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We deeply mourn the ending of the regular publication of YES! Magazine. Yet the magazine's incredible legacy will live on: The Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism, which is stewarding YES!’s digital archives, has launched a monthly YES! Newsletter.
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Big announcement! Today, YES! launches a new series in collaboration with @truthout: Taking Back the Public Commons. The series shines a light on visionary organizing to win public funding and public goods, while shifting power away from the ultrawealthy.yesmagazine.org/taking-back-…
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Taking Back the Public Commons marks the return of new original reporting to YES! We’re so excited to be bringing you solutions journalism once again. All our gratitude to our community for making this work possible!!
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Voter rolls purged. International monitors banned. Over a billion in campaign cash spent. Registration drives canceled out of fear. Armed federal agents at the polls. This is what the midterm elections in the United States may look like in November.
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The last year has seen a remarkable upswell of grassroots resistance to the latest spawn of Big Tech: data centers. The threats of these centers are multitudinous. Communities facing the impact of data centers have quickly stood up to these technological catastrophes.
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Check out YES!'s August newsletter to find out how we can become an unstoppable — and sustainable — collective force to forge interdependence and practice tangible hope against Big Tech and other forms of social control. yesmagazine.org/issues/2026/…
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The ruling class is striving to take everything from us – including our future. The material of life that sustains us all is not only being concentrated in the hands of a few ultrawealthy people; it is also being destroyed.
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Check out YES!'s June newsletter to read about how we can sow the seeds for a future commonwealth that excludes no one and no being from the Earth’s gifts of life. yesmagazine.org/issues/2026/…
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A bolder antiwar movement is desperately needed at this moment to prevent the US-Israeli war in the Middle East from escalating further. We need to build something more enduring, localized, and concrete to bring the genocidal attacks on Lebanon and Iran to a halt.
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There are so many fronts on which organizers are tirelessly working and where activists are mobilizing. While multitasking between antiwar protests and rapid response, to divestment campaigns and survivor advocacy, it can feel like there is not enough time to even breathe.
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The March 2026 newsletter from the YES! digital archives takes up the question: What can hold us together when capitalism, empire, and fascism are ruthlessly committed to tearing us apart? yesmagazine.org/issues/2026/…
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