Sharing our Stories
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As The South Transforms, So Do We All
I was born and raised in North Carolina, and Southern values of community, hospitality, and mutual aid run deep for me… but dismissal of the…
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How I’ve Benefited from Tax Evasion & Wealth Hoarding at 26
The Senate tax bill makes me mad with waves of heat in my body. I’m calling on people like me, young folks with wealth, to move…
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Reflections on Making Money Make Change 2017
Spaces like this aren’t supposed to exist under capitalism. Making Money Make Change is precious and powerful.
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Why Young People with Class Privilege Won’t Stand for the #TrumpTaxScam
If you, like me, are 18-35 and have access to wealth, you *will* benefit financially from the #TrumpTaxScam. How are you stepping up for economic…
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“As Wealthy People, We Damn Well Better Be Funding Resource Generation Ourselves!”
In RG, I found community to talk through complicated feelings about inheriting wealth, particularly guilt, shame, & secrecy. Now I’m redistributing my wealth.
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As a Young Wealthy Person of Color, This is What Resource Generation Membership Means to Me
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…
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How Supporting RG Increases Funding to Social Justice
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…
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Why Rich People Sharing Their Class Stories in Media Must Address Redistribution
Sharing our class stories as rich people matters only insofar as we address taking action toward the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power.
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Check out our member’s op-ed in the Des Moines Register!
“I was born into wealth, and I benefit from government handouts.”
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Leading on Wealth Redistribution as Young People of Color with Wealth
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…
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Why MMMC, Why Now, and What’s Next?
If you come from or have earned wealth and believe in a future where wealth, land, and power are equitably shared, join us at MMMC…
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Our Money Will Not Liberate Us: What the NFL Protests Say About Wealth and White Supremacy
Individual wealth accumulation will never create collective safety and freedom for people of color.