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An Oasis of Community and Support for Latina Moms
In California, many Latina moms find themselves cut off by domestic responsibilities and language barriers. But with the help of trusted mentors, they鈥檙e learning new skills and strengthening their support networks.
Green Housing: In Buffalo, It’s Not Just for Rich People Anymore
Can we build sustainable housing that's affordable, too? The city of Buffalo did, and created a community jobs pipeline in the process. Here's what can happen when neighborhoods take the lead.
The SOTU Speech We Could Have Heard
Obama鈥檚 speech addressed progressive issues such as jobs, women鈥檚 rights, and clean energy. But it left the need for a larger economic transformation untouched.
Oakland Youth Swap Fast Food for Fresh Food
Video: A group of young people in West Oakland are taking control of what they eat and using pedal power to bring local groceries to produce-strapped communities.
Is There Inspiration in Your 麻豆社事件 Diet?
Video: At TEDx, YES! magazine editor Sarah van Gelder discusses the 鈥渕ean world syndrome鈥� caused by excessively negative news coverage, and describes how solutions journalism creates a more balanced鈥攁nd hopeful鈥攑oint of view.
Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too
It鈥檚 organic. It鈥檚 local. But did the workers who picked it have health insurance?
The Last of the Big Money Elections?
The movement to overturn Citizens United might just make 2012鈥檚 record election spending into the end of an era.
To Follow in MLK鈥檚 Footsteps, Join the Fight against Foreclosure
How can today鈥檚 Civil Rights leaders follow in the tradition of MLK? Lester Spence argues that foreclosures are the issue and the church may just be the solution.
Remembering Aaron Swartz, 鈥淎lpha Geek鈥� and Defender of Online Freedom
Aaron Swartz took his own life at the age of 26, after years of legal trouble over academic articles he downloaded and intended to share. He leaves behind a legacy of thinking about the power of the internet to shape our political lives.
Movement to End High-Stakes Testing Steps Up in Seattle
Teachers at two Seattle high schools violated district policy and their union contracts by refusing to administer a mandatory test. And signs abound that teachers around the nation are ready to stand up, too.
Idle No 麻豆社事件 Rises to Defend Ancestral Lands鈥攁nd the Planet
Bill McKibben on the tradition of environmental activism he鈥檚 seen among members of First Nations, and the unique role of the Idle No 麻豆社事件 movement in the fight against climate change.
Why First Nations Movement Is Our Best Chance for Clean Land and Water
In an urgent pursuit for environmental justice and basic human rights, First Nations gather across North America under the banner of Idle No 麻豆社事件.
Idle No 麻豆社事件: Indigenous Uprising Sweeps North America
Idle No 麻豆社事件 has organized the largest mass mobilizations of indigenous people in recent history. What sparked it off and what鈥檚 coming next?
A Feel-Good Movie about Fracking? YES! Interviews Producer of 鈥淧romised Land鈥�
Chris Moore, who co-produced 鈥淕ood Will Hunting,鈥� has a new film starring Matt Damon as a corporate salesman trying to open up a small town to fracking. Here, YES! publisher Fran Korten gets Moore鈥檚 take on the ideas behind the film.
A Mall of America Flash Mob for First Nations鈥� Rights
Hundreds of supporters of the Idle No 麻豆社事件 movement performed a Round Dance flash mob, one of many similar actions around the world to fight for indigenous land rights.
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