Letters from Young Activists Today's Rebels Speak Out

by Berger, Dan; Boudin, Chesa; Farrow, Kenyon; Dohrn, Bernadine

• ISBN13: 9781560257479
• ISBN10: 1560257474
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-25
• Publisher: Bold Type Books

Summary

Meet the bold new generation of activists. Aged ten to thirty-one, these diverse authors are helping remake the world. They are atheist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim; queer, heterosexual, bisexual-Americans from every type of background, united in their vision for the world as they work towards racial, economic, environmental, and global justice. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Dan Berger has been involved in movements for social change since the age of fourteen. He is currently finishing a book on the Weather Underground and working for his doctorate from U Penn.
Chesa Boudin was the leader of the Yale Student Legal Action Movement and is currently studying issues of forced migration in Oxford, England, where he is a Rhodes Scholar.
Kenyon Farrow is a journalist and public speaker and has been published in City Limits, on activism websites and works to abolish the prison industrial complex.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xi
PREFACE BY BERNARDINE DOHRN	xiii
INTRODUCTION	xxv
SECTION I PAST: LETTERS TO THE PREVIOUS GENERATIONS	1	(62)
1 LETTERS TO OUR PARENTS	3	(28)
Chesa Boudin
Ismail Khalidi
Kaira Espinoza
gabriel Olga khougaz sayegh
Ella Turenne
2 LETTERS TO AUTHORITIES	31	(18)
Kenyon Farrow
Anna Kennedy
Ella Fialka-Feldman
Jessica Vasquez
Chloe Joy
3 LETTERS TO OLDER ACTIVISTS	49	(14)
Chris Dixon
Najah Farley Samad
Marc Washington
SECTION II PRESENT: LETTERS TO THE MOVEMENTS	63	(112)
4 LETTERS ON CULTURE	65	(20)
Walidah Imarisha and Not4Prophet
Andy Cornell
Marian Yalini
Thambynayagam Sara
Marie Ortiz
5 LETTERS ON IDENTITY	85	(22)
Guadalupe Salcedo
Nell Hirschmann-Levy
Eboo Patel
Jeffrey Frank
Mervyn Marcano
6 LETTERS ON OPPRESSION WITHIN THE MOVEMENT	107	(20)
Laurel Paget-Seekins
Nilda Laguer
Peter Gelderloos
Stephanie Guilloud
7 LETTERS ON THE WAR ON TERRORISM	127	(20)
Matan Kaminer and Stephen Funk
Badr Albanna
Tiffany Lethabo King
Khary Lazarre-White
8 LETTERS ON THE INTERNATIONAL QUALITY OF THE MOVEMENT	147	(14)
Jonah Gindin
Joya Colon-Berezin
Eugene Schiff
9 LETTERS ON LEADERSHIP	161	(14)
Sarah Stillman
Arthur Liou
Kat Aaron
SECTION III FUTURE: LETTERS TO THE NEXT GENERATIONS	175	(60)
10 LETTERS TO THE YOUTH OF TOMORROW	177	(18)
Andrea Listenberger
Andrew Curley
Samuel Kass
Kevin Etienne-Cummings
11 LETTERS TO THE ACTIVISTS OF TOMORROW	195	(20)
Doyle Canning
Gerardo Reyes Chávez
Ashley Lucas
Myron Strong
12 LETTERS TO OUR FUTURE SELVES	215	(20)
Michelle Kuo
Dara Levy-Bernstein
Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr
Dan Berger
ABOUT THE EDITORS	235	(4)
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS	239	(10)
APPENDIX: LIST OF ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS AND WEB SITES OF INTEREST	249