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Stay Solid!: A Radical Handbook For Youth
Author(s): Matt Hern (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: AK Press
- Publication Date: 1 May 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 319 pages
- ISBN-10: 184935099X
- ISBN-13: 9781849350990
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
Get this book! Get it for your children, for your nephews and nieces, and for your friends. And get it for yourself, whether you are a kid or not. The radical wisdom contained inside transcends age and the ages. –Astra Taylor, director of Examined Life
I wish this book had been written when I was in high school, and that I’d somehow gotten my hands on it. The world needs so much from us right now, but more than anything, it needs the recognition that we, each of us, all of us, have the power to change our surroundings for the better. Stay Solid is a celebration of the limitless possibilities in our everyday world. –Dave Oswald Mitchell, co-editor of Beautiful Trouble: A toolbox for revolution
About the Author
Matt Hern lives and works in East Vancouver with his partner and daughters. He founded, and for nine years has directed the Purple Thistle Centre, an all-ages youth-run community center for arts and activism. Among his other projects is a youth exchange program with an isolated town in northern Canada designed to bring native and non-native kids together to live, work, and travel.
His books and writing have been published on all six continents and translated into ten languages. He writes features and articles for a wide variety of publications, and continues to lecture globally.
He is the author of Field Day (New Star, 2003), Watch Yourself: Why Safer Isn’t Always Better (New Star, 2007), and Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, and is the editor of Deschooling Our Lives (New Society, 1996), and Everywhere, All the Time (AK Press, 2008).
Matt holds a PhD in Urban Studies and lectures at SFU and UBC in Urban Studies and Education departments and is on faculty at the Institute for Social Ecology and Prescott College in Arizona. He remains active in a number of movements in Vancouver, is a food security activist, avid gardener and unrepentant sports fan. For more info, be sure to visit his website: www.mightymatthern.com.
