No More Prisons Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, a Hitchhiker's Guide to

by Wimsatt, William Upski

• ISBN13: 9781593762056
• ISBN10: 1593762054
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

A truly remarkable collection of activist writings across all topics and perspectives, all while recounting a personal evolution from idealistic urban wanderer to community organizer, from graffiti writer to renowned essayist.

Author William Upski Wimsatt delivers stories, strategies, suggestions, straight talk, and conversations with maverick activists. He advocates youth taking charge of their own education, whether it's in or out of school, and promotes the power of young people engaging in philanthropy. A truly original treatise from the paradigm-flipping theorist of youth activism, No More Prisons goes beyond pinpointing problems to hone in on solutions, and declares that today's youth is poised to surpass the activist efforts of the 1960s generation.

Author Biography

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

A hitchhiker's guide to community organizing

The cool rich kids movement

Homeschooling and self-education

Urban life vs. suburban sprawl

Hip-hop leadership

The greatest art form of the 21st century

Conclusions

Author's acknowledgements: why I'm not in prison

Index

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