Now is the time to get involved with and fund poor and working-class led organizations doing year-round social justice work and focus on building power with communities who hold our elected officials accountable. Strong poor and working-class led organizations and communities are critical not just to beat back the worst threats but to challenge the…
As young people with access to wealth, we want to amplify what Black people and communities of color have long said: police officers as a part of the state exist to protect whiteness and wealth at the expense of everyone else, especially Black people. We are updating resources to support the Movement or Black lives…
I first joined Resource Generation in 2013 because I wanted to be part of ending the harm of racial capitalism. I have been a member ever since. Being a member of Resource Generation over many years has deepened my accountability and commitment to wealth redistribution and helped me feel connected and grounded in this moment where stress…
I’ve been making a series of exhausting decisions that I’m calling the “corona calculus.” Can I go get groceries if it means being less than 6 ft away from the cashier? Can I support my friend who is physically healthy but struggling with depression by seeing them in person but does that mean I can’t…
As a community of young people with access to wealth and class privilege it is essential that we (staff and members) take the time to learn about the Black and Native lead organizing locally and nationally and to support in whatever ways we’re able.
As has happened many times now, I read the news this weekend of the latest mass shootings. It’s of course not how anyone should be starting their days, nor ending their days. I feel moved to share some reflections as a white, working class, queer femme who grew up in close proximity to the ways…
Resource Generation stands in solidarity with the ongoing active resistance movements at the border, in Puerto Rico, and Hawai’i’s Mauna Kea. These struggles are power struggles that are inextricable from systemic wealth inequality, white supremacy, and colonization. In each of these resistances, people with wealth and power are trying to impose their agendas through force…
What’s the role of wealthy-ish and affluent folks in climate justice and the environmental movement?
We got arrested today for disrupting Kavanaugh’s testimony. This morning, some of us were in D.C. to disrupt Kavanaugh’s testimony.
The Senate Judiciary Committee began its hearing this morning at 9:30 am…
It’s critical to center class in the work to build a new economy so that we don’t recreate classism in the alternatives we are trying to create.
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