Di questo libro, pubblicato in queste settimane negli States sentiremo sicuramente parlare anche in Italia. anche se con notevole ritardo arriverà sul nostro mercato-culturale una pubblicazione dal taglio razor-shaped non molto lontano e non meno affilitao & tagleinte dal capolavoro di Hubert Selby Jr., Last exit to BrooklinDate un'occhiata al sito della casa editrice Akashic Book e godetevi il loro catalogo, per adesso ecco la versione originale di una mail di "propaganda" inviatame dall'editore. Enjoy!
Equal parts hip-hop memoir, razor-sharp analysis of the current political climate, and self-help manual for the progressive movement, Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Super Movement (Akashic) will hit bookstores in September. Considering the author is venerated political organizer Billy Wimsatt, it’s no surprise that the release date is just ahead of the November 2 midterm election.
Wimsatt’s book tour for Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs will land in swing states nationwide: Ohio, Nevada, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, and the Chicago native’s home state of Illinois, where President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat is in a toss-up zone to go red.
Through speaking engagements on campuses and at bookstores around the country, Wimsatt will organize local teams to join a new voter-mobilization initiative called the 12-Week Plan--a program designed to engage progressive voters in electoral organizing in the months before the midterm election.
“The book is the story of my generation coming of age with hip-hop and the culture wars of the ’90s, then waking up--or rather, being slapped across the face--by 9/11, and the Bush years; finding our voice in Obama’s election, and then feeling frustrated by what followed,” says Wimsatt, who now leads All Hands On Deck, a new organization focused on mobilizing progressive voters. “Even before Obama, we were the most progressive voting generation in U.S. history. We’re also the ones getting left with the bill for melting icecaps and the longest war in our history. The book asks: What does it mean for us to be the grown-ups here? How can we build on our success and create a progressive ‘super movement’ for the 21st century?”
The title Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs plays on Wimsatt’s first book, Bomb the Suburbs—a treatise on graffiti, race, and politics that became a cult classic in the 1990s, and combined with his second book No More Prisons, sold more than 90,000 copies.
Wimsatt’s book tour for Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs will land in swing states nationwide: Ohio, Nevada, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, and the Chicago native’s home state of Illinois, where President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat is in a toss-up zone to go red.
Through speaking engagements on campuses and at bookstores around the country, Wimsatt will organize local teams to join a new voter-mobilization initiative called the 12-Week Plan--a program designed to engage progressive voters in electoral organizing in the months before the midterm election.
“The book is the story of my generation coming of age with hip-hop and the culture wars of the ’90s, then waking up--or rather, being slapped across the face--by 9/11, and the Bush years; finding our voice in Obama’s election, and then feeling frustrated by what followed,” says Wimsatt, who now leads All Hands On Deck, a new organization focused on mobilizing progressive voters. “Even before Obama, we were the most progressive voting generation in U.S. history. We’re also the ones getting left with the bill for melting icecaps and the longest war in our history. The book asks: What does it mean for us to be the grown-ups here? How can we build on our success and create a progressive ‘super movement’ for the 21st century?”
The title Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs plays on Wimsatt’s first book, Bomb the Suburbs—a treatise on graffiti, race, and politics that became a cult classic in the 1990s, and combined with his second book No More Prisons, sold more than 90,000 copies.
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