This special audio report from YES! and Public News Service explores the ways communities affected by police violence are organizing to keep each other safe, in Minneapolis and beyond.
A network of government agencies and community service organizations have created a program to help formerly incarcerated people navigate life outside prison.
Palestinians across the globe are engaging in sumoud: a steadfast resilience that meets settler-colonialism with dignity and hope for the liberation of all oppressed peoples.
In memoir and nonfiction, these authors navigate big themes and resist stereotypes.
Activist groups are pressuring wealthy countries and the World Trade Organization to let poorer countries manufacture their own vaccines. They just won a big victory.
She says the pandemic has shown how quickly we can develop a vaccine once we really put our resources behind it; it's time to do the same for climate solutions.
Indigenous activists see Deb Haaland’s leadership as an opportunity to re-imagine justice and safety in the U.S.
As government-run health care buckles under India’s second COVID wave, residents are turning to social media to try to locate life-saving care.
Join us Thursday, May 20, at 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET for our live virtual conversation with activists and contributors from the Solving Plastic issue of YES! Magazine.
Whether framed as historical or liberatory, memory work is helping survivors of state-inflicted violence process and begin healing from their trauma.
Si se llama “memoria histórica” o “memoria liberadora,” esta herramienta está ayudando a los sobrevivientes de violencia infligida por el estado a recuperarse de la trauma.
Young people across California are sparking conversations in their schools and communities about what healthy relationships look like and how to recognize abusive behaviors.
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
Much environmental framing misses the point about capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty.
Asian Americans were conveniently written out of history about the Old West. But they were present—and prolific.
“Within me, I hold two cultures, two ancestries that sometimes feel at odds with each other. But when they exist in me, they create something that is simultaneously both and neither.”
BIPOC leaders pursue visionary solutions proportional to the climate emergency we face.
Research shows that family acceptance and affirmation can have a life-saving impact on transgender youth.
Thirty-six years ago, Delila Olsson read Maria Montessori’s vision of a new humanity and it ignited her life’s work. Inspired by Montessori’s belief that holistic education can lead to a
Spring 2021: The Ecological Civilization Issue Our spring issue explored what an ecological civilization might look like, digging into the origins and implementation of the principles that guide modern movements
Valerie Segrest is regional director of the Native Food and Knowledge Systems for the Native American Agriculture Fund. A nutrition educator who specializes in local and traditional foods and
A conversation with YES! Media Executive Director Christine Hanna and Casey Camp-Horinek, Environmental Ambassador, Matriarch and Hereditary Drumkeeper of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma.
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