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

Anyone can write a rant against the state of American democracy today. Anyone can talk trash about politicians, or bemoan the apathy of the electorate, the low turnout, the low attention span, the cynicism. How To Get Stupid White Men... is a guide to getting off one’s cynical ass and doing something about it. Over the past six months, William Upski Wimsatt has been working with a group of people who have hitherto engaged in myriad forms of social work and political activism to develop a strategy that will effect positive change on American society through the electoral process. Rather than taking to the streets, rather than "bombing [graffitting] the suburbs," Wimsatt and his colleagues plan to "throw the bums out." This book will tell the story of 19 such cases over the past couple of years and outline all the potential races for 2004, describing the tactics to be utilized in an array of contested races across the country by creating coalitions of gay, enviro, Black, Latino and other young groups of voters. The goal is to make this the most useful politically life-changing book any 15-35 year old could read this election year.
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How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Power

Anyone can write a rant against the state of American democracy today. Anyone can talk trash about politicians, or bemoan the apathy of the electorate, the low turnout, the low attention span, the cynicism. How To Get Stupid White Men... is a guide to getting off one’s cynical ass and doing something about it. Over the past six months, William Upski Wimsatt has been working with a group of people who have hitherto engaged in myriad forms of social work and political activism to develop a strategy that will effect positive change on American society through the electoral process. Rather than taking to the streets, rather than "bombing [graffitting] the suburbs," Wimsatt and his colleagues plan to "throw the bums out." This book will tell the story of 19 such cases over the past couple of years and outline all the potential races for 2004, describing the tactics to be utilized in an array of contested races across the country by creating coalitions of gay, enviro, Black, Latino and other young groups of voters. The goal is to make this the most useful politically life-changing book any 15-35 year old could read this election year.
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How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Power

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

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

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

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Anyone can write a rant against the state of American democracy today. Anyone can talk trash about politicians, or bemoan the apathy of the electorate, the low turnout, the low attention span, the cynicism. How To Get Stupid White Men... is a guide to getting off one’s cynical ass and doing something about it. Over the past six months, William Upski Wimsatt has been working with a group of people who have hitherto engaged in myriad forms of social work and political activism to develop a strategy that will effect positive change on American society through the electoral process. Rather than taking to the streets, rather than "bombing [graffitting] the suburbs," Wimsatt and his colleagues plan to "throw the bums out." This book will tell the story of 19 such cases over the past couple of years and outline all the potential races for 2004, describing the tactics to be utilized in an array of contested races across the country by creating coalitions of gay, enviro, Black, Latino and other young groups of voters. The goal is to make this the most useful politically life-changing book any 15-35 year old could read this election year.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781932360080
Publisher: Soft Skull Press, Inc.
Publication date: 12/25/2003
Pages: 206
Sales rank: 440,932
Product dimensions: 5.96(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.56(d)

Table of Contents

Introductions
Will Your State Be the Florida of 2004?5
I Hate Politics: Confessions of a Pleasure Activist18
Part 1How We Got Our People Into Office
1.The Hip-Hop Generation's Deputy Mayor (Newark, NJ)28
2.The Tammy Baldwin Story (Madison, WI)35
3.Sweatshops, Hip-Hop, and A Whole Lot Of People For Grijalva (Tuscon, AZ)42
Political Sex Survey: Marisol Enyart46
4.Two Greens (David Segal, Providence, RI & Jason West, New Paltz, NY)47
5.The Liberated Logan Square (Chicago, IL)52
6.How We Fired Our Mayor in the Dirty South (Selma, AL)58
7.Georgia State Representative Alisha Thomas (Cobb County, GA)63
8.The Spark and the Gas Money: Indian Country Explodes (Pine Ridge, SD)67
Part 2How We Got Our People to Vote
9.Boston Vote, Baby! What! (Boston, MA)74
Political Sex Survey: Malia Lazu78
10.Get on the Bus! (Portland, OR)79
11.Wellstone's Secret Weapons (Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN)85
Political Sex Survey: Mattie Weiss96
12.Aya de Leon is Running for President! (Puerto Rico! Ho!)98
Political Sex Survey: Aya de Leon103
Part 3"Honey, We Got ISSUES!!" How We Changed the Laws
13.Students vs. Court of Public Opinion (Ann Arbor, MI)106
Political Sex Survey: Jackie Bray117
14.Dirty Politics and T'ai Chi (Albuquerque, NM)119
15.Justice 4 Youth (New York, NY)126
Political Sex Survey: Piper Anderson131
PLUS: "We Got Issues!" by the Next Wave of Women in Power132
16.Dancing All the Way to City Hall (Seattle, WA)134
17.How We Defended Our Homes with Prop EE (Oakland, CA)141
Political Sex Survey: Bouapha Toommaly145
18.I Served My Time--Let Me Vote! (Florida, God-Damn!)147
19.Takin' It Back to the Old School (New Mexico)151
Political Sex Survey: Alma Rosa Silva-Banuelos155
Part 4Pimping Satellites for Change: How We Freaked It on the Internet
20.Free Advice for the Democrats: You Need a Whole New Strategy: An Interview with Davey D158
Political Sex Survey: Davey D163
PLUS: Move the Crowd: Inside the National Hip-Hop Convention164
21.How a Twenty-One-Year-Old Revolutionized the Internet (Cyberspace, MoFo!)167
PLUS: Beyond Our Borders--South Africa and Brazil173
22.Smart Mobs for President (South Korea)175
Political Sex Survey: Annie Koh183
23.The League of Pissed-Off Voters and You (Your Town, USA)184
Resources198
Acknowledgements204
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