A preview of the Spring 2019 issue of YES! Magazine. Somewhere in time, humans’ natural relationship to soil became broken. This issue explores how communities are reconnecting to the earth and fixing ...

There is a popular saying among organizers across movements: “They wanted to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.” From the seed, I arrive at the mangrove. According to the Science Museum of ...

After nearly 30 years of publishing independent, justice-centered journalism, YES! Media will sunset operations at the end of June 2025. This was not the outcome we hoped for—but it follows years of ...

Trump’s funding cuts are stalling efforts to heal the wounds of this country’s tragic experiment in forced assimilation.

the agricultural sector, and he was willing to sacrifice the labor that had made the sector a global force to begin with. This guaranteed vulnerability— institutionalized expendability, in the eyes of ...

Street food goes as far back as ancient Mesopotamia. Four thousand years ago, city dwellers short on time, money, or cooking ...

(they/she) is a Sikh American community advocate, educator, artist, and scholar. Kang’s work centers Asian American collaborative resistance as a site for imagining environmentally and economically ...

(she/her) is co-director and communications lead at Pangea Legal Services. As the daughter of immigrants, Vanessa’s unwavering commitment to immigrant rights is deeply personal. Her work at Pangea ...

(she/her) is a co-director and community organizer at Pangea Legal Services, where she supports the advocacy efforts of immigrants detained by ICE in the Central Valley area. Esperanza is an immigrant ...