http://www.activistclasscultures.org/acctk daily 1.0 2015-09-17 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55843be8e4b0550c95a8cd53/1434729453060/ home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55843c3fe4b0320ee514f327/1434729546460/ home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a53f88e4b0b97fcd8a58a7/1436893065844/ home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5291be4b0846db57ead71/1435284566602/ home At certain meetings with a college-educated-majority, a few members sat in a too-empty room at 6:30 in the evening, asking each other “where is everybody?” – with not a calorie of food in the room! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5291be4b0846db57ead72/1435284664410/ home If they had been to community organizing or labor organizing meetings with food, serving refreshments might have occurred to them as a recruitment method. This is a clear example of how simply knowing how activists of other classes do things can strengthen your own social justice efforts. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5291be4b0846db57ead6f/1435284690900/ home Here’s an example of a common group problem, with a solution that’s a class culture trait: Low turnout – all activists have experienced it. Too few people showed up at a meeting or event. In interviews for the Missing Class study, we asked group members, “what would it take to get more people involved?” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5291be4b0846db57ead6c/1435284246823/ home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5291be4b0846db57ead6e/1435284348165/ home Once I knew everyone’s class indicators and I re-read the transcripts and notes of the meetings -- and it was like putting on 3D glasses. Class patterns popped out! I could see that people of different classes tended to speak differently, had different group process preferences, responded to conflict differently. Of course there were exceptions, personality differences within each class, and sometimes race or gender patterns were clearer than class patterns – but over and over I found specifically class culture differences. One reason was that the 25 groups were in 6 different movement traditions with different class roots. But individuals carried their own class cultures into whatever group they joined as well. Most groups face similar problems – inactive members, internal conflicts, people who talk too much in meetings – but the solutions tend to vary depending on class and movement tradition. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5291be4b0846db57ead70/1435284535679/ home And there was one answer given only by working-class-background activists, that was never once said by a college-educated interviewee from a professional-middle-class background: serve food, or serve more or better food. Every working-class-majority meeting we observed had food to share. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5291be4b0846db57ead73/1431492663657/ home That’s why the subtitle of Missing Class is “Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures.” If progressive activists become more aware of class culture differences, we’ll be better able to solve our own group’s problems; we’ll be able to increase the class diversity of our groups; and we’ll build stronger cross-class coalitions. That’s the goal of this Activist Class Cultures online kit, to help social justice activists become more class-culture savvy. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5291be4b0846db57ead6b/1435284213101/ home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5291be4b0846db57ead6d/1435284283463/ home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5291be4b0846db57ead74/1434994813795/ home Fundamental social change will only come about through cross-class and multiracial mass movements – and learning about class culture differences is one step towards building those movements. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5c11be4b01828c861b5eb/1436926238053/ACC+LOGO.jpg home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55481178e4b0222458cf26f5/1436469664272/missing+class+book.jpg home 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Traditions http://www.activistclasscultures.org/up-your-game daily 0.75 2015-07-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55872cc0e4b03adbbd4a56d5/1434981645204/ Up Your Game https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55872d50e4b09925a6d2e8c4/1434981055181/ Up Your Game https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55872c75e4b0eb99d4affea9/1435078764069/ Up Your Game https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55504105e4b043d4fe6a2aee/1431322886492/7382239368_83c8f04823_o+%281%29.png Up Your Game http://www.activistclasscultures.org/glossary-1 daily 0.75 2015-07-20 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a52e56e4b0a9a25a5ca070/1436555512280/ Glossary Throughout this site, class paths are marked with colors. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a52e56e4b0a9a25a5ca06f/1431308941170/4332381194_bf769ba15d_o.jpg Glossary http://www.activistclasscultures.org/noticing-class-speech daily 0.75 2015-07-27 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55503660e4b0c824fa1daacb/1431320162472/Screen+Shot+2015-05-11+at+12.53.47+AM.png Noticing Class Speech Style Differences http://www.activistclasscultures.org/guided-memories-of-a-mixed-class-event daily 0.75 2015-06-03 http://www.activistclasscultures.org/diversity daily 0.75 2015-07-27 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/558c9072e4b0750606e19e05/1435275378852/Arrow+image+for+Up+Your+Game.png Diversity Ironies https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a01b8ae4b002f3dc4fc757/1436556268088/ Diversity Ironies https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5c382e4b037f47164301c/1436926853542/queer+background.jpg Diversity Ironies http://www.activistclasscultures.org/building-a-cross-class-movement daily 0.75 2015-08-06 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/5552dd71e4b00bda9d60d427/1431494002658/rainbow-298752_1280.jpg Building A Cross-Class Movement http://www.activistclasscultures.org/class-culture-traits daily 0.75 2015-07-10 http://www.activistclasscultures.org/conflict-starting-page-over daily 0.75 2015-07-27 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/558c94f5e4b0b3c6824a59db/1435277064998/ CONFLICT https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a01cd1e4b01b3af99f429a/1436556550877/ CONFLICT https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5c43ee4b0362cbc14b4c4/1436927044594/conflict+background.jpg CONFLICT http://www.activistclasscultures.org/ideas-1 daily 0.75 2015-06-23 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55872b97e4b0d4f1a8c01611/1434729453060/ Where these Ideas Come From https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55872b97e4b0d4f1a8c01613/1434729647995/ Where these Ideas Come From https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55872b97e4b0d4f1a8c01612/1434729546460/ Where these Ideas Come From https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55872b97e4b0d4f1a8c01610/1430786424921/missing+class+book.jpg Where these Ideas Come From http://www.activistclasscultures.org/whats-your-class-path daily 0.75 2015-07-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a66f1be4b060dd614f3f60/1436970779841/ What's Your Class Path? https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5c076e4b0d382cc07bdf2/1436926072857/ What's Your Class Path? https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55480963e4b065d8bd3479d3/t/55a5c0dbe4b06c464d32c4b2/1436926176361/ACC+LOGO.jpg What's Your Class Path? http://www.activistclasscultures.org/activating-the-inactive daily 0.75 2015-07-27 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