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Deep Interrelatedness and Transformation

December 13, 2010 by Rose Sackey-Milligan 1 Comment

Perhaps ending classism is not so much a political process but a spiritual one. Humanity is evolving! We are at a new and extraordinary threshold in human history. We appear to be on a cataclysmic collision course, and more and more people are using their spirituality to engage the world. They are transcending the negative […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Spirituality and Ending Classism Tagged With: classism, racism, visioning

Restorative Circles: Justice without Classism

December 13, 2010 by Jerry Koch-Gonzalez 4 Comments

We know the justice system is biased by inequality. The best justice money can buy. And the locations where this justice system is carried out – courtrooms, classrooms, living rooms, workplaces – are filled with people labeled with roles of unequal status: the judge and the accused, the cop and the criminal, the parent and […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Politics and Class Tagged With: classism, conflict resolution, criminal justice system

The Plague of the Nonprofits

December 4, 2010 by Mike Miller of OTC Leave a Comment

How do you talk with your friends about a problem you think they’re causing?  First:  get their attention.  That’s what my title’s designed to do.  But I don’t want to make you mad:  so I’m sorry to be confrontational.  It’s easy to condemn corporate power, profiteering and executive officer greed, for-sale politicians, and unresponsive bureaucracies, […]

Filed Under: Classism in Progressive Movement Groups, Philanthropy and Classism

Chickens in Every Pot? Or Bentleys in a Few Garages?

November 29, 2010 by Chuck Collins 2 Comments

Lawmakers are really in a bind over whether to let the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy expire at the end of this year.  After all, they owe those millionaires a lot after all those campaign contributions this fall. But extending tax cuts for households with incomes over $250,000 would cost an estimated $700 billion […]

Filed Under: Classism in the Economy, Politics and Class Tagged With: super-rich, tax cuts

It’s Not Butter: The Other Tax Spread

November 24, 2010 by Meizhu Lui 2 Comments

Congress and the White House are wrangling over the future of the Bush tax cuts, which expire this year.  Much has been written about how the 2001 and 2003 cuts widened the gap between the very wealthiest 2% of Americans and the middle and working classes. But far too little notice has been paid to […]

Filed Under: Classism in the Economy, Politics and Class, Race and Class Tagged With: racism, super-rich, tax cuts, wealth gap

Defending my vibrant neighborhood

November 18, 2010 by Julie Joy Leave a Comment

Recently four people were killed about ten houses away from where I grew up in Mattapan, a neighborhood of Boston. The neighborhood was maligned by the media coverage which plastered the headlines “Massacre in Mattapan” in large print across the 6:00 news every night. That image of Mattapan was permanently emblazoned across the minds of […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Classism among Kids, Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in K-12 Education, Poverty Tagged With: classism, kids, poverty, racism

Why don’t schools do more to stop bullying?

November 18, 2010 by Julie Withers 61 Comments

I have been reading (I am sure you have too) about the many cases of bullying and the awful consequences of being a target for bullies. Kids and young adults committing suicide, suffering chronic depression, choosing to be home-schooled, or quitting school altogether: there’s no doubt that being bullied negatively shifts how a person experiences […]

Filed Under: Classism among Kids, Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in K-12 Education Tagged With: bullying, kids

Living in a rich neighborhood

November 18, 2010 by Ayla Costello 4 Comments

I’m a kid of a single mom that works very hard to make a living and support her family’s needs. We live in a rich neighborhood. The other kids at my school are richer than us and they have a lot of things we don’t. They can get a lot of stuff that they want. […]

Filed Under: Classism among Kids, Classism in Everyday Life Tagged With: classism, kids, snobs, working hard

The Bus Stops Here

November 18, 2010 by Dan McMullan 3 Comments

I have two little boys; they are very bright, good boys. They have never had a babysitter and maybe I have been a little over protective. But their innocence is refreshing. They do not understand that when a bigot sees that our car is dated, and that our address is in the flats, and they […]

Filed Under: Classism among Kids, Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in K-12 Education Tagged With: kids, snobs

A Wealth of Whammies for Youth in Poverty

November 12, 2010 by Paul C. Gorski 12 Comments

It is unjust enough that scores of young people in the United States are denied basic human rights; that even in a country which paints itself as a global model of human rights, kids go without food, safe and affordable housing, equitable schooling opportunities, and healthcare. Heck, in a country with the level of resources […]

Filed Under: Classism in K-12 Education, Poverty Tagged With: kids, meritocracy, poverty, Ruby Payne

The Politics of “Waiting for Superman”

