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

Politicians beware! A new book is about to hit the shelves that may end your political career. As an emergency response to the current political stupidity, 12 of the most brilliant young political artists and organizers in a generation have come together to create the most important political book of 2004. How to Get Stupid White Men Out Of Office is going to revolutionize the way young people who don't do electoral politics do electoral politics — and how they win.

With an unprecedented 80-city tour focused on key swing states, the 12 co-authors and the League of Pissed Off Voters have built a war chest of creative new online and offline political tools that will capture the imagination of young non-voters just in time for the November 2004 elections. Without question, this book and organization will help swing local elections (the creators of the book and their friends have already done that). And if the presidential election is close, people who read How to Get Stupid White Men Out Of Office in the next few months could wake up on November 3 and realize they have shifted the entire course of world history.

What is the book about?

How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office documents 20 success stories from the past five years of young people who have swung or won elections — from city councils to the Senate — in 16 states, South Korea, and on the Internet.

• Alisha Thomas, a 24-year-old black woman won a state legislative seat in suburban Cobb County, Georgia, the heart of Newt Gingrich country.
• University of Michigan students leveraged a student government election to catapult themselves into and shift the national debate about affirmative action.
• A 21-year-old city council member in Providence, Rhode Island, and a 25-year-old mayor in New Paltz, NY — both Greens.
• Young Native Americans in South Dakota who swung a Senate seat by 528 votes in 2002.
• Ras Baraka, Newark's hip-hop deputy mayor.
• The young Latina campaign manager who beat the Daley machine in Chicago.

How to Get Stupid White Men Out Of Office puts its finger on the pulse of an unprecedented historical moment when the blossoming youth — led political movement — from Seattle to peace to sweatshops to immigrant rights to hip-hop — has awakened and begun to flex its cultural influence and organizing muscle in the nasty new battlefield of electoral politics.

With the title a takeoff on Michael Moore's Stupid White Men, this irreverent collection by political organizers relates 20 case studies of young activists who promoted issues, got out the vote, and got elected in the past few years (e.g. the 20-something Green Party mayor of New Palz, NY). This "League of Pissed off Voters" advocates Internet and other people power strategies.
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The creator of the League of Youth Voters offers a voters' guide to "throwing the bums out of office" furnishing marginalized voters such as gays, blacks, Latinos, and punks with useful advice on how to maximize their strength on election. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Anyone can rant against the current state of American democracy. Anyone can talk trash about politicians, or bemoan the apathy of the electorate. How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office is a guide to getting off one's cynical duff and actually effecting positive change through the electoral process. Editor William Upski Wimsatt created the League of Youth Voters, a political action committee designed to raise awareness amongst younger demographics and support candidates on a country, state-and city-wide basis. This book tells the stories of how these marginalized voters — such as gays, punks, blacks, and Latinos — organized to make the winning difference in contested legislative and electoral races across the country. To prepare readers for the 2004 elections, this book lists potentially close races, provides maps of key swing states and districts, lists 800 people under 35 in office, and examines youth voter turnout and impact.