Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the long-held view of water as a human commodity. Can the same approach work in the United States’ arid Southwest?
To understand the AIDS crisis that started 40 years ago, we need to listen to those who experienced it.
President Biden has already committed to addressing systemic racism. Here’s a good place to start.
After years of relying on fresh produce from a local urban farm, Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood is rallying together to save their farm from the city’s eviction notice.
Reparations, debt cancellation, and climate justice are all regular features in climate solutions—but what do they mean in practice?
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we contemplate anger, heart, and action.
Melina Abdullah of Black Lives Matter explains how the 3 core tenets of the Black Xmas campaign are building Black, buying Black, and banking Black.
As a collective, how do we say goodbye to the structures and traditions that no longer serve, protect, and preserve us?
Learning from other languages and cultures of gratitude, perhaps Americans can make “thank you” less casual and more heartfelt.
2021 was the deadliest year on record for trans people, just like the year before. Reversing that trend requires trans solidarity built upon mutual aid.
The innovative ways Native peoples organized to survive the pandemic—and beyond.
Many in this generation are aware of what they have lost by having grown up on social media, so they’re logging off and working to create a safer, healthier future.
“For 16 disquieting days, Sassia and I felt like we were chasing liberty—but whose, was the daily question. It never seemed like it was ours, or that of others obstructed from the American Dream. Not the Nez Perce’s, for sure.”
Unchecked inflation can be damaging, but what we’re seeing in the U.S. is a fundamentally different issue: one in which inflation is being politicized.
In North Carolina, progressive activists reach out to rural voters as an overlooked segment of the electorate.
Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we talk about women, art, climate, and guinea pigs.
“At the end of the day, how does the gender binary and heteronormativity support the extraction and moving of wealth to this handful of global elites?”
The public banking movement is creating an opening wedge for the transfer of our financial system from private to public control.
“In my blood is a culture that is inextricable from its food. How could I reclaim this after years of denying myself this birthright?”
Tell us about the food that moves you—and you may see it on YES!
Native Hawaiian organizer Kaniela Ing on the moral path forward.
“Maybe people are indeed loving places and species to death, but since BIPOC are largely disconnected from the organized outdoors, it’s white people who are spreading this toxic form of tough love.”
The podcast, produced by the Detroit Justice Center, highlights how organizers are engaged in the hard work of abolishing police and prisons, and offers a counter-narrative to mainstream media reports.
Just as slavery couldn’t be reformed and had to be ended, policing can’t be reformed and has to be abolished, say leaders of modern-day abolitionist movements.
In 1970, tens of thousands of people in East Los Angeles marched for equality, identifying themselves as “Chicano.” Today, the Chicano Moratorium continues as young and old learn from one another.
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