Instead of choosing to embrace my class or race as separate identities, RG helped me to see why understanding this intersection makes the social justice movement stronger.
As progressive young people with wealth, it’s our responsibility to organize wealthy folks to take action to end economic inequality and move money to fund economic and racial justice.
“I was born into wealth, and I benefit from government handouts.”
Some of Resource Generation’s leaders of color with wealth share why attending Making Money Make Change changed their life and relationship to economic and racial justice.
Individual wealth accumulation will never create collective safety and freedom for people of color.
Hoarding wealth, exploiting poor & working-class communities, gutting corporate regulations, & forcing austerity on the 99% cause economic insecurity, not immigrants.
Universities have a history of compounding wealth, land, and power among the wealthiest Americans. Young wealthy folks, like me, have a role in pushing back.
After I graduated from college, I learned I was the owner of a trust fund worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. In June, I made my first gift of $80,000 to a social justice foundation.
Our reflections on Charlottesville and why organizing young people with wealth toward economic and racial justice is so increasingly critical.
By Margi, RG memberMy Mini Praxis Group with Aunts and Uncles I grew up in an owning-class family and didn’t know it. My parents chose to live their daily lives within the means of their salaries, but subtly used inherited wealth to assist with big expenses like my education and buying our home. I was…
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