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- After an all-day Exploring
Class workshop a group of participants is so moved and engaged that they
decide to keep on meeting. For over a year they continue
to discover how class works in their lives and how they
can become more empowered individuals at home, at work,
and in the world.
- Poor and working-class students attending
elite private colleges come together to support each other
in this foreign environment, working to make sense of their
lives, part of which still abides at home and part of which
is gaining the privilege associated with Ivy League colleges.
- An organization holds a retreat for its staff
and board focused on how class issues are both helping
and hindering them from achieving their organizational
mission. They learn about each other's class stories and
together they begin to surface the previously hidden class
dynamics, creating more trust as they go, becoming more
equipped to deal with their dilemmas head on.
- Individuals visit our website and send in their stories. They share appreciation for finding a place that gives name to their experiences, and that works to shed light on classism.
- Time and time again we find people become more able to
take care of themselves while becoming more sensitive to
others' issues around class. As individuals and organizations
choose to open the door to class, fear is reduced, barriers
lower, and people are more able to move ahead towards creating
equity, justice, and sustainability.
Class Action workshops provide a model
of hope. The work is not easy and the answers
are not presumed, but I feel we're living in one of
the most politically dispiriting and socially unjust
eras--a sad irony given our highly developed capacities
in health care, travel technology, communication etc.
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