Social Justice

After Ferguson Uprising, Should St. Louis Spend $1 Billion on a New Football Stadium?

Just a year and a half after the St. Louis area became internationally known for racism, the city is considering building a billion-dollar stadium. If justice was our priority, says organizer Julia Ho, those tax dollars would be spent very differently.

Kate Aronoff | Nov 10, 2015

Activism | Wealth and inequality

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: “It is not about individual therapy or even engaging in philanthropy or charity. It’s about collective action.”

Kate Aronoff | Oct 27, 2015

Mental health

It Took Me Years to Believe That Black Lives Matter. Now Here’s What I Need From You

Internalized racism prevented me from seeing how the system works.

Marcus Harrison Green | Oct 17, 2015

Wealth and inequality | Activism

80 Percent of Us Owe Money to Institutions. Can We Leverage It to Reduce Inequality?

Three visionaries discuss how America’s debt problem has transformed the movements they work with.

Kate Aronoff | Oct 8, 2015

Activism

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.

Oct 8, 2015

A Lifelong Search for Real Education

Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs brought people together to rebuild inner-city Detroit and to teach the things you can’t learn in a classroom. At 94, Grace is still at it.

Julia Putnam | Oct 6, 2015

Activism

Saying Goodbye to Grace Lee Boggs

Rest well, dear friend. Millions of us have been enlivened and empowered by your wisdom and spirit.

Sarah van Gelder | Oct 6, 2015

Grace Boggs: Reviving the Lost City

The YES! Breakthrough 15: A decades-long revolution to rekindle the soul of urban neighborhoods.

Larry Gabriel | Oct 6, 2015

Women Looking at Phone App photo from Shutterstock

Activism

Do Your Local Politicians Want to Limit Access to Women’s Health Care? This New App Can Tell You

Hinder is a reproductive justice messaging hub that tells you what your representatives say about women’s bodies. Meet the cabal of comics and writers behind it.

Stacey Garratt | Oct 1, 2015

Criminal justice reform

Anti-Racist Organizers Win as Seattle Council Votes to End Youth Incarceration

The resolution, which passed unanimously, endorses the goal of having no kids in detention in Seattle. It’s a move that chips away at the school-to-prison pipeline.

Marcus Harrison Green | Sep 22, 2015

Education | Wealth and inequality

Why Student Debtors Can’t File for Bankruptcy—Or Can They?

Think you can't declare bankruptcy on your student loan debt? Think again.

YES! Editors | Sep 22, 2015

Sustainable food and farming | Mental health

Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow

If we are to create a society that values black life, we cannot ignore the role of food and land.

Leah Penniman | Sep 5, 2015

Native rights | Renewable energy

Dispatches From the Edge of Change: Why Montana’s Fossil-Fuel Resistance Gives Me Hope

Meet the ranchers, grandmothers, professors, and tribes who are bringing back grizzlies, blocking oil equipment deliveries, getting arrested—and having a great time doing it.

Sarah van Gelder | Sep 4, 2015

Wealth and inequality | Citizens United | Renewable energy | Native rights | Activism

“You Fly to the Edge of the Tar Sands, and … No Life”: A Montana Professor on the Issue of Our Time

University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he’s standing up to tar sands extraction.

Sarah van Gelder | Aug 28, 2015

Activism

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.

Miles Schneiderman | Aug 28, 2015

Health care

This Artist Collects Your Worst Fears and Turns Them Into Something Great

The Fear Project uses art to visually interpret the parts of life that scare us the most, normalizing fear as a part of ourselves.

Alexa Strabuk | Aug 27, 2015

The Crunch illustration by Jennifer Luxton.

Activism

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.

Aug 26, 2015

Mental health

6 Strategies to Make Powerful Social Change—Starting With “Stay Woke”

Bree Newsome’s removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse reminds us that real change comes from people power.

Mistinguette Smith | Aug 25, 2015

A pulp science-fiction cover from 1957. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Activism

Sad Puppies, Rabid Chauvinists: Will Raging White Guys Succeed in Hijacking Sci-Fi’s Biggest Awards?

More and more women have been nominated for Hugo Awards in recent years—until this year. Here’s what’s at stake.

Miles Schneiderman | Aug 15, 2015

After 20 Years Reporting on Solutions, I’m 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.

Sarah van Gelder | Aug 13, 2015

The students from Deb Arthur’s “Inside-Out” class. Photo by C.J. Drake.

Mental health

School Behind Bars: How College Kids and Incarcerated Youth Benefit From Learning Together

Graduates of an “Inside-Out” program in Oregon say that the experience transformed the way they see the prison system—and themselves.

Nur Lalji | Aug 13, 2015

Native rights

The Rad History Book Every Girl (and Boy) Should Have on Their Bookshelf

A new feminist children's book honors 26 awesome women who changed the world.

Lindsey Weedston | Aug 11, 2015

Study Shows Mindful Meditation Helps Reduce Racial Bias

A new study shows that meditation can transform racial bias at any age.

Jill Suttie | Aug 6, 2015

Native rights | Mental health

The Indigenous Rituals That Heal Us

How the Medicine Wheel can guide us to transform communities that have suffered from racial injustice

Patricia St. Onge | Aug 3, 2015

Seattle Rent Control Debate photo by Alex Garland

Local economies | Activism

Seattle Led the Country’s 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.

Marcus Harrison Green | Jul 29, 2015

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