What Future Do You Hunger For?
I had a nagging sense that wealth inequality was at the root of so much violence, but that I, as someone with wealth, wasn’t doing much, if anything, about it.
Movement Moments
On Abolishing Inheritance and the Untapped Potential of Poor People
I do not believe inheritance should exist. If you search your heart, past any defensiveness, my guess is that you don’t either.
Brief Reflections on Janus vs AFSCME and the Importance of Public Sector Unions
This Supreme Court case is the latest blow in a 40-year racist and classist attack by the right wing and conservative billionaires such as the Koch brothers and Walton family on organized labor.
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 South is replicated in too many philanthropic spaces.
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 justice right now?
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.
#DefendDACA — Resource Generation Stands with Immigrant Youth
Hoarding wealth, exploiting poor & working-class communities, gutting corporate regulations, & forcing austerity on the 99% cause economic insecurity, not immigrants.
“As the South goes…” – Our Reflections on Charlottesville
Our reflections on Charlottesville and why organizing young people with wealth toward economic and racial justice is so increasingly critical.
Healthcare Not Wealthcare — A note from RG member Sam Waxman
When elected officials put wealth-hoarding of the rich over the most basic human needs of the many, young people with wealth have a critical role in pushing back.
RG at AMC!
So many Resource Generation members came out to the Allied Media Conference in Detroit on June 15 – 18! Among them was Emily Bookstein of RG’s Portland Chapter — she spoke to a packed room as part of the panel, Real Talk with Major Donors, that we organized as part of AMC’s Resourcing and Sustaining…