UNDP Goodwill Ambassador and actor Danny Glover talks about his lifelong activism.
Is the work we are doing good for the Earth and its inhabitants now and for seven generations into the future?
Parker Palmer writes about finding his vocation and the link between self and service
Innovation, insight, and knowledge from the 20th century could inspire social transformation in the 21st.
the new solidarity, by Anthony S. Arch.
Steelworkers and forest activists forge a new
alliance.
India's silent but singing revolution, by Pramila Jayapal. Swadyaya social movement in India is based on the belief that God resides within, all people and nature are connected, and a person's responsibility is only to do one's duty to the best of one's capability for God and without attachment to the fruits of the labor.
The Veterans of Hope Project brings together veterans of the civil rights movement with young activist to explore links between religion and social transformation.
Stories of youth activists and their campaigns for the earth,
for justice, and against globalization.
garden of simplicity, by Duane Elgin.
Simplicity is the new mantra for the overworked, over-stressed,
and over-cluttered, and for those who want to lighten their
impact on the Earth. The author of the classic book on
voluntary simplicity says the ways to simplicity are
many.
The Time Dollar Youth Court in Washington, D.C.
for first time juvenile offenders aims to keep first offenders
from becoming hardened criminals.
the War on Drugs: the social cost of the drug war and the people in and out of the criminal justice system who are calling for an end to war.
Involving victims in the criminal justice system can lead to healing, community empowerment, and fewer repeated offenses.
Two perspectives on a talking circle about racism held following the WTO protests in Seattle.
Mohave Creation Song cycle describes relation
of the Mohave to their land and helps prevent Ward Valley from
becoming a nuclear waste dump.
When big media attempts to horn in on the
simplicity movement, author and voluntary simplicity
spokeperson Vicki Robin draws a line in the
sand
combining some old-fashioned animal husbandry
with new, low-tech facility design and sophisticated ideas
about the relationships between livestock and the
land.
The ancient, wild rice-centered culture of Minnesota's Anishinaabeg people confronts cultivated "wild" rice.
an biotech industry in trouble, by Brian
Halweil
Rachel Bagby rediscovers her roots (in the
soil) and learns about the creatures she shares it
with
Contrary to myths about the efficiency of
corporate agriculture, family farmers are the most efficient
producers - and they produce much more than
food
Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.
In the spring issue of YES!, I suggested that those eager to join the momentum for change so evident at the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle might want to
Amber Gallup reports from the IMF/World Bank protests in Washington, DC.
Dear Reader, letter from Executive Editor Sarah
van Gelder
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