is innocence. Doing so when you know others don’t like it is bravery.
Laura Flanders interviews the directors of Shift Change, a film about the cooperative business movement.
When pranksters and creative organizers create temporary utopias, the experience leaves us wanting more—and ready to work hard to get it.
Before there was Citizens United, a modern Tea Party movement, or national momentum to ban corporate personhood, this 2003 article from the YES! archives showed that resistance to corporate power is just as patriotic as Boston’s original Tea Party.
Can one celebrate patriotism without hating and fearing other countries?
After teaching students to understand and talk through their conflicts, schools in Denver and Los Angeles have seen major reductions in disciplinary action.
Beekeepers are using empty public land around Seattle-Tacoma Airport to breed and distribute healthier strains of honeybees.
Traditional organizing makes opponents into “enemies,” but a new crop of activists is using love and empathy to create new alliances and possibilities.
Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Power without love is reckless and abusive and love without power is sentimental and anemic.” How to find the balance.
Thom Hartmann and YES! executive editor Sarah van Gelder discuss the president’s speech on climate change. Is it a first step toward climate justice? Or is it too little, too late?
As NSA-reporting blogger Glenn Greenwald comes under fire from some media outlets, social media users show solidarity through absurd humor.
Countries like Egypt and Switzerland have placed regulations on how much executives can earn. Here’s why the U.S. should consider doing the same.
A delegation of activists from 12 different countries on the fight to stop gold mining in Central America.
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