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Inspiring book about how to get your independent voice heard - but it's more aimed at teens. Nonetheless, enjoyed reading it. Why wasn't this around when I was 13?
This book is a great resource for young teens, and I was reminded of a bunch of stuff that I think is critical to know but easy to take for granted when you're an older activist. There's a good resource list in the back and great advice from activists I admire. Most importantly, love, joy, and the belief that we all deserve a better world are promoted as the underlying motivations for the best activism, and I think those are especially useful tools for any young rabble-rouser to acquire. That an...
Personally this is a good starters book into political activism using the lenses of media’s targeted advertising towards kids. It’s a simple read, and more relevant than ever as companies put the stakes of their profits over their responsibility to their customers. Using anecdotes from the gulf war, anti war campaign by activists in comparison to the tactics of the advertising campaign of Nestle, this read is eye opener for the reality of that kids are often only seen as a consumer, much less th...
This book will give any teen or "tween" a solid grounding in current media systems and provide them with hands-on, easy-to-follow instructions to become radical card-carrying activists. (It will even teach them how to make those cards.) With an emphasis on community-building, teamwork, historical research, and self-expression, this book will even prove useful for improving those skills so sought after by educational testing and after-school programs everywhere. A perfect introduction to media st...
Every kid should have to read this book. This book might be too radical for most parents, but if you think of it as an inoculation for your child(ren) against the mega media machines they have to deal with on a daily basis, hopefully you will agree with me. That is unless you work for the mega media machine. I'll write a more detailed review later.