{"id":47963,"date":"2015-09-18T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=47963"},"modified":"2015-09-18T07:48:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T14:48:39","slug":"missing-class-strengthening-social-movement-groups-by-seeing-class-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/09\/18\/missing-class-strengthening-social-movement-groups-by-seeing-class-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>BANNED BROADCAST<\/em><br \/>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/28\/items\/20150918Uprising\/2015_09_18_Betsy_Leondar_Wright.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/28\/items\/20150918Uprising\/2015_09_18_Uprising.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nGUEST: <strong>Betsy Leondar-Wright<\/strong>, program director at the Boston-based group Class Action, has written \u201cMissing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Republicans often accuse President Obama of waging a \u201cclass war.\u201d Progressives often wish that were so. While many of us acknowledge class as a crucial factor in political analysis, we don\u2019t place nearly enough emphasis on it in our political organizing.<br \/>\nNow, a new book by one of the nation\u2019s leading progressive activists studying class tackles this issue head on. Betsy Leondar-Wright, program director at the Boston-based group Class Action, has written \u201cMissing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In an extensive and academically rigorous study spanning years, Leondar-Wright attended dozens of political group meetings, recorded them, interviewed hundreds of attendees in order to determine their class backgrounds, and then reviewed the recordings to see if patterns emerged. <\/p>\n<p>Her findings on the extent to which people\u2019s behavior depended on class were surprising. When Leondar-Wright first began gathering the data, she expected gender and race to be greater drivers of people\u2019s behavior patterns. Instead, she said she found, \u201cBy far the most commonalities were among people of similar class, even if they were different by race, gender, age, generation and issue.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANNED BROADCAST GUEST: Betsy Leondar-Wright, program director at the Boston-based group Class Action, has written \u201cMissing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures.\u201d Republicans often accuse President Obama of waging a \u201cclass war.\u201d Progressives often wish that were so. While many of us acknowledge class as a crucial factor in political analysis, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-featured-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47986,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47963\/revisions\/47986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}