Activists are calling for New York City’s subway system to be fully funded and police-free.
Participatory budgeting empowers communities to radically reimagine the world.
With sea levels rising and groundwater running out, crops that thrive in saltwater could bolster future food supplies.
Mushrooms, bison, and foraged plants are a critical mix of new and old food traditions.
Local food programs can make it easier to eat more fresh produce.
In 2019, scientists published a climate-friendly food plan. Can it work for most Americans?
Through organizing and community building, Planned Parenthood workers exposed the limits of the nonprofit-industrial complex.
adrienne maree brown offers a winter solstice poem that encourages us to birth new realities.
When wildfires swept through southern Oregon in 2020, Maria and her family lost 14 years of hard work almost overnight. Their home, their car, and most of their belongings went
Free meals for all school children is an essential element of education—and one the majority of people in the U.S. support.
Other states could learn from California’s approach to overcrowding in animal shelters.
While Project 2025 proposes cutting Head Start, communities are ensuring free, quality child care for all.
A new “toolbox for liberation” demonstrates that a more just world is not only possible—it’s actively under construction.
Care-centered organizations are helping people process loss, remain rooted, and imagine new futures.
Indigenous communities are already solving climate crises, but they need global funding to act decisively.
Both of these crises require new systems and structures that reflect our commitment to our blood and chosen families.
While tourists flock to Grenada for Carnival, lifelong residents are holding closely to Jab Jab, which symbolizes rebellion and liberation.
Inside a maximum security prison in Argentina, Liberté offers more than education and recreation for incarcerated people—it offers lessons in solidarity.
A wheel of climate emotions helps students navigate feelings about the climate crisis.
“Madres buscadoras” advocate for strategies, laws, and actions to locate their loved ones and prevent future disappearances.
Artists, writers, and cultural workers are fighting the genocide in Gaza on another front.
This is Patrick Blindauer’s last puzzle for YES! as he moves on to new projects. We would like to thank Patrick for all the engaging and thoughtful puzzles he’s contributed
Traditional buffalo hide painting memorializes matriarchs who lived their medicine.
As the sun sets over the Collegiate Peaks in central Colorado, John Edward Graybill blacks out the windows of his kitchen, which doubles as his studio. A single beam of
Tricia Hersey’s new book insists we have the power to refuse capitalism’s grind culture and instead prioritize rest.
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