Will California End Forced Prison Labor?
Incarcerated people in California and many other states can be compelled to work for near-zero wages. A ballot proposition could change that.
YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali
YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali is a weekly broadcast program鈥攁n antidote to the doom and gloom of mainstream news, lifting up solutions that bring us closer to economic, racial, gender, and environmental justice. Hosted and produced by YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar, YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali is available as a podcast, on independent radio stations nationwide, on Free Speech TV, and right here through YES! 无码视频. Learn more about the show here.
Storm-Ravaged North Carolina Rallies Voters
A coalition of progressive groups, including labor organizers, are connecting the dots on climate and the economy in North Carolina GOTV efforts.
Inside Trump鈥檚 Madison Square Garden Rally
Investigative journalist Arun Gupta offers an eyewitness account of the hate鈥攁nd sense of belonging鈥攐n display at Donald Trump鈥檚 New York City rally.
Video | Affordable Housing | Housing | housing crisis | 2024 Election | Institute for Policy Studies
Undoing What Wall Street Did to the Housing Market
Billionaires have long leveraged the housing market for money. But a new report outlines how to regulate the market so people鈥攏ot hedge funds鈥攃an buy homes.
Should Voters Pick Judges?
Only a few localities nationwide allow voters to elect judges. What impact would democratizing judge selection have on the judiciary?
Video | voter turnout | Black Futures Lab | 2024 Election | Black Power Voters Alliance | Kamala Harris
Can Massive Election Turnout Save Democracy?
An extremely tight race for the presidency is sparking a last-minute, Black-led GOTV effort aimed at Black voters in swing states.
Israeli Journalist Decries Gaza Genocide
Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist long critical of his nation鈥檚 apartheid state, offers moral clarity on the first anniversary of the genocide in Gaza.
The Contentious Role of Third-Party Candidates
In a high-stakes election, left-leaning third party candidates are receiving Republican support, and may be wooing disaffected progressive voters. Former Green Party vice presidential candidate Rosa Clemente shares her take on this year鈥檚 race.
Mutual Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene
A self-described "climate refugee" deals with the devastation of Hurricane Helene in Asheville, North Carolina.
Video | Project 2025 | Progress 2025: Climate and Environment | Progress 2025 | Climate Crisis | Climate Change
A Progress 2025 Vision for Climate Justice
As Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastate the Southeastern U.S., Antonia Juhasz articulates a just vision for how to fix our climate.
Dr. Ibram X Kendi鈥檚 Progress 2025 Vision for Education
In the face of Project 2025鈥檚 dystopian vision for education, Ibram X Kendi lays out a progressive alternative for public education in the U.S.
Here鈥檚 How to Respond to Crime, Not React to It
A new ballot measure in California would reverse progress on reducing mass incarceration. Here's what our regular correspondent Dortell Williams has to say about it.
An Abolitionist Response to Project 2025
Project 2025, created by the extremist right-wing Heritage Foundation, fortifies the racist impact of policing by empowering the Department of Justice to focus on violent crime, despite the fact that
Video | Progress 2025: Colonialism and Sovereignty | Progress 2025 | self-determination | sovereignty
A Progress 2025 Vision of Self-Determination
Project 2025, created by the extremist right-wing Heritage Foundation, takes a colonialist position on U.S. influence at home and abroad. Its authors argue that too much public land is not
Video | Center for Constitutional Rights | Life Without Parole | Derek Lee | Mandatory Minimums | Criminal Justice Reform | Pennsylvania | Prisons
Ending 鈥淒eath by Incarceration鈥�
A Pennsylvania man is challenging mandatory life without parole sentencing for felony murders in a case that has national implications.
Video | Progress 2025: Voting Rights | Progress 2025 | Cliff Albright | Donald Trump | Voter Suppression | voting rights | Project 2025
Progress 2025: Protecting Voting Rights and Democracy
Instead of Project 2025's white supremacist vision for voting rights, Progress 2025 envisions universal early voting, a national federal holiday and more.
Video | Progress 2025 | Reproductive Justice | Renee Bracey Sherman | Donald Trump | Supreme Court | Abortion | Roe v Wade | 2024 Election | Project 2025 | Progress 2025: Reproductive Justice
A Liberatory Vision for Reproductive Justice
A progressive alternative to Project 2025's anti-abortion vision includes no-cost abortions, on-demand, for everyone who wants one.
Video | 2020 Election | Insurrection | January 6 | 2024 Election | Electors | Fake Electors | Donald Trump | Electoral College
Trump鈥檚 Fake Electors Eye 2024 Election Theft
A new report by Insurrection Exposed prepares voters on what to expect from Trump鈥檚 next effort to steal an election.
Video | Project 2025 | Progress 2025: Labor and Capital | Progress 2025 | Gig Work | Americans for Financial Reform | Unions | Organized Labor
Progress 2025: A Vision for Economic Justice
A progressive alternative to Project 2025鈥檚 anti-tax, anti-worker economy includes worker protections and a strong social safety net.
Video | Progress 2025 | Haitian Immigrants | Springfield | Donald Trump | 2024 Election | JD Vance | Progress 2025: Immigration
A Progress 2025 Vision for Immigration
Instead of Project 2025鈥檚 harsh anti-immigrant policies, here鈥檚 what a progressive, human-centered vision for immigrant rights looks like.
Does a Forest Have Rights? In Ecuador, It Does.
Journalist Peter Yeung explains how Los Cedros has remained protected for years thanks to Ecuador鈥檚 constitution extending rights to nature.
A Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care
Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.
Progress 2025: A Vision for LGBTQ Rights
The Heritage Foundation鈥檚 Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. It aims to criminalize the existence
YES! Magazine Explores 鈥淭he Truth Above All Else鈥�
YES! Executive Editor Evette Dionne previews the latest issue of YES! Magazine, themed around "truth."
Meet the Librarian Battling Book Bans
Librarian Amanda Jones refused to stay silent in the face of vicious attacks by a right-wing book-banning campaign. She tells all in a new book.
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