Hey Kidz! Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on corporate and government propaganda and artistic activism for short people

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 studies, fast becoming an important addition to school curriculae everywhere. The first chapters of this book begin by leading readers to the understanding that advertising drives most of everything they experience in any given day, and that youth, in particular, are the most sought-after demographic target in existence. This is discussed as an empowering realization, allowing youth to understand that their potential as a market directly related to their potential to make change in a market-driven system, such as that under which we operate in the U.S. right now. The book continues by describing basic approaches to messaging while allowing youth to explore and develop their own content of those messages; provides easy-to-follow directions for performing basic activist functions, such as holding meetings, making salsa, designing flyers and posters, hooking up a PA, and working effectively with others.