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Linda Stout

Linda Stout

About Linda Stout

Linda Stout is an activist and a visionary. In her lifetime, she has identified and worked against injustice within her world, her country and her community. In 2004, Linda founded Spirit in Action to seek out transformative tools, models, and resources for building a powerful and visionary progressive movement.

When Skinny Isn’t So Cute

July 20, 2016 by Linda Stout 1 Comment

Growing up as the daughter of a farm worker, we often had dinners of biscuits and milk gravy. I always thought I was having a great meal! While we did grow a lot of vegetables and canned as many as possible, we often ran out before the next season. Sometime there would be a little […]

Filed Under: Class and health, Classism in Everyday Life, Corporate power, Environmental classism Tagged With: health care, low-wage jobs, poverty, speaking up

Humiliation at School Should Be a Thing of the Past

February 5, 2014 by Linda Stout 1 Comment

Dozens of children at a Utah elementary school had their lunch trays snatched away from them before they could take a bite last month.  Salt Lake City School District officials say the trays were taken away at Uintah Elementary School because some students had negative balances in the accounts used to pay for lunches, according […]

Filed Under: Classism in K-12 Education Tagged With: classism, kids, poverty, public school

Poverty and Disability: the Vicious Circle

February 21, 2012 by Linda Stout 2 Comments

I first started to look at disability as a class issue when 18 of our members from Piedmont Peace Project and I attended a national peace movement conference in Atlanta.  Six of us were disabled and three in wheelchairs, including me. No other group had visibly disabled people present, although I’m sure some hidden disabilities […]

Filed Under: Class and Disability, Classism in Progressive Movement Groups, Poverty Tagged With: debt, disability, health care, low-wage jobs, poverty

Visioning Our Way to Justice

December 13, 2010 by Linda Stout 1 Comment

I grew up in poverty, the daughter of a tenant farmer. I thought people were privileged if they lived in a house, had running water or even an outhouse. My family of five lived in a ten-by-forty foot trailer. I knew that there were farm owners who lived in large houses, but they worked almost […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Classism among Kids, Classism in K-12 Education Tagged With: classism, community organizing, illiteracy intelligence book-learning, kids

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