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Race and Class: Taking Action at the Intersections
By Rhonda SotoSeptember 25, 2008 Equity in Excellence
By Felice YeskelMay 19, 2008Click to read The Story of Stuff Film Review
This New Year, now that we’ve survived the holiday-hectic shopping mall traffic jams and overflowing checkout lines, let’s pause for a moment to consider the stuff of our seasonal celebrations.By Peter RedingtonJanuary 2, 2008 Social Justice versus Academic Excellence?
Class Action's K-12 Team Member Ruth Trimarichi's guest column in the Amherst Bulletin Dec. 22, 2007By Ruth TrimarchiDecember 28, 2007 December 2007 Update
Class Action Programs and AccomplishmentsBy Felice YeskelDecember 21, 2007 Wanna Talk Values?
African Americans have broken two new barriers, according to the Pew Charitable Trust Economic Mobility Project’s new report.By Rhonda Soto, Class Action Race/Class Intersections Program CoordinatorNovember 27, 2007 Class in High School Musical 1 & 2
I recently read an article in Rolling Stone that discussed the possibility that 1 in 3 American teenage girls have a poster in their room of Zac Efron, the charismatic star of Disney’s made-for-TV movie High School Musical (1 and 2).By Class Action trendspotter Zoe GreenbergSeptember 12, 2007 Chapter Review: Silent Theft by David Bollier
It would seem we have arrived at an irreconcilable incompatibility; self-interest cannot be manifest as community-interest.By Matt BannishMay 31, 2007 The Graduates
On Meritocracy...By Louis MenandMay 22, 2007
Opening Pandora's Box: Adding Classism to the Agenda
Imagine sitting in a room in a circle of chairs. Across from you is someone
who grew up in a small mansion where servants, responding to a bell,
served meals. Her current net worth is over 14 million dollars.By Felice YeskelFebruary 21, 2007 Class & Sports: Class Action e-news feature
Inside this month’s Class Action E-news you’ll find a variety of resources and observations that can help you get past the box scores and see sports in a revealing new perspective.By Guest contributors: Sam Pizzigatti and Peter RedingtonFebruary 1, 2007 Wal-Mart Goes to School. The Walton empire gets political.
Wal-Mart is frequently in the news as America’s most controversial retailer and largest private employer, with 1.2 million U.S. workers. But behind Wal-Mart is a quiet family that is just beginning to flex the full muscle of their wealth and power.By Chuck Collins and Felice YeskelApril 10, 2006 Billionaires R Us
Wal-Mart's Walton family now has 771,287 times more money than the median U.S. household. What gives?By Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel for AlterNetNovember 9, 2005 What Mexico Can Teach Us About Katrina
Like Hurricane Katrina, the 1985 earthquake dramatized the deep fault-lines in Mexican society along the lines of race and class. .... Mexicans couldn't help but see the parallels between Hurricane Katrina and the 1985 earthquake.By Chuck CollinsSeptember 20, 2005 THE TITANIC REVISITED: Race, Class and Katrina
Watching the wrenching images in the wake of Katrina reminds us of the Titanic ship disaster.... Commentary and links to grassroots response efforts and New-Orleans-based resources, organizations and institutions.By Class ActionSeptember 7, 2005 Class in America: Two Elite Newspapers Tackle The Big Taboo
Co-Directors Ladd and Yeskel featured on CommonDreams.org. "Class in America" responds to New York Times and Wall Street Journal coverage of class. "When it comes to talking about class, it's as if we stumble and go speechless...By Jennifer Ladd and Felice YeskelJune 2, 2005 COMING OUT ABOUT MONEY: COST SHARING
The first time I participated in cost sharing was eleven years ago. I was participating in a two-week training program for social change activists sponsored by Movement for a New Society. We were putting the theory into practice, so why did I feel sick...By Felice YeskelMarch 16, 2005 RESPONSIBLE WEALTH
Questioning and Challenging A Tilted EconomyBy Jennifer LaddMarch 16, 2005 CROSS CLASS DIALOGUE
One of us has several million dollars for personal use; one of us is in debt with absolutely no financial cushion. One of us grew up with an indoor swimming pool; one of us grew up being called "white trash." Half of us can live on inherited money, andBy Jennifer Ladd, with other group membersMarch 16, 2005
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