Waging Life in a War Zone
From Gaza鈥檚 colorful neighborhood to its underground theater, resistance is an art.
Activism
What鈥檚 the New Economy Look Like? Here鈥檚 What Our Artists Did With Your Ideas
Pictures of windmills and farmers markets are great, but they don鈥檛 capture the diversity and radicalism of the movement. So we asked readers like you for poster ideas and handed them over to two of our favorite artists.
Will the TPP Set Back This Campaign to Stop a Proposed Coal Mine Near Montana Tribal Land?
The TPP makes the rights of companies sacrosanct, and that includes the right to mine. But what about the rights of people who live in the way of proposed mining sites?
Project Fatherhood: Uniting the Men of LA鈥檚 Toughest Communities
In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Project Fatherhood helps end the cycle of absent fathers and gives men a place to discuss what it means to be dads, partners, and sons in one of the city's roughest areas.
After Trauma: A Graphic Journey Through Wild Healing
In this collection of watercolor illustrations, a comics artist illustrates her journey through grief after the sudden death of her first child.
8 Amazing Muslim Women Who Would Be Banned From Trump鈥檚 America (and Other News to Chew On)
The inner lives of drone operators, refugee camps through the eyes of children, and women who would be denied entry to the United States under Donald Trump鈥檚 鈥渢otal shutdown.鈥�
Can Cities End the School-to-Prison Pipeline? Relentless Organizers Are Tallying Wins
鈥淲e have always said that this is a battle of imagination over incarceration.鈥�
Meet the 1 Percenters Finding Solace in Wealth Redistribution
A growing cadre of the owning class is crafting a healthier relationship to the other 99 percent: 鈥淚t is not about individual therapy or even engaging in philanthropy or charity. It鈥檚 about collective action.鈥�
80 Percent of Us Owe Money to Institutions. Can We Leverage It to Reduce Inequality?
Three visionaries discuss how America鈥檚 debt problem has transformed the movements they work with.
Remembering Grace Lee Boggs and the Revolution She Inspired in Us
YES! has put together a tribute page to honor Grace Lee Boggs and the lives she touched while she was with us. Share your own thoughts with #RememberingGrace.
Saying Goodbye to Grace Lee Boggs
Rest well, dear friend. Millions of us have been enlivened and empowered by your wisdom and spirit.
Do Your Local Politicians Want to Limit Access to Women鈥檚 Health Care? This New App Can Tell You
Hinder is a reproductive justice messaging hub that tells you what your representatives say about women鈥檚 bodies. Meet the cabal of comics and writers behind it.
鈥淵ou Fly to the Edge of the Tar Sands, and … No Life鈥�: A Montana Professor on the Issue of Our Time
University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he鈥檚 standing up to tar sands extraction.
Sci-Fi Fandom Declares Victory After Reactionary Nominees Lose Big at the Hugos
Despite a deck stacked against women and people of color, the voters rewarded both.
The Crunch: The Hackers Behind DIY Gynecology (And Other News to Chew On)
A Mexican artist turns guns into a force for good, Banksy turns Disneyland into something dismal, and GynePunks bring open-source gynecology to the masses.
Sad Puppies, Rabid Chauvinists: Will Raging White Guys Succeed in Hijacking Sci-Fi鈥檚 Biggest Awards?
麻豆社事件 and more women have been nominated for Hugo Awards in recent years鈥攗ntil this year. Here鈥檚 what鈥檚 at stake.
After 20 Years Reporting on Solutions, I鈥檓 Going on a Journey to Find Where Hope Lies Now
YES! co-founder Sarah van Gelder sets out on a road trip to find the edge of change.
Seattle Led the Country鈥檚 Minimum Wage Revolution. Can It Do the Same With Rent Control?
New York and San Francisco both suffer from soaring rents and gentrification, despite decades of regulation. How Seattle socialist Kshama Sawant plans to do affordable housing right.
What Native Hawaiian Culture Can Teach Us About Gender Identity
As the documentary Kumu Hina reveals, living between both genders is the more powerful 鈥渕ahu" way.
One Poem That Saved a Forest
How the friendship between a poet and a timber baron kept a grove of California redwoods from clear-cutting.
17 Ways You Can Work For Social Justice
Be present, question assumptions, and be loud! Social transformation starts with everyday people working for change.
How a Bronx Theater Uses Avant-Garde Theater to Teach Everyday Activism
Whether the crisis is AIDS or cyber-bullying, Pregones Theater鈥檚 empathy-based theater techniques help young people rehearse for action.
You鈥檝e Heard What鈥檚 Wrong in Freddie Gray鈥檚 Neighborhood. Here鈥檚 One Local鈥檚 Vision for Turning That Around
Blaize Connelly-Duggan鈥檚 vision for the neighborhood is all about community ownership and development without displacement.
After Years of Living as Squatters, These Filipino Neighbors Fought for Nice, New Homes in Their Community鈥擜nd Won
When the Manila government proposed relocating squatter families out of the city, residents came together and asked for housing in their own neighborhood.
8 Striking Portraits of People in the Path of Canada鈥檚 Mega Tar Sands Pipeline
TransCanada鈥檚 Energy East pipeline would span thousands of miles, from rural Alberta to the Atlantic coast of New Brunswick.
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