Another version of this post originally appeared on the AAPIP blog. It is probably no surprise that there is a long-standing need for funding for organizations that support Asian American and Pacific Islander LGBTQ communities, but I was surprised by just how little funding these organizations get. The numbers tell the beginning of the story:…
By Peter Dreier and Chuck Collins This piece was originally posted on boston.com on December 20th After five weeks, Harvard students just evacuated the tents they had pitched on campus as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Their protest helped persuade the university to raise wages and benefits for the college custodians. The students…
Mac and Sophie are members of the RG/Wealth For the Common Good Tax Justice Campaign. Each of them created a sign and photo to post on the tumblr blog westandwiththe99percent and then changed their facebook profile pictures as well to promote the November 17th day of action (organized by OWS). After uploading, they asked each…
“On Saturday at noon,” Tiny said, “please stop wherever you are and light a candle and say a prayer for Homefulness. That’s when we at POOR will be dedicating and blessing the land at 8032 Macarthur Ave.” Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia’s voice, fierce and scratchy and so familiar after two years of conference calls, pulled…
Hello RG Community, We have some updates on staffing we want to share with you. We are excited to announce that we have hired Sarah Schwartz Sax as our new Creating Change Through Family Philanthropy (CCTFP) Retreat Director and Richard Graves as our new Family Philanthropy Organizer. Sarah has been a leader in RG for…
Often people refer to the Resource Generation “community,” roughly defined as young people with wealth who are committed to social justice and are connected on a national level through the RG network. In the past, I’ve found the use of this word a bit problematic and have been thinking about how we can truly claim…
Reposted from the GIFT Blog.I attended my first workshop on disability justice facilitated by Mia Mingus and Stacey Milbern, two Korean queer women with disabilities, at the United States Social Forum in 2010. Sitting in a room with others wanting to talk about disability and ableism within a social justice framework was like coming home for me….
Taij Moteelall, RG’s former director, shares some reflections on her time with RG below. Reposted from the Power Up Networks Blog. As the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon grows in NYC, spreads throughout the United States and across the globe, I wonder what kind of a world will be rebuilt post-corruption, greed, and injustice that sparked this movement. How…
I’m a mid-forties white genderqueer person born and raised in Montreal and raised again in the Mission District in San Francisco. I came from an owning-class Canadian WASP family. I can thank them for good teeth and education and vacation opportunities and also for legacies of silence, repression and anger. When I turned 25 I…
With the Occupy Wall Street protests ongoing, the movement for re-aligning investments with social change values is more relevant than ever. While corporations essentially own the US government, it is the stockholders—i.e. foundations and the “1%”— who own the corporations.There is a lot of power in this ownership, but not enough people owning up it….
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