What’s your class? You know, your social class? Does it inform your politics or shape your identity? In Canada, most people identify as middle class, regardless of their income and occupation, the receding social net and eroding social gains. But are we really all just middle class?
According to the Occupy movement, we might be. Its ideas of privilege and disparity have re-entered public discourse, but, still, it speaks of the 99 per cent, the overwhelming majority—not the working class. So where and who is the working class in our techno-driven, service-based economy?
In the absence of one, who fights for working class rights? Are class and class struggle irrelevant notions in our daily lives? In this public discussion, we will focus on what social class means to us, to society and to politics in Quebec and Canada today.
When: Tuesday, April 30, 2013, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Where: La Tasse Gamine, 5658 Parc Ave. (corner Saint Viateur W)
Guest: Sergio Martinez
Moderator: Alexandre Enkerli
If you would like more information about the University of the Streets Café or this conversation, visit our web page or contact univcafe@concordia.ca.
Related links:
• University of the Streets Café
• School of Extended Learning
• ECTO
