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:
Resources
Learning more about cross-class coalition building from organizations
Class Action is a non-profit that offers training and consulting about the issues of class and money, and their impact on our individual lives, our relationships, organizations, institutions, and culture. Find out more at www.classism.org.
Training for Change offers weekend workshops on classism. Find out more at www.trainingforchange.org, 215-241-7035.
The Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University has biannual conferences on working-class history and culture and labor studies. Find out more at www.as.ysu.edu/~cwcs.
The Center for the Study of Working-Class Life at the State University of New York — Stony Brook has biannual "How Class Works" conferences. The next one will be June 10-12, 2004. Find out more at naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/wcm.nsf, 631-632-7536.
More Than Money is an organization for wealthy people that helps them clarify and act on their values about giving, investing, and spending. They publish More Than Money Journal. Find out more at www.morethanmoney.org, 781-648-0776.
Resource Generation works with young people with financial wealth who are supporting and challenging each other to effect progressive social change through the creative, responsible and strategic use of financial and other resources. Find out more at www.resourcegeneration.org, 617-225-3939.