Billy Upski Wimsatt discusses his latest book, Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs: A Mid-term Report on My Generation and The Future of Our Super Movement (Akashic, $14.95).  Following up on the '90s underground classic, Bomb the Suburbs, William Upski Wimsatt's sequel, Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs takes on the theme of the Super Movement: a theory that predicts the long-term convergence of progressive social and political movements around a shared vision, using a 21st Century operating system, as part of the fabric of everyday life. 

As a potty-mouthed graffiti writer from the South Side of Chicago, William Upski Wimsatt electrified the literary and hip-hop world with two of the most successful underground classic books in a generation, Bomb the Suburbs (1994) and No More Prisons (1999), which, combined, sold more than ninety thousand copies.

In Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs, Wimsatt weaves a first-person tour of America's cultural and political movements from 1985-2010. It's a story about love, growing up, a generation coming of age, and a vision for the movement young people will create in the new decade. With humor, storytelling, and historical insight, Wimsatt lays out a provocative vision for the next twenty-five years of personal and historical transformation.

A maverick graffiti artist, journalist, political and philanthropic organizer, Wimsatt has appeared in hundreds of publications and is a popular speaker at colleges and conferences. Wimsatt founded the League of Young Voters (2003) and co-founded the Generational Alliance (2005). As a philanthropic consultant, he coined the term "Cool Rich Kids" (1999) to refer to young progressive philanthropists associated with the organization Resource Generation. He has consulted for dozens of organizations including Rock The Vote, MoveOn.org, and Green For All.  He is currently a Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center directing The Field 3.0 Project, a dialogue and documentation effort to drive innovation in field organizing. He also runs Vote Again 2010, to mobilize young voters in swing states.  He worked for Barack Obama in Ohio, co-organized the first ever briefing of social justice artists with the White House, and was honored as a "Visionary" by Utne Magazine, and "Power 30" by The Source. He lives in Brooklyn.