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Anne Phillips

Anne Phillips

About Anne Phillips

Anne Phillips is the Executive Director of Class Action and she spends her non-work time as an activist for justice and liberation.

Let’s Dial Back 2017’s Extreme Classism

January 1, 2018 by Anne Phillips Leave a Comment

Classism Continued to Spin Out of Control in 2017 Again in 2017, Class Action asked people from across the United States to vote for the Most Classist Comment of the year. The “contest” is an extension of our work to raise awareness of the classism that is spinning out of control in the United States. U.S. […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism

Cultivating the Joy of Gift Giving

December 23, 2014 by Anne Phillips Leave a Comment

When I was a little girl, we never had extravagant Christmases. As excited as we were about the gifts, my mom always reinforced that “Jesus is the reason for the season” by making a Betty Crocker birthday cake for Jesus every year, we didn’t bother to put the right number of candles on, obviously. My […]

Filed Under: Class cultures, Consumer culture Tagged With: consumerism, gifts, holidays

‘Black Friday’ has literally consumed Thanksgiving

November 27, 2013 by Anne Phillips 3 Comments

You can’t listen to your car radio, open your mailbox, turn on the television or watch a YouTube or Hulu video these days without being bombarded with ‘Black Friday’ mania. What was once a lazy day-after-Thanksgiving to mark the beginning of the holiday shopping season (for those who celebrate gift-giving holidays) has now become a […]

Filed Under: Classist Corporations, Consumer culture Tagged With: consumerism, corporations, low-wage jobs, shopping

9 Classist Halloween Themes to Think Twice About

October 24, 2013 by Anne Phillips 11 Comments

I’ve been glad to see so much recent coverage exposing the cultural appropriation, racism and sexism inherent in so many Halloween costumes. Students at Ohio University have built a great campaign called “We’re a Culture, Not a Costume,” that highlights real people whose cultures are caricatured around Halloween. And one of my favorite YouTube videos […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Classism, Classism in Everyday Life

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