Why Health Care Strikes Should Demand “Health Care For All,” Not Just “Hands Off My ‘Middle Class’ Benefits”
Verizon Strike: A Teachable Moment?
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011Visioning Our Way to Justice
Monday, December 13th, 2010I 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.
Deep Interrelatedness and Transformation
Monday, December 13th, 2010Perhaps ending classism is not so much a political process but a spiritual one. Humanity is evolving!
Restorative Circles: Justice without Classism
Monday, December 13th, 2010We 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 the child, the perpetrator and the victim, the boss and the worker, the teacher and the student. These roles and locations carry with them social and cultural capital that privileges one over another and support dynamics of “power over” and “power under.”
