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Book Reviews
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How to Get Stupid White Men out of Office:
the anti-politics, unboring guide to power
Edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and William Upski Wimsatt
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These articles are written by young people about taking power, learning about their powerlessness, their apathy and rising up. The book tells 20 little-known success stories from the past five years. Meet the young people who have swung or won elections, from city council to the US Senate. About Alisha Thomas, a 24-year-old progressive black woman who won a legislative seat in Cobb County, in the heart of Newt Gingrich country...about Jason West, the 25-year-old green mayor in New Paltz, NY, or David Segal the 22-year-old Green city council member in Providence...or the Lakota youth who won a US senate seat by 528 votes...or meet the young Latino campaign manager who kicked Mayor Daley’s Chicago political machine’s ass...read Davey D’s critique of the Democratic party!!...about the success of moveon.org’s 22-year-old Eli Pariser by Andrew Boyd...read “Inside the National Political Hip-Hop Convention: Fuck ‘Fight the Power.’ These kids are going to be the power...or read the interview with Puerto Rican Aya De Leon who’s running for president on a platform of partying, sexiness and emotional transformation [partying because in Puerto Rico they party during the elections like we party during the Super Bowl]...and go to their website for details about what they/authors/contributors are doing for the election in November. The website is called appropriately The League of Pissed Off Voters at www.indyvoter.org.
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