Class Matters Workshops
Download this brochure for more information on Class Matters workshops.
If you're interested in hosting a workshop, please click here for a brochure, or contact me about booking an event.
Order Class Matters
Order Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists by Betsy Leondar-Wright (New Society Publishers, 2005).
Press Coverage of CM
- Tim Harris interviewed me for Real Change: Read the interview
- Marc Cooper interviewed me for The Nation magazine's Radio Nation: Listen to the interview (MP3 file)
- Ben Merens interviewed me for Wisconsin Public Radio: Listen to the interview (Real Audio file)
What Do We Mean by "Class?"
Resources
Learning more about cross-class alliances...
Classist Comments
What's the most classist thing you ever heard someone say?
(I'm not talking about someone like Bill O'Reilly or your right-wing uncle. More specifically, what's the most classist thing you ever heard a liberal or progressive person say?)
Read five interviewees' answers — and my own.
Class and Other Identities
How do you experience class differently because of your race, ethnic group, religion, gender, age, or other identity? What class dynamics do you notice within your identity groups?
Here's how a few ClassMatters.org visitors answered those questions:
- White women from working-class backgrounds
- White middle-class women
- Middle-class women of color
- White male labor activists
- White middle-class activists
- Christians and class
And answers from the Class Matters book:
Class and Election Year Activism
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Stories from Interviews
Missed opportunities at the 2000 Democratic National Convention
When the Democratic National Convention (DNC) came to Los Angeles in 2000, a series of meetings to plan coordinated protests were attended by lots of community organizations and activist groups. Three LA activists describe how the process broke down across class and race lines. Read the article.
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Street Clash in Boston
How class entered the debate between the Dems and the Greens. Read more.
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The Forgotten Majority
Isn't it mysterious why so many working-class people, especially white men, vote against their economic interests? There are three really great books that explain this troubling phenomenon:
- What's the Matter with Kansas?, by Thomas Frank
- The Two Americas, by Stan Greenberg
- America's Forgotten Majority: White Working-Class Men and Electoral Politics, by Ruy Teixeira and Joel Rogers, which I drew from in the "working-class white men" section of the Class Matters book. Also, here is a review of the book in The Nation.