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Our annual conference, Making Money Make Change is almost here. Every year dozens of young people with wealth gather from around the country one of the most socially taboo subjects: money.
Read the sweet note from a former MMMC attendee, Anna, on why *you* and all young people with wealth should come to Nashville, TN this November!
I don’t like conferences. (Too fidgety, not an auditory learner, easily overwhelmed by large groups of people, etc.) I like the idea of conferences, but it’s nearly impossible for me to stay focused during a panel, regardless of how enjoyable the content is. So, with somewhat low expectations, I went to MMMC in 2019. Until then, my involvement with RG was limited to filling out the redistribution pledge and paying my dues yearly (often after a few email reminders). I was theoretically bought into the vision but unsure if and how I wanted to get deeper into the organizing work.
On the first day of MMMC, we gathered in a large room, a sea of chairs facing a stage with a microphone. Uh oh, a conference, I thought . The person at the front of the room welcomed us and began to preface what they would share. The event organizers had taken the results from a form all attendees were asked to fill out before coming, asking us to share as much as we knew (in numbers) about our immediate access and our family’s access to wealth. For each category, they had added the numbers together. The room was filled with collective, audible breaths as the totals were read.
Hearing how much money was represented in the room was unreal, unfathomable. I had heard numbers that big before, but not in any context that so directly implicated me. Being in that room, surrounded by so many other young people with wealth and people who were invested in our transformation, my stake in wealth redistribution felt different , embodied. I was much more ready than I had ever been before.
The rest of the conference passed like an un-conference. The workshops were dynamic. I danced a lot. And I had the opportunity to share and hear so many powerful stories about family, money, and personal and political commitment. On the last day, an RG staff member sat with me while I completed my yearly redistribution pledge. How does that feel? He asked when I made my first attempt to write down a number. I remember wavering a little, and I remember him lovingly agitating me a bit. I left pledging to give more than I had ever thought possible.
I came home from MMMC with a lot of energy. I joined a local praxis group, increased my giving each year after that (in 2023, I gave $47,500), ultimately spending down almost all of my inherited wealth, and I joined the Solidarity Economy/Transformative Investment Principles (SE/TIPs) working group. I continue to feel the energy I left MMMC with five years ago.
I don’t like conferences, but I am writing you this email to invite you (and your friends!) to the only conference I’ve ever enjoyed. MMMC is a special place of transformation carefully crafted to help young people with wealth find our place in the movement to redistribute money, land, and power. It’s where we get the tools and build the relationships we need to turn a political commitment into brave, material action. It's a tremendous gift we get. 😊 I hope you come, and I'll see you there!
Anna Finklestein
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RG-Michigan tabling at the Michigan Climate Summit on University of Michigan's campus [[link removed]] Michigan Chapter
Feast and Fire event focused on telling housing stories and making a donor organizing plan to fund daytime warming shelters this winter for people in our community. [[link removed]] RG Michigan had an powerful series of Solidarity September events - kicking off with an Open House, then a Potluck for Palestine where we moved $ directly to families in Gaza & UMich student activists legal defense funds. We also deepened our partnership with Peace House at our Feast and Fire event (with awesome guests Mario, Haley, and Urgyen!) and committed to organize the full 20k of a democratically run winter shelter's costs. We also used this event to talk housing stories! We rounded out the month by tabling at Michigan Climate Summit - talking to more than 70 people about RG!
All the folks who attended the RG-LA community meeting gathering for a photo! [[link removed]] Los Angeles Chapter
Things are picking up again for the RG-LA chapter! On Sunday, September 15th, we came together for a lovely community meeting, where we welcomed new folks into the mix, shared updates about praxis, the national housing campaign, MMMC, and other ways to plug into our chapter work. This time we actually took a picture! We’ll be gearing up for another round of praxis beginning in October, and finding ways to plug into ongoing local housing justice campaigns in the next couple months!
RG Philly member and contributing author/editor Alison posing with the book, showing you how happy & resolved that a better world is possible you'll be once you have it in your hands. [[link removed]] Philadelphia Chapter
Want to expand your chapter/working group's understand of housing justice and the possibilities for solidarity? Want to center the leadership of people directly affected by classism and housing insecurity in your learning? Start a "Takeover!" book club!
"Takeover! A Human Rights Approach to Housing", by Cheri Honkala & The Poor People's Army (with many contributions from RG Philly members) is a political manifesto in the form of a how-to guide for reclaiming abandoned government-owned housing, making it safe, and helping homeless families move in. Takeover homes are a survival tactic that provide families with emergency housing on their own terms. Takeovers are also living political protests that condemn the oppression of those who fall through the gaping holes in government services. Whether or not your city/state has a takeover home network (you might be surprised), reading this book in community will create opportunities to sharpen your analysis, gain understanding of on-the-ground projects of survival, and make commitments to support similar organizing in your own communities.
RG Philly members who worked on the book would love to support you in facilitating a book club and/or other ways of bringing the book to your chapter! If you're interested or have questions, feel free to reach out to Alison Kronstadt [[email protected]?subject=RG - Book Club] . And don't forget, you can buy the book here: [link removed] [[link removed]] .
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