[Peace-discuss] How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office

[Evan Past]

This book might have some helpful hints for
organizing.

Emanuel



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

Edited by William Upski Wimsatt and Adrienne Brown
 

Paper | 6 x 9 | 208 pgs. | ISBN: 1-932360-08-5 | List:
$12.95 | 04/1/2004 



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About the book:
POLITICIANS BEWARE! A new book is about to hit the
shelves that may end your political career. As an
emergency response to the current political stupidity,
12 of the most brilliant young political artists and
organizers in a generation have come together to
create the most important political book of 2004. How
to Get Stupid White Men Out Of Office is going to
revolutionize the way young people who don抰 do
electoral politics do electoral politics梐nd how
they win.

With an unprecedented 80-city tour focused on key
swing states, the 12 co-authors and the League of
Pissed Off Voters have built a war chest of creative
new online and offline political tools that will
capture the imagination of young non-voters just in
time for the November 2004 elections. Without
question, this book and organization will help swing
local elections (the creators of the book and their
friends have already done that). And if the
presidential election is close, people who read How to
Get Stupid White Men Out Of Office in the next few
months could wake up on November 3 and realize they
have shifted the entire course of world history.

What is the book about?

How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office documents 20
success stories from the past five years of young
people who have swung or won elections梖rom city
councils to the Senate梚n 16 states, South
Korea, and on the Internet.

*Alisha Thomas, a 24-year-old black woman won a state
legislative seat in suburban Cobb County, Georgia, the
heart of Newt Gingrich country.

* University of Michigan students leveraged a student
government election to catapult themselves into and
shift the national debate about affirmative action.

* A 21-year-old city council member in Providence,
Rhode Island, and a 25-year-old mayor in New Paltz,
NY梑oth Greens.

* Young Native Americans in South Dakota who swung a
Senate seat by 528 votes in 2002.

* Ras Baraka, Newark抯 hip-hop deputy mayor.
* The young Latina campaign manager who beat the Daley
machine in Chicago.

How to Get Stupid White Men Out Of Office puts its
finger on the pulse of an unprecedented historical
moment when the blossoming youth-led political
movement梖rom Seattle to peace to sweatshops to
immigrant rights to hip-hop梙as awakened and
begun to flex its cultural influence and organizing
muscle in the nasty new battlefield of electoral
politics. 


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About the author:
William Upski Wimsatt is Director of the League of
Independent Voters (indyvoter.org), a new national
501(c)4 advocacy organization which facilitates the
creation of local progressive voter guides and voting
blocs nationwide. Indyvoter also has an attached
501(c)3 non-profit organization, The League of Young
Voters Education Fund, and is developing an attached
527 PAC Indyvoter PAC. Wimsatt has written two books:
No More Prisons (more than 30,000 in print) and Bomb
the Suburbs (more than 40,000 in print) and is a
popular speaker on the college lecture circuit. He
also co-founded the Active Element Foundation and
facilitated the creation of The Future500.com. He has
made a 5 year commitment through 2008 to build
Indyvoter.org as a vehicle for pissed-off young people
to make their power felt in electoral politics. Boom!

Adrienne Brown is a freelance writer, activist, and
singer living in Brooklyn, NY. During the day she is
Program Manager of the Harm Reduction Training
Institute (www.harmreduction.org) and is Co-Director
of Conscious Movements Collective
(www.healinginnovations.net), through which she is
working with Africa Action on the Africa Right to
Health Campaign. Adrienne recently began organizing
with the League of Pissed Off Voters, through which
she is co-editing How to Get Stupid White Men Out Of
Office. She is a member of the Third Wave Foundation,
Women抯 HIV Collaborative, Amnesty
International, Justice 4 Youth Coalition, and Artists
Youth Educators. Adrienne studied political science,
African-American studies, and vocal performance at
Columbia University.

Davey D is a Hip Hop historian, journalist, deejay and
community activist. Starting out as an emcee in the
Bronx, Davey D came out to Cali to go to UC Berkeley
and started deejaying in the Bay Area. As well as
webmaster of Davey D's Hip Hop Corner, one of the
oldest and largest hip hop sites on the web
(www.daveyd.com), he is also a co-founder of the Bay
Area Hip Hop Coalition [BAHHC] and a member of the Bay
Area Black Journalist Association [BABJA]. Davey D has
been featured in CNN抯 Talk Back Live,
ABC抯 Nightline, BET, VH1, Rolling Stone, Vibe,
and Stress magazines. Davey D also hosts a weekly Hip
Hop/Political TV talk show on Oakland's Soul Beat
television. Davey D sits on the advisory board for
Black Youth Vote and Rock the Vote. He was the guest
curator for the Rock N-Roll Hall of Fame Hip Hop
Nation Exhibit when it came to San Francisco's Yerba
Buena Center in June of 2001. The Source Magazine (Jan
2003) named Davey D one of the Top 10 Most Influential
People in the country when it comes to dealing with
Hip Hop and politics.

