10 World-Changing Protests You Should Know About
Jun 15, 2021. Protest works. In Myanmar, Palestine, Thailand, and around the world, people are taking to the streets to resist repression and win change. Because protest works, governments try to stop it: In country after country, new restrictions have been introduced and protesters face police violence. Things got worse under the pandemic, as ...
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10 Examples That Prove White Privilege Exists in Every ...
Jul 24, 2017 · This article was originally published by Everyday Feminism.It has been edited for YES! Magazine. If you checked out the Jose Antonio Vargas documentary about White people, aptly titled White People, you’ll know that many White people struggle to discuss race (not that some of you needed a documentary to confirm this fact).Throw “White Privilege” into the discussion, and the awkwardness ...
10 Things You Should Know About Socialism | YES! Magazine
Jan 30, 2020 · Here are 10 things from this book that you should know. 1. Socialism is a yearning for something better than capitalism. Socialism represents the awareness of employees that their sufferings and limitations come less from their employers than from the capitalist system. That system prescribes incentives and options for both sides, and rewards ...
Empathy Heroes: 5 People Who Changed the World By ...
Nov 7, 2014 · Beatrice Webb photographed in the years before she ventured onto the streets of East London. Photo credit Wikimedia Commons.. In the early 20th century it became popular for writers and would-be social reformers—among them Jack London and George Orwell—to spend time living down and out on the streets of East London to experience the realities of poverty among the homeless, beggars, and ...
Transforming Ourselves to Transform the World - YES! Magazine
Nov 21, 2022. The concept of cuerpo-territorio (“body-territory”) around which the Xinka women in Guatemala organize themselves recognizes the interconnectedness between human bodies and all other living beings. Within this Indigenous philosophy, the body is understood as disputed political territory that is part of the land that has been ...
Shortchanging Harriet - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism
Nov 21, 2022. On Feb. 1, 2014, Google featured freedom fighter, activist, and abolitionist Harriet Tubman as a Doodle illustration on its homepage. The image depicted Tubman wearing a patterned headscarf and shawl and holding a lantern on a starry night. While not a direct reference to any of the widely circulated images of Tubman, the Doodle ...
A New Social Justice - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism
Reverberations as a Generation Takes a Knee. With a simple gesture, Colin Kaepernick started a movement. Alex Gallo-Brown. The YES! Crossword: A New Social Justice. Patrick Blindauer. YES! Reflection – A New Social Justice. YES!
No Pride in Genocide: Calling Out Israel’s Pinkwashing
Feb 5, 2024 · Demonstrators take part in a pro-Palestine protest in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on Jan. 28, 2024. Israel continues to paint itself as a pro-LGBTQ haven in the Middle East, using this alleged tolerance as justification for its genocide in Gaza. Queer activists around the world are pushing back. Gaza is in crisis.
The Mental Health Issue - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism
Chances for Healing in Every Moment. My beautiful older sister, Bess — a smart, passionate, popular soccer star — killed herself when she was 17. She took my parents’ gun, drove to a park, and shot herself in the head. The effect on my family was profound. Though I’m generally a warm person, for the next 15 years, I avoided people with ...