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How I Learned to Check My Privilege

July 8, 2014 by Teddy Poneman Leave a Comment

My best friend texted me the other night. He was letting me know that he’d been asked to submit a micro-aggression that happened to him while at Bates College, and was picking between two things I said to him freshman year. The first was, “Wow! You just got so Black!” after watching him debate. The […]

Filed Under: Dealing with privilege Tagged With: allies, privilege

Neighborhood Class Divisions and Hope for the Future

October 24, 2013 by Pete Daly Leave a Comment

On Halloween in my neighborhood, kids come around dressed as princesses, super heroes and ghosts – nothing that would be offensive based on class, race or religion. Why not? What is different about my neighborhood is that it is a mixture of everyone. Black, white, poor, wealthy, conservative, liberal and pretty much all the religions […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Classism in Everyday Life, Owning class Tagged With: allies, Class traitors, diversity, Halloween, kids, neighborhoods

A memory of Helen Ladd, 1924-2012

October 25, 2012 by Betsy Leondar-Wright Leave a Comment

Years before I met Class Action’s co-founder Jenny Ladd, I met her mother, Helen Pratt Ladd, who passed away last week. Our first encounter revealed what a great cross-class ally she was. In 1989 I was a tenant organizer at a very small affordable housing group – so small, in fact, that I was the […]

Filed Under: Cross-class alliances Tagged With: allies, Jenny Ladd, owning class, philanthropy, social movements

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