Activism

YES! Media’s coverage of activism centers on the ways that grassroots mobilization and activism work to change the political zeitgeist around the most pressing social issues we are facing.

Criminal justice reform

Who Deserves a Liberal Arts Degree? For Inmates, It’s a Way Out

Obama's controversial pilot program will make higher education dollars available to inmates this year. Proponents hope it will build on the success private liberal arts programs are achieving in prisons across the country.

Liza Bayless | Oct 27, 2016

Clean elections

It’s Citizens Who Will Save Us From Citizens United

Constitutional amendment organizers are confident of an eventual victory. “The push toward justice has always started at the grassroots.”

Sarah van Gelder | Oct 26, 2016

Native rights | Renewable energy

Will Historic Standing Rock Talks Change U.S.-Tribe Relationships?

The Department of Justice promised to consider nationwide reform in how the U.S. treats tribal land. Legal experts consider what, exactly, that might look like.

Tristan Ahtone | Sep 16, 2016

Mental health

My Brush With Terrorism Helped Me Find My Courage

Sometimes it seems that the world is responding to violence only with violence, but there are other possibilities.

Simon Okelo | Sep 4, 2016

Native rights

A Test of U.S. Climate Leadership Will Be How We Treat the Standing Rock Sioux

Can we trust Clinton-Kaine promises of an energy future “where no one is left out or left behind”?

Mark Trahant | Sep 2, 2016

Cooperatives | Local economies | Jobs | Local power

As #BankBlack Moves Money, Black Credit Unions Are Ready

While the number of Black-owned banks is down to only 22, there are 318 Black credit unions uniquely positioned to invest in their communities.

Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Aug 20, 2016

#WallOffTrump: How Humor Defied Racism at the RNC

Laughter makes us feel safer, stronger, and more together. In Cleveland, activists used it to flip Trump's own ridiculous words upside down.

Alexa Mills | Jul 21, 2016

In New York, Republicans and Democrats Join Forces to Overturn Citizens United

Seventeen states have called for a constitutional amendment to reduce the influence of money in politics. So who’s next?

Lynsi Burton | Jun 29, 2016

Climate Change Film Tells Us “How to Let Go of the World”

In his new documentary, Josh Fox says we can use love to push aside the fear and hopelessness that comes with climate change.

Yessenia Funes | Jun 3, 2016

Seattle Students Call for Nationwide Awakening on Campus Racism

Seattle University students plan to sleep outside their dean’s office for as long as it takes her to resign. Will she budge?

Marcus Harrison Green | May 20, 2016

Still Saying YES!—20 Years of Solutions Journalism

Like many startups, YES! Magazine began with an energized small team, an idea we thought important, and a basement office. Twenty years later, we're stronger than ever.

Sarah van Gelder | Apr 28, 2016

Citizens United

Politics on the Dance Floor: Reclaiming Queer and Black Roots in Electronic Dance Music

As the multibillion-dollar electronic music industry grows, artists and organizers are taking back the spaces and sounds of the marginalized people who started the genre.

Keith Barbalato | Apr 14, 2016

Native rights

How Women-Led Movements Are Redefining Power, From California to Nepal

In the face of corporate domination, economic injustice, and climate change, movements led by women offer a revolutionary path.

Rucha Chitnis | Mar 8, 2016

The Feminist Rappers Who Are Updating Sweden’s Old-Fashioned Definition of Rape

In Sweden, Femtastic gives survivors of sexual violence a voice in a male-dominated music industry.

Lindsey Weedston | Feb 12, 2016

Flint Whistleblowers Who Exposed Their Poisoned Water: We’re Just Getting Started

Long before the state declared an emergency in Flint, Michigan, a pastor, a mother, and an attorney teamed up to reveal the state’s lies about their drinking water.

Larry Gabriel | Feb 3, 2016

White Privilege II Showed Me What an Unruly Mess We’re In

A Seattle music writer quoted in Macklemore’s controversial new song appreciates how it speaks to young white people—but wishes it had gone further.

Jonathan Cunningham | Feb 1, 2016

New York’s “Carwasheros” Push for Safer, Fairer Workplaces

Car washes are the “wild, wild West” of workplace regulation. The Car Wash Accountability Act will improve that—if it is ever implemented.

Jean Stevens | Jan 20, 2016

Waging Life in a War Zone

From Gaza’s colorful neighborhood to its underground theater, resistance is an art.

Jen Marlowe | Jan 12, 2016

Cooperatives

What’s the New Economy Look Like? Here’s What Our Artists Did With Your Ideas

Pictures of windmills and farmers markets are great, but they don’t 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.

Kate Aronoff | Jan 7, 2016

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?

Sarah van Gelder | Jan 5, 2016

Mental health

Project Fatherhood: Uniting the Men of LA’s 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.

Daniel Ross | Dec 31, 2015

Mental health

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.

Leela Corman | Dec 23, 2015

The Crunch illustration by Jennifer Luxton.

8 Amazing Muslim Women Who Would Be Banned From Trump’s 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’s “total shutdown.”

Dec 16, 2015

Can Cities End the School-to-Prison Pipeline? Relentless Organizers Are Tallying Wins

“We have always said that this is a battle of imagination over incarceration.”

Marcus Harrison Green | Nov 13, 2015

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

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