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?"

• Working definitions
• Reality Check: Who has how much money?

Resources

Learning more about cross-class alliances...

• ...from organizations
• ...from books
• Tips from Working Class Activists
• Fact Sheet: Is the Middle Class Going Downhill?

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.

Here's what a few ClassMatters.org visitors have heard

New! More classist comments sent by viewers

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:

• Women and class
• African Americans and class
• Latinos and class
• Asian Americans and class
• Jews and class
• Disability and class
• GLBT and class