Stay Solid!: A Radical Handbook for Youth
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Overview
It ain't easy being a kid these days. For the first time in generations, today's teens have worse prospects ahead of them than their parents did, and the pressure to toe the line and be a success is heavier than ever . . . and so is the temptation to just give up. But there are things in the world worth fighting for!
This scrapbook-style collection of essays, excerpts, explanations, and images pushes back against a culture that relentlessly demands that kids give up their best ideals, abandon their hopes, forget their ethical objections to dominant life, soothe their rage, and accept their fates. From dealing with the cops to dealing with your peers, from school and community to drugs and sex, from race and class to money and mental health, Stay Solid! provides essential support for radically inclined teens who believe that it's possible for all of us to hang on to our values and build a life we believe in.
Compiled and edited by radical urbanist and educator Matt Hern, with the assistance of the youth community at Vancouver's Purple Thistle Center, Stay Solid! is for kids everywhere, and for anyone who considers themselves an allyparents, teachers, neighbors, friends, relatives, and beyond.
Contributors include Eirlys Rhiannon, Kelsey Savage, Eldon Hay, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, Walker Banerd, Ivan Coyote, Julie Flett, Zora Moniz, Tomas Moniz, David Maduli, René Antrop-González, Daniel Grego, Anthony Meza-Wilson, Mathew Davis, Jay Gillen, Carla Bergman, Mike Jo, Benito Miller Deale, Chris Mercogliano, Liz Lichtman, Fly, Michael Hardt, Yotam Marom, Geoff Mann, Anita Olson, Seth Tobocman, Hari Alluri, Gabriel Teodros, Nadia Chaney, Anna Hunter, Starla Blue David Disaster, Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness, Stephanie Mcmillan, Marisela B. Gomez, Diana Pei Wu, Pete Jordan, Mark Douglas, John Holt, Shawna Murray, Sevé Torres, Lee Naught, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Dan Savage, Rj Maccani, Leroy Wan, Shira Tarrant, Kenneth W. Tupper, Chrystal Smith, Peggy Millson, Mark Haden, Dawn Paley, Isaac K. Oomen, Andrea Schmidt, Chris Carlsson, Andalusia Knoll, Corin Browne, Guerrilla Girls, Sassafras Lowrey, Ivan Illich, Ching-In Chen, Tieraney Carter, Romi Chandra-Herbert, Cindy Crabb, Melia Dicker, Wendy-O-Matik, Wwoof Canada, Cole Robertson, Bianca Bockman, Elise Boeur, S. Brian Willson, Eylem Korkmaz, Beast Hero, Tiny, Aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Dave Markland, Dana Putnam, Autumn Brown, Michelle Alexander, Yvonne Yen Liu, Luam Kidane, Antonio Te Maioha, Alan Goodman, Ijeoma Madubata, Imani Oliver, Janelle Kelly, Alex Mah, Jamie Heckert, Reg Johanson, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Marty Fink, Josiane Anthony-H, Sunaura Taylor, Bethany Stevens, Aj Ivings, Carmen Papalia, Eli Clare, Mia Mingus, Sylvia Mcfadden, Melanie Yergeau, Taiaiake Alfred, Glen Coulthard, Gord Hill, Ward Churchill, Joi T. Arcand, Andrea Lee Smith, Andrew Curley, Richard J.F. Day, Hilary Moore, Derrick Jensen, Jo-Anne McArthur, Oliver Kellhammer, Ben West, Madhu Suri Prakash, Alexandra Henao-Castrillon, Sozan Savehilaghi, Guillermo Verdecchia, Bushra Rehman , No Borders, Carmen Aguirre, Victoria Law, Harsha Walia, Marla Renn, Arlin Ffrench, Pamela Cross, Test Their Logik, Testament, Adam Lewis, Vikki Reynolds, Sarah Quinter, Angela “El Dia” Martinez Dy, Dan Bushnell, Aaron Munro, Peter Morin, Sascha Altman Dubrul, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ben Holtzman, Kalamity Hildebrandt, Ana Ambroz, Buffie Irvine, Joe Biel, Fiona De Balasi Brown, Manisha Singh, Danny Mcguire, GaChing Kong, Gustavo Esteva, Tasnim Nathoo, Adrienne Maree Brown, Dan Chodorkoff, One Crimethinc Ex-Worker, Mike Davis, and Maia Ramnath.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781849350990 |
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Publisher: | AK PR INC |
Publication date: | 05/14/2013 |
Pages: | 350 |
Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d) |
Age Range: | 13 Years |
About the Author
His books and writing have been published on all six continents and translated into ten languages. He writes features and articles for a wide variety of publications, and continues to lecture globally.
