Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs
A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Super Movement
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Publisher Description
"A book for middle-aging youth activists who are still passionate about fighting for a revolutionary new society . . . Billy Wimsatt has grown up." —CounterPunch
As a potty-mouthed graffiti writer from the South Side of Chicago, William Upski Wimsatt electrified the literary and hip-hop world with two of the most successful underground classic books in a generation, Bomb the Suburbs (1994) and No More Prisons (1999), which, combined, sold more than ninety thousand copies.
In Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs, Wimsatt weaves a first-person tour of America's cultural and political movements from 1985–2010. It's a story about love, growing up, a generation coming of age, and a vision for the movement young people will create in the new decade. With humor, storytelling, and historical insight, Wimsatt lays out a provocative vision for the next twenty-five years of personal and historical transformation. Never heard of Billy Wimsatt before? Your life just got better.
"Longtime political organizer, activist, graffiti artist, and progressive, Wimsatt delivers a wake-up call for the millennial generation two years after his seminal Bomb the Suburbs." —Publishers Weekly
"Wimsatt's level of sincerity and enthusiasm is refreshing and bracing, and the book stands as a reminder that anybody who wants to help improve the world can find plenty of ways to get busy, and also have a great time doing it." —Literary Kicks
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Longtime political organizer, activist, graffiti artist, and progressive, Wimsatt (No More Prisons) delivers a wake-up call for the millennial generation two years after his seminal Bomb the Suburbs. Wimsatt provides a cogent history of the progressive movement, from the civil rights era to the impending 2010 midterms. He tell us what progressives are doing correctly, what they're doing wrong, and what changes need to be made. It is a cry to mobilize and analyze our existing movements, written in an irreverent, informal style intended for the Twittering, Hip-Hop generation. Serious problems with America's environment and infrastructure are being avoided, Wimsatt argues, and while he's optimistic, he's also realistic about these challenges. Ultimately, Wimsatt's simple advice to be good, become powerful, and do nothing stupid is sound for a political group who seems to eschew power and money, but it's anyone's guess if they'll take it in the spirit that it is given. Still, for a member of the Hip-Hop generation, Wimsatt is adjusting well to being its elder statesman.