November 10, 2010 by Maynard Seider 6 Comments

I fidgeted throughout the film Waiting for Superman, through the bells and whistles, the graphs, the close-ups of the five cute kids and their caring single moms, grandmas and parents, having read enough reviews, and having listened to enough critiques to know that I wasn’t going to like the film.  And I didn’t,  but what […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Classism in K-12 Education Tagged With: charter schools, kids, teachers unions

Classed Relationships on the Internet

November 5, 2010 by N. Jeanne Burns 10 Comments

“Social class and the Internet” usually implies issues of access to high-speed Internet and newer computers. But recent online discussions have me reflecting on how my Facebook friends are divided clearly along class lines, in how we interact online. Class differences in dealing – or not dealing – with conflict show up starkly in my […]

Filed Under: Classism in Everyday Life, Online Classism Tagged With: classism, Conflict-avoidance, FaceBook

Obstructed Views from the Country Club

November 2, 2010 by Jessica Holden Sherwood 3 Comments

I was born and raised in New England, half Jewish, half WASP.  Went to the same prep school as my grandmother, and the same college as my great-grandfather.  I ended up in graduate school for sociology, with a specialization in class + race + gender inequalities. I heard the occasional call for studying the unmarked […]

Filed Under: Classism in Everyday Life Tagged With: Country Clubs, Rationalizing privilege, snobs

25 Reasons why working at McDonald’s is better than being a graduate student

October 27, 2010 by Jay Mahin 24 Comments

25. In order to get promoted at McDonald’s, there is no need to invent an original sandwich and defend it. 24. You are guaranteed a meal at McDonald’s. 23. McDonald’s has more people of color in top positions. 22. Once you submit an order to a customer, either the customer tells you what is wrong […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education Tagged With: classism, graduate school, Higher Education, living wage, McDonalds

Illiterate in 3 languages

October 27, 2010 by S.M. Miller 2 Comments

At a meeting in Amman, Jordan, high-powered social policy analysts from many nations were deploring the limited intelligence of illiterates and the effects on their offspring; I rushed to defend illiterates. Then, I suddenly realized that my mother had been an illiterate. Indeed, I quickly recognized that Mom was illiterate in three languages. But she […]

Filed Under: Classism in Everyday Life Tagged With: illiteracy intelligence book-learning

Red Carpets and Platinum: Travel and Privilege

October 4, 2010 by Chuck Collins 2 Comments

The hardest place to pretend that the U.S. is a classless society is when traveling. After all, it’s the travel industries who put “Class” into “First Class.” Instead of the avoiding the language of class, the travel industry seems to flaunt it.

Filed Under: Classism on the Road, Politics and Class Tagged With: airlines, classism, travel

Gisele Bundchen’s clueless classist comments

September 27, 2010 by Betsy Leondar-Wright 7 Comments

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen was quoted in the September Harper’s Bazaar UK as saying, “There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.” Bundchen got lots of outraged reactions to her statement, but mostly from women with positive opinions about bottle-feeding, or general dismay at woman-to-woman lifestyle […]

Filed Under: Classism in the Economy, Pop Culture Classism Tagged With: Family leave, Gisele Bundchen, mega-mansions, overcrowded housing, super-rich

Beware of Cabinet Officers Bearing “Gifts”

September 15, 2010 by Maynard Seider 2 Comments

“We already have the privatization of the military…; we’ve seen the privatization of the prison system. Well, the next step is the privatization of public schools.” That prediction by Jonathan Kozol four years ago has come closer to reality with the enactment of President Obama’s Race to the Top educational goals. Besides continuing the previous […]

Filed Under: Classism in K-12 Education, Politics and Class Tagged With: charter schools, privatization, teachers unions

US Social Forum: A Sour Taste of Classism

July 30, 2010 by Meg Couture 3 Comments

A month has gone by since I experienced my first-ever social justice conference, the US Social Forum (USSF) in Detroit, and I’ve been trying to erase my memory of that time ever since. The lack of logistical planning we experienced had a classist effect that seemed antithetical to the forum’s message, and I was left with such a bad taste in my mouth for the progressive left that I will carefully reconsider attending any conference in the future.

Filed Under: Classism in Progressive Movement Groups, Classism on the Road Tagged With: detroit, grassroots, social movements, us social forum, ussf

B&B Breakfast Classism

July 24, 2010 by Betsy Leondar-Wright 2 Comments

It was the usual chit-chat among strangers encountering each other over breakfast at a Seattle bed-and-breakfast: “where are you from?,” “how’s the weather there?” Three middle-aged couples and a 20-year-old son who immediately set off my classism alarms. The first red flag was his face, a sneer usually seen on sulky teens much younger than […]

Filed Under: Classism in Everyday Life, Classism on the Road Tagged With: snobs, speaking up, the Ivy League

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