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YES! Issue Contributors – What the Rest of the World Knows
Mark P. Fancher is a human rights attorney, writer, and activist. Over the course of his 36-year career he has fought: police misconduct, over-incarceration, employment discrimination, racially discriminatory school discipline,
Where Incarceration Isn’t the Answer
Frustrations with the U.S. prison system have prompted a global search for alternatives. Yet the solution might not be as simple as “be like Scandinavia.”
Readers Respond – Fall 2020
Fall 2020: The Black Lives Issue Hundreds of you ordered a box of our Black Lives issue to share in your communities, and even more joined YES! Presents for a
This Is Our Collective Story
Dear Reader, I am writing this letter to you three weeks before Election Day. I don’t know the outcome, but you do. From where I sit, even if the ultimate
Photo Essay | Signs of Your Identity
A visual exploration of the lasting harm of Canada’s residential schools on the Indigenous population.
Why I Give – Kathleen Macferran
Kathleen Macferran is a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. She works internationally, helping communities and organizations strengthen communication and transform conflict. Kathleen Macferran Menomonie, Wisconsin What are
How Norway Built an Economy That Puts People First
The national ethos of economic equity was decades in the making.
11 Better Ideas for a Country in Need of Social Change
Even nations with long histories of inequality and violence carry lessons for how to move toward what might be called a more perfect union.
Good Medicine: A Powerful Punch
Both Western and traditional medicine agree, cranberries are more than just tart and tasty.
Rights and Justice: Disability Advocates Blazing Trails
We need to build on past achievements, expand our ideas of the possible, and move toward a shared vision of the future—with disabled people at the forefront of the push toward justice.
There’s More Work to Do
“For the first 15 years of my work in sustainability, I basically ignored the role of race. I thought ‘Let others do that work. There’s plenty of good I can
YES! Issue Contributors – Black Lives
Erin K. Robinson started her creative journey making costumes for television and movies in Los Angeles before returning to New York to design for children’s wear companies, such as the
Discoveries About God and Race in the Heartland
A self-described product of the East and West Coasts, Marie Mutsuki Mockett was raised by her Japanese-born mother and her White father, an intellectual descended from generations of farmers. She
A Less Cynical Image of Humans
When Dutch historian Rutger Bregman was writing his new book, he probably didn’t think it would come out in the midst of a global pandemic, as well as a storm
Hazelnuts, Not Just Your Nutella
The creamy, buttery, crunchy, sweet hazelnut inspires our earthborn senses. Charred shells found in ancient middens from Scotland to the Pacific Northwest, dated at 9,000 years old, share a story
Community Self-Love During Coronavirus
The novel coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on communities around the world, especially in the United States, which has experienced more than 4 million cases and 140,000 deaths in
Toward a Cure: Cities Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis
The designation allowed Milwaukee to identify and track COVID-19 cases by race ahead of other jurisdictions in the U.S. – even the federal government.
Truth and Redistribution
How to fix the racial wealth gap, end plutocracy, and build Black power.
The Great White Heist
Slavery is the usual argument for reparations. But there’s another reason.
What #DefundPolice Can Do For Public Safety
Cities imagine taking away resources from racist, oppressive policing and putting it toward public safety and social services.
Rebellions Work
We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us.
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