Our hearts are in Rafah, and with brave students and supporters who are holding down encampments on college campuses. We faced a decision as to whether to delay our All Member Call tonight in favor of encouraging everyone to join encampments, and we came back to this: many of the anti squatter laws that are allowing the legal bulldozing of encampments are the same laws that allow the eviction and displacement of our unhoused neighbors. Continuing to move with our long time partner, Center for Popular Democracy on Housing today isn’t at odds with supporting students tomorrow—we plan to circulate a list of action steps and resources in the coming days.

At our All Member Call Tonight 7-9 ET, we’ll lay out the path to win big on housing in our cross class partnership with Center for Popular Democracy. We want you there with us, and we’ll let you in on a preview: to win, we need more young people with wealth who are trained, aligned and ready to ride with us. 

That’s why, in addition to launching a campaign we’re launching an Organizing Drive May 15th - June 30th to bring 50 brand new Resource Generation members into the fold and offer skills and personal transformation to knit them into the movement. In the tradition of great labor organizing, we’re doing an organizing drive as a concentrated period of time to build our membership and secure resources for the movement and our work. 

So, can you take a look at these introductory events and invite someone in your life to join you at one of them with you? 

High Net Wealth Praxis, Applications Due by Friday May 10th

Praxis is a virtual political education, reflection and accountability program for cohorts of young people with access to more than 1M in liquid assets or who have influence over family assets of at least 10M. Praxis is a space to learn and to process where we, as young people with wealth, can thoughtfully respond to this time of vast inequity and deep-rooted injustice, create a redistribution plan, and build active solidarity with poor and working class communities. This Spring, we have two specialized cohorts: Housing Justice Cohort in connection with our national campaign, and Jewish Cohort in collaboration with Jewish Liberation Fund. 

Spend Down Stories, Tuesday May 28th 7:30-9:30 ET

Join Resource Generation members and alumni for a panel about their experiences with escalated redistribution! Michael Gast will be moderating and Ren Short, Margot Seigle, Mandy Au Yeung, Elspeth Gilmore, and Katrina Schaffer will be presenting about their experiences with redistributing wealth, land, and power. How did they return resources from private ownership and into community/social movement stewardship? What did they learn along the way? What can other RG members glean from their experiences?

Solidarity Economy 101, Monday June 17th 7:30-9:30 ET

This is an event for anyone who is involved with or brand new to RG and seeking an introductory overview of solidarity economy concepts. At this teach-in, you’ll understand how solidarity economy investing & organizing are integral to wealth redistribution. You’ll also engage with basic financial concepts & learn more about Wall Street's role in our extractive economy and the worsening housing crisis (including redlining, gentrification, tenant exploitation, and increasing evictions) and learn about concrete examples of RGers making investments beyond Wall Street in & supporting housing-related solidarity economy projects that enable collective ownership and take land off the speculative market for good!  This is all part of skilling up for our National Housing Campaign! 

Resource Generation 101, Monday June 24th 7-8:30 ET

This session will help you understand who Resource Generation is, how we organize young people with access to wealth and class privilege, and how you fit in! You'll find a next step to support you on your journey towards a world where wealth, land and power are shared and learn about our National Housing Campaign.

Housing Campaign Launch, Thursday, June 27, 7 PM ET 

We’re launching our official campaign. Join us in welcoming all new RG members who have been recruited during our Organizing Drive and celebrate the completion of our campaign training for our chapter cohorts! Hear from chapters and at-large members on how they’re throwing down big time on housing in their communities and learn how to make housing justice a reality for everyone. 

We’re building our collective power in this housing campaign and we need all of us to do it! The risk of sharing RG with a friend, cousin or classmate will be worth the reward of bringing new people out of isolation and into collective action. Want a script to send that message? Check out our Toolkit! 