He is the author of Field Day (New Star, 2003), Watch Yourself: Why Safer Isn’t Always Better (New Star, 2007), and Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, and is the editor of Deschooling Our Lives (New Society, 1996), and Everywhere, All the Time (AK Press, 2008).
Matt holds a PhD in Urban Studies and lectures at SFU and UBC in Urban Studies and Education departments and is on faculty at the Institute for Social Ecology and Prescott College in Arizona. He remains active in a number of movements in Vancouver, is a food security activist, avid gardener and unrepentant sports fan. For more info, be sure to visit his website: www.mightymatthern.com.
Table of Contents
Intro 7
Family 11
Eirlys Rhiannon
Kelsey Savage
Eldon Hay
Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
Walker Banerd
Ivan Coyote
Julie Flett
Zora Moniz
Tomas Moniz
David Maduli
School, Education, & Learning 27
René Antrop-González
Daniel Grego
Anthony Meza-Wilson
Mathew Davis
Jay Gillen/The Baltimore
Algebra Project
Carla Bergman & Mike Jo
Community 41
Benito Miller Deale
Chris Mercogliano
Liz Lichtman
Fly
Michael Hardt
Yotam Marom
Money, Work, & Success 55
Geoff Mann
Anita Olson
Seth Tobocman
Hari Alluri, Gabriel Teodros and Nadia Chaney
Anna Hunter
Star La Blue David Disaster
Skills 63
Strangers in a Tangled
Wilderness
Stephanie McMillan
Marisela B. Gomez
Diana Pei Wu
Pete Jordan
Mark Douglas
John Holt
Shawna Murray/Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle
Sevé Torres
Sex 81
Lee Naught
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Dan Savage
RJ Maccani
Leroy Wan
Shira Tarrant
Drugs 95
Kenneth W. Tupper
Chrystal Smith
Peggy Millson
Mark Haden
Dawn Paley
Isaac K. Oommen
Media 111
Andrea Schmidt
Chris Carlsson
Andalusia Knoll
Corin Browne
Guerrilla Girls
Relationships 123
Sassafras Lowrey
Ivan Illich
Tasnim Nathoo
Ching-In Chen
Tieraney Carter
Romi Chandra-Herbert
Cindy Crabb
Melia Dicker
Wendy-O-Matik
Travel 139
Becky Young/Wwoof Canada
Cole Robertson
Bianca Bockman
Elise Boeur
S. Brian Willson
Eylem Korkmaz
Class & Class Struggle 151
Beast Hero
Tiny, Aka Lisa Gray-Garcia
Dave Markland
Dana Putnam
Geoff Mann
Race 165
Autumn Brown
Michelle Alexander
Yvonne Yen Liu
Luam Kidane
Antonio Te Maioha
Alan Goodman
Ijeoma Madubata & Imani Oliver
Gender 179
Janelle Kelly
Alex Mah
Jamie Heckert
Reg Johanson
Cynthia Dewi Oka
Marty Fink
Josiane Anthony-H
Disability 193
Sunaura Taylor
Bethany Stevens
AJ Ivings
Carmen Papalia
Eli Clare
Mia Mingus
Sylvia McFadden
Melanie Yergeau
Indigenous Struggles 213
Taiaiake Alfred & Glen Coulthard
Gord Hill
Ward Churchill
Joi T. Arcand
Andrea Lee Smith
Andrew Curley
Angela Sterritt
Richard J.F. Day
Ecocide 233
Hilary Moore
Derrick Jensen
Jo-Anne McArthur
Oliver Kellhammer
Ben West
Madhu Suri Prakash
Immigration & Migration 245
Alexandra Henao-Castrillon
Sozan Savehilaghi
Guillermo Verdecchia
Bushra Rehman
No Borders
Carmen Aguirre
Cops & Courts 257
Victoria Law
Harsha Walia
Marla Renn
Arlin Ffrench
Pamela Cross
Test Their Logik & Testament
Adam Lewis
Mental Wellness 273
Vikki Reynolds
Sarah Quinter
Angela "El Dia" Martinez Dy
Dan Bushnell
Aaron Munro
Peter Morin
Sascha Altman Dubrul
Your Physical Body 287
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Ben Holtzman
Kalamity Hildebrandt
Ana Ambroz & Buffie Irvine
Joe Biel
Fiona De Balasi Brown
Manisha Singh
Danny McGuire
Gaching Kong
Outro: Getting Old/Er 303
Gustavo Esteva
Tasnim Nathoo
Adrienne Maree Brown
Dan Chodorkoff
One Crimethinc Ex-Worker
Maia Ramnath
Mike Davis
Our Editorial Collective 317