May 15, 2023
"Stay solid! A radical handbook for youth"
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"Stay solid! A radical handbook for youth"
Is is our contention that our lived experiences of friendship might be able to provide some raw materials for thinking borderlessness. Friendship does not have to always be congenial or even friendly - it can be astringent and agonistic and malleable - but friendship is always voluntary, and thus always an exercise in agreement. We submit that any friendship, no matter its depth or breadth, is definitionally marked by a substantive concern for the other, which is the basis for the good relations that an ecological world requires.
Matt Hern and Am Johal, O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology
Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life
Matt Hern and Am Johal
BOOK-THAT-COULD-MAKE-THE-WORLD-A-SAFER-KINDER-PLACE OF THE DAY!
Stay Solid! A Radical Handbook for Youth by Matt Hern and the Purple Thistle Centre
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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.
If you're looking for a start with deschooling and a critique of compulsory schooling, you can't go wrong with Matt Hern. Here he is speaking at AERO 2005: "Possibility in the Face of Probability"
common ground in a liquid city: essays in defense of an urban future
this is a great little book (although I could live with a little less voice from our guide through comparative urban analysis) because of its insistent commitment to lofty ethical principles and its stubborn optimism in the face of real challenges for thoughtful people worried about what will happen to the world if we aren't better at living in cities. and in the end, his reliance on his own voice and experience lends the book a credence that it might otherwise lack.
What do we do when we finish here? Slap hamburgers at McDonald's or Burger King? Clean up shit at hospitals? Drive buses? Janitor? Handyman? Dealer? They gotta get this shit done. Who going to do it? We're at the bottom of the pyramid so we do this. And for them to stay at the top, we got to stay at the bottom.
Murray Levin from Egleston Community High School in Boston