In it together, 

Nora 

The NMC is recruiting for our next term! NMC is a team of RG members, staff, and board members formed to build meaningful, representative, shared power between the groups that constitute Resource Generation. Joining the NMC is a great chance to get involved in RG National, connect with members from all across the country, and develop leadership and facilitation skills. NMC is a great place to get support in your day-to-day RG organizing–sometimes we troubleshoot together, share resources, or share successes! The NMC can also bring proposals to change how RG does things on a national level! You can read more about what we do in this 'About Us' document.

The NMC is composed of subscopes based on member body size (at-large members, small/emerging chapters, medium chapters, and large chapters) and the superscope, which is the main executive body of the NMC. Each member body (like chapters, working groups, members not connected to chapters) can send a representative to their subscope, and then each subscope sends 1-2 representatives to the superscope. We’re asking for subscope representatives to be picked by May 15th.

The RG Colorado chapter had a fruitful and energizing April as we planned for the next phase of our chapter. We held a retreat at the beginning of April, and had to hold another one to complete all of our planning and goal setting work. The chapter is finally large enough to split out into working groups and are planning for an exciting 2024 as we dig into more strategic base-building and partnership work.

Thank you to those who attended our "Don't Abandon the South" event and pledged over $60,000! For those who missed it, here is a recording of the event. We heard from panelists from four reproductive justice orgs based in the South on the importance of long-term, sustained funding support and the instrumental role innovating and resilient southern RJ organizing is playing in the national ecosystem. Check out our microsite, fundabortionnow.us, for more information on the Fund Abortion Now! campaign and how to support reproductive justice.

This month, the National Member Council discussed and passed through integrative consent the new RG ✨chapter & working group charter✨! The charter serves as a way to align member formations with a common vision and as a guide to developing sustainable structures for our organizing -- we know some emerging chapters have already put it to good use! Reach out to your regional organizer for more info about this.

We also discussed making changes to the charter's companion, a set of member leader agreements for folks taking on leadership in member bodies. Some NMC members, particularly those in small & medium chapters, shared that the agreements didn't feel applicable to our local organizing context - we'll continue to workshop this document with staff!

Finally, the NMC is preparing to onboard reps for the 2024-2025 term. Each member body can nominate 1-2 reps to join the NMC. Nominations should be brought to the NMC by the end of May. Look out for more info incoming to your chapter or working group listservs!

There are some important updates regarding our Making Money Make Change conference and College program. In order to ensure we have a successful Making Money Make Change Conference, our College Program Manager, keithlee, will be taking on interim responsibilities as MMMC Manager and will be the primary contact person for the conference. 

As a result, our college organizing program is going on pause for the rest of this year. A benefit of this is that it will allow some time for evaluation of the program and opportunity to make adaptations to it. College organizing is instrumental to our mission of leadership development, and we are committed to continuing to hold this priority in our organizing program. I look forward to a powerful college program relaunch in 2025. 

In Community, 

Yahya Alazrak (they/them)

Executive Director 

I feel excited and energized by this opportunity to shift my focus towards MMMC, though I will continue to be inspired by, and committed to, supporting student organizers. As we pause the college program at RG, I hope that each of you will heed the call of students on campuses all over the country demanding that their universities: divest from companies complicit in human rights violations globally; sever ties with universities in Israeli-occupied Palestine; disclose university investments and spending to students; and reverse decisions to suspend, expel, ban, or arrest students and faculty. I encourage all of us to remember or learn the rich history and impact of student boycotts and protests of state violence, war, genocide, and apartheid -- students have time and time again bent the arc of history towards liberation through their collective organizing.

This year, MMMC will take place once again in Nashville, Tennessee! I hope you’ll gather with RG staff on November 21-24th for community-building, rich learning, play and celebration, and action. Our program content is still in the works, but I can promise you’ll want to be there! As I begin planning for MMMC, please be in touch with me directly ([email protected]) if you have accessibility needs you’d like to discuss so that this year’s MMMC is a space that can welcome you fully. You’ll hear a lot more from me in the coming months, but for now, I hope you take good care.

In solidarity, 

keithlee (they/them)

MMMC Manager

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