Marisol Enyart is the Southwest Regional Organizer for
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), the largest
student labor rights organization in the US. She has
traveled to the Dominican Republic and Puebla, Mexico
to research factory conditions and supported workers
who were creating a union. Her work has been
highlighted on ABC News, the Albuquerque Journal and
the New York Times. A Latin American Studies and
Spanish Major at the University of New Mexico in
Albuquerque, Marisol is a hip-hop fiend and organizer
in the 505. 態urque Represent!

Malia Lazu is the project director for Democracy
Action Project, a national youth electoral reform
organization, focusing on rebuilding trust in
government and ensuring that every vote counts.
Democracy Action Project has a signature annual event
called 揇emocracy Summer? Last year over 300
youth activists from 30 states participated in the
week long training school and did an action to support
DC enfranchisement. Ms. Lazu is the founding Executive
Director for Mass VOTE, a statewide non-partisan
coalition of community-based organizations,
faith-based institutions and neighborhood associations
working to increase voter participation in urban
neighborhoods. Starting in Boston with Boston VOTE in
1999, Ms. Lazu created a model for connecting voting
with issues people care about and the communities they
live in. 

Piper Anderson is a queer woman of color performance
poet, writer, activist, and educator based Brooklyn
NY. Currently, she the youth development coordinator
at the East Harlem Tutorial Program. Organizing
co-chair for the Listen Up, America initiative and
coordinator of the Lyrics on Lockdown national
anti-prison tour. She has been published in the Austin
Downtown Arts Monthly, Blu Magazine, Show-n-Prove, and
Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2004 she will be publishing
a collection of her poetry and prose entitled For My
Sisters On the Overpass.


Mattie Weiss is a 24-year-old white girl from south
Minneapolis. Though a Midwesterner to the core, Mattie
has also lived in Nicaragua (where her parents worked
in solidarity with the Sandinistas in the late 1980s),
Bolivia and South Africa. Mattie graduated with a
Political Science degree from Swarthmore College. As a
student activist Mattie organized students and staff
around issues of global economic justice, local race
politics, and a campus-based living wage campaign.
While still in college, Mattie worked for the Active
Element Foundation in New York, doing research for the
Future500 youth organizing directory. Mattie has also
worked as a community muralist and a union organizer
in Minneapolis. Before starting her current job as a
waitress at two bourgie restaurants in Oakland, she
worked as a writer and researcher for the Applied
Research Center, a racial justice 搕hink and do
tank,?where she wrote and published a major report on
youth organizing around the country. Mattie loves to
paint, draw, and read. She hates writing (but does it
anyway cause a whole lot needs to be said). She dances
salsa every chance she gets, loves hip hop, and wants
to learn to samba. She also plays center midfield with
Left Wing Futbol Club, an off-the-hook
anti-imperialist soccer team in the Bay.

Jackie Bray was born in New York City in 1982. She
moved with her family to Ridgewood, New Jersey when
she was ten and at the completion of high school
packed up her bags and headed to the Midwest to attend
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is
currently a senior expecting to graduate in May 2004
with a Bachelor of Arts in United States History. From
the first semester she arrived on campus Jackie
immersed herself in political activism. From the
winter of 2001 through fall of 2002 Jackie was a
leader in Students Organizing for Labor and Economic
Equality and rose to national leadership of United
Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). She served on the
National Coordinating Committee of USAS from August
2001 through August 2002 and was the student
representative to the National Jobs With Justice Board
of Directors from December 2001 through December 2002.
With USAS Jackie coordinated their relationships with
key allies and most of their media strategy. In the
winter of 2002 Jackie helped to found Students First,
a political party on the University of
Michigan抯 campus that ran on the principle that
government must represent all students. The
party抯 goal of doing away with an elitist
unresponsive government came to fruition in the fall
of 2002 when she managed their second campaign and
lead her slate to a sweep. In January of 2003 Jackie
helped to revive Students Supporting Affirmative
Action (SSAA). SSAA went on to organizing the Michigan
campus around the affirmative action Supreme Court
cases that spring. After the hearings Jackie assumed
the role of Communications Coordinator and lead on the
student response to the decisions in favor of the
University, handed down in June of 2003. 
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Bouapha Toommaly was born in Laos in 1975. Shortly
thereafter her family escaped to a nearby refugee camp
in Thailand where they stayed until 1979 when they
came to the United States to settle in the San
Francisco Bay Area in California. At the age of 19,
she started her organizing career with the Asian
Pacific Environmental Network as a part of their
Laotian Organizing Project (LOP) around Environmental
Justice issues. In 2001, with the desire to help
strengthen youth participation in the environmental
justice movement nationally, Bouapha took on the task
of coordinating the youth component of the Second
National People of Color Environmental Leadership
Summit in Washington, DC., where youth participation
greatly impacted the documents and principles that
came out of the conference. After the completion of
the Summit, she went on to work for the Rural
Coalition where she is coordinating their trade
campaign work to help establish fair trade for
farmworkers and small minority farmers in both US and
Mexico. In her spare time she is working on her own
campaign to replace GW with an intelligent being.





	
		
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