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Links to resources and allied organizations working on
class, classism, and economic justice. There are
more links under different categories.
www.classmatters.org
Betsy Leondar-Wright's forthcoming book is Class Matters:
Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle Class Activists .
This website contains interviews with poor and working
class activists, tips, and information collected in the
course of writing the book.
www.faireconomy.org
United for a Fair Economy is a national, independent,
nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. UFE raises
awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine
the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide,
and tear communities apart. We support and help build social
movements for greater equality.
http://www.as.ysu.edu/~cwcs/wclinks.html
The
CWCS at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio,
was the first center of its kind in the United States devoted
to the study of working-class life and culture. Their
web site has a terrific set of links to working class issues
and culture, including labor politics, working class art,
film archives, and museum resources.
www.bepresent.org
Be Present is building a social change movement in a world
where racism, classism, and homophobia still exist and
historical barriers have divided us. Their work is designed
to answer the question: What does it take to create and
sustain positive change in this world?
http://www.ministryofmoney.org/bibliography_copy(1).htm
Looking at money and class from a Christian faith perspective?
See the Ministry of Money¹s terrific resource list, aimed at people from a
Christian tradition.
http://www.asanet.org/sections/rgcbiblio.html
Race, Gender, and Class Bibliography: The
American Sociological Association maintains a bibliography
on race, gender and class, edited by Jean Ait Amber Belkhir
and is regularly updated. It contains items ONLY
if they emphasize the three dimensions of race, gender,
and class in their discourse and analysis. This
bibliography includes a lot of academic articles from periodicals. The link above is temporarily disabled. The A.S.A. site linked to a University of New Orleans server that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina. More info here. Southern University at New Orleans is up and running and hosting the site, which you can see here: http://www.suno.edu/sunorgc
http://www.arc.org/
Applied
Research Center (ARC) is a public policy, educational and
research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race
and social change. ARC publishes Colorlines
Magazine , an award-winning magazine on race, culture
and organizing. See: http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/index.html
http://www.inequality.org
Inequality.org is a nonprofit organization based in New York City. Our mission
is, first of all, to illuminate the causes and multidimensional consequences
of the growing inequality of wealth, income, power and opportunity in America;
and second, to move this critical national problem onto the front burner
of American politics and public discourse.
http://www.prrac.org/
Poverty Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a non-partisan,
national, not-for-profit organization convened by major
civil rights, civil liberties and anti-poverty groups.
Their purpose is to link social science research to advocacy
work in order to address problems at the intersection of
race and poverty.
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/wcm.nsf
The Center for Study of Working Class Life is dedicated
to exploring the meaning of class in today's world.
www.aflcio.org
The AFL-CIO represents more
than 13 million American workers in 58 member unions working in virtually every
part of the economy. Their web sites include links to other
international unions and resources on worker rights and
issues.
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/wcm.nsf/pages/wcsa
The Working-Class Studies Association aims to develop and promote multiple
forms of scholarship, teaching, and activism related to working-class life
and cultures.
http://www.newdream.org
The Center for a New American Dream helps Americans consume responsibly to
protect the environment, enhance quality of life, and promote social justice.
http://www.journalofpoverty.org/
Journal of Poverty: Innovations on Social, Political & Economic Inequalities
http://www.cipa-apex.org/toomuch/
"Too Much" is a periodic e-newsletter that discusses the negative aspects of
excessive wealth and income. Edited by Sam Pizzigati, author of Greed
and Good. (Apex Press, 2004).
www.resourcegeneration.org
Resource Generation is an alliance of young people supporting
and challenging each other to effect social change through
the creative, responsible and strategic use of financial
and other resources.
www.responsiblewealth.org
Responsible Wealth is a national network of businesspeople,
investors and affluent Americans who are concerned about
deepening economic inequality and are working for widespread
prosperity. Their three primary areas of work are tax fairness,
corporate responsibility, and living wages.
www.morethanmoney.org
More Than Money is a peer education network. They invite
people with significant financial resources to explore
the impact of money in their lives and to act on their
highest values. More Than Money members interact via publications,
the web, local groups, and conferences.
www.changemakers.org
Changemakers is a national public foundation that models
and supports community-based
social change philanthro py. They work within the philanthropic
sector to shift WHERE money is directed -- to address root
causes of social and environmental problems -- and HOW
it is given, urging individual donors and philanthropic
organizations to become more accountable, strategic, inclusive,
collaborative, democratic, and creative.
http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus
Welcome to the "People Like Us" Web site. It's a companion to the PBS
documentary special -- a place to learn how social class works in America and
to test your own preconceptions about who belongs where on the social scale.
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/strat.html
Explorations In Social Inequality. A great set of links to historical
and current information about U.S. and international inequality.
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