How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Power

by Brown, Adrienne Maree; Wimsatt, William Upski

• ISBN13: 9781932360080
• ISBN10: 1932360085
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-17
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

The creator of the League of Youth Voters offers a voters' guide to "throwinghe bums out of office" furnishing marginalized voters such as gays, blacks,atinos, and punks with useful advice on how to maximize their strength onlection.

Author Biography

Adrienne Maree Brown is the author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. Adrienne is rooted in Detroit.

William Upski Wimsatt is a social entrepreneur, philanthropic advisor, public speaker, journalist, and political organizer, Wimsatt serves as the Executive Director of Movement 2017 a platform to support progressive donors to find and fund the best local and national networks combining grassroots issue organizing and voting. He is also President of the Gamechanger family of organizations which supports innovation, collaboration, and new leaders to upgrade social movements for the 21st Century.

Wimsatt has written for Vibe, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Nation, and published six books with 100,000+ copies in print including No More Prisons, Bomb the Suburbs, and its follow up companion: Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My Generation, and the Future of our Super Movement.

He is also the editor and publisher of three anthologies: Another World is Possible: Conversations in a Time of Terror; Future 500: Youth Organizing and Activism in United States; and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: the anti-politics, un-boring guide to power, with Adrienne Maree Brown.

Table of Contents

Introductions
Will Your State Be the Florida of 2004?	p. 5
I Hate Politics: Confessions of a Pleasure Activist	p. 18
How We Got Our People Into Office
The Hip-Hop Generation's Deputy Mayor (Newark, NJ)	p. 28
The Tammy Baldwin Story (Madison, WI)	p. 35
Sweatshops, Hip-Hop, and A Whole Lot Of People For Grijalva (Tuscon, AZ)	p. 42
Political Sex Survey: Marisol Enyart	p. 46
Two Greens (David Segal, Providence, RI & Jason West, New Paltz, NY)	p. 47
The Liberated Logan Square (Chicago, IL)	p. 52
How We Fired Our Mayor in the Dirty South (Selma, AL)	p. 58
Georgia State Representative Alisha Thomas (Cobb County, GA)	p. 63
The Spark and the Gas Money: Indian Country Explodes (Pine Ridge, SD)	p. 67
How We Got Our People to Vote
Boston Vote, Baby! What! (Boston, MA)	p. 74
Political Sex Survey: Malia Lazu	p. 78
Get on the Bus! (Portland, OR)	p. 79
Wellstone's Secret Weapons (Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN)	p. 85
Political Sex Survey: Mattie Weiss	p. 96
Aya de Leon is Running for President! (Puerto Rico! Ho!)	p. 98
Political Sex Survey: Aya de Leon	p. 103
"Honey, We Got ISSUES!!" How We Changed the Laws
Students vs. Court of Public Opinion (Ann Arbor, MI)	p. 106
Political Sex Survey: Jackie Bray	p. 117
Dirty Politics and T'ai Chi (Albuquerque, NM)	p. 119
Justice 4 Youth (New York, NY)	p. 126
Political Sex Survey: Piper Anderson	p. 131
PLUS: "We Got Issues!" by the Next Wave of Women in Power	p. 132
Dancing All the Way to City Hall (Seattle, WA)	p. 134
How We Defended Our Homes with Prop EE (Oakland, CA)	p. 141
Political Sex Survey: Bouapha Toommaly	p. 145
I Served My Time--Let Me Vote! (Florida, God-Damn!)	p. 147
Takin' It Back to the Old School (New Mexico)	p. 151
Political Sex Survey: Alma Rosa Silva-Banuelos	p. 155
Pimping Satellites for Change: How We Freaked It on the Internet
Free Advice for the Democrats: You Need a Whole New Strategy: An Interview with Davey D	p. 158
Political Sex Survey: Davey D	p. 163
PLUS: Move the Crowd: Inside the National Hip-Hop Convention	p. 164
How a Twenty-One-Year-Old Revolutionized the Internet (Cyberspace, MoFo!)	p. 167
PLUS: Beyond Our Borders--South Africa and Brazil	p. 173
Smart Mobs for President (South Korea)	p. 175
Political Sex Survey: Annie Koh	p. 183
The League of Pissed-Off Voters and You (Your Town, USA)	p. 184
Resources	p. 198
Acknowledgements	p. 204